Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-19
DAY Is BREAKING.
A Glorious Outlook for the
Democracy.
Speech Of Hon. s. s. Cox at Columbus,
Ohio, Last Wednesday.

speech OF Hon. s. S. Cox at Columbus
Ohio, Last Wednesday.
FeIIolC citizens:
1 am still sort Of Waterman on tn,
walls of the political Zion. You ash
me What Of the night?" The ques.
ton Is well put. Night! What Of III
Toe night Of fifteen years of Radical
rule; the night when public and per.
sonal liberty were eclipsed; the night
IN which no freeman could work well;
the night which, beginning in the
crimson twilight IN 1860, unstarred
through gloomy years, still fingers
thick and black, and how portentous!
What of it? Why-hope, exultation-
the splendors Of a new sunrisel The
long shadows point to the morning!
Joy cometh In the morning! Rise up
! Democrats of Ohio, and see the glory
of the dawni Rise up! aud let the
Egyptian gloom Of the past be lifted
with the drapery Of yOn comet! Rise
up from unpleasant dreams about the
unpleasant facts when the Provost was
on our tracks and we were hunted
from meeting to meeting by blood
\ hounds and by blood tracks, and when
our house was not even as much of a
castle as the open air. Rise up, Dem.
ocrats of Ohio! Vigilance, not sleep,
is the price of liberty! Rise up,
William Allen" and come along with
rs, and see the glory Of the,sunrise.
Let Us turn away from the bloody
| specter of the war, and the stalking
political ghosts since, to prophesy and
cheer. Out of the darkness of our past
/ trials and wasted land 'a light hath
shined, making reflections of things to
come" The very shadows presage the
Examinations Of the future. The sun
set of life hath its mystical lore; and
coming eTents cast their shadows be-
fore.
What is the forecast? By what rule
of human conduct can we make and as
sumo a cheerful horoscope?
Scion, contemplating the citadel of
Mungchia, exclaimed: "How blind Is
man to futurityl Could the Athenians
foresee what mischief this viii do their
city, they would even eat 1t with their
own teeth to get rid Of it, His ex-
clanation was verified. Every great
event has been accompanied by its pre-
sage. Was it Lord Bacon who remark
ed that "the shepherds Of the people
should understand the prognostics of
State tempests?" He knew what we
know, that there are secret swellings of
the sea- He defined in advance the
tidal wave in politics, a little swoop of
which gave us last year control in
twenty-five States and the Federal Con-
gress, with q popular majority of
100000.
1t was no mere matter Of guess which
led me to say In Congress: ''Touch one
hair of Gen. Anderson's head IN Fort
Sumter, gentlemen Of the South, and
you will have the North as one man in
his defense" All that was said by
statesmen did not countervail to change
this written and spoken word. 1t was
not predicated on the lack Of courage
South, or It's abundance North; but on
the intrinsic and inalienable love Of
Union, North and South, and the ever
lasting economic and mechanical laws
To the North, blockade, bridge and road
building was easy. To the North, even
the raising Of money by steam print
ing was easy. To the North, the forg-
ing Of cannon and the hiving Of values,
even amid the devastations of war, vas
easy. To the South, the improVidences
and glories of martial gallantry were
easy; but IN the long and chronic con-
hict run the mechanical and economical
results told their unvarying story.
Gentlemen, there are lessons to be
taught IN this connection. 1t is not
the value Of prophecy or politics alone.
The South was not beaten. 1t was
almost ext9minated. No more resist
ance was possible. When Lee surren-
dered there were only Is, 900 soldiers at
Richmond. When European armies,
as at Metz or Sedan, surrendered, hun
dreds Of thousands were made prison.
ers. In our war, whole regiments fell,
aud in some battles, as in
the Wilderness, as many fell as
make whole armies n other
times and lands. There was the SUPER
natural bravery Of our race-call it
AnglO-NOrman, Scotch, Irish, Anglo
Saxon or Celtic-honorable 10 the con-
querOr and the conquered. Nothing
but the superior mechanic power and
long exchequer Of the North ended
the conflict, and what a lesson
to the exchequer was and Is left?
What a lesson for the 5enignity Of
hOnesty-the need Of mutual trust and
the patriotism Of complete restoration.
Oh, 1t is said by Senator Morton that
he is ready now to start anew with the
Republic and with the Centennial. In
deed. He is now ready to begin his
gracious pardon next year, 4th July.
Indeed Why hIs very affection is Ill
timed. 1t comes when the orange
blossoms are uDon the bride Of another
and a better bride, 1t is Democracy
which weds the heavenly prolonged ami
hateful sweetness Of Cancellation. The
Senator's gTudging grace-why 1t is
the very antipCde of union, between
gentleness and strength. He breaches
an evangel Of discOTd and weakness,
1t requires no prophecy to mark the Ill
consequences Of this policy of force
and distrust and hate. We have it a
pOsteriOri. We have it IN the result of
ten years Of misrule South. We have
it in the broad farce Of "civil rights
and the bad butchery of force bills,
and IN military pashaltics and
their Federal janizaries. Go to ruined,
charred South Carolina-the mere husk
of what she was, Go to Mississippi
and Alabama; ready to be victimized
when extreme partisan emergencies
arisel Go to Louisiana. In vain her
sky is beautiful, her climate balmy and
her waters grand! Yes, l Will 60 to
her so long as the hollow truce between
force and fraud exists IN her midst for
a lesson of warning to all. Her debts
are now S50,597,30 while her once
proud city owes nearly half as much
besides! This for a population less
than a million, nearly half negroes!
With property still depreciating, with
an annual tax greater than the income,
and with half the taxes squandered-
never applied to any good purpose
with a Legislature made by the sword
and enforced at Washington, we need
no Scion to advise US that such is a