The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-10-02
ARE THEY FORGERIES?

speeches and put them In the mouths
of Southern Democrats by whom
they we're never uttered
Is it a forgery that Frank p. Blair,
the Democratic candidate for Vice
President, wrote to Col. James o.
Broadhead, on the 30th q June
"There is but one way TO restore
the Government and the COnstitu-
ton, and that is for the President
elect to declare these acts (of Recon
struction) null and void, compel the
army to undo its usurpations at the
south, disperse the carpet bag State
Governments, allow the white people
to reorganize their own governments,
and elect Senators and Represents
tives?'
Is it a forgery that Wade Hamp-
ton said at a Democratic ratification
meeting in New York:
81 want you all to register an oath
that when they ('the white people of
the South, without regard to the ex-
ceptions of the Reconstruction acts,
do vote, that these votes be counted !;
and if there is q majority of white
votes, that you will place Seymour
and Blair in the White House in
spite of all the bsyonets that shall
be brought against them p
IsIt "a forgery that Wade Hamp-
ton said at his reception in Charles.
ton that he proposed in the Commit
tee on the Platform in the Democrat
ic Convention, to insert the words,
And we declare that the Recon
struction acts are revolutionary, un-
constitutional, and void ?''-and that
he added:
} "When ] proposed that every single
member of the CommitteeLand the
warmest men in it were the men ofthe
North-came forward and said they
would carry it out to the end p
Is it a forgery that MIR. C. c. Lang
don, delegate to the Democratic Con-
vention, said in published letter be-
fore the fourth OF July, that the re-
construction measures are "uncOnsti-
tutIonal. and of course. absolutely
vOid,' that this would be the chief
Iplsnk in the Democratic platform /;
that the Supreme Court, probably at
its next term, wOnld so decide; and
that he added:
"Then all we want is q President
whose views are in accord with that
decision, and who has tie will and
the nerve to do bis .dpty.c-It will be
his duty to enforce the decree of the
Court if need be, at the point of the
bayonet?''
Is it forgery that John Forsyth
said. in the Mobile Register, speaking
of reconstruction
"And hers, We may as well say that
the people ofthe Seoth donot intend
to submit to that permanent rule. re-
suit as the Presidential election may?''
Is it q forgery that Raphael
Semmes said at Mobile:
II have come to declare that
have given inImy allegiance, heart
and soul, to the old dag. provided
we can restore the old dag again to
be the repres entative of the princi-
Piles of the Constitution, which we
will be able to effect by the election
of Seymour and Blair ?"
Is it forgery that the Chstleston
Mtresry said p :TAk1n0k
Peace vas made by Gekeral
Sherman inA the spring or 1865, in
his terms of capitulation with Gener
al johnson. That was peace, and
nothing else ever will be peace?'
Is it forgery that Albert Pike
said:
THE South is our laud the North
is a foreign and hostile Feilns
II the old Unionsscannossber restored,
we hope to see the South inde-
pendent before we die p
IL itasforgery llA General Battle.
of the late rebel army. said at the
Democratic meeting in Mobile:
"The Democratic party indQrses
1principlss for wHEA SellS6& p
/ b it aforesry hat Hhm6 md
EsQair8 says: = OVW-E
"The next Democratic House OF
Representatives, in case of contest,
will recognize. and will only recog-
nize, such memberss~ ~ come there
under legal constitutions, and that
have been adopted by the free con-
ST. ssstsf ssei's pl' the
Is it a forgery that the Richmond
Wing, speaking of the Blair letter,
"He declared without any hesitan-
cy, and in terms not to he misunder-
stood, that were he Pfesjdent, the
whole Executive power should be
employed to blot out every vestige
of Radical reeonstruction?''
Is it a forgery that Wade Hamp-
ton said::x ~
'<rry to convince the negro that
We are his real friends; but il he
will not be convinced, and is still Join
ed to his idols, convince him at
least that he must look 70 those idols
whom he serves as hii gpdss te feed
and clothe him. Agree smong your
selves, and act firmly on this belief,
that y9uryih not snR9y.zsnS one
who votes me Radical ticket %
Is it forgery that Albert Pike, as
President of a Democratic club, off,
cially said of Democratic cards of
recommendation for colored men:
ave hope that hereafter, when any
Democrat desires to employ a color
ed man in any capacity, he will ask to
see his card, and if none is produced
will refuse to employ him p
Is it forgery that the Chattanoo-
ga Union said:
''Sutier any or all taunts or tyran-
ny until after, and then-well, we
would rather be a nimble squirrel
than white Radical ?"
Is it forgery that the New York
World said of such speeches OIL
Wade Hampton as we have ouoted
1--WE have found them to be the
candid and persuasive utterapces of
an honest and courageous man ?"
And if all these are forgeries. vbv
is it that the Charlestown Mercu,.
said !:
"Private advices from our most
strenuous friends at the North re-.
quest that we should protest against
the imprudent expressions that have
escaped some Southern speakers
since the adjournment of the Nation.
al Democratic Convention. SO 1t
is questionable whether q tbis, time
isto be pair&d bv ton.L