Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-05-24
aESATOR HILLS SPEECH On
SATURDAY.

last made one of the most able speeches
of the session. He was aggressive IN
his remarks, charging the Republicans
with desiring secession for their own
strength, while the South went into !,
TO protect her property. That she io'e1
our form OF government was evidenceu
by the fact that she adopted consult
ton similar to the OLD one. AS ior hih-
self he was always Union man. oe'nS
even willing to sacrifice southern prop
erty To save the country.
The concluding part OF the Grafton
was largely devoted TO meeting the
,.;,.rye If Mr.. Conklin and others that
tbe country was in danger from Con-
fpderatcs in Congress. His attacks on
the Radical leaders were fierce, and cs-
pecially on poor Chandler, whose blood
letting letter of 1861 Mr.. Hill read with
much gusto. In 1868 he had CORES
pondence with that great and good man,
Horace Greeley, who did more TO build
up the Republican party than any other
man in America. Mr.. Greeley was
honest in his convictions, and boldly
declared them. In his letter TO that
gentleman, in reply to something that
had been said concerning him, he wrote
that he was entitled TO an audience of
the readers of the Tribune, having, in
the winter of 1860, warned the people
against secession, and told them that
war would come-an unequal, fierce,
yindctiye and desolation war. Many
of the Free Sellers said if the South de
sired to secede, it could do so in peace.
The people of the Soath did not Sc
cedo because Of hostility to the constl-
tuition. They pledged themselves to
form new one On the model OF the oid-
The Soath seeded because war was
made on its constitutional rights by the
extremists of the North TO destroy It's
property, and because the Northern peo-
ole. through their Republican leaders,
said that secession should be accom-
plished in peace Mr.. Greeley said they
wanted no Union pinned together by
bavoncts There we're hundreds OF thou
sands of persons who believed that the
only way to avoid war was to secede.
They believed they had fright TO protect
and preserve their slave property. Ii
they had believed that war would re-
suit they never would have seeded.
The representatives OF the South
must be trusted. The South sought to
avert the war, while the North tried to
bring it on He knew the Republicans
claim 10 have saved the Union, but if
there bad been no Republican party the
Union would not have been i'll peril, and
there would have been no secession, no
returning boalGS and electoral commits
siouS.
1t had been said here that if the PEG
ple of the North have another war IL
viii cut deeper than the first one.
Would they make war because the pcO-
pie want purity and intelligence in the
Jury boX--to kccpthc troops away from
the polls, and because they wanted to
say 10 the States. ~ GA are able 10 con
trul Your elections; because the repre-
scuta;iycs Of the South stood here as a
bulwmk against those who would dcs-
troy the Constitution hy destroying the
States II You must have a war, they
will maintaiu their rights i'll the Union;
but | trust there will be 10 val. The
sucn ct the South would =" with the
stars and StripcS--thc flag Of their coun-
try. The people wonIG take charge OF
The question He assured those who
heard him that The North need not be
alarmed on account of the South; but
they had cause To br alarmed by such
threats as have bccn made Ly the lead
ing Republicans.
MIR. Hill said cit was through the
very agency OF the authority and SOW
creigulv OF the State, which You thought
lou had destroyed, that we are able to
he hcic to-day,uot through intimidation
and fraud. 1t is not tue that we ae
solid against the North. We arc solid
against the Republican party. Why
saouG we moi be? Can YOU wonder?
! will not speak OF the past. DO You
think We are going TO love you for the
speeches YOU have made during the
iast four weeks, eliminating and slal-
dering us III every form? You may
not know il, but we are men. Every
vile story of fraud, no matter how un-
worthy of belief, is paraded against the
Southern people; aud no matter how
much testimony OF good men we bring
forward to refnIe these falSehoodS, that
testimony is cried down.
We regard the Republican party as
merely sectional. We join the Demo
Gratis of the North because We admire
their course during the war. We had q
terrible ordeal, bat they had one per-
haps worse The fidelity to the Union
they believed in led them to fight
against Us, but after the war they met
us as men, and that is why we go with
them. II the South were solid against
the Constitution it would be reprehen-
fible, but they we're not. We are solid
for preserving the Constitution aud its
principles. 1t is not we but Northern
nen who seek strife and who are
against the Union 1t was not the Re
publicans but the Northern Democrats
who saved the Union, and they will
preserve 1t. We could not help them
TO save it, but we are here to help them
TO preserve II.
Cox. the murderer of Col Aston, at
Atlanta, Ga, was found guilty of muir
der and sentenced TO the penitentiary
for life His wife was so much horn,
Il. a, el,n nt ON mi n