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THREE DOLLARS A YEAl;] FOR THE DISSEMINITION OF USEFUL INTELLIGENCE. [INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. VOL. II. WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 31, 1866. NO. 4 THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry C. H., By THOS. F. & R. H. GRENEKER, TERMS, Y3 PER ANNUM, IN CURRENCY, OR PROVISIONS. Payment required invariably in advance. Marriage notices, Funeral Invitationa,' Obitu aries, land Communications subserving private Iuterests, are charged as advertisements. SPEECH OF GEi. WADE H.AMPTON, Delivered before the ' S1lier8' A .eo ciation," at Wailhalla, South Coro lina, September 22, 186. Fellow-Cit':cns and Brother Sil diers of Pickens :-In res ples to your kind invitation to join you to-day, I have come to partieipate in the grateful ceremonies of this occasion. It affords me great sat isfaction. I assure vou, to do so, because it is so eminently fit and proper that every survivin Sol dier of the South should, at all times and everywhere, Pay al pos sible respect to the memory of his dead comrades. Another reason which urged me strongly to be present to-day, was that. I might have the pleasure of seeing again so many of the men who fbuglht so long and so well under my ciom inand. I remember with pride that the brave Kilpatrick. who now sleeps in a soldier's grave, brought his gallant Company of mountain eers to fight under the banner of my old Legion, on the glorious field of Manassas, and I take plea sure in saying here to-day, before their kindred and their fillow-citi zens, that they did honor to their State. Pickens gave to me besides. Calhoun's brave men and volun teers in that noble German Battery of Bachiman, one whole company in the gallant 1st South Carolina Cavalry, which formed so impor tant a part of my old and beloved brigade; that brigade which. though it fought oit an hundred fields, never knew defeat. I recollect that when that re "i meit made its first charge I had the honor to be with it. 1 recall that bloody 9th of J une, when, at Brandy Station, its glorious ban ncr was baptized in blood. All the stirring incidents of that eventtul day r'ise up vividly b)efore me, as I look upon t he faees of the vet erans who were sharers in its glJory. 1 see again that nmagnificent pano rama of fertile hill and smliilig vale, lighted up by the lurid glare of' war. I see our cavalry s epara ted, fighting in every quarter against !.davy odds. I see the en emy gaining groundl everywhere, save where your brigade was fight ing, while our gallant chief, the heroic Stuart. wit hi chiaract erist le courage, (lashes bimuself tf rst against one column and thent :against an other, hit in vain. Thi circle of fire slowly but surely ch~ sed around that devoted band. until they were the only ones within its folds. There was but one r oad over whi :h you could withdraw, and acro ss that were the serried ranks of lhe enemyv. whose guns were already thundering upon you. All saw the critical poCsit ion inl which you were pldac d. b ut thloug~h all saw it. not one man qjuailed. The day seemed lost, and so it would have been, bout for the . )ld Brigade,"' as we all loved to call it. With banners proudly fl.viing, with sabres <rlistening borightly, with ranks as regular as if on parade, it turned1 to mteet the niew einmy. who vainly hoped to har its way. The niob le Cobb) Legion-thani which no bet ter regIiment ever fought-was in front. yoour reg'i ment next, fllowed by the brave old 1st North Carolina, and the dashing Jeff. D)avis Legisn, when I or'dered the chiarge. A rtilery ploughed1 th1roughl your1 r'anks{-dis mfountedl men, in line o battle,. covered the hill, and cavalry. by its counter char2>'. tied to cheek your progries. N Et a sh~ot was fired by my men. lbut with drmawnm sabres, theyJ rodeo .steadilyv throughi that storm of fire fir mmore than my, save the dead and the woun ed, Whose ghastly\ wounds told llore eloqu1entily thian words could do. what good work my keen sa bres had dlone. Artilery, standl ards1. prison1 rS. were all captured in that char're and the fight was over. I relellher I Iperville. where again the fortunes of the day seemed lost, until that Brig ade, lIy a series of desperate char "es, which I have never seen sur p1assed, snatlicd victory from the very grasp of dcfeat. And Gettys lurg with all its gory memories, brings to Imy' recollection the brave deeds of t lieS tried soldiers. I have not forgotton-I never shall f rg.et.hbrot hersoldiers-tlhat when Ii-n'e wounded Ironi that fatal ieldl. I sellt wor(1 hack to my men to hold their ground to the last, how nobly and,l at what a cost. thev calrriedI ot what I t lien believed to be the last order I should ever give them. All these proud but sad nemo ries come throiiginlg fast upon my heart. wlen I look again upon the men w -ho shared with me f'or years. the privations, the perils and the glories of the past. And though meetlil them under such circum stances as the present, is fraught with manmv sad reflections, it is a source Of ilfitl''" ratifieatioll to me to see thei once more. you, of my old command, never failed to respond when I called upon you. and now that Vou call on me to join with you in paylng a melr ited tribute of respect to our mar tyred dead. I would he ungrateful in(leed. were I to refuse to answer to the appeal. To Pec(Ord the names of"the brave menlt wo ave their lives to the country;: to perpetuate the memli ory" ortheir heroe acedis ; to deck their humllble --raves with flowers. as we Imluru tihell' ultimely fate. are the sal and the Only privi leges we have. In our poverty we are not al)le to raise suitalde im onunicti s to mark their last rest ing places ; in our (lefeat. we feel that as far as human wisdom can tathom. they dlied in vain ;and in our grief at their loss, we can scarcely reconcile tL. :(death with the perfe~ct .ut ice and the intiniite mercv of the Almighty. It was not perm'Iittc teio surviving' kinth-ed and friends to co nsignm their loved remains te '' eir last home, with all the tokens of respect and honor but t hey Sledl. ne'verthle Ies-. ini hi nored grlaves. and thejir "Sunk to rest, Uy a'l their country's wishes blest." No p ius hand ceet t heir sacred dlust. They sleep whirever the 1 olds o( th le Southiern ( r~osS has waved in triinriph, a~ld thley 111n( it resti ng' places on the field s their valor won. Your government sets ap art and donlSedrates$ great Ia tionual C'emetecries on your soil for' those who. while invading that soil with tire and sword, were wel cmed to hospitable graves ; while the mcen who died on, tmd in de fence of thI eir~ nat ive land, sleep) in unmarked. or perhaps unknown graves. Their ashes are not per mnit ted to repose in N%ational (Cm eterics, aind brand'ed as r'eb els while living, they have ntot thle pi 'vi lege, ace'orddd to t heir foemen. of Chist ian Sepul t ure--whien dead "iTheir's was unconsecrated clay." It behoo ves us t hen--thle men who stotod slhouluder to shoulder with them whlile they were light ing fo r heir cunltry'--thle p etople in white h-C fencie ther laid down their Ii ves, to show tby all the means ini our1 pow\er, that we arc iriateful for the sacrilices they made in our behalt. andi that we reverence thieir memory. The As sociatit)n y<>ui have thI's tl:i formeid. ha:s t lise laudable i ject S n view, antd if these were its only pturpotse, it shuldb meet thle cordial appro - In ouri StateC. Liut h1121 and wvortiiy a- are Ithe-e alimu. it cointemplat e TIoh e Ult >chil beth the nuaked,. phlaul. to colort the widow to alleviate sufferings of all, and to pour balm into their bleeding hearts. God will surely bless an undertaking which has such holy purposes in View, and the goodl of every land will think that you are proving yourselves worthy of the men who (lied in the effort to make you free. I bid you God speed in this holy work., and I in voke upon it the blessings of the Almighty. I hope that organiza tions of this sort will spring up throughout the entire South-that they will scatter blessings broad cast over our land, and that they will serve to bind our whole peo pie together. I canllot collceive how any one. evell tile most zeal OUS an1d suspicious of that police who now ilfest our country, canl findII anything objectionable in them. But the Military Satrap who now ho0)lds rule in New Or lea s, has already forbidden all as sociations of Coifed1erate Brig ades, Regiments or Comlanies. for a11Ny purpose whatever, and I sup pose lie will soonl issue a general order, declaring it Ireason fo r even the pitying hand of sorrong -- men1 to drop a flower on the hum ble grave of any poor soldier. who laid down his life at the call of his State. Having ealrnle(I for h imselfan un dying evil fiune by the savage barbarity wit which he executed the atrociou1s order to devastate one of the fiirest portions of -ir ginia. he seems still inclilled to do no w as he did tilel, wage cruel and relentless war upon unarmed and lldlefeleeless citizens. 1 hope that you1 Association will escape the fate of those in -New Orleans. an? that it will soon le sheltered safelv unler the protection of our own State. when civil law shall have superseded martial law, reas suming its benign sway. and pro tectin" by its ample shield the rights, the institutions and the persolls of our people. For many long and weary months we have waitedl for the realization of our ardlent hopes. this fultillhnent of our just expectations; but we still wait in vain. The grasp of mili t arv power has not Vet r'elaxatedl its hold. You may perhaps, fellow-citi zens, think that anyv discussion of genera':l pol it ies is ilnai propri ate on ant occasin oi f thIiis sort, but as I may not ' agin~II hmve an 0jpport t the record. or to correct the mis (lentlalUtd1Uresellt }MllSt 'nl. dissem inated by the Ihelical press. may I claim your indlulgence for a birief discussioni of thlese t opies. It is full time that 50ome v)iee fr'~om thle Sonth shiou Ili e raised to (declare. that lionugh conq(utered she is noit humiliated 1: hough she submits she is no t deuraided :that she has nut lost lher sell-respect :that she laid down her arms on hionorale terms with the most perfe ct faithi. and t ha:t she has a righit to ide manid a like obiservanlce o thiemi on the part oftthe North. Wouldl to God that some voice more piotient tha:n mine would uitter these rut his! Would to Goil t hat t he ti]gl.es O1tf ise great.saene of ('arolina, wllo in time 11ast. warned,. cOunseled. directed ' ur peole, wer?1e not hiushied in dleatIh, or that those which uuore receut tly stirr1edl the Southbern heart to its pi.<>ifiuldest ile dlis. were niot inow as silent as deat hi it self! But pierhiaps in the midst of' this silence so primn~id, even my voice, feeble as it is, may be not without that weighlt which always attach es to tlhe utterence of trultl. alnd in this hope. I~ vent ur'e to discuss our condition and our policy. What, then, is our' conijiition ? For fur' years thic South was the vie timi' of a cruel and ulnnecessary war--a war marked on the part of' her opIponeni ts lby a barbari tv never'] surpased. if' eu aIled, in t. he an nals of civilized1 warhare. Tfhe on nearly every battle-field she was victorious. and her enemies were forced to resort to weapons more congeilal to their nature fire and flmine. The torch was applied with an unsparing hand. The mansion of the rich ; the cot tage of the poor ; peaceful vilages thriving cities ; even the Temples of the most high, God, fell before this ruthless destroyer, leaving to mark the spots where once they stood, but ashes and blackened ruins. All the industrial re.:luurces of the South were wantonly destroy ed or stolen, and gaunt famine fol lowed in the footsteps of the in va(lers. The men who had borne without a murder every privation ; who had facel death in a thousand shapes wit hout flinchiing were not 1o)of against the cries which come to them from homeless and starv ing wives and children. They hiid down their arms, which they had crowiied with eternal lustre. and they aecepted the terms offered to them by the -North. What were these terms ? h rol htiout the whole var. the 'North declared in the most solemn and authoritative manner that she fought solely to re-establish the Union ; to bring back to one fold all the States. and to give to all equal rights and equal liberty. This was the con stant declaration c, Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Seward not only announced the same principle, but he declared that whatever might be the result of the war, not only -would all the rights of the Southern States be preserved. but that all their insti tutions would be intact. The con gress of the United States in a resolution. passed I think unani mnouslv, a111l never ret re1 a noulmeed the object and the sole obj ect of the war to be the restor ation of the Union. unmler the su premacy of the Constitution. The very p( wers under which we laid down our arms, promised the pro tectionl of the Government and gave the assurance that we should not be interfered wit h. so longr as we obeyed the laws of the States. wherein we resided. These dlecla r'ationis were mfadeC not onily to the South. but to foreign nations ;:anid the SouthI was asse red t hat she had but to acknlowledlge the sulpremiacv of tlle Nat ional ( overllmen t to h)e received in to the Unioli. as equal mnembIers of the great failyi of State~s. wvith aill her righits and all Teewere the termfs upon)h which the South capitulaued. On ber part she was to cease wari-to renew her allegiance tothe Nation al Governmecnt. aindu to express her lovalt v to t he Constitiution of t he Unitedl States. O n the part ofthle \or' it hlere was to be aiiniett orn the p:ast--a recogiiiti' o1 of t lie m ot hieri States as equal muembIoers of t lie lnion--alii a solemun pledge t hat aill theiir righits shoi1hl be held sacred. This was the construction placedh by the Souith upon the coy enanit ent ered into. and it is the <>ir inI i and Ilollest construct ioul it will adhnit of. JIow have the p)arties to t his covenan1t fulilj their ob,ligat ionis ? I have sai thIiat thle South I has perfb rmnel hier's withi the most perect. Luhiih. Let inc prove' the assert ion. She was to cease war. Wlhenl 011'rn inaii(lill g oflicers siglned the Con ventionis which put a stop) to the war, (every soldier of' the Conifed eracr. from the Potomac to the Rio G (rand'e. l aid do wni hiis arms aundreturi n ed to his hIme uu.or to the spo t where his home had been. The next condition of the terms required from the Sout h, a renew al of her allegiance to the General C ovelimellt. In every 50uillern State, thie pieople by their Conven tions, their Legislatures, and in :ividuially. conformedl pr'ompjtly to this coinditioni. Lov-altv to the Constitution oft the United States was exacted, as thle onily other ar tiele of thei teems requii red of the Sont hi . I asser et hiiat shie Ihas ful iled this poart Of th copat ai I well as the others, to the letter, and that in the t uc acceptition of the word she is loyal. What is "loyalty ?" It is nothing more or less than faithfulness-obedience to thelaws ofthat Government un der which you live. Have any peo ple on earth manifested a higher faith, or been more obedient to the laws of the land, than we have been since our allegiance to the Gov ernment has been renewed ? Many of these laws we regard as illegal and unconstitutional, but to not one of them has the shadow of re sistance been made. We have yielded our implicit if not a cheer ful obedience to all, trusting that time would rectify the evils n dler which we labor. What h1igrh er proof of loyalty could be given than this ? But, fellow-citizens, was the South ever disloyal to the Consti tution of the United States? I deny that she ever was. and I cballenge her most bitter enemy to adduce one single instance in which she Las been. From the adoption of t hat Constitution, up to the time when she framed one for her own -governance, no one can lay to her charge a single violation of any clause of that instrument. Did she ever propose j to change it? Did she ever evade any of its provisions ? Did she ever denounce it as a "league with hell and a covenant with the devil?" Nay nore, when she framed a Constitution for herself did she not adopt the old an(l honored one almost word for word'? IId the North been but half as loyal as the South has ever been, no war would have desolated our country. and the Union would be. ct.t it- Iim;(( r intendedl-One of equal and sovereign itates, 1)U11(1 together by the strong ties of paternal affection, instead of what it now is, a consolidated .despotism of the stronger States, ruling with a rod of iron, the weaker ones. The South is, and ever has been loyal in the proper sense of the word. I am aware that the North has given a new meaning to this word when applied to the South. For the South to be loyal in the eyes of the Northi. she must admit her self to be iniferior in all p)oints ; she must dlee!are that she has sinned,. andIlike arepentant child. she must humbly sue for forgiveness. She mul1bt }pronounce State 1?ghts and St at Qs Sovreignlty fhlalcies.and she mulhst forIget the tcehing s otfPtriek IIlen Vy. Of .Jeffersonl. iind of3 lndisonl. You. mien of Picken's, mu'st forget t he illusvtriouls son1 you gave to our St ate, and von must brand Calhoun a. atIrai tor. The names of3MfeDufTle ('lheves. JI arne. Halalil ton, 1[arper, must no longer he held in reverence in thir~ own State, as those of great statesmen and pure patriots, b ut the. meni who bore them, like thir1 nimortal compatriot. are to~ he cailled traitors, and thenr doc rines sedIit ions. You will not be loyal until vou im port, along with everything else, your politics, your morality and your religion from I know niot, fellow-citizens, how it may h e with others, but for' my self, I p)refer' still to cling to the political iith taught by her great A postles of' Liberty. I repudiate as heretical anid damnable that morality which inculcates a higher law" than tihe Blible teaches. And as t'o religion. 1 confe'ss that af'ter t he way they call heresy, so wor ship I tihe "(God of myi iht hers." We obey the laws of the land: we pay the taxes levied on us ;we support the Constitution; and we acknowledge t he sunpremacv of t he Nationial Go (vernmenlCt. Thme North i has no right to demnand Or to expect of us. mlore than this. She has no right to ask that we should give up tihe (divine right-which 1 even slaves enjoy-of f'reedom of Opinion ; that we should deny tile prin fc1iles we hld sacred ; lvhat we mhudI abIase ouirselves in thle (dust 1 to 1)-oniae her good will,o that we should kiss the rod that smites us. "Shall frree born men,in humble awe Submit to servile shame, Who from consent and custom draw The same right to be ruled by law, Which Kings pretend to reign."' Shall we, who were freeborn men, be so base as to declare that our country has met the fate it de seved ? Shall we submit to the shame which would cling to us forever, if we athnit that we have been guilty of treason? Shall we cover ourselves with eternal infamy by branding as traitors the men who died for us and to whose memory you are now paying honor? Never! Never! Never! Let any fate. however hard. be our lot, rather than that such dishonor should be ours ! When the gallant wV.arrior-kin" of old, saw in the defeat of his brave arnm-. the ruin of all his hopes. proud. though conquered. he could still exclaim. 'all is lost save honor." Let us. amid the failure of our hopes. the wreck of our fortunes, strive to save. like him, what is far more precious than all else, our honor. I have given you the record of the South. I have shown how well she has kept her faith un tarnished, how closely she has observed her obligations. Let me turn now to the record of the North. Bear in mind, that in giving this, I shall simply state ftets, leaving you to draw your own inferences. I propose to say what the North has done. I do not intend to dise_lss the morality, the honesty, or the justice. of her actions. When the tyrant disputed the assertions of the philosopher, and endeavored to draw him into an argument, the reply of the latter was : "-I do not choose to argue with the commander ofthirty lotiviz.'- ittUU being a pia opher, I can recognize the force of this answer. and I waive arg'ument, as totally inappropriate in a dis cussion of this sort. Facts, which are said to be stubborn things. will be amply sufficient for my Purposes at present. For four years the North waged war upon01 us. only, as she solemunly declared, to bring us back into the Union. More than a year ago the South1 expr'essedl her willing"ness to retur'n, an yl et she is now as effectually out of the Union as if' she had never formed a part of it. The North pr1ofessed to fight f,'r the Constitution. As soon as she had the power to do so, she chang~ed that C'onstitution, and she 'violated its sacr'eu pr'ov'isons. TheC North protested that she did not iigh~t for conquest, or for plun decr. The Southern States are at this moment practically conqueredI provinces, and more of their move ab)le property is now in the hands of Northern soldiers, who stole it. than in t hose ofits rightful possess 01rs. The piarole which Southern soldiers received promised, as I have already\ saidl, that they, should not be interfered with, so long as they obeyed the laws ofl their own States. And vet on their return to their States they were not allowed to exercise any right pertaining to free citizens, until they had, under oath, endorsed all the Acts of' Congress and (declared te abolition of slavery' fixed. irrevocale and' co(nst itut tonal. Amnesty for the pa.st had been repeatedlyV p)romised to tihe Souith, yet how many of her citizens are still, in the brotherly language of the Radicals, only 'unpardoned rebels,'' whilst her most honored t md( best b)elovedi son languishes J n a felon's cell. denied the sacred~ ight guar an teedl by thle Consti tu in, of a - speedly trial by an im artial jury. The Southern 3ates were to by rec. ognized~ as 1 squial menmbers oft the Union. Th1eyv tre still excluded fr'om that Union; f td even in the imposit ion of taxes, F here is no equality. for the cot ton C >f the South has to bear a heavy a lisrim'inati ng tax. for thle benefitS f the North. .\ll the igh~ts of t hle &1 outh wvere to be bmehl sa('cred. al ihs uemlv the i*jht to live. b and to labor. perhaps to complain, though to do so may be treason. I have placed bcfore you the record of the South and that of the North. Let the world decide which is entitled to honor; which to shame. I have drawn in dark colors, but alas ! in too true ones, the condition of our country, and I now turn to the discussion of what should be our policy. In the anomalous condition in which we are placed, it is a matter of great difficulty to mark out the proper course for us to pursue, but there are certain cardinal principles of which we should never lose sight. The first of these is. that as we accepted the terms offered to us by the North. in good faith, we are bound by Ovey dictate of honor, to abide by them fully and honest ly. They :re none the less binding on us, because the dominant and unscrupulous party at the North refuse to accord to us our just rights. Let us, at least, prove our selves worthy of the rights we claim; let us set an example of good faith, and we can then appeal with double effect to the justice and magnanimity of the North. These virtues, I would fain hope, are not totally extinct among that people, and there are brave men there, who are battling for justice, for constitutional liberty, for the equality of all the States, and for the rights of the South.. The only hope, not alone for tne South, but for freedom itself, on this continent, lies in the success of this party. We are their natui allies, and I would sacrifice much -where honor and principle are not invaded, and then I would not yield one jot or tittle-to strengthen their hands in the great contest, which is soon to decide the fate of Constitutional Liberty and Republican Institutions in the United States. The President of the United States has lent the great in fluence which his high position, his strong intellect, his firm purpose and his indomitable will, give, to this new con servative party, and to his support every Southern man should rally cordially. We may perhaps feel that he has not gone to the extent of his power or of our expectations in carrying o: t his policy to its legitimate ends, but we cannot forget that he has been the only bulwark to stand between our unhappy country and cer.tain, irretrievable and everlasting ruin. But for him the horrors we endured during the war would have been far surpassed by those of peace. And though differing with him in- many points, I cheerfully accord to him the highest praise for the brave and patriotic stand be has taken in defence of the South and f the Constitution. There is one other point on which there should be no mis understanding as to our position, no loop n which to hang a possible misconstrue ion as to our views, and that is the bolition of slavery. I have already intimated that the mode by which the North secured the acquiescence of the South in the consmmation of this pur pose was a breach of faith on her part. Of all the inconsistencies of which the North has been guilty-and their name is Legion-none is greater than that by which she forced the Southern States, while rigidly exe!uding them from the Union, to ratify the constitutional amend ment abolishing slavery, which they :ould do legally, only as States of that Union. But the deed has been done, and [for one, do honestly declare that I never wish to see it revoked. Nor do I elieve that the people of the South ould now remand the negro to slavery f they had the power to do so unques oned. Under our paternal care, from ,mere hanE he grew to be a mighty ost. lHe came to us a heathen, we mado ri a Christian. Idle, vicious, savage in us own country ; in ours he became in lustrious, gentle, civilized. Let his istory as a slave be compared hereafter -ih that which lhe will make for him elf as a freeman, and by the result of hat comparison we are willing to be udged. A great responsibility is lifted rm our shoulders by this emncipation, nd we willingly commit his destiny to is own hands, hoping that he may prove imself worthy of the new position in hich he has been placed. As a slave, e was faithful to us ; as a freeman, let s treat him as a friend. Deal with him ankly, justly, kindly, and my word for he will reciprocate your kindness, lingng to his old home, his own country ad his former masters. If you wish to e him contented, industrious, useful, id im in his effort to elevate himself in e scale of civilization, an'l thus fit himu ot only to enjoy the b!essmngs of freedom,