The daily gazette., 1876-07-27

that is not the last one you will hear
OF. They will inaugurate others. They
want to carry this campaign upon the
''horror Of the bloody shirt" They are
unwilling to have the people pass judg
meht upon that party, exhibited as It
now, gibbeted by public scorn in all
its nakedness and deformity. They
desire to draw your attention away.
And what meters it to them that half
a dozen or dozen OF poor, innocent,
brutalized negroes lose their lives pre-.
vided always the Republicans triumph
What matters 1t to them, though riot
and bloodshed do occur In South Car.
olina and other states, provided al
ways that by means of that wrong and
outrage they may achieve successg
Whenever you see such wrongs in the
South, watch carefully, look closely;
and sift the evidence. The first state.
ment will come to you from Radical
sources, and be made up of downright
falsehood. Wait until you get at "bot-
tom facts, "sift out the truth, and then
you will ascertain probably that all
such outragcs are contrived for the
only purpose of making political cap
ital for the Republicans at the North
said to you moment ago that my sec
tlon OF country was almost unanimous
for TilGen and Hendricks. The ques,
tion naturally arises, Why is thisf
Why is it that Ethe entire Southern
people, mean the white people and
goodly number of the respectable
negroes-are almost a unit for Tilden
and Hendricks? The answer to that
question can be found in the history
Of the Radical party for the last ten
!, years.
won't detain you tonight with a
recital of that history. 1t ought to be
familiar to every American citizen,
and he who is fully advised of it
ought to requife no other incentive to
put down party that has accomplished
the wrongs it has perpetrated on the
South and the enfranchisement of the
negroes in order to give the negroes
control and the Republicans control
of the negro, so that they could radi.
calize the entire south, and going on
from that point by forcing upon every
Southern State wherever they could
thievish, rotten and corrupt Governors,
always antagonizing the negro against
the white people and always treating
soldier of the. South who had, ,surren-
dred in good. faith as sill outside, the !
pale.of citizen-hip. In these WRONGS
and ioutrages you will fined the cause
of universal sentiment at the South in
favor of Tilden and reform, LIQUIDS
cheers.) The South would have voted
with equal unanimity for that great
soldier of the republic, General Win.
fed B. Hancock, or for Hendricks, or
for any good, honest Union man at the
North, but they felt that there was
perhaps, one additional reason why
they support Tilden. All wars are de-
moralizing. Weare recovering some-
what from that domoralization, but it
has spread through every department
of the Government. an that il seems as
If rottenness and corruption peryade
it from its head to It's base, tits time
that the people take this matter in
hand andlreform this Government and |
resore 1t to its ancient purity and |
splendor. (Great applause. J. 1t seems
the people OF the South that Governor
Tilden, upon this question, is himself
living platform. (Renewed ap-
plause.) Therefore it is that they go
for himswith the more earnestncss be-
cause his life, his public conduct is
such as to afford sure guarantee that
when he is elected President as I be-
lieve in God, he will in November |
next he will, with whip of scorpi.
ons. drive these money-changers from
the temple OF Liberty and restore the |
Government again to honesty. The
people of the South are a unit for |
Governor Tilden, because every State !
is now coequal with every other State |
in the Union, and they desire Ito be |
recognized as such. l believe them |
to be honest in there protestations of |
loyalty to the Union. General Long
street was not denounced by the Re- |
publicans because heyeildcd allegiance |
to the Radical party, but every man
who sympathized with the Southern |
cause who did not fall down and |
worship the Basl of Radicalism was
denounced as an ex-Confederate and |
tsill disloyal tothe Union. The people
of the Sonth believed that Governor |
Tilden would be President of the |
whole people, and that was the reason |
why there was so unanimity in the |
South for him. In conclusion Gov.
ernor Walker spoke of the action of |
the Democracy in Congress in bring
ing to light the corruption existing in |
the Republican party, and predicted
that in the election of Tilden the ad-
ministration of the Government would
be restored once more to its ancient
purity. Loud cheers.
Financial.