The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1872-07-13
posed union upon the candidate, a

earueSty us TO surprise ltS trlenuS ana
to confound its enemies. Applause.1
Which comes as the winds come
which to borrow figure, overwhelms
the ordinary currents of public
opinion as the great storms always
run to the surface currents. What
means all this There are some
things gentlemen it does not mean.
1t means no abandonment of what is
true, of what is just, of what is good
in human government. Applause
1t means no uuion Of tho dead upon
dead issues, but union of the living
upon the living. issues of the present.
1t means no union for the spoils of
office. Applause. But it means a
union of men with the same faith
upon the great and paramount issue
of the present hour--a frank, manly,
honorable, and equal union Of men
who have the sagacity to see and the
moral courage to accept the situation.
iG"Good," "Good,' and loud cheer.
ing. 1t means Union of men who
have the sagaolty to see what is past
and to deal with the issues of the
present, and for tho future to do their
duty to their country, their God, and
their fellow men. The issue to-day
is not the repeal Of the Missouri Com
promise, nor the question of slavery
in the Territories, upon which alone
the Republican party was organized
IN 1858. 1t is not upon that
which followed when the Lecompton
Constitution, for Kansas divided the
Democratic party in twain and elected
Alabama Lincoln to the Presidency
in 1860. 1t is not the question of SO
cession, nor of war to put down the
rebellion, nor the abolition of slavery
In the States by military order or by
constitutional amendment upon which
sMr. Lincoln was reelected in 1864,
nor yet is it the question of recon
,truction, the 18th or 18th amendments,
nor the question Of negro suffrage,
nor the establishment by federal
power of universal negro suffrage as
a condition precedent to tho States
of the South having rights or any
existence even as States in the Union.
1t is none of these questions that
is now in issue all these have been
issues of the past-great issues
sufficient in themselves to create and
dissolve political parties, because
ideas are stronger than men or par.
ties but they are all past issues, they
have been fought out and fought to
the end in the forum or in the field,
and they are no more in issue to-day
than the Mexican war or the war of the
rebellion, (applauso). We could not
reopen them if We would, and they
falsely misrepresented our purpose,
who say that we would reopen
them if we could. This great union,
therefore, means no steps ba edward,
[choers. Forward, is the word, !,
loud choering] and first of all it
means to-day for all the other States
of the South what it has already done
in Missouri. Instead of prescription
test oaths, suspension of the habeas
corpus and military despotism, it
means tho personal freedom for the in.
, dividual and Republican good for all.
Loud applause. Instead of negro
supremacy, upheld by prescription and
the bayonet, it means equal rights
to all men, white as well as
black. Loud applause. Instead of
thieving Governments organized to
plunder subiugated States, it means
the dominance once more of intelli.
gence and integrity. Instead of
strife, hate and robbery, it means
justice, liberty. peace, loyalty, good
will, and, gentlemen, for our whole
country, East, West, North, and
South, it means instead of a war
President, trained only.in a military
school, and whose whole character has
been formed in the ideas, arts habits
and despotism of military life in
stead of this, it means the election of
u peace President cheers, trained in
the ideas, arts, blessings aud repub.
iican simplicity peace and universal
freedom. Loud cheers,I OF peace
not enchained, of liberty not under
arrest, awaiting trial, sentence and
execution by drumhead courtmar-
tial but that liberty and peace which
the Constitution secures by placing
the civil law above the sword, by pre-
serving. in full regard the sacred writ
H.