Show THAT HAHPTOH SPHECIf A Good Deal 01 Talk Oycr flee Matter Chicazo 21Tho Tribute bas a two column special from J Yost editor of the Valley Virginian diseasing Wade Hamptons speech at S anton about which there hns been ao much confo verty It is full of meat It begins by quoting the following which purports to be an extract from a Utter of Vade Hampton to tbe Washington Post and which baa been going tho rounds of the press for some time Is my whole record since the closo of the w ir ad all my efltrts fur a better undent d og between the sections broad and down reaching for union to > ba frittered away by the forgeries of an obscure newspaper writer I neither used tho wards atrib utld to me nor anything approaching them in meaning lost siys that one of the editors of bh paper wrote to Wade Hampton as folows This purports to be a literal extract from a private letter written by you to the editor of tie Washington fjat The substance of tbe letter is stated to be a denial of the language attributed to you by the Virginian in its repot of your speech in Staunton on Ju y GUI A copy of that report I herewi h si nd In it you i are quoted as having used these word in substance Consider what Lee and Jackson would do werethey alive These are the same principles they fought for for four years Remember the men who poured forth their bood on Virginias soil and do not abandon them now The quotation abave is the text of the alleged letter to the editor of the lbs I write to ask if it is true that such a letter was written by you If so is the enclosed slip a literal extract therefrom A response re-sponse at your earliest convenience will greatly oblige yours respectfully J YO TIn T-In reply a letter was received from Senator Hampton in wbich he says I have not any recollection of having used tho language attributed to me in the closing sentence of your report and I certainly nbver intended to convey the idea embodied in it Your reporter rnu concMvol my language I appealed to the Virginians present to consider before they voted bow Lee and Jackon would vote wore they alive and lacked if anyone any-one pre = tnt culJ for a moment suppose that these devoted Virginians cou d ever have done anything which would create dissension in tle state they bad liked so well My sole object wm to appeal to tho democrats Virginia to forget their ILCM differences and to s riko fur the Eucccts of the democratic party Tbo principle involved in the war was the claim made by the south of the right of peaceable secession tbis right was Oennd by tbe north democrat as well as republicans repub-licans joining in the denial On this issue battle was joined the north triumphed and th results of her success were embodied em-bodied in amendments to the Constitution settling beyond all question and for ever the right ot peaceable secession by the adverse deciion of the highest caithly tribucaT recognized among mankind The war had nothing to do with the principles of the national democratic party ard I was peculiarly unfortunate if any expression of mine In btauntoti Cwuld ba so misconstrued as to give the impression that supposed principles involved in the presidential contest were those for which uo fought for four yora I havo made no charge against your papor or any other of tbe wilful misrepresentations mis-representations but I must disclaim emphatically em-phatically the construction placed upon toy speech as well as the language attributed to mo in the few last scalene ot your report J be Vuyinian discussing this letter finds nothing to modify in its expression of the sentiment Hampton enunciated in bi < speech On the other hand it describes des-cribes the effect which the much discus dis-cus eJ sentence had upon the audience sayii g that while Hampton previous utterances hd called forth lively ap plaucthis one seemed toitun the ardor of the people and was only applauded by one or two persons Teat General Ramp tons memory is defective about the whole matter is evidenced by tbe fact that ho had accepted the report of the World as correct vhea the gentleman who made that reporttsys it was not published as taken down and written by nim and furnithod to tho World If he could be staken in thi then he i is just as iinblo to error in the other reference TLat ho is at fault in tho matter at isue we areas are-as confident as that we have Rn existence exist-ence We certainly diOur from Geocral l Hampton in his assumption that tbe issues involved in the late war have nothing to do wi h the national democratic demo-cratic party Tho principle of state sovereignty maintained by the routbern democracy i < precisely that which was joined in the conflict ol arms ard which it was believed had been finally settled in the result of that conflict National authority ks expres cd in the amendments amend-ments to the Const tution is defied in his own state in denying the citizens the frea exorcie of the elective franchise at guaranteed by the Constitution Constitu-tion It wg flagrantly deni d in the recent re-cent election in Alabama and was defied by the wholesale when ho pledged in the Cincinnati convention the 138 eoctoral votes from the tohd s uth for General Hancock Wo call attention panic ularlv to General Hamptons disclaimer i f the authorship of the paragraph which conveyed disrespect to the Virginian Vir-ginian and v hich was furnished by the Washington Itoit and greedily accepted by the New York World and Baltimore Gazette if ho ckimcd authorship it follows that forgery has been committed commit-ted and we leave the responsibiity for this criminal wroag to be located by the parties most int rested The Virgmiui further lay that when Mr Gordon made the report for the New York World tho senior edit jr of the Virginian called his attention to tho fact that he had omitted the words in diput and that Gordon replied I da not intend to tend that north for misconstruction The oilier replied hampton made use of those M = rri T nnnt ir 1 l ftA 1 W H U LUU full benefit of them The Virginian publihes sffid vi s fnm prominent democrats dem-ocrats who heard tho i etch and who en dorse as corr ct the Virginians report The matter bs crated gre t interestand general comment in the north ar d south which is sufficient excuse for the full sketch of the last phase tf the controversy contro-versy |