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WILLIAMSTON
FEMALE COLLEGE,
WILLIAMSTON, S. C.
A Live Up-Country School for Girls.
REV. S. LANDER, A. m., President.
LOCATION? Healthy, accessible, quiet,
f?leasant. Community, moral, ordcr
y. No greg-sbop within three miles.
Chalybeate Spring in 200 yards. Pu
pils attend three Churches in turn.
COURSE OF STUDY?Semi-Annual, on
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Concentration of thought, increased
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sult. Belles-Lettres, Natural Science,
Mathematics, and Latin, required for
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Sept 13,1677_9_ly_
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With a corps of competent professors.
Tittiom in Advance?$20 in Collegiate ;
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Location noted for health, pleasant cli?
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J. J. NORTON.
Chairman of Stockholders.
Aug 2, 1877_5_
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THERE arc some who have not come
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ly request all our customers, who are in?
debted to us, to come forward and pay up.
If we cannot get the money that is due us
by the 1st of December next, we
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hands of an Oificer for collection.
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jries aud Wagons. Our work cannot
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Oct 4, 1377_12 3m
TJF* WITH
TIKE TIIMIES!
rpiIE undersigned hereby notifies the citi
zens of Anderson und vicinitv that he
has moved his BOOT and SHOE SHOP from
his old stand in the Benson House to new
quartors on Main Street, near the Market.
I am prepared to manufacture fine and sub?
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Mr. R. P. McKINNEY
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will be glad to see them, and continue to do
their work.
I have on hand a lot of substantial Kip
Boots, of my own manufacture, suitable for
winter wear, which I will sell cheap for cash.
Give mc a call, and examine my stock and
prices.
R. Y. H. NANCE.
Oct 25, 1h77 15 3m
WILHITE ^WILLIAMS,
Anderson, S. G.
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July 1!), 1877 1
AUGUSTA HOTEL" "
Corner Broad and Washington Streets,
AK.I SIA, GA.
HAS been thoroughly Renovated, Re?
modeled, and Newly Furnished.
It is located in the centre of business.
Telegraph Uflice in the Hotel Building.
Express Office in the same block. Post
Office only one block off. All other public
conveniences close at band.
?-fr- The Office of the Hotel will be open
during the night, und guests will be receiv?
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Rates of Board, $2.00 per Day.
W. M. MOORE, Proprietor.
Xov 1, 1877 16 3ni
ESTABLISHED 1874.
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ILLINOIS AND THE CAROLINAS.
ADDRESSES OF MR. KIMBALL AND
GOV. VANCE. ?
The most notable feature of tbe State
Fair recently held in Columbia was the
captivating addresses of Hon. H. P.
Kimball and Governor Vance. Mr.
Kimball, a representative of the Winne
bago Agricultural Society, of Illinois,
was first introduced, who spoke as fol?
lows :
When Governor Hampton honored the
people of our State with his visitation as
their orator and guest, he brought his
speech in his head. Compelled bv the
laws of necessity, I have brought mine in
my pocket. As I came Southward in
the cars, anticipating that your good
people would invite me to say something,
I wrote down a few incoherent ideas and
statements. Fresh from my farm, with
my hands calloused with recent toil, and
coming among a people with whom ora?
tory is a natural gift, you will certaiuly
have patience for a few moments, if for
no other reason than that I am the old
defender of your honor and the truest
friend that South Carolina has in the
North.
^ The present is a most auspicious occa?
sion. The motives which have prompted
this exchange of fraternal feeling are in?
spired by no party considerations. We
meet together in a philantropic spirit,
turning our backs upon tbe memories of
a bloody conflict, and clasping our hands
in a united effort to make our country
more glorious and permanent in the fu?
ture. Illinois, that empire of the prairie
States, whose vast surplus of agricultural
products constitutes her the cornucopia
of the West, sends her greetings to South
Carolina, and invites her co-operation in
tbe cultivation of those sentiments so
eminently calculated to make the citi?
zens of this republic a prosperous and
homogeneous people. Sectional agita?
tion has been the desperate strategy of
an ultra school of politicians, who, for
personal aggrandizement, (having never
confronted the perils of the battle field,)
have sown broadcast over the land the
dragon's teeth of alienation and strife.
There exists a numerous class of dema?
gogues throughout the land, who ignore
the principles of our glorious constitu?
tion and intentionally du regard the fun?
damental truth of political economy,
that peace and tranquility are the essen?
tial conditions of a nation's prosperity.
With impious bands they tear open the
wounds of discord which were well nigh
healed, stir up the elements of dissension,
and, preferring their own advantage to
the nation's welfare, they rely upon
the prejudices of the ignorant to secure
for them official patronage and power.
This continual repetition of sectional ani?
mosities by parly politicians tends to dis?
tract the public mind, disturb our busi?
ness relations and check the diffusion of
capital. It is everywhere the ruling sen?
timent of the people, despite the ambi?
tions of politicians, that the progress
and perpetuity of our nation, in the
mutual development of its vast industrial
and commercial interests, must depend
on the united and loyal sentiment of the
citizens of the whole country. The pow?
er and influence of sectional agitators are
rapidly dying away. The people in their
majesty are rising above the incentives
of revenge to a higher and broader plane
of general amnesty and disinterested pa?
triotism. Standing upon the bright
threshold of this new era, we evcrywhore
behold the marshaling of our nation's
industrial hosts beneath the white ban?
ner of reconciliation and peace. From
every foundry and workshop in the land
we catch in our eager and listening ears
tho pulsations of those mighty forges,
forever chauting the anthem of a higher
civilization, as they beat our useless
swords into plowshares and reconvert the
enginery of war into implements of hus?
bandry and mechanical industries. From
the bosom of our mother earth, where
our dead heroes lie buried, our associated
industries must gather the materials to
repair the desolations of war.
The peaceful pursuits of agriculture
are exempt from those distracting cares
that infest all other departments of bus?
iness ; and it is our lesson of experience
that it is the best adapted to the full
development of the possibilities of the
race.
I congratulate the South Carolina State
Board of Agriculture on the maintenance
of a permanent industrial organization.
Such an association, with an annual ex?
position of your manufactures and natu?
ral products, constitutes the text book of
your capabilities as a people, in which
strangers may read the lessons of your
achievements and progress.
I congratulate you most cordially upon
the public tranquility that reigns within
your borders; the steady revival of your
industries, and more especially upon
your enfranchisement from that horde of
political conspirators who, under the
livery of the civil service and an incor?
ruptible national party, (?) plundered
your treasury, bribed your representa?
tives, impaired your public credit, and
with unblushing effrontery outraged
every principle of justice and honor.
The condition of South Carolina under
the usurpations of carpet-bag misrule
finds a striking analogy in that legend of
classical mythology which represents
Prometheus enchained to Mount Cauca?
sus by Jupiter, and whose punishment
was aggravated by a ravenous vulture,
that descended upon him and devoured
his liver, which grew in the night as
much as it was consumed in the day.
The league of the carpet-bag dynasty
has, for a decade of years, constituted
the political vultures of the South, who
have preyed upon her resource?, devoured
her substance, crippled her industries
and loaded her with unparalleled bur?
dens of taxation and debt. Retribution,
personified by one of the ancient Furies,
armed with a scourge of venomous scor?
pions in one baud and a battery of quiv?
ering lightnings iu tho other, should
pursue these infamous miscreants, fugi?
tives from justice, who are profaning the
sanctuary of our national capital, and
drive them from the boundaries of civil?
ization. South Carolina stands upon the
same proud eminence with Illinois and
Massachusetts in the vindication of her
rights of self-government and her consti?
tutional privileges as a sovereign State.
The general government cannot impose
disabilities upon one without degrading
and humiliating the other. The confed?
eration of the United States under the
constitution affords a striking similitude
to the physical anatomy of man. The
two hemispheres of the human brain
are typified in the two co-ordinate branch?
es of our national legislature. Both are
united in the closes sympathy with the
needs and functions of the remotest parts.
Sever an artery or dislocate a joint, and
immediately the telegraphic system of
nerves sends the dispatch to the most
minute antl delicate fibre, and tho whole
physical constitution languishes with
suffering. So it must be iu the adminis?
tration of our national government.
Every measure of tyranny and proscrip?
tion enforced against a free and sovereign
State reacts with the most deleterious
results upon the whole country. Coer?
cive measures cannot paralyze the indus?
tries and commerce of South Carolina
without depleting the national exchequer.
Ouly in the mutual and increasing de?
velopment of the natural resources of
each State of this great coqfmonwealtb,
imposing a check on the concentration
of capital, can our nation attain its high?
est possible destiny. When the general
government, under the specious pretext
of retaining the insubordination of your
citizens, established a military encamp?
ment of armed soldiery upon the campus
of your State capitol, every other State
must have recoiled beneath the stigm3
and humiliation of the outrage.
Already indications are clearly diacern
able that a brighter era of industrial pro?
gress will eventually dispel the stagna?
tion and financial gloom that, like the
shadows of a dark eclipse, seems to have
settled down upon your honored State.
Tbe change in your political system,
forced upon you by the reconstruction
measures, afforded some compensation in
the change that became a necessity in
your industrial system. Before the war,
the lands of the cotton States belonged
almost exclusively to an aristocracy of
wealth. One reservation after another
was cultivated, until the last elements of
fertility were exhausted in the production
of cotton, which was exchanged for for?
eign gold. The ambitiou of planters to
cultivate large estates, under which
method impoverishment of the soil with?
out restitution was continually occurring,
placed them iu circumstances that they
had only time to sow and gather up the
harvest. That system of agriculture,
then so prevalent, growing out of the
possession of large estates, and conse?
quently a hurried iudustry, ignored every
principle of agricultural economy. The
land is as honest a thing as there is in
nature. If you keep it hungry, then
poverty and destitution, like famished
wolves, will be in waitat your own doors.
The highest eulogy that could be possi?
bly sculptured in marble, in commemo?
ration of the labors of the husbandman,
is "He has left his farm better than be
found it." It was Virgil, whose classic
genius in the conception of the Eueid il?
luminated the reign of Augustus, who
uttered this impoverished maxim :
"Praise large farms, but cultivate small
ones."
It was grand old Homer who sang of
the gardens of Alconious :
"Four acres was the allotted piece of ground,
Hemmed by a green enclosure all around."
We have no right to cultivate more
land than we can preserve in its original
fertility. We are imposing a heavy bur?
den on posterity in the impoverishment
of our rich alluvial lands, in the removal
of their most available elements by a
system of surface culture, making them
articles of commerce, while we return
nothing in exchange.
Citizens of South Carolina?In the di?
versification of your industries, in the in?
crease of your commerce, in the more
equal distribution of your landed estates,
instituting a more thorough system of
culture, and securing a greater diffusion
of capital, lie the possibilities of your
future progress and prosperity.
You belong to a proud and honored
lineage. The people who originally fixed
their habitations in the warm latitudes of
the sunny South possessed more culture
and greater chivalry and nobility of
character than the Puritans, who sought
an asylum on the barren and storm-beaten
coast of New England. Those noble and
hospitn' ? traits of character, ever fos?
tered by an aristocracy of wealth and
transmitted from an aristocracy of genius,
are couspicuous iu the Southern charac?
ter to-day. If the memory of my school
days has not failed me, I think it was
that gallant knight, Sir Walter Raleigh,
who first navigated your shores and
awakened the solitudes of your wilder-1
nesses with the quiet accents of our
mother tongue. He was succeeded by
that heroic adventurer, James Edward
Oglethorpe, clothed with the powers to
exercise the functions of a Governor, who
sailed into Charleston harbor in the good
ship Anne, with a colony of 114 persons,
iu January, 1733.
The address of Loinochichi, one of the
principal orators of the Creeks, upon the
conclusion of the treaty with Oglethorpe
I regard as one of the finest passages of
aboriginal eloquence.
"Here is a present," said the chief; "I
give you a buffalo's skin adorned on the
inside with the head and feathers of an
eagle, which I desire you to accept, be?
cause the eagle is an emblem of speed
and the buffalo of strength. The Eng?
lish are swift as the bird and strong as
the beast; since like the former, they
flew over vast seas to the uttermost parts
of the earth, and like the latter, they are
so strong nothing can withstand them.
The feathers of the eagle are soft and
signify love; the buffalo's skin is warm
and signifies protection; therefore, I
hope the English will protect their little
families."
I wish more of that untutored savage's
benevolent temper and magnanimity,
might pervade the radical sentiment of
the North. Recently perusing the fol?
lowing vivid and picturesque description
of your State, written by the poet Waller,
full a century and a half ago, a migratory
feeling came over me. and I concluded to
join the flight of our Northern birds to
test the beauty of your scenery and the
salubrity of your climate:
"The spring which but snlutcs us here
Inhabits there add courts them all the year ;
itipc fruiti and blossoms on the same tree live;
At once they promise what at once they give;
So sweet the air, so moderate the dime,
None sickly lives or dies before his time.
Ifeaven .-uro has kept this spot of earth uucurdcd
To allow how all things were created first."
From that primitive period the history
of South Carolina is illuminated by as
bright a galaxy of orators and statesmeu
who have reflected honor upon their
country as any other State can boast.
Her Calhouns, her Haynes, her McDuf
fies, her Marions and her Hamptons, en?
dowed with the highest gifts of states?
manship, have justly earned their im?
mortality. In the annals of our country,
their public services and private virtues
will be commemorated until time shall
be no longer. There are other charac?
teristics which have ever distinguished
the citizens of your State, upon which no
imputation of reproach has ever rested,
and those are your honor, your heroism
and your hospitality. It is my highest
aspiration that South Carolina may yet
rise from the Gethsemane of her sorrows
and her sacrifices more fair and beautiful
than Aphrodite when she rose from tho
foam of the boisterous sea.
Fellow-Citizens?Two years ago, con?
vinced that the material welfare of the
country had been too long sacrificed to
the interests of local politicians, that our
nation was weary of contention and
needed repose, our industrial association
had the honor of inviting his Excellency
Jefferson Davis, ex-President of the
Southern Confederacy, to be iU orator
and guest, and to participate in the hos?
pitalities of its animal reunion.
It was tho inherent nobility of those
political principles, long cherished and
openly vindicated by the members of our
ollicial hoard, guaranteeing to every citi?
zen amnesty, liberty and equality before
tho law, that inspired them to reach out
a hand of welcome to tho united South,
in a hearty ovation toils former distin?
guished representative. This act of our
society's magnanimity occurred upou the
eve of our nation's centennial. The pa?
triotic sentiment was then universally
expressed that a reunited South and
North, with every dissension healed,
should, in a covenant of friendship and
trust, lay upon the holy altars of our lib?
erties the trophies of their industries.
To demonstrate in diviner amplitude
that fraternal and chivalroue sentiment
which inspired the heroes of Fitz Hugh
Lee's Palmetto Legion and those of Mas?
sachusetts to bury their enmities in the
classic soil of Bunker Hill, our associa?
tion opened wide the doors of its hospi?
tality. They had not forgotten that
Robert Toombs, accepting on a time the
invitation of the citizens of Massachu?
setts, discussed the "Divine right of
slavery" in old Fanueil Hall, that cradle
of our national liberties. The fact was
fresh in their memory still that Horrace
Greeley, after the cessation of hostilities,
accepted the invitation to address the
State Agricultural Association of Texas.
There were no indignation meetings, no
bitter remonstrances from the soldiers in
gray to heap personal insult upon the old
philosopher, or revive in his mind mem?
ories that would be painful to bear. Yet,
for half a century he waged a violent
crusade against the policy and institu?
tions of the South, and hurried the
fiercest invectives against her political
representatives.
Our industrial association, in its invi?
tation to the honorable and venerable
ex-President, the impersonation, in an
eminent degree, of the genius and aspir?
ations of the South, aimed to unite the
industrial interests and co-operative
spirit of both sections beneath the pro?
tecting banner of a restored and united
nationality. Ten long years of bitter ac?
ceptance of the irreversible results of
civil war upon the part of the South
should be sufficient to write a law of gen?
eral amnesty, higher than President's can
grant, upon the heart of every Northern
citizen?an amnesty embracing in its
broad philanthropy the restoration of all
rights and immunities that existed when
Northern and Southern blood mingled in
a common sacrifice on Mexican soil.
Both sections of our common country, in
their geographical position and their
varied productions, united also by broad
and navigable rivers, are inseparably as?
sociated in their commercial and indus?
trial interests. If the fertility of our
prairies fills the granaries of a contiuent;
the capacity of your soil in its cotton
supply feeds the manufactures of a world.
In behalf of our nation's centennial,
which has recently passed?in behalf of
our diplomatic relations with the great
civilized nations of Europe, which respect
governments in proportion to their
strength and unity?in behalf of our vast
undeveloped resources, which should in?
terlink our States in bonds of mutual
sympathy stronger than steel, we appeal
to the patriotism and magnanimity of the
whole country to bury in one grave of
eternal oblivion their sectional animosi?
ties.
Personally, it would have afforded me
the greatest satisfaction to have extended
to the venerable ex-President the hospi?
talities of my humble home. In the re
visitation of the old tramping ground of
his earlier years, it would have delighted
his heart to have realized the rapid de?
velopment of the West in those illimita?
ble reaches of wild, rolling prairie trans?
formed into fruitful farms and dotted all
over with flourishing homesteads, and its
magnificent water courses resounding
with the anthem of our mechanical in?
dustries.
It would have kindled my enthusiasm
to have sat down by his side and listened
to the recital of his eventful experience
in the musical cadences of that voice,
which, on great occasions, had aforetime,
hushed the chambers of the national
capital by the irresistable pathos of its
eloquence. I fain would have enriched
his experience with the realizations of
the fullest hospitality that the reminis?
cence of his pleasant sojourn with us,
might hereafter, steal in upon the quiet
evening of his life, like a remembered
strain of sweet and delicious music.
Did the invitation of the Winncbago
County Agricultural Society, to the dis?
tinguished ox-President, so illustrative of
the diviner qualities of our humanity,
compromise in the least, the loyalty, the
magnanimity or the Christianity of the 1
North ? If it did, then a life of perfect
Christian integrity would compromise I
the '"Sermon on the Mouut."
Under the classic civilizations, it was
prohibited that any inscription comment-1
morative of the struggles of internecine ]
war, should be sculptured upon iron,
brass or marble. Has our civilization |
gained nothing of magnanimity and
principle in the progress of two thou- j
sand years? Has our American repub?
lic reversed the law of national progress j
and adopted the law of retaliation of the
federal times?
Our industrial Association, that took
the initiative step in the cause of recon?
ciliation, in its invitation to President
Davis, on a more recent occasion made
conspicuous its strong fraternal feelings
to the citizens of South Carolina in its
hospitalities to your distinguished Gov?
ernor, the Hon. Wade Hampton.
You remember in the Oriental legend
how that the Magil discovering a star in
the East followed it until its benignant
beams shown down, illuminating the
birth place of the infant Messiah.
The eyes of the whole North, intently
watching the changes in the kaleido?
scope of public events, discovered a star
of the first magnitude, rising in full
orbed splendor, above the political hori?
zon of South Carolina. This planet
genius possessed quite an eccentric orbit.
On one occasion it flashed out in marvel?
ous brilliancy from the meridian at Au?
burn, N. Y., and on another, at White
Sulphur Spriogs, Va., it diffused its daz?
zling splendors.
Under the instructions of our official
managers, I determined, by the assist?
ance of some principle of physics or met?
aphysics, to divert this luminary from its
orbit and compel it to revolve around
the northern section of Illinois.
When I wrote my first letter of invita?
tion to your Governor, I must have felt
as Mahomet did, when he addressed the
mountain. It was highly complimentary
that one or the other should accept to se?
cure the interview. I continued sending
invitations, and telegraphic dispatches,
and to be relieved of my persistency, and
for the good it might accomplish, the
mountain at last consented to move.
The visitutiou of your honored Gov?
ernor had a most salutary influence upon
our community. When he appeared be?
fore that immense concourse of intelli?
gent, citizens, who had swarmed from the
vast prairies and populous cities of our
State, it occurred to mc that there must
have rushed into his mind a feeling of
wonder and inspiration kindred with that
of the great evangelist, who saw in his
vision of the apocalypse "a great multi?
tude which no man could number." You
are familiar with the legend of the state?
ly ship that sailed along the shores of the
magnetic mountain. Suddenly its rivets
and rings, its bolts and bars were spirited
away by an irresistible and invisible
power, and the huge vessel dissolved into
fragments that drifted away on the toss?
ing billows. As the Governor continued
his address, I discovered in the faces of a
few the expression of prejudice brighten
into welcome, and the frown of antagon?
ism soften into the smiles of approbation.
Like the magnetic mountain, tho wisdom
and nobility, the conservative and con?
ciliatory spirit of his utterances irresisti?
bly drew out the bolts and bars of bigotry
and prejudice, which had so long ex?
cluded trie diviner qualities of the heart.
The unwavering confidence of the Ameri?
can people in "the heroic principle and
integrity of the Governor's character,
their united appreciation of the lofty pa?
triotism which inspires his public ad?
dresses, and their endorsement of the
impartial justice of his administration,
constitute the "golden stairway" of op?
portunity for the future realization of his
highest ambition. Already the Gov?
ernor's address has been incorporated
with the historical records of our county,
which are upon the eve of publication, a
copy of which work will be transmitted
to him, with the compliments of the pub?
lisher.
Honorable members of the State Board
of South Carolina, in behalf of the North?
ern Illinois Industrial Association, I
grasp your hands in token of the sin
cerest and truest fellowship. If there be
one obligation which the members of our
society esteem more sacred than another,
it is that of promoting, by every just and
hospitable method, a feeling of amity
and confidence among all the citizens of
this great republic. The lute civil dis?
sension resulted from the chafing and an?
tagonisms of our industrial and political
interests and the persistent encroach?
ment of the usurpations of one section
upon the rights of another. The strate?
gies of war resemble the marvellous com?
binations of a chess-board. We cannot
determine what unseen powers, holding
in their trusts the destinies of nations,
stand unseen by the heroes of the conflict,
giving them nerves of valor and sinews
of strength. The Almighty has as much
direct agency in the establishment and
subversion of empires, republics and
civilizations as be has in the formation
of an island or continent.
No reproach, in a general view, can be
imposed on the South or North for the
part they took in the war. Revolutions
are God's methods for restoring an equi?
librium in the political world, as much as
volcanoes and earthquakes are his instru?
ments for quelling the internal convul?
sions of a planet. The law of antagon?
ism has been the law of national devel?
opment and the exponent of its progress
through all ages.
The political dogma that all men are
created free and equal is established on
no principle of reason, nature nor phi?
losophy. The equality is only one of
privilege, not powers?one of opportunity
and not achievement. Before individuals,
peoples and races can assert their claims
of equality with others, they must justify
their claim with equal evidences of abili?
ty and accomplishment. Before we can
attain equality with a Calhoun, Webster
and Clay, we must show evidence of pos?
sessing their quality and quantity of be?
ing. To be a Bonaparte, we must scale
the Alps with our victorious legions and
inscrbe victory on our banners in the
down from the heights of yonder pyra?
mids." To be a Newton, we must meas?
ure the velocities of God's invisible cou?
riers, electricity and light measure the
inter-stellar spaces, and poise the solar
systems in the balances of our calcula
i tion. To be a Morse or Field, we must
I first tame the lightning, and then build a
! highway of thought under the sea. To
I be a Hampton, we must have the moral
heroism to' stand, in our right and majes?
ty, before the highest powers of the na?
tion and exclaim: "I have not come here
i for any compromise. I have been elec
(ted Governor of South Carolina by the
expressed will of a majority, and, by the
i Eternal, I will be Governor or 50,000
' valiant sons of South Carolina will unite
to defend my claim."
I have yet to learn where a man has
earned his immortality by the surrender
of his convictions or the compromise of
his honest principles. Before the Anglo
Saxon race shall abdicate their position
of white supremacy, the colored and
I mixed races must first eclipse them in
their powers of invention and their
[ achievement of engineering skill; they
must construct navies, span the rivers
I with magnificent bridges, cover the con?
tinents with networks of railroads, and
I adorn a literature with poetry, science
and philosophy, they must organize poly
I technic schools, endow universities and
commemorate historical events in groups
I of sculpture and galleries of art. Out
[side the limits of the ancient Egyptian
[ civilization, no vestiges of aqueducts, no
I ivy-clad monuments, illustrative of a
! higher civilization, have rewarded the
? industry of modern geographical research
I in Africa. The Anglo-Saxon race in the
I versatility of their capabilities and the
j plentitude of their power will hold the
sceptre of supremacy till time be no
longer.
Citizens of South Carolina, since the
time when Sherman's army left its auto?
graph of cannon shot upon the walls of
I your State House and outraged the prin?
ciples of honor and humanity in the con
j flagration of your city, you have been
I made the victims of the foulest indigni
i ties and conspiracies; under the eyes of
J the nation, you have manifested a heroic
j patience and endurance. A noble and
i conservative spirit has preserved your
honor unblemished and restrained all
acts of insubordination.
It is the aspiration of the citizens of II
: linois that the Almighty who holds in
his hands the destiny of nations will cast
I np a highway of material prosperity for
the truly hospitable people of South
Carolina.
Colonel Taylor theu presented Mr.
Kimball with a bouquet of flowers sent
to him by the ladies of South Carolina.
Governor Hampton then rose and said:
My friends of South Carolina, the duty
has been assigned to me, and I need not
say with what pleasure I assume it, to
present the gentleman who will follow
the distinguished speaker from Illinois.
He needs no introduction to the people
of South Carolina. His name and his
fame are dear to us, of the old South
State?almost as dear to us as they are to
his own countrymen in the old North
State. He is known here as he is known
there?as a true soldier, a tried patriot,
an incorruptible statesman. He is
known not as Governor Vance, but as
Zeb Vance, in South Carolina ; but be?
fore I present him to you allow me to
say one word in acknowledgment of the
words that have fallen from the gentle?
man from Illinois. This is the first pub?
lic occasion since I returned where I
have had the opportunity of expressing,
as 1 do now, my high appreciation and
heartfelt thanks to the people of Illinois
for the greeting they gave me there.
They extended to me as warm a welcome
as I could have had at the hands of any
people, and I feel proud to-day when my
countrymen welcome that gentleman
from the great State of the Northwest.
He then introduced Gov. Vance, who
spoke as follows:
There is a destiny reserved for the peo?
ple of the older or Atlantic Southern
States. The part they will be required
to perform is, in my judgment, of prime
importance to the future of not only our
common country, but of the English
speaking race. That part consists in
what is called?sometimes with a sneer?
conservatism; the checking and steadying
of the oxtravagant and precipitate teu
"i
presence
looking
dencies of our anglo-Araericau Democra?
cy. This uncertain progression, the
weak side of all popular governments,
has exhibited a more dangerous develop?
ment in these American States than in
any other portion of the world. No?
where are the sober checks of conserva?
tism so much needed, so absolutely essen?
tial to the preservation of the very ele?
ments of liberty.
Every circumstance of our condition
feeds aud stimulates our progressive dan?
gers; and the still small voice of home?
ly prudence is drowned in the roar of the
wheels which the national energies set in
motion. We glory in our untiring
strength, in our limitless power. When
we work in the fields of peace, it is our
pride that we excel all others; when we
war, even among ourselves, it is a battle
of giants, and even when we steal it is
with a colossal unity and on a scale of
national magnificence that shames alike
the petty larccnv of the Christian and
the Turk.
Occupying the broadest and most fer?
tile stripof this earth which spreads be?
neath the temperate belts of the sun, be?
tween two great oceans, an empire of
more than 3,000,000 square miles in ex?
tent, not yet more than half subdued to
civilization, the field of wealth and phy?
sical power which the vista of the future
discloses is grander than auy which ever
old Roman or Spaniard gazed upon. Its
contemplation has bred a wondrous
energy and a prophe.ic instinct which
evinces itself not only in great deeds and
greater boasting, but in a most reckless
disregard of moral means and a most
dangerous contempt of consequences.
In the major part of the Union this
feeling characterizes the teaching im?
parted to the young. A boy is taught,
indirectly if not directly, that it is more
important to acquire a dollar than to un?
derstand and jealously guard the free
blood-bought institutions which enable
him to earn that dollar aud protect him
in its enjoyment. The everlasting re?
frain rung into his ears is to "develop"
something by which money is to be made.
From the press, the school room, the
hustings, the rostrum, the store room, the
work-shop and the fire-side, comes this
ceaseless lesson ; whilst the exhortation
to develop the noble and generous quali?
ties of the soul, the basis of personal and
national integrity, are left to the formal
dribblings or the Sunday school or the
perfunctory routine of the pulpit, and
the inculcation of the great principles
which underlie and sustain our liberties
are heard only occasionally from some
droning professor's chair, delivered with
the air and manner in which he would
discourse ou the ancient fossils and Silu?
rian what-you-call-ems. In other words,
our progress is not a true progress; we
are expending our energies in physical
development to the neglect of the intel?
lectual and moral; we are cultivating
the vine for the production of wood and
leaves to the neglect of the fruit; we are
building cities, railroads and ship canals,
opening lands to cultivation and amass?
ing wealth, but we are building no new
bulwarks to protect free government
On the contrary we have cast some of the
ancient ones down and trampled them in
the mire, and others we are forgetting
and remanding to the musty cabinets of
the curious. Never stickle for the con?
stitution, they saw now; politics don't
pay the farmer; let us develop some?
thing; let us get rich. Verily I say so
too. Let us indeed get rich; not only
in houses and lands, in flocks and herds,
in cities and towns, in ships and steam
traversed highways and gold and silver,
but also in the unspeakable riches of the
freedom wherewith our ancestors made
us free; in the knowledge of our rights,
personal and State, and above all, rich in
the courage and integrity to vindicate
them; so rich in these virtues, in fact,
that an attempt to organize a free legisla?
ture by the use of bayonets, and to con?
stitute a sergeant of the guard a judge of
the election and qualification of the
members thereof, shall blow all America
into a volcanic flame, which, like the
fearful looking for of judgment, shall
consume the adversary?its author?in?
stead of feasting him in the high places
of Europe and America, and will give
him the confinement of a dungeon, in?
stead of the freedom of an ancient city.
My word for it, my friends, these are
the true riches of an American citizen ;
to struggle for these things is the lesson
which should be taught our children next
after they are able to lisp "Our Father
which art in Heaven." The absence of
these teachings will result in the utter
perishing, as it has aheady produced the
grievous wounding, of liberty.
And now to the destiny which I have
announced that it was my opinion you
had to fulfill. The chief business of
these Southern Atlantic States is, and
will for generations continue to be, the
cultivation of the soil and cognate pur?
suits. The tendency of these employ?
ments is decidedly conservative.
Looking at the history of the great
Germanic families, it may be said, that
whilst cities and municipalities have been
foremost in asserting free institutions,
rural and agricultural communities have
ever been most steadfast iu maintaining
and conserving them. The enjoyment of
corporate privileges early taught their
possessors in the towns the importance of
establishing also the rights and liberties
of the nation at large. Hut the spirit of
gain and the love of change also wel?
comed the approach of tyranny, and
overcrowded populations gave birth to
riot, social disorders, and the demagogue,
the personation of all dangers to law and
liberty. It is yet so. From the crowded
alleys aud dark by-ways of our great
cities, abodes ?f hunger and crime, comes
forth the direst enemy with which our
institutions must contend. The evils
prophesied by Lord Macauley have come
upon us long before our vast Western
plains have been filled up; and whilst
there are still homes to be had almost
for the trouble of squatting upon them
and bread for the sowing of the seed, the
war against property has begun on a
scale requiring armies to resist it, and
communism?the incarnation of despot?
ism and social chaos?is openly estab?
lished in the land. Now, the sword may
temporarily check but cannot utterly sub?
vert this spirit. The sword is evil as an
instrument of government, as commun?
ism is evil, and one evil cannot cure an?
other. Moral remedies are alone perma?
nent and creditable to our civilization.
This remedy is found in the ballot box,
and iu avoiding the causes which pro?
duce communism. It is a fact of which
we cannot be too proud, that whilst riot
and labor outbreaks were convulsing so?
ciety and destroying millions of property
among our Northern neighbors last sum?
mer, and frightened Executives were
clamoring for the United States army,
not a note of trouble was heard from the
Potomac to New Orleans. I could not
but sec the contrast and feel the blessed
offects of relying upon a conservative ag- j
ricultural people. During the fiercest
period of that significant commotion, the
Governor of North Carolina was cooling
himself on the hills of his native county
of Buncombe, the Secretary of State was '
enjoying himself at the Warm Springs,
and "the Treasurer was resting in the
shade of his apple trees iu Randolph j
County, and the machinery of each do
partmcnt was efficiently worked by three j
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dergraduate home for the vacation.
The disease of social trouble was not
there, because the predisposing causes
were not there. Our land is not filled
with money rings, stock jobbers, and
huge monopolies and accumulation of
j capital to grind labor into dust and drive
the working man to desperaJon, where
he has to be slaughtered in the name of
order. Whilst denouncing the spirit of
lawlessness, therefore, it is also well to
denounce those by whom offenses come.
Set your faces against these, too, my
friends, and let them find no favor with
you at the ballot box. Whilst it is kept
pure and is controlled by conservative
influences, we are safe. The stronghold
of conservatism and of law is in the
homes of those who till the soil and live
upon the fields. "Firm as the everlast?
ing hills," says the proverb, and the in?
habitant of these hills or plains acquires
something of the stability of his home?
stead. In the very nature of his occupa?
tion, the man of the fields is also a man
of stability and peace. To him we look
for resistance to new and untried things,
for the preservation of old landmarks.
When riot deluges the city in blood or
wraps its palaces in flame, when strikes
atop the wheels of the factories, paralyze
the arm of law and invite crime to come
forth to his carnival, and artful dema?
gogues stir the fires of discord for selfish
ends, then indeed do the eyes of all pa?
triots turn toward the hills whence com
eth our strength ; then indeed do we look
to the men of the fields to come up full
of the teachings of their fathers and fresh
from the purity of their firesides and their
communing8 with nature to overcome the
promptings of evil and misguided men,
te restore the strength of the law, ana
maintain the freedom and justice of so?
ciety. No men on our continent have
been better taught the great lessons of
true civilization and constitutional liber?
ty, for no men have sat at the feet of
greater statesmen and purer patriots than
the people of these Southern Atlantic
States. Of all men, they perhaps best
know that all the wealth we can amass
and all the natural progress our vast re?
sources may enable us to make are as a
sounding of brass or the tinkling of a
cymbal?are worse than vanity, except
the genuine principles of freedom and of
law are still dominant in our hearts.
Except these abide in the ship, verily ye
cannot be saved.
Knowing these things, and removed,
as you are in -a great measure, from the
temptation to do wrong which surrounds
the densely populated and manufactur?
ing districts of the land, I doubt not but
you will remain true to your destiny, and
by your strong conservative tendencies
keep the ship for many ages from drift?
ing upon the rocks, and preserve for our
children the blessings of free and stable
government.
To stimulate you to the performance
of these high functions, and to ask you to
contemplate with jealous pride the grand
position you really hold in the economy
of our American politics, is my task to?
day. I can learn you little in regard to
the science of agriculture proper. I can?
not tell you how to grow more cotton
with the same or less means, and I would
I not if I could. You grow too much as it
I is. The more of it you produce the more
dependent you become on Western meat
and bread. If I had my way I would
: have every man who called himself a
farmer, and yet bought all bis meat and
bread in Cincinnati or St. Louis, indicted
for obtaining a good name under false
pretenses. Cotton is not king; by dire
necessity, in time of war, we learned that
food was. You have tried so long to en
throue ootton that it is time you were
finding out that your royal personage
like many such in Europe, was an expen?
sive institution?hardly worth the trap?
pings which adorn him.
But there is a class of our population
whose chief occupation is the production
of cotton, whose welfare should engage
more of your attention now than the pro?
duct of their labor. But lately vyour
slaves, and poorly fitted for the duties of
citizenship, the problem of their future
position is among the most difficult which
we have to solve. In my opinion the
proper solution depends also upon the ag?
ricultural people of the South. It is for
you to determine whether they shall or
shall not become active and efficient fac?
tors in the preservation of free govern?
ment and the promotion of our material
prosperity. Important factors of some
sort they undoubtedly are and will be; if
left to the teachings and influences of
those whose opinions we regard as detri?
mental to our ideas of government, they
will become to us evil factors in any case.
If brought within our own influence then
they will become factors for good or evil
as our opinions may prove right or wrong.
For one, I think we have too long per?
mitted aliens in feeling and interest to
control these black people at our doors.
For one, I am willing for the sake of put?
ting them, as a part of our own people,
under the control of our opinions, to do
anything consistent with the preservation
of the purity of our blood and of those
?ocial distinctions which our Anglo-sas on
I prejudices in support of nature have es?
tablished.
I don't want 4,000,000 of uneducated
half-civilized enemies, seated in the very
bosom of our Southern homes, controlled
by enemies still more hostile a thousand
miles away. I do want these 4,000,000,
however, to be our friends, to aid us to
till our fields, to think as we think, to
feel that their interest is our interest and
ours is theirs, to sustain the law in the
maintenance of life, liberty and prosperi?
ty, aud by a natural alliance with the
land give strength to the conservative
element of our society. Without sacri?
ficing a particle of what we owe to our
own race all this can be done, by attach?
ing them to the soil, by aiding them to
procure good homes, by warning them
continually against the corruption which
lies in wait to entrap their suffrage,
showing them how evil rulers oppress
both black and white, and in all ways
manifesting a kindly interest in their
welfare. Verily, if we are wise, we will
make our political enemies repent that
they made the black men citizens.
Such, my friends, are the duties which
press upon the rural populations of these
States. To check and. hold steady the
rash tendencies of our Democracy; to
repress both the cause and effect of dis?
orders growing out of overcrowding pop?
ulation ; to adjust our relations with the
black race and make it a useful and con?
tented element of our civilization. These
things may be termed the political ethics
of your noble profession, and whilst they
are grander and higher than the skill
fullest exercise of your scienco, their con?
scientious performance will ennoble your
toil and render the plow as great an in?
strument in the field of patriotic states?
manship as it ever has been in the pro?
duction of body-preserving bread, an
emblem of both political and physical
life.
Now, that is all I have to say upon that
subject. I repeat how much pleasure it
gives me to stand before an audience of
South Carolinians, redeemed, regenerated
and disenthralled, myself being a repre?
sentative of a State that has had a like
experience with yours. I will only say
further in the language of Tiney Tim,
"May God bless us every one."