The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-05-08
The Voice Of Indiana.
HON. BAYLEss W. HANNA ON THE STU
ALTON.

j ALTON.
i The following is the Vincennes Sum
Report Of the Hon. Bayless w. Hanna
speech at Vincennes, Ind:
PLAIN WORDS AS TO THE DUTY OF TIL
HOUR.
Well, now, gentlemen, you may ask
from what 1 have said before, what &C
ton do you propose for the present ne
cessity4 What do you propose to do
Do You propose to surrender ALT,
desert the faith-to close the old church
or what is your propositionf Thes'
are pertinent questions; they hav,
been put to me before by many inqui
rers, and I propose to give a plain an.
swer to them: l believe, so long as they
themselves remain honest, there car
be danger of their liberties in this Gov.
eminent. I believe that the great
masses of the people are honest. They
can have neither an object nor a temp.
tation to be otherwise. And now that
our public servants, from the Presi.
dent down, through all the long and
double lines of his avaricious minions
have become corrupt; as the people
themselves, without regard to past
party alliances, have inaugurated the
movement to hurl them from power, in
Gods name let US give them helping
hand to put them out. This is my
proposition-to join with anybody who
will help me to pnt them out. Some
one may ask how do you propose to do
litf Do you mean war; Do you pro-
pose to marshal armiesi 1 say no! a
thousand times no! We have had war
enough to last US through long centu-
ries to come. But l do propose that If
we have prejudice we will surrender
tiff We have had a long cherished
opinion, that we will suspend tiff we
have sought power or place or Office,
that we will postpone the aims of our
ambition-if we have longed to nail
our party flag to the masthead, that it
might wave gloriously above all others,
that we will lend the proves it repre-
sents, for time, to better purpose
than the mere qualification of personal
pride. That we will make every sac
rifice-forego every pleasure-with-
hold nothing We have-that we will
feast no longer, but fast until U grow
faint and weak-that we will do any
thing and all things which our con-
sciences will justify, to hold up the
hands of any one who can deliver US
from the thraldom of the wicked mis-
rule and internal political debauchery
which is now crushing the very life out
of the people.
TRUMBULL, SEIZURE, DAVIS, SUMNER,
ADAMS, GREELEY AND THE REFoR-
MERS.
Why, my fellow citizens, if Lyman
Trumbull, Carl Schurz, David Davis,
Charles Francis Adams, Horace Gree
ley, Charles Sumner, and a host of
other reformers, are willing to break
away from party in the full tide of
power, because of its corruption, and
strike hands with US in the high re-
solve to beat Grants reelection and
elect some honest man in his place, we
would be unworthy the confidence of
our party, and unworthy of the cause
it seeks to promote, if we should re-
fuse to do it.
T. A. HENDRICKS.
If l could have my choice in the Sc
lection of President, and could at the
same time elect Congress which
would support his views, it would be
quickly made. He lives in our own
State. 1t is acknowledged that he has
won the highest honors of every pub
lie station he has ever filed. His
splendid Abilities wise and prudent
craftsmanship, blameless private life,
high moral courage, and uniform ad-
herence to the tenets of the political
faith he processes, would give him
front rank among the greatest of all |
who have filed the Presidential office.
have not the least doubt about it. II
see his name is now hanging on every
lip, and I will speak it for you. l |
mean our own honest and honored
Thomas A. Hendricks. We all love
him, and the whole Democratic party |
would delight to honor him.
pENDLETON, CAss, sLocUM, GARRETT,
THURMAN, DoOLITTLE, BREEsE AND |
BLAIR.
And then there is our true gifted, no.
bic and accomplished Pendleton, of
Ohio, whose name has been 80 often
shouted on every hill and in every
valley of the State. What old-line
Democrat would not feel that his yonth
had returned again on the 4th of March
hat would be his Inauguration day
And, looking still further over the
Democratic field, my eye quickly
catches Cass, of Pennsylvania; Slo-
'um, of New York Garrett, of Mary
and; Thurman, of Ohio; Breese, of
illinois; Doolittle, of Wisconsin; brave
frank Blair, Of Missouri, and many
'thers whom, I feel, would administer
his Government fairly and success