The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-09-07
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SPEECH OF HON. GEO, W. JULIAN
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Senator Morton, in common WIN
number of his brethren, does not know
this presume he will go down to his
grave in the full belief that the boys
IN blue and the boys in gray" are still
Aqhting. At all events be will hug the
fond thought to his bosom that the peo'
ple OF the north and the people OF the
South ought to feel toward each other,
now and hereafter, exactly as they ana
during the bloody conflict. With such
men I have no controversy. They are
given over to their madness, and 1t de-
6ea all remedies. But | ask all men
who love their country and are able 10
perEorm the operation Of thinking, why
The subject of our late war should pe
dragged into this canvassl IL was Il
bloody and devastating conflict between
citizens and States that had lived TO-
Rether in peace under a common nag,
and whose union hereafter IS their
manifest destiny. Why should any pat
riotic man seek to keep alive its memo
ries2 Let them fade away into the re-
ceding past, and the old bond OF union
ne renewed and Cemented by the rival
ries of common brotherhood for the
c1mmon veal. Our civil war has taken
its place in the past. 1t has gone before
the Judgment seat of history, like the
MEXICAN war, the war of 1872, or the war
ofindependence; and there is no more
propriety in discussing it in the pending
campaign than there would be IN over
hauling the wars Of the antediluyians;.
There is even less propriety, for we could
,talk abontthose ancient wars without the
least danger of rekindling old animosl'
ties When our civil war was upon us,
and the questions which have since been
80 orandly settled on the side OF the
Union. hung in perilous dispute. gave
rtterance to some strong words which l
have no desire to recall. If you can set
back the clock of our politics and re-en-
act the circumstances in when l was
nIaced. I will reiterate them, tried to
breathe into the hearts of the people the
snirit of war, and so to influence public
opinion as to promote the triumph OF our
arms and the Just settlement OF the great
issne then on trial. But why should l
repeat nv old war speeches in this can
vassP Why should Senator Morton re,
neat this? How long are the political
waters to be troubled by graceless dema-
uogues who so love the honors and emoi-
uments of office that they are willing TO
clutch at them at the expense oil the Ma
TONS peace? ,n
THE FOLLY OF REWRITING TO THE PAST
n ILLUSTRATED.
The folly of attempting to find polit-
;soi soororrow in the record of Tilden
and Hendricks on the slavery question,
ia amusinglv illustrated i'll the late Key
note sneech of our Senator. lie charges
that Governor Hendricks opposed the
escape of slaves who came into our INES
during the war. In the early perlou pl
the war Governor Morton occupied the
same posilion, and so did the admins
tration of Mr.. Lincoln, while our com
manding Generals frequently restored lu-
gitiyes to their rebel masters. lie says
Governor Hendricks, in 1861 was OPP
posed to allowing negroes to SIT on Jurless
and hold office Governor Morton held
the same opinions, and avowed them,
only two wears before. He says Gov
ernor Hendricks opposed the armlng Oh
negroes as soldiers. Governor morton
at first agreed with him, and CaieD D.
Smith. Mr. Lincon's Secretary OF the In
terror said it would be disgrace to the
Nation. He SAYS that Governor Hend--
ricks made a speech in the Constitutional
Convention of 1850 in favor OF the lhlr-
teenth Article, excluding negroes from
the State. Governor Morton voted ior
that article, IN common with the great
body of the people of the State: ne
charges Tilden and Hendricks WIN Ia
voring the peace resolution IN the Chl-
cago Convention o 1864, which Is sue
cessfulv denied; but Governor Morton
himself, year afterwards, made SO tlIor,
ouehly sound a Democratic speech al
Richmond that the men he now styles
confederate Democrats" published 1t as
a campaign document by the hundred
thousand, for years following IN several
States of the Uuion. He says Governor
Hendricks favored the Fugitive Slave
Law of 1850. So did the author OF the
key-notes, for he was then a Democrat
and tried to raise rebellion IN the
ranks of the party in the Old Burnt Dis
trict becau it supported me for Con-
gress after | had voted against the Fugi.
tive Slave Act and the compromise
measures of the Thirty-hrst congress.
submit that the Senator's proverbial
fondness for raking up the ashes OF the
last should not have led him into the pO-
iitical graveyard of prominent Democrats.
His own chosen line of argument not on
ly shows that he himself is fatally dis
qualified for Office, but that nearly all the
real leaders of Repubicanlsm are in the
same unhappy condition. Gen. Grant
himself was pro.slavery Democrat, vo-
ting for Buchanan in 1856, and never be-
coming a Republican till his eyes were
annointed by the offer of the Presidency
IN two successive installments. General
Butler has a record still less immaculate,
having voted for JEFF Davis tfty-eight
times in the famous Charleston Conven-
ton. According to my recollection, 81
mon Cameron was never understood to
be very reliable Abolitionist. Indeed,
IL no men are now to be trusted but those
who can show pure and undefiled abo'
lition record for the past twenty-five
years, our country is in pretty bad way,
for it would, in many cases, require
search warrant to find such men, even in
the Republican party.
. THE SOUTH IN THE CANVASS.
But will the South be safe under the
administration of Tilden? Can the freed
men safely be committed to the guardian
ship of the old slave masters? answer
this question in the language of the ablest
political journal in the United States, and |
a supporter of Governor Hayes: "0ur
own solemn belief is that the less said on
this point on the Republican side the het-
ter; that the outrage argument serves
and can serve the purpose of nobody in
this canvass but the Republican knaves,
and that the probabilities are that the
South will be more peaceful under Tilden
than under Hayes, and this for reasons
which lie on the surface. Tlden is not
a weak or foolish man. He will have no
motive for tolerating disorders at the
South, nor will his leading followers.
On thec1ntrary, they will perceive GEAR
ly the importance of tranquility in that
region, to their stability of their hold on
power in the North, while these disor-