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f IS WEEKLY inoi TIMES, Jgquotqit to itjaqiqulturq, gortiqulturq, <6401108(5, fl^tiKfaturt, pitiqs, itiut the Current Jfjteuis of the Sao. ,,. ?1?? . ' , ; ? * ;-^ntj^lfeiii _ ' m-- ii iiiluu^u VOL. IX?New Series. UNION C. H., SOUTH p^RpLINA, OCTOBER 4, 187S. . U. J 1.1 1 ' L-1. -I-P- it; I - 1- . 1. * 1. H If 41TI>TAY9d UDWiiir vv nmwwiff* * ? - - - iiiiui jvtvii 111 i>bvn in wnDCii.1 T ILliCia Wo aro iudobtcd to tho columns of tbo JVoio* and Courier for an admirable report of Gov. Huuiptou's wiso, boucvolout and well poised speech, which ho delivered on the 18th instant, at Greenville. Mr. Chairman aud my Fellow-Citizens of Greenville : A little more than two mouths ago I loft Columbia with a view to atteud the meetings at Spartanburg, Grccuvillc, Kasley aud Peudletou. I came with the view of attendiug those moetiugs, becauso I supposed 1 should not have nuother op; portunity to soo the peoplo of the moun' tain region. 1 wanted only to thank them for what thev had dnnn in thn ln?t ken down by confinement, responsibility and anxiety?' I was stricken down by illness, and from that day to this hare been unable to inect my constituents. I almost fear thut I aui not ablo to do so now, and if I should not bo able to discuss all the questions I should to-day, or if I discus^ those I do touch upon in an incoherent and disconnected manner you must recollect that strong as has been my constitution I aui not 'made of iron, and that tho work aud cares of tho last two years have left their mark upon mo. It was two years ago that I came into thiB County to plead the cause of South Carolina. When your Convention of August, 187G, with a unanimity never surpassed, did me the honor to nominate me as their standard-bearer, I came to those glorious mountains, uodar whose shadow we uow Biauu, 10 rest tor a lew weeks and to digest the plan of tho campaign, and from thero I came into this Piedmont region to speak to tho uien of the mountains, to display our flag first to them, and to call apon them to rally uudor it and fight for their hearths, their homes and their fatherland. It was no accident that arranged that part of my programme. Communing alone with 'noturo iu those grand solitudes I had considered what would be the plan of operations, and 1 determined to go first to the men of the mountains. Liberty, thoy say, ha9 always lored to dwell upon the mountains, and I came first to her chosen sons. > With the right of oar line of battle resting on the hills of Qeorgia, and our left extending to North Carolina, I knew wo would fleeted throughout tho State, and I Was right. They wore oaught up and carried on until every hill-top glowed with them, and tho slogan raised in the mountains was re-echoed from the coast. I havo not come, however, to speak about the lost campaign. Every man aud woman in the State, and every child that remembers anything, romcinbcrs the glorious work of thoso days. I have not como to speak to you of that campaign, then, but of the future?to tell you of the campaigu of '78. You?your Convention which recently assembled in South Carolina?have sent your old standard bearers again into tho field.? You have placed them upon the same broad, catholic and liberal platform which drew to !i ..1 it., u i i .... 11B EU|)pUlW Hl? UUUUSb UUU UUIISVI VUblVU IIIUU of all parties aud both races in the last great struggle. Ycu have reiterated unanimously the principles which gave life, aud strength, aud victory to that struggle, and 019" V01' n)' '">p? nuitflin nf ihv shoulder to shoulder in the coming fight. You hove declared that tho policy of '76 should be the policy of '78. , The Demooratio party of tho United States countenances no proscription on account of birth, race or color, and you have solemnly given your adhesion to the declaration of principles announced' by our National Convention. That convention declared its acceptance in perfect good faith of the recent amend^ moots to the Constitution of tho United good faith the polity to whieh tho greai j^guiocratio part? of tho country ia uoalter - and toleninly committed. We pledget ourselves in '76 to stand upon that plat tform, and in '78 your State Convention troaKsiag the good results that had been ac >complished, reiterated it, and when it placet tits candidates in the field, told them to g tforth and declare to the people that th groat party which had won success in th last canvass intended faithfully,?honestl and truly to k?4gg all tho pledges of th past, and not forget in tho future the prou lses mado when defeat was overshadowin T itlamll nnnn Lhasa thimrs becaut ? ? --? -r? ? thcro is a manifest disposition in some qua tors to Ignore them, if not run counter i : thorn, and because it is important, now tb ^ wo are jnst entering another oanvose, ai fight. . I intend that there shall be no nlenndt standing of mine, for I propose to sta where the Deinooratie party placed mo 1876, and shall oonduct thie canvass precisely the same principle* and the sa plan as the last?the only plan, in my jm meat, which poald h3*e gitou tf* tletor) K '7U, or could havo made us worthy of it.? | I beliovcd it was the true one theu, aud I < kuow that it is now. i And in this connection I must euter uiy < most emphatic dissent to tho viows ex- i pressed by Gen'l Gary at tho recent meet- < ing here, aud in hia card in teply to Gen'l ' Gray. Those views I believe to be incou-. I sistcut with the true policy of tho Demo- < cratic party. I say they do not represent tho opiuious of your standard-bearers, nor * of the Democratic party of South Carolina, 1 and that ho was not authorised to speak for i your pominccs. I believe that it was the < conservative character of the lost campaign, < as contradistinguished from what he calls i whom they had confidence brought thou- < sands to our support, and the evidence of 1 this is fouud in tho faot that many more i thousands will go with ns in the coming 1 electiou. They realize that they havo been honestly dealt with. They recognize that I _ll .L-: t. ? an tuuir rij^uLM nave Dcen nnimpaired, and < they appreciate tho blessings of peace and ( increased prosperity which havo followed i the inauguration of Democratic lulo. < Goo. Gary speaks of the mode in which i ho desired to conduct the canvass as "tho ] Mississippi plan." Now there are grave 1 misapprehensions in regard to tho plan by 1 which tho gallant Mississippians carried i their State, and by a slander propagated by 1 some unprincipled partisan papers this plau ' has most falsely been called "the shot-gun i policy." No greater injustice could have i bee a doncto a bravo and patriotie people 1 than the effort thus made to stigmatize their 1 heroic efforts to save their State. In one sense their canvass was aggressive- as ours < was. They met the plunderers ot their I State at every point to denounce their cor- I ruption before the people. They devoted themselves, as did our peoples heart and < mind, V> tho great work of saving their 1 State, and they appealed to all honest vo- I ters to aid them in their patriotic hudcr- I taking. i In the district represented in Congress i by the distinguished gentlemen,. Gen. i Chalmers, there is a much larger colored | majority than in any district- of this State, and yet he overcamo that majority by a < close and zealous canv&ss, appealing to the ; colored men in earnest conservative andef- i fn ntirn i 1 1 a M A - -ff | L . , ^ < Tl irrtvvw ?1 _ - - - ? result ? Only a few days ago I saw the report of an interview had with him in which the question was asked : what he would do :e .i.~ t> ui: 1 J: ii vuu iiupuuuv;aua ouiib opt-ancrn iu ins uiatrict to oppose bis re-election ? He did not threaten to Ku-Klux them or to intimidate them ; he did not say that he would resort to the "shot-gun policy,'* but ho said that he would give |hoso visitors a cordial welcome, that ho would offer them every facility to meet his constituents, and that he would havo them met everywhoro by colored Democratic speakers. This is the best commentary on the Mississippi plan, and that plan X am willing to adopt. If carried out honestly its results will be as beneficial here as they have been in our sister State of Mississippi; but in the name of our civilization and all that has1 boen honorable in South Carolina, in the naino of our Stato and of our God, I protest n<raiust anv resort toviolonce, or wrong, or any adoption of the "phot gun policy I"' ' . .We cannot do ovil that good may have endeavored to carry thS "5Ctt!6 at Iho last election by forco or violenco, martial law would havo been proclaimed, and we should pow be under the hateful rule of our oppressors. Such, at least, is my deliberate judgment, and whatever might havo been the result of any mode of can vassing, it could scarcely have been more auspieious for our people than that wrought by the conservative plan we pir-sued. Let us be satisfied and thankfUl, and, above oil, i let 04 not forsake the road .which led us to r victory in '76, and which, if followed, will t reference has been made he speaks in terms - which seemed disparaging to "the Hamp1 ton Democracy." I have never assumed to myself the honor of founding or atteoipt1, ing to found a school of Democracy. I am but a simple disciple of the groat creed 1 taught by Jefferson, and illustrated by the 0 highest intellects and tho purest patriots e that the oountry has produced. 1 ^ 0 I have boon and am now content to fob y low whero they have led, without indulging 0 for a moment in tho presumption of trying i- to engraft one article of faith on tho crecc ig promulgated by tho fathers?that crcctl <e which has givcu the brightest pages of the r- history of'tho oountry, and the success o! to whieh can alone bring baok pormonen at I peace, harmony and prosperity to tha id I country. 1 must iherefo* disoUim tb aWhWffffgiyibg my *? ??y jwosr j ? ilWifiM. and I notice this matter onl h? on agoount of thn full' is which Geoer. Gary speak* of the "Hampton Deaoeracy. tr- If he means, by tho lao&uage ho hoe usee nd to insinuate that the ptvfei winner of ou in party has been lowered in my hands ; or on ho iutonded to reflect upon hiyself pcrsoi mo ally or officially, I pronounco tho imput ig . tion at unfounded as it ia impertinent. in h?B ton my dWbtrt to touch ujpa personal mattors in addressing my fellowcitizens. I have left my justifieatiou igainst adverse 'criticism to the results which have beon accomplished, feeling assured that my constituents, appreciating tho difficulties whioh have surrounded uie, would always give me credit at least for au honest purpose to promote the best interests of the State. ? i I depart from my usual custom on* this occasion, bocauso I thought it! proper to meet and resent what I felt to be u inocouitruction of my official and pefeonal conluct; having done this I pass to piorei con;cuial topics. Foremost among them is the most momentous problem ever forced upou question of a dty uor of a generation, but ['or all timo to comekVand we have to meet ,t now. What is tbl^best mode' for us to mnnf if ? I have indicated^ on various occasions, :ho line 1 thought should be followed by >ur party?the party iu which noarly all the intelligence, education and capital of '.be State arc to be fotnd?and have indicated the manner in L,whioh I thought we should deal with thisjjh perplexing question, [t was by no fault of ours thai the colored non^cre brought to Sputh Carolina ; by 30 fault of ours that, they were afterward 3iado free. The aame people who first arought them here and sold them into slavery, now claim to have tillered a most magnificent libation on thejltjp-of Liberty by making free thoew wMfcTtttey |irat enslaved for their ow iplllDti lirfft Jjiuiii now freed without loss to themselves. I cannot tell what^wreat object Provilence had in view iqnfUowiBg thef? things '.o be done by which "tfefese peoptehave been brought here and .liberated inMtr midst.? We are told that KQ-od movos n, amysterijus way, his wonders to perform," and He bas moved in a mysterious Way io this matter. He has brought them here, relieved them of their ahseltles and left them here untutored in mind, with all the prejudice^ i century of slavery haw engrafted on thpaitt ind we aro to be their gftardians and protectors. I know that sentiment will not find an echo io the hearts of many Qf the colored people. They have been , taught tljat we are natural ene,Pat feast, of kindly feelings for theft did masters. Let odo of thrm but get into difficulties, and io nine cases out of too he will t?0 to his old master for assistance, and cot to one of his Republican leaders. He will trust the former in everything except as to his voting. Ho was told tiro years ago that if the Domocrati(r?party got into power he would be put back into slavery, and he believed it. 1 was told the other day by a distinguished clergyman that ho had a discussion with odo of his old colored friends, and had asked him, among other things, why he was not a Democrat. The old maa said he had been taught that it was contrary to the teachings of the Bible. Thf-ff1 crgymaja WOndorw?glj nked wh^roxfnMS^nb.\^setn^ be found, and the old ma^fc plied tho^aa the Good Book only spoke of two politics Krtics?the 'Publicans and tho Sinqcrarr thought ho must.cb^w wfcs,tontine BifTfrft Democrat. [Laughter, in utfMftjnv' ? . . hearers joined ymin. Ilf*"* f" IMT |honrtily.J The old man nadprobably uCyei observed how many of hi* party were both 'publicans and sinners. [itonowed laughter and tremendous display of dental anato my.] Thoy bavo boon at laat dispossessed of the great orror into which they wen led by thoir designing leaders, and have found that they are protected in all thei rights, and are a* free now as they were ii '76. They recognise tho Act that thcr has been more peace in the fitate and les crime ; that there is returning prosper it and that good will has grown up steadil between the raoes. *. .> (They see stoMrtbey.were so (sled and ai now willing inmsny instances to trust thoc whom they were taught te distrust- Th evidonco of all. this is that while thousand voted the Domooratio ticket at the list elci tinn thousands more wilf snnnort iwt th next one. Audenow, my friends, htyour policy in regard to these pecaK tako the ground that, while tlio coloijjtd mt i is politically tho equal of the whito man ( South Carolina, he must stand upon h own merits. (Turning to tho side^>f tl ; stand where tho colored people werAolh : ted.) You must stand on yMPdjsn-Atin i You cannot be pht upon anuAetter 01 I' merely because yiu are a colofftman. V 5 propose to protect you and giVe you all yc f rights; but while wo do this yoq cannot c t pect that we should discriminate, in yc t favor, and aay beoause you are * oolor man you have a right tg^qla thj^toio. tf We say to you that wo iufcwHftUkc ? y best men wo can find to tho 81* U and you moat quality yoursoMa to W 1. er qualification u ncccwarjf|n all cosae, i ir tho whito ma?..Who is alraiA to enter if race upon aucDterou doea (pt dcaerVc tc i- called a white man. a- I not only wnoi to impreea oo tho wl Itl pertplafe rreal the eokwsd ph^Tb With Id in ficisl, but I would (to futility I would; ' f ? % < * 1 < * to theiu every facility for education. The greatest states ma o and philosopher of Logland has said that education is tho chief defence of a nation, and no philosophical rouiark was aver made with greater truth. I would ?co our pcoplo educated. And when 1 say this 1 do not wish to be misunderstood. 1 ant not one of those who belief that because a man cau read and write he is necessarily a better man than his fellow. I know he is not necessarily a better soldier, because while mauy of the Northern States boasts that more of their people cau read and writo than thoso of almost any other natiou in the world, and while they taunted us during the war with tho opposite. state of flhiMin' z~ya 1 "?rT ita 1 "* ?k"bave mkon our ,meq ?whom they alleged .eoftld Hot r&d nor* "wfite) rhep I wanted good shooting done than any men I cvor saw. I mean by education, then, not' only intellectual education, hut education of tho heart aud soul?to lift our people up and toach them that tho only true knowledge is the knowledge of God ! It is a mistake to sppposc that, though wanting this, a man who can read and write is educated. The history of the past teaches us that the best educated people the world has ever seen could neither read nor write. Look to Athens, tho eye of Greece, where Plato and Aristotle lectured, aud Demosthenes charmed the pcoplo with his eloquonce, day by day. There were no better people than the Atbencans who listened to them ; but those Atheneans could not read nor write ; and coming down to our day and generation, the old men of this State can look haek and .sustain me when I say that thyg we uu pcupi? ud lam coDiiDeoi Detier instructed as to the true theory of our government, and in all that concerns governmental policy, than were She people of South Carolina in former years, and their knowledge cams from the same saurcaa as that of the Atheneansof whom I have just spoken ; they wer j instructed by their great men who came frequently through the country and discussed before them the great questions of the day. ; ?Now, my friends, I want not only that education, but a diffusion of a general education?that the rudiments at least should be placed in the reach of every man, and the colored people allowed the opportunity of bettering their condition. I want them iaJ" . yfih education. When they have learned the rights, duties and responsibilities of citizenship they will be happier, and will niaka ut happier. That is my general view as to the treatment of the colored man. Say to him, "You must work out your own destiny You have been placed here in the provi dcnce of God, and mada a citizen. Show that you are capable of being one." It all great struggles the weakest are thrusi OQ1UV, T- VIf the colored men are wise they will trj to link themselves by hooks of steel to the white men. The best friends of the eoloret men are the old slave holders. I will mak< a prediction to you now, and **v>ugh J not 1'vr.t." -trff.wVaWMfftluK'nv oFjou wil r TfVthis: that the time will, come whe I Northern Republicans will waiit to tak ' away from you the riirht of - J tire wmte men of the South They will defend your right to vote becaus i it gives to the-South infinitely more powe I than wo ever had beforo. It gives us this ' Mr-five moro votes in Congr.sa and thirty i five moro votes in electing a Democrat! President; and do you suppose that me ! are snoh fools ae to give up that right i No ! not If' the colored rnaa ahowa bitnse! - worthy of the boon. > 1 have said that tho time will come whe r the colored man will join tho white ma i simply becauso their interests are identica c because they inhabit tho same soil, aud tl same sky bends over thcui, and tho prcdi y tion is being verified. Any man who loo v ?<1 hnvnnil the ^Rro Question of the hoi wookfrkave seen that the time would con ' when this 4iolent condition of things, tb 10 upsetting of all the theories under whi< *4 >vfV]Ntre lived, would be rectified, tod t! Is meee^rhioh were living in a common cou > titjf would have to work for the good of tb io common country. I would givj them ci is ry opportunity for education, would hi X dicty and encourage them to come iuto t fa"1 democratic ranks. They cannot rcms in Re|u)>lieans and jet vote in the Democra is primary elections, as they wished to do hi he a few days ago ; but if they will come in so- Democrats and vote as such, they will g- welcomed, and I would treat them not o i?c with justice, but as a Democrat, I wo Ve treat them with kiodoesss, generosity i ur magmtflimity, and try to show to tb >x- that we fcvqUklto best friends that they or find. . .j DANGKR OV THE PARTY. . k kfK that there is any ol ,ta, point on which I should detain you, an 4le find the fatigudof speaking is greater I op- i expected. I will, however, say ind word opon the dangers which are thrra the ing our party. The greatest of these bo ag.. apprehension, is that of an Iodepem movement. He who sola op his own i lite vidua! lodgment as a rnUi of action, ffeftfseft <0 rift to fhll Ml) tmffVt* jjWwldoM tfifH 6TXC plaifotth*, it tpirit tfa . < ' / M ..?V - i ? ! - ?' : as in letter, is an Independent, and an Independent at this crisis in our affairs ' is worse than a Radical. He places hiui- . self, by his own action, outside the palo of our party and he should be ruled out of tho party. IIo who is not with us is against us uud should be ranked among our oppor ncuts, for an opcu enemy is fur less dangerous than a pretended friend. Our party must be kept fully organized, perfectly compact, and thoroughly disciplined. Kvory member of it must yield implicit obedienco to its dictates, sacrificing, if need be, his private judguicut to its expressed policy, and subordinating all personal auibitiou \ The Democratic party thinks it is invincible^ and it ii-so when tborougbly disciplined w ? l-i-J " ' uu piujicu^ icu, uut ii we nave divisions and dissensions, and if we allow ourselves or auy men to set up false god s or indoctrinate ns with political hcresis and lead us from the straight road which led to victory in'7Gjif we are neglectful and forgetful of the great issues under which we are fighting, that great and invincible party which has lifted South Carolina from the depths of woe and degradation into which she had fallen?that party will be scattered like these leaves now shimmering above us will soon bo scattered by > V the blasts of October. We must be united and movo together, for on that depends now the very lifo of the State, not the mere supremacy of one or another party for an hour. Your children for generations to come will be influ, .hy jour action. I am not now? Goa forma that 1 should be?advocating a policy simply for momentary triumph or personal gratification. No, I have been looking far beyond the prcscut day?for it has seemed to me that I have been ablo sometimes to catch transient glimpses of the future through the veil that hides it from us?and I have thought that in that far future, iu the day when you and I and all of us > shall have been gathered to our God, I could see a great and happy State and peo, pie. Our children's children?wise by the , errors we have committed, chastened by sorrows we vicariously have borne for them, intruded by the experiences we havo gained?shall build up a new and ^*.v i great country. They will lift, up South ' i py people walking on the great road to . National prosperity and peace. I have seen , that future, and I have worked for it; I ? havo prayed for it And, surely, if in the good providence of God it is given to us after death to look back upon the scene of . our labors here, even the pleasures of heaven r would be brightened by such a view. I i trust in God it may come. It would be the I highest reward that could come to me if in the hearts of those descendants of ours vet r unborn, they oould say that I had worked i for South Carolina. I would feel if God } had left me sensible then of any emotion, a the greatest throb of pride tW could * *~s7. ? mnnit no nobler IT epitaph to be placed on my tombstone than n that I had been truo to South Carolina, and ? V*. ft* *p<> in pe<toe b*d-donfc i. [Great applause.] e Tub Gloom or Waskinotom.?A Washington special to the New York WorM says : "An atmosphere at deep and all-pervading gloom haa prevailed in the departments to-day. The oe 0 caaion for this melancholy was the result of Q the election in Maine. The victory of the Greenbackers affected the spirits of the Secretnry of the Treasury, lie found partial con'* solation, however, in the (kit of the premium on gold to one-eighth of one per vent. At the . D publican Congressional TWHMiiw reowjj grief iQ was everywhere apparent. The Star Spangled' t Banner which floats daily from the roof aa a ' signal faMhe clerks to pay political assessment* 10 was hauled down. All of the committee's rooms, 0' exceptin^the reading room, were closed and k- the laborers ^ven a day's holiday, out of rejr spect to the memory of Mr. Hale, Chairman of the committee, who wad defeated Ibr Qaogress by Murch, the Greenback candidate. Ex-Seciia retary Robeson waited in the hall for two hours ch ia the hope of obtaining some cheering news, he but, on the other band, his fears of the worst IQ. were oonfirmed. "We shouldn't have minded ? it so much, said one of'the committee's clerks, ' if it had not been for the loss of all of those re~ Republican soft-money speeches sent to Maine, tip which we might have used to some advantage in ,hc the West. We thsught we could get the Maine ? tiQ Greenbackers to vote our ticket by giving them a little soft-money sawder. No dispatches wave received at the Democratic Congressional Gm*sre reittee rooms from Maine, and the members of > QS the committeo are all out of town. All interest be hero in the election seemed to be centered on nly Hale. The defeat of the principal whipper-in nld ,',e Kepoblican P*rty was entirely unexpec, ted and it produced a great commotion in the an" ranks. It ie thought that his relegation to priicni vate life will cost the Republican Committee Call revorai mouaana umiiii woicn uumrwin nuuiu have been collected from department elerks who Ave withheld aabaeriptione in order to loom <wtt&h way the potttioar-enTrent ia drifting.*?' . Hale's defeat will br .-ak Blaine's organisation * r her on tho Republican aide of the House." han if a mah doesn't caro for th6 respect of 000 his fellow creatures, he will very soon lose ten- respect for himself, and when self-respect is > )Q onee gone, the devil has a good lien on Li?ii* everything ewe. , a*d J Of ? barber's shop thtfl w*b formerly ft m r*w <rffl<*r ebb wrptft ^ i*0!^ treli | sHnVcd there jtiiMhe game. v is . ? % -.