The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-09-24

has made the wisest and best policy forever i'm
practicable, and the next best policy is by every
means to stimulate every productiyeenergy ofour
country and our people up to the highest profi-
gate point, that we may, so far asy yet possible,
retrieve the errors of the past and hopefully re-
pair the losses and suferings we have sus-
tanned.
Mr.. Sherman says that ifthe Democrats obtain
power they will assume the Confederate debt or
renumeTate the COnfederates for their losses In
the war. This Is the wilful blindness Of besot-
ted preludices or the vain cry Of imbecile des-
pair
There are other questions which should like
to discuss, but have consumed much time, and
Others will follow me- We hear daily Of murders
and outrages and violence In some of the Southern
States, and the Republicans are ever ready to at
tribute them all to hostility to the negro and the
determination 70 deprive them of political rights.
don't know how much truth there may be In
the reports. do know there is great exaggera-
ton as to the cause. Ifmyyoioe could be heard
in those States and II might venture to speak on
this subject, would say to my fellow-citizens
there, Bear and forbear, Treat the negro as the
law treats him; treat the white man as the law
treats hun; respect the rights Of ALL enforce the
rights ofall; maintain the supremacy of the law
punish lawlessness by the law. Private vengence
Is snotlawful punishment An indignant outburst
of wounded senslbility or Of a keen'se Of pub
lie wrong Is not lawful punishment Maintain
the law Let 1t be the shield Of the innocent and
the terror Of the criminal. Let passion be govern
ed by reason. Let tardy justice be sweeter than
retributlye wrong.dOing. Let social order and ex-
act Justice prevail The excuse will then be taken
away from military power, and, in the selfgoy-
ernmert of the community, virtue and intelli-
genee will, in the end, surely command con-
troll"
giDemocrats, are ouready for the cOntest9 The
future beckons you onward. The seeds Of disln-
tegratlon are sown among our adversaries Cor
ruptlon In office, low views Of official duty jar
ring ambitions, third term aspirations, honest diff
ferences ofoplnion, have weakened the ties which
have united them, The cohesive power of public
plunder keeps together the cohorts the Admin
lstration, and hopes of preterment attached to 1t
the leading men of the party. But honest men,
who have no aspiration but for wise and upright
and honorable Government are ready to leave
them. Let us show by our wisdom, by our mode
ration, that they can safely come to us, When
Napoleon went to Russia, in all the pomp and
pride Of successful conqueror, Kingsand Princes
crowded his court and added their troops to his
arms When he returned defeated, and with new
leves defended his frontier at Leipsic and Dres-
den, his allies had fallen away, saxony had left
him. Alone, with heroic courage and resolution
he fought his campaign around Paris. But he
lost 1t. A year Of exile followed, aud he renewed
the contest Butitwas only foreign fort hundred
days and to bury his fortunesat Waterloo Defeat
the Republican party this fall In Ohio, and If Il
shall again recuperate for the fight 1t will only
be for hundred days and to find a Waterloo in
1876"
While Mr. Pendleton was speaking, the second
meeting, according to programme, was called Ia
order ION the South side of the Capitol)by Hon. A.
T. Walling, candidate for Congress in the Twelfth
District who introduced General Durlin Ward as
| the first speaker He arraigned the Republican
marty for lis Administration of affairs and charged
that party with loss to the country of S7OOOO0000
| by loss of property during the ten years elapsed
since the close of the war loss occasiOned by the
lapsing into solitude of larger area in the South
| than the two States Of Ohio and Indiana, and large
falling off in production In that section, especially
\ cotton
General Ward was followed by Gen. Samuel f.
| Cary of Cincinnati who addressed himself TO the
labor question and to the business interests of the
/ country General Morgan followed in some re-
marks upon business prostration and the public
debt Judge Powell Of Cincinnati, also held forth
| In some eloquent remarks The meeting closed
with the reading of letter from General Thomas
Ewing, which we omit for the present.