The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-09-06
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| electoral votes, the home of our Vice
Presidential candidate, seems to b.
the chosen battle ground in our grea
National contest. Morton, The grea
bloody shirt leader Of Radiealism, re
Gently at indianapolis, made Ii,
great opening speech Of the campaign
in behalf of Hayes, and in it wa-et
the old ensanguined garment to ner(
shreds. That speech was the key
note Of his party and it has beer
printed and scattered through th>
land by tens of thousands. But the
Democrats Of the ole Hoosiar State
have taken up the gauntlet, and twc
ofthe most gifted men OF the nation
have been thrown in the breach anG
have taken Morton in hand. These
are no less than Dan. VOORHEES,, the
tall sycamore of the Wabash, and
George ". Julian, until recently she
leader of the old Republican party,
The Cincinnati Enquirer of the 2sth
of August publishes in full both OF
the speeches Of these gentlemen,
which are mastery efforts in our
vindication, and as a small specimen
of Mr.. Julian's effort we give in brief
what he said on the folly OF reyertine
to the past illustrated:
The folly of attempting to ind 6
political scare-crOw in the record of
Tilden and Hendricks on the slavery
question, is amusingly illustrated in
the late keynote speech of our Senator.
He charges that Governor Hendricks
opposed the escape of slaves who came
into our lines during the war. In the
early period of the war Governor
Morton occupied the same position,
and 80 did the Administration of Mr..
Lincoln, while our commanding Gener
ais frequently restored fugitivcs to
their rebel masters. He says Governor
Hendricks, in 1867, was opposed to
allowing negroes to sit on juries and
hold Office. Governor Morton held the
same opinions, and avowed them, only
two years before. He says Governor
Hendricks opposed the armipg of ne
groes as soldiers. Governor Morton at
first agreed with him, and Caleb B.
Smith, Mr.. Lincoln's Secretary of the
Interior, said it would be disgrace to
the nation. He says that Governor
Hendricks made Il speech in the Con
stitntional Convention of 1850, in favor
Of the Thirteenth article, excluding
negroes from the State. Governor
Morton voted for that article, in COM
mon with the great body of the people
of the State. He charges Tllden and
Hendricks with favoring the peace
resolution in the Chicago Convention
Of 1864, which is successfully denied
bat Governor Morton himself, year
afterward, made so thoroughly sound
Democratic speech at Richmond that
the men he now styles "Coufederate
Democrats" published it as campaign
document by the hundred thousand for
years following in several States of the
Union. He says Governor Hendricks
favored the Fugitive Slave Law of
1850. SO did tina author of the key
notes, for he was then a Democrat, and
.ried TO raise rebellion in the ranks
If the party i'll the Old Burnt District
because it supported me for Congress
sfter ] had voted a. nsG the Fugitive
Slave Act and the compromise meas
lres of the Thirty frat Congress. I
submit that the Senator's proverbiaI
,ondness for raking mp the ashes Of the
past should not have led him into the
political graveyard Of prominent Dem
'crats. His own chosen line of argu-
nent not only shows that he himself is
atally disqualified for once, out that
nearly all the real leaders Of Rcpubli-
,anism are in the same unhappy con i.
litiOn. General Grant himself was
Pro- Slavery Democrat, voting fo
Buchanan in 1856, and never becoming
| Republican until his eyes were
by the offer of the Presidency,
II two successive installments. Gen
,Ial Butler has record still less i'm
naculate, having voted for jeff Davis
ifty-eight times in the famous
Charleston Convention. According to
ny recollection, Simon Cameron was
lever understood to be very reliable
Abolitionist. Indeed, if no mon are
low to be trusted but those who can
show a pure and undefiled Abolition
ecord for the past twenty-five years,
'ur country is in pretty bad way, for
t would, in many cases, require
search warrant to find such men, even
u the Republican party.
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