The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-08-23
Speech of Geo. III. PendletOn
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Will of the nationl They are in
direct violation to the will of ev.
cry honest white man and of every
intelligent negro at the South, of ev-
cry Democrat and every supporter
of the Administration at tic fyoitti,
and of thousands of Republicans who
love liberty and fear the encroach.
ments of despotlsm. 1t is the will OF
the Republican leaders, and this Gen.
eral Hayes mistakes for the will OF
the nation. He is not the only man
in history who has made a similar
mistake.
On the 9th of July, 1894, Robe.
sphere was the head of the French
Government. He controlled the com.
mittees and the Tribunal; +; he ruled
the assembly. On that day, in Paris
alone, he sent forty persons to the
guillotine, as he had done on each
day for more than month; and,
bathed in blood, he exclaimed: "It
is the will of the nation.'' On the
next day Tallien attacked him in the
Cahmber; traitor" .resounded
through the Hall, and on the third
day he was beheaded amid :he exc
Grafton of that nation whose will he
pretended to execute.
Is this the restoration of the Un-
ion2 Is this the maintenance Of the
Constitution General Hayes says
that, In a speech in Congressin 1861,
I declared that armies, navies,
blood cannot maintain the Union"
Have they maintained it? God for
bid that the Union under the Consti-
tuition should be degraded by com
parison with the condition of things
this day. / SAID, further, {" Reason,
justice, peace may.restore the Union"
1 repeat it. 1t is true. The event
has shown that, also. General
Hayes, in his Lebanon speech, says,
"They want to return to the old or
der of things"
One hour of just administration of
the Constition would restore the Un-
ion. Why can we not have itp Why
this entire dislocaIion of State Gov
ernments? Why this entire suspen-
sion of civil government at the
South Why this disregard or abro
cation of the Federal Constitution in
all its relations to the South ? For
what purpose? / put this question
in all candor to every honest Repub-
lican. The sole object is to secure
to the negroes the right to vote, and
thereby give them the absolute con-
troll of those States. And the in
ducement for this is the belief that
the negroes will vote with the Re-
publican party II it were certain
that the negroes would vote with the
Democratic party, these gentlemen
would not be in favor of negro suf-
frage. / go further: If they could
be assured OF controlling those States
by means of the white vote alone,
they would prohibit negro suffrage.
New England believes that with those
States she can afford to lose, as she
sees she soon will lose, some of the
Northern States. Despairing of u.s.
ing the white man, she Turns to the
black man. She sees in him the
means of power. She sees reflected
in his face the perpetuation of tariffs
one hundred-per cent. dividends, ex-
emption Of bonds from taxation, the |
enjoyment of profit and power in Of
ice, the harvest of capital, the hey
lay OF New England Puritanism.-t
Agriculture may weary of its bur-
lens; labor may became restive
Northwestern men may become dis
,usted with fanaticism, and believe
hat Sunday laxs and prohibitory
laws are unwise and ty-
annical; but New England soothes
hem for the moment by an appeal to
heir philanthrophy, and prepares