New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-20

IN industrious people in the psrsiysls OF naSo
times.
When Won consider that many of the
men making this decl aration are the iden-
tioal persons who eleven years ago at
tempted to destroy the Union BY seces-
sion of States, and who brought upon the
nation all the horrors and sacrifices OF Q
civil war, you will be able to comprehend
the audacity and ine0lence of the false
hood.
The authors of the war, the creators Of
the national debt, the makers of disturb
epce end revolution in every State, and di-
rectly responsible for every evil and mis-
they boldly charge their own crimes upon
the Republican party.
LAND GRANTS.
Again, the platform says:
Reform is necessary to put stop to the profit.
from actual settlers BY the party in power. which
has sQuandered zoo, 600 OCO acres upon railroads
alone, and out of more than thrice that aggregate
has disposed Of less than sixth directly to terE
Of the soil.
The merit of this resolution will be ap
preciated when refer to the fact that the
candidate for Vice President, Governor
Hendricks, WAS in the Senate six years,
and during the period when most of the
public lands were granted to railroads,
was distinguished for the general hearty
support he gave to such grante, and par
ticul arly for his earnest and repeated ad-
vocacy and the large share he had in the
grant of about s., O0O, 900 acres to the North
ern Pacific railroad, the most stupend0us
gift ever made to Q corporation. But it
may be said in extenuation of this, that if
Governor Hendricks has had 90 much to do
with giving public property to railroad cor
porations, that Governor Tilden has shown
great ability in relieving such corporations
of their property, and that taking both to-
gether, they make safe pair on the railroad
question. As q further commentary upon
this resolution may add the single re-
mark that it was the Republican party that
upon the public lands, q boon which had
been haughtily denied through every Demo-
cratic administration.
TON.
Let us consider briefly the composition of
the St. Louis convention that passed this
remarkable platform and placed in nomins-
ton those distinguished refOrmers, Tilden
and Hendricks.
There was the old stakeholder, with q
heart full of bitter memories, believing that
emancipation was robbery, and his only
hope of indemnity in the Democratic
party.
There was the old agitstor and secession
ist, who had hurried States into rebellion
and drafted ordin snces of secession.
had borne the Confederate flag upon many
q bloody field, and who proudly pointed to
their rebel record as their title deed to
Office and glory.
There were the members of the rebel
Congress at Richm ond who had debated
with closed doors the question Of the black
flag.
There were the architects and defenders
of Belle Isle, Libby, Andersonville and
Salisbury, scenes of horror of which the
Modocs in their lava fortress had never
dreamed.
There were the Northern sympathizers
and doughfaces, who had waited and
watched over the border, whose hearts and
hopes were in the South while their bodies
were in the North
There were q few Union soldiers who
had carried their scanty laurels to Con-
federate market, where decOy signals were
scarce and in large demand.
There was the sore-headed Republican,
whose neglected elaine for Office had
shaken mis- faith in civilization and con-
WINGED him of the necessity for reform.
In short, there were assembled the mourn
ers for slavery, the organizers of rebellion,
the Ku-Klux and White Liner, the North
ern sympsthizer and dOughface, the advo-
cate of State sovereignty, and the repre-
eentatives Of every element that had torn
the country with civil war, drenched it
with blood, and watered it with the tears of
widows and orphans.
GOVERNOR HENDRICKS.
OF Mr.. Hendricks, the Democratic candi-
for Nioo peaaiAont ia i'm.
portant to speak in this community. You
have known him ae member of Congress-, Of
the Legislature, of the Constitutional Con-
vention, as Commissioner of the General
Land Office. as Senator of the United States,
as Governor of the State, for nearly thirty
years, and during all that time he has sug-
gested no policy, produced no measure,
started no idea which any human being
can remember, save and except one, which
we are ali asked to forget. His place of
general retirement and relaxation has been
upon the fence, and he has never gotten
down upon the one side or the other until
his party had taken such decided ground a.
left no doubt about their position. Like
Tilden, he will be the last Of his line, and
will leave no idea, measure or policy as q
political contribution to those coming after
him. His official life in small things has
been respectable, and successful in lodging
larger responsibilities.
UHEQUALED CAREER.
Perhaps no political career of equal ex-
tent in this country can be referred to
which has been so barren of good or i'm.
pOrtant results. In the winter of l860-6l
he stood with Buchanan ana the leaders of
his party in denying all right Of coercion,
in justifylng the South, and throwing all
blame for the then threatened rebellion
upon the Republicans of the North. After
the breaking out of the war he sunk from
sight for time, and his position was wholly
unknown. Toward the conclusion of 1861,
when the country was depressed by mis-
fortune, he again came to the surface along
with the leaders of his party, and was bit
ter in his demonstrations against the war
and the government.
HIS GREAT SPEECH.
On the eighth of January, 1862. at the
State Convention of the Democratic party,
he made the most celebrated speech of his
life, in which he attempted to show by
labored argument that the interest of the
States was wholly with the
South, and not with the East, that the New
England States had be our oppressOrs, so
that the inference of all was that the States
of the North west should form q Northwest
ern Confederacy for the time being. to be
afterward united with the South, and to
cut loose from the States of the East.
He arraigned the war party as the most
intolerant ever known, as corrupt, as the
author of hard times and deeOlation, as
wholly responsible for the war, and said
that if the war should be so prosecuted as
to abolish our market in the South by de-
stroying the peculiar system of labor in
that sc ctiOn he would advise the North
west to look out for itself. His favorite
phrase was, "Tke restoration at the Union
upon the basis of the constitution" by
which ne meant the preservation of slavery,
and giving to it equal rights in all the
Territories; and in referring to this in q
speech in the campaign he said: