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!. ". HEDRICK CO., PROPRIETORs.
rnx DEMOCRATIC GRAVEYARD.

the DEMOCRATIC GRAVEYARD.
carfleid's Review Of the Dead To-
sues Of the Past.
In the House on the 4th inst, Gen.
James A. Garfield, of Ohio, made an
eloquent speech upon political issues,
which the New York Tribune pro-
nounces the best that has been dcliv-
cred since the opening of the present
campaign. The following extract
ought to be read by every candid,
pure-minded man in the country. 1t
will well repay pcrusal:
Mr.. Chairman: 1T is now time to
inquire as to the fitness of this demo-
cratic party to take control of our
great nation and its vast and import
ant interests for the next four years.
1 put the question to the gentleman
from Mississippi (Mr. Lamar) what
has the democratic party done to
merit that great trust. He tried to
show in what respects it would not
be dangerous. ask him to show In
what respect it is safe. I affirm, and
believe 1 do not misrepresent the
great democratic party, that In the
last sixteen years they have not adj
vanced one great national idea that
is not to-day exploded and - dead as
Julius Cesar. And If any democrat
here will rise and name great ma
tional doctrine his party has advanced
within that time, that is now alive
and believed in, / will yield TO hear
him. IA pause. In default Of an
answer, shall attempt to prove my
negative.
What were the great central doc
trines Of the democratic party In the
presidential struggle Of l000f The
followers of Breckenridge declared
that slavery had q right to 60 wher-
ever the constitution goes. Do you
believe that to-dav2 IL there . man
on this continent that holds that doc
trinc to-dayl No one. The doctrine
is dead and buried. The other wing
of the democracy held that slavery
mig ht be established in the territor-
les If the people wanted It. DOES any.
uvuy no,u tnat uoes''pe so-4e' N&0"~
ausoiutely uo1u'
Come down to 1854. Your party
under the lead Of Yallandingham and
Tilden, declared the experiment Of
war to save the union was failure.
DO you believe that doctrine now
The doctrine wss shot to death by the
guns OF Farragut at Mobile, ana drly-
en- IN tempest OF hre, rom tne VAL
ley OF the shenandoah by Sneridan
less than month after its birth a.
Chicago.
Come down to 1868. You declared
the constitutional amendments revo-
lutionary and void. Does any man
on this floor saw so to-day? If so, let
him rise and declare 1t.
Do you believe in the doctrine of
the Broadhcad letter of 1868, that the
so-called constitutional amendments
should be dfsregarded * No :the gen.
tleman from Mississippi accepts the
results of the war. The democratic
doctrine Of 1868 is deadl
walk across the democratic cam
paipninp ground as in a graveyard.
Under nv feet resound the hollow
echoes of the dead. There lies slavery,
a black marble column at the head Of
its grave, on which we read: Died in
the flames Of civil war loved In life
lamented in death; followed to its
bier by its only mourncr, the demo-
cratic party but dead /! And here is
q double grave. Sacred to the mem-
ory of the squatter sovereignty. Died
in the campaign of 1860. On the re-
verse side: Sacred to the memory of
Dred Scott and the Breckenridge
doctrine. Both died at the hands of
Abraham Lincoln And here a mon
ument of birthstone: Sacred to the
memory of the rebellion; the war
against it was failure Itlden ct
Talandingham .fecurent, A. d. 1864.
Dead on the battlefield shot to death
by the million guns Of the republic.
The doctrine OF secession; OF state
sovereignty. Dead. EXPIRED IN the
Hames OF civli war, AMIDST the Diazing
rafters OF tho eonfederacy, except the
modern xEneas, neeing cut OF the
names Oh that rum, pears on MS PACK
announcer Anchises OF state sovereign.
=, aI hananaks - o,,t,aa m1.u =. ne n" e,so .ha ~
NO nnnwatnm H d;s.ss;a sstncltin ~ W;rr,n;. % mn Nc
TnaEar ~ Ta"nh.ar t;, a;sc ;s
deod s' M '0 -
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NOW, gehtieiHeh, afe you sau' are
you sorry Ior tnese aeatns are you
not giaa secession ls deaa tnat siav-
cry IS desa tnat squatter sovereign
y Is ueae tnat the ooc.fine n, Oh tne
iaiiure OF tne war Is dcad (. linen you
are aaeg gao snat yom were oatvo1ea ore II
looo' ~ 4oo4, IN 1900 anu IN lo'L. -
you nave tears 10 snea over tnese
iosses, sheu them IN the graveyard,
NOT IN the houses OF iiving men. !
know that many q soutner9 Gan re-
loices that these Issues are DEAD. Inc
gentleman IRON MississipPi lMr.
Lamar) mas ciothea MS JOY WIN eio-
quence.
Now, gentlemen, if you yourselves
are glad that you have suffered defeat
during the last sixteen years, will you
not be equally glad when you suffer
But pardon that remark regret 1t;
should use no bravado.
Now, gentlemen, come with me in
m thu ~ mn nf tho roruhl;cou marty