Year: 1878

ifE D1NGEhS Or THE IIfIl.


What Governor Hampton Has to Say


About Independents and Over~Confi


dence.


ffo'nMe Goue'7,or's GreenriRe Speech.


will say one word upon tho dan-
gers which are threatening our par
ty. The greatest of these, in my
apprehension, is that of an indie
pendent movement. He who sots
up his own Judgment as rule of
action, and refuses to act in full
and perfect accord with our plat
form, in spirit as we'll as in letter,
is an Independent, and an Indepen-
d ent at this crisis in our affairs is
worse than q Radical He places
himself by his own action outside of
the palo of our party and he should
be ruled out of the party. He who
is not with lis is against us, and
should be ranked among our oppo-
nents, for oh open enemy is far less
dangerous than q pretended friend.
Our party must be kept fully organ :
lied, perfectly compact and thor~
oughly disciplined Every member
of it must yield implicit obedience
to its dictates, sacrificing, if need be,
his private judgment to it's expres,.- X
ed policy, and subordinating all per-
sonal ambition to the public welfare.


Another danger lies in over-confi~
dence. The Democratic party thinks
it is invincible, and so it is when
thoroughly disciplined md properly
led, but if we have divisions and
dissensions, and if we allow our~
selves OF any man to set up false
gods or indoctrinate us wi Ii political
heresies and lead us from the straight
road which led us to victory in rs !;
if we are neglecttul and forgotful of
the great issues under which we are
fighting, that great and invincible
party which has lifted South Caro-
lima from the depths of woe and
degradation into which she had
fallen-that party will be scattered
as the leaves now shimmering above
us will soon be scattered by the
blasts of October.


We must be united and move
together, for on that depends now
the very life of the State, not the
more supremacy of one or another
party for m hour. Your children
for generations to come will be in
tluenced by your action. I nm not
now-God, forbid that should be
advocating a policy simply for
momentary triumph or personal
qualification. No; I have been
looking far beyond the present day
for it seemed to me that I have been
able sometimes to catch transient
slimpses of the future through the
veil that hides it from us-and I
have thought that in that fur future,
in the day when you and and all Of
us shall have been gathered to Our
God, 1 could see a great and happy
State and people. Our children s
children-wise by the errors we
have committed, chastened by sor-
rows we vicariously have borne for
them, instructed by the experiences
we have gained shall build up a
new and great country. They will
lift up South Carolina and place her
where God intended her to stand
with united, free and happy peo-
pie, walking on the great road to
n etional prosperity and peace. I
have seen that future and have
worked for it have prayed for it.
And, surely, if in the good provi-
dence of God it is given to us after
death to look back upon the scene
Of our labors here, even the pleas
ures of Heaven would be frightened
by such view. I trust in God it
may come. 1t would be the highest
reward that could come to me if in
the hearts of those descendants of
ours yet unborn they could say
that I worked for South Carolina.
I would feel, if God had left me
sensible then of any emotion, the
greatest tluob of pride that could
stir my heart. And I would want
no nobler epitaph to be placed on
my tombstone than that I had
been true to South Carolina, and in
war and in peace had done my
whole duty to her. God save our
State, and God for all time to come
bless her people. CGreat appluse.]


Would FEEL Too CONSPICUOUS.
It is said that thirty-seven men