New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-20

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An immense mass meeting was held ON
the night Of the fifteenth instant, at the
Academy Of Musie, in indianapolis. Among
other speakers appeared General George A.
Sheridan, of Louisiana, who 10 thus report
ed in the Indianapolis journal: ~ r
General Sheridan succeeded Senator
Wright, and prefaced his remarks by stat
ing, for the information of Democratic
editors, that he vas not Phil. Sheridan or
his brother, or his cousin. his aunt. or his
mother-in.ls in fact, he was unable to dis
General. He was simple . humble Kepub-
lican who had served his country in the
war, and had reached no greater position
than that of captain. Coming to the ques-
tions of the day, Mr.. Sheridan gave hi-
reasons for supporting the nominees of the
Republican party. He compared the rec
ords OF the Democratic and Rspubli par
ties He said that it was under the auspices
of the Democratic party that tho Missouri
compromise was passed. the fugitive slave
law was enacted, and such speeches as Dan
Voorhees, made were uttered to the nation,
in which he said, if the thirteenth
amendment was passed, 100000 Indian.
ians would Join in array to prevent its
operation: Dan Voorhees,, however, said
Mr. Sheridan, made slight mistake about
the side the loo, 600 were to fight on. 1t was
true that numbers of Indianians fought,
but it was to preserve the Union and its
constitution. He described, in q most
graphic and terse manner, the Democratic
who were elected to the present Congress,
and who he described as Copperheads and
men who did all within their power during
the war to upset the plans of and render
futile the operations of the Uuion party.
The whole Of the Democratic representa-
tives from the South we're the same men
not object to them representing their peo-
pie, but he objected to such men - Ben
Hill and Randolph tucker standing up and
characterizing Robert Lee - . better citi-
zen than any man now living in the repub-
lie. He considered that the little pine
board marking the last resting place Of the
Northern boy who Se1 in defense of his
monument than the most gigantic s.atue
that could be raised in memory Of
thousand Robert Lees. q
The Democratic party desired the coun.
try to forget the war. Could We forget the
trenches IN which huadfeds Of our brethren
were buriedl He did not think the people
of tho North intended that the men who
died in defenee Of their pledged honor and
their country should % forgotten:
on the reform instincts and tendencies Of
the Democratic party. He said that whom
the Democratic party found Belknap they
also found George II. Pendlet0n mixed up
In questionable proceedings. They alsO
found ont that Thomas A. Hendricks had
very nearly became . soldier when he got
kicked by . mule. The claim of being .
r ~ a.
that during the administrations which ex.
listed from the time OF Van Buren to that of
Buchanan the stealings from the
treasury by Democrats ranged from
five dollars to twenty dollars on the
thousand. The Democrats charged that the
Republican party had equandered and
lavished away the peoples money. He
| proved by an appeal to figures that the ad.
ministrstions of the past sixteen Yeas had
had paid of q considerable amount Of the
national debt. Democrats did not like
fgures. for figures wouldn't lie, but Dem
| ocrats would. The Democratic party, said
he. has no platform of distinct principles tC
offer to the people. Tlden says to the East
ern people, Il am fooling the Hoosiers out
West by offering them soft money" and te
the Hoosiers out West, II Am fooling the
Eastern tolks by Offering them hard money;
fooling himself. 1t you find an honest, fiat
footed Democrat, and chow him that plat
form, he will tell you, my friend, I hav'
seen something like that before in my life
but l am id if can tell you what it is.'
Mr.. Sheridan, in the course of his re
marks upon the financial question, ststet
that the Democrats were the original enc
lican party was the creator and friend Q
the greenback. He warned the Independ
ents that the only chance they had for tn
preservation of the greenbsck was by a.
sisting the Republican party to carry tn
coming election. The Republican part
was party of ideas, and with it the Indt
pendents might safely leave the decision Q
the financial question. Rest assured, m
friends, said MI. Sheridan, the Republics
party, which 10 . reading and intelligen
party, will do nothing to impoverish th
pocket of the nation. He concluded hi
remarks upon this topic in the f0llowin
language:
The Republican party 10 the friend Of th
greenbsck. 1t 10 dear to them. Around
cluster holy and patriotic memories. Th
greenback was born from the womb of wal
TIE cradle of it's infancy was shsdowe
with clouds of battle and rocked by tn
hand of loyalty; quickly 1t grew broad q
chest and mighty Of limb; giant strepgt
/
and turned them into navies; beneath it
cunning fingers broad fields of hemp an
cotton were spun and woven into sails an
cordage. It tore from out the earth it's rib
of iron, and with it's breath famed the fire
that turned them into molten streams
with blows it beat and fashioned into shap
ponderous cannon, shining blades an
cleaning bsyonets. At it's behest unnum
bered looms we're set in motion, which wit
skill, tireless and sleepless, wove the fabric
that clothed our armies and the silken ban
ners that floated over them. 1t smiled upO
the fields, and they answered with tn
golden harvests that fed our soldiers on se
and land; jod followed in Its footsteps an
hope lighted up it's pathway. Treaso
shrank from the light that cleaned in it
evee, and the armies it had set in motto
reeled to destruction under the force OF it
of the Republican party, and its savior toe
as in the days of its infancy they sustaine
it, and in the days of it's strength the
leaned upon it, go now in the days wheI
demands that the promise written upon it
forehead 1.-THE promise that gave it ii
strength and vigor), shall be redeemed, tn
Republican party, true to its word, seeks t
glorify the greenback with . crown ful
nished of yellow gold and shining silver.
As the greenback failed Us not in the hOu
of our peril, 80 now We will not fail to kee
the faith we plighted when We sent it on 1t
mission. Not to the hands that tried t
throttle it in it's infancy, not to the part
that scoffed at its mission and sought t
paralyze its power, must its honor be left
but rasher to the hands that sustained it il
its cradle and gave loyal homage to it
youth, rather to the party whose glory
l 10 1aH .