New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-22

have obtained control in our national gov
ernment2 Have not the people said 20 thal
Confederate Congress that displaced
wounded Union soldiers and filed tneil
places with Confederatee, I'VE repudl ate
your conductg Have they not said to that
House that transplanted the Confederate
serpeant-at alarms and made him dOOrkeepeI
| Of the House of Representatives OF the
| United States, ave repudiste your con
duct?, Have they not said to that House
of Representatives that appointed as clerk
of one of it's most important committees q
man had put brand Of shame on his limo
cent offspring by naming it after the man
who assassinsted Illinois greatest states
map. Americas most beloved President
Abraham Lincoln9 I say, then, that the
result OF the election in Indiana, az we'll az
been an expressed unmistakable condemna
ton Of the Democratic party in the House
OF Representatives 1t has pronounced
their professions of reform, their claims Of
retrenchment to be fraudulent. Il has
pronounced decidedly and Enthusiastically
against that disposition to surrender to the
Confederate CON .rol that important branch
OF our national government.
So much by way OF depression. We have
helped those other States in that most iE-
pOrtant work of recovering from the Dem
you give Indiana credit for that But not
only that. We have secured the control of
our State Legislature, and by that means
insured the control of the retormatory and
benevolent institutions. We have q much
larger Eumb Der of influential local officers in
the counties in Indiana than we had when
this contest began. So that the gains have
been with us, and the losses y 18th the Dem.
0cracy. Now, that is the result Of the In.
diana election. I would like some Demo
cratic mathematician, if speak to one to.
night. just to take this problem and figure
it out, if he can find slate roofs enough in
Chicago for him to do his ciphering on.
How long will it take the Democratic party
OF this country to obtain control of the gov.
eminent if things 60 on as they did in In
diana! How long! It is a problem very
much like the mans problem put to the
boy-how long it would take him to get up
il he went up one foot and went down twO
They have gone backward. We have gone
forward. We assaulted their citadel, their
center. We didn't carry it. They held it,
but we have broken their wings. Don't
call it defeat. Don't speak OF it as dis.
sster. Republicans of Illinois, don't 60
into the contest before you with bowed
heads or hearts, by reason of anything that
has happened in Indiana.
Well, the next question is. "Can We carry
Indiana tor Hayes and Wheeier!" IA
voice, I'VE can't Well, l asked that ques.
ton Of nearly 1000 of my fellow-citiz ems
last Saturday night at Indianapolis, and
their answer-their determined, universa al
answer, spoken with resolution that was
not simply from the lips, but as if it came
from the heart, and as if every hand was
willing to move with us-their universal an
swer was, Ives, we can" How was this to
be brought about 1t would not be appro.
pirate to the occasion that should spend
any length of time in discussing this Gues-
ton tonight. simply call your attention
TO one or two facts, and the first is this:
That the Democratic ticket is elected simply
by q plurality vote, and not by q majority
vot To of the people Of Indiana. The returns
are not yet all in, though the Gree nback
ticket must have received as many as 20 600
votes in this election, while Mr. Williams
majority is only little over 5000. Il is I'M
IuestiOnably true that that vote does not
epresent the entire sentiment of the party
q Indiana. IL Is unquestiOnably true, in
ny Judgment, that at tha NOvembe cleo.
ion tbs vote of Mr.. Williams will be re-
uced in q much larger per cent than nv !
Ote was by the withdrawal of those who |
will vote tor Cooper.
At all events, there is this large indie |
endent vote of which we can not certain.
= forecast the direction that it may take |
4 this election, but l do believe, as the |
sue grows sharp, and as those Republicans |
rho have made no much of the larger part
this org anizati0n come to realizs that
hey are but casting away their ballots.
rat they are throwing away their political
IhueEce when they vote this Independent |
cket, that they viii come back to the
arty OF their first choice, with which they |
Re in accord upon all these greater issues
hich are overshadowing al! these minor
sues upon which they have separated from
10 party, and l do hope that enough Of
EN- to give the State TO, Hayes in Novem-
r will vo:e that ticket. For to-day they
i've become satis fled that the dominant, |
all-absorbing issue of the cam
ign is, WHISTLER our country shall con.
lue in loyal control, or whether it shall be
ven over TO the rebellion.
The Significance Of this campaign in In
ana. and these results as interpreted by
Q Democratic party is said to be an ex-
essiOn in favor of peace and recOncilia-
IN. Mr.. Hendricks SO interprets it in his
renade speech following the election.
Among the congratulatory kilograms
lich poured in upon the committee and
. Indianapolis Sentinel was one from
cksOn, Tennessee. II described the pop
alton Of that city to be in captures of
'dness over the result in Indiana. Bon
Is, rockets, brass bands and loud rebel
lis were all tried in vain to give adequate
d suitable expression to the mad enthu- j
sm which prevailed in Jackson over the {
ult in Indiana. 1t was further stated |
It General SAiviDgtop, who l have ascer-
ned to have been a Confederate soldier, | a
d carried bloody shirt at half-Mast in !
, procession, and had officiated as the | '
est while il was laid away in the grave q
ID what were called appropriate cere- i
MES" The telegram wound up with i
8 congratulatOry sentiment: Democracy | u
l Cnion row and forever, one and in l
arabic" l allude to it now simply that c
l may understand here, as we
in Indiana, how this result is interpreted n
the South: And say to you that there L
8 not White Liner or Ku-Klux assas- Il
and murderer of innocent blacks, a | &
ell who persists In loving the lost cause p
re is not one such in the South that did | d
huzza over what we count to be Indi-
's shame. The sentiment with which | q
telegram Observation-Disclosures and | y
ION, one and iDseparaole, now and for Ii
r"-how inseparable Democracy and II
ION have been! l. is not Liberty and Ia
ION as the immortal sentiment was when | is
irst came from the lips of it's distin. T
shed author. Not Liberty and Union," W
that word liberty kindles no enthusiasm | IL
he Southern heart. 1t is hated word. al
; democracy and Union! Why, nv OF
nds, notification was Graded 6y the to
hocracy. Secession was born by Democ- S
y, and rebellion had Democracy for its 81
ler. This idea that the Democratic ID
" iavor peace and reconciliation, end es
the Republican party is party of &C
e, mat IL Is perpetuating bitter reco.- W
ions, ana Is unwilling to give the hand to
fellowship to the South, saw to Won int n,
alse. 1t is libel upon history. II ia tn
atived by score of the most mapnani. 10
Is, beneficent, kindly and forgiving acts d
egislation that ever went upon the stat. III
book of any nation. The only question IN
J us to night is, in view of the disastrous tn
litiOn Of affairs IN the South, whether en-
ice was not sacrificed to mercy when til