, 1876-07-17
FALSE ISSUES.

FALSE ISSUES.
I rAas TO ANOTHER BRANCH OF run DuMocRAr-
10 PLATFORM,
aud hope am not wcarying you. You have
TO GO through all this some day, and We may as
we'll Lako It up tonight. They speak OF soma
"lnlsc issuca":
the dying embers Of sectional hate. !.
All thcAc abuses. wrongs. and crimea, the prodnct
Il sixteen years sscsndsne1 of tae epnblIcan psf:
My Republican friends, will you stop to think
Of thut | "All these abuses, WRONGS, and
crimes, the product Of sixteen years ascendancy
Of the Republican party!" That carries usasay
US were boys; carries US back wnen tic great
party was new, and fresh, and youngt carries
i,s back to the time when With the watclIword
Liberty" on our banners We won our first
Lincoln; carries us back to those years Of
trouble through which wo passed; and the
Democratic party, ..'we, the Democratic dele
gates in National Convention asscmblcd,n
Lincoln, hts first and second turm, the first term
OF Grant, tho whole history Of reconstruction
spea9 s o1 tat ;,;, 1s history Of "anuse.
p%sS +. ;Pa RI, .sai ;s{S:% sss
RI Gary 4. deae-tofeet ihesss 'eld issuss. <.
bearer Of Confederate heart al1ed full Of Couicd
sy Hss %gs .ssns sps Is ~ s1s ea hs s tS 1 t G:se .
t!on, Just out OF Its tesble perls, tho dcnuncia.
tlon Or sixteea yearu Of wrong, outrage and crimc
ty, insulting the standsst history Of ill., nation IN
that charge, Insulting tho memory Of the heroic
dead sHd the hstoio i,sns - II does eSuid tx
an army Of Kane County. with the old neEyo and
vigor and It's old heart back OF It. ,.
PEEL LIKE GRINDING IT INTO FownERf
fIOu4 theef6.1 Wa clu tEhf taxation: tfen6.
nrcs may be sunk !nto the seas but this glorious
whsh ha fSs i The
t@ho @ beaoststIe daaes sass. ia sationai Convention
Directly but carrying this infamous charge ID Your
hcorte, keeping II warm on yonr lips, when tho
sn taa deesaes that
sought tho distraction Of this great natlon wc
rspsi Jout sla3dsf aud now bury you for eternity"
Now what 10 the 'iAlse issuos"l Let N REQ.
"sEcrloxAL nATE.n
1 Wa
that danger Bpringf You have seen son,c cxhJbl-
tions of It in tho past and during tho present acs.
sion Of Congress. when the old fires Of rebellion
have bocn fckndled, when tho old illustrators Of
lloute. and when nnrepensaot rebellion daunts is
eiasa hst IT hsssIon 'ao sS pii La
II H. eoaae q ao q on sssg
| sought to destsoyi And IN the presence Of such
| magnant1nity A. that We have this sympathetic
hlubber about bloody .shirt, ctc. Do you suppose
| that there would haye been one spfominent i'm.
ptoyemcnt, national IN ita ehAEactcf. made, had
this Democratic party which to-day Prntes OF He.
form succcedeu slnco lSoul -.... ...
CONTEMPLATE suCH hasuLT As THBtR sDCCKBs,
] II you can without ahuddering Think OF the sue
ccas Of the Democratic party In 1864! Down from
its high pedestal our nation wonld have come!
y Home would haro come our conquer!ng lc2ions
With their bAnners trailing In the dust aid III the
miro Of dtfChtf Tile d{BhoNOr and djeFuHtl0n nf
the natonal!ty-that would l1ave been tho sure re-
anlt had the promises o! Democratic reform
been Ietcned to by tho people, and had their
solicitation for public confluence met with any ro
gpante. in 18G4 Then. again, 1868, Contctn-
plato, II you can, tbci. success then: Every meas.
uro for tho rceonatr,c!on Of tho nntton which they
s0ght to deHtfoy would tavc tcan rendered utterly
frnltless. our gigantic debt would have been rem.
lcred SILT mora gigantic, our crodit would have
been gone, And we would hare been to-day nls.
grasel and dlscrcd!tca Nationality in the eyes OF
the wloe world. IN l57?, think OF ihe falamitlcs
that would haze followed Democratic triumph,
when one q their own cana1dasea pronounced the
tcconsttnct1ye meaaures Revolutionary, uncon.
htttnt1onai, and vold.' What las occurred to nuke
u,h,, La uAa H.,
publtcaa triumph, Icss jrnpsrht1Yc now. fan Il hAs
been every hour eince 1900! The time has not