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only safe expedient to secure 4 return to specie
payments, and charged that by an order OF
the Treasury. contrary 10 the attempted lesis-
ation Of his party and contrary to Law, John
sherman made them receivable for customs
dues. thus confcssing that the Democratic poll
CIV in regard to them had been right, and thus
again admitting that the Republican policy OF
Contraction was an unnecessary oppression OF
the people-in short, demonstrated that every
act that had contributed TO resumption was adj
ni,lcd either directly or indirectly by sherman
| u have been of democratic origin, and that eve
IN act for the spoliation Of the many and the ell
cyatioa ct the few cmanated from Radical
sources. Az each step Senator Hereford called
upen Creenbackers to know if they could have
done mere to have preserved the men interest
paving circulation than Democrats did, showed
them that the Radicals had absorbed them as
rapidly as they could. issuing interest-paying
Bonds in their stead, while Democrats had
fought every movement of this nefarious pro-
cess.
After having discussed this branch of the sub
ioct. hc referred TO the claim of sherman and OF
other Radical leaders that oar public credit
would suffer by Democratic aScendancy, and
said that the whole legislative department of
the Government was under Democratic con-
troll that the Executive was the mere creature
of their will, and that John Sherman was one
of his subordinates; that he had no power, cx-
ccpt as the Executive of the law-making power
of the Government; that whatever prosperity
blessed Us and whatever credit we had at home
and abroad. was the immediate result of Demo-
cratic control that all intelligent classes thro'-
cat the world knew that tl.c democrats were
Row in control of affairs and that as Il result Of
10 our credit was better than it ever had been UNI
der Radicalism showed that the value of our
circulation had increased with the increase Of
power by Democrats in the legislative depart
nent of the Government and finally showed
that as the result of Democratic administration
We had. through our clerk, John sherman, paid
OIL this year over One Hundred Millions ofthe
public debt; that it was as ridiculous for John
sherman To claim credit for the financial sue
cess of the country as it would be for the ordi-
nary bookkccpcr of great tinancior TO claim
that hc was the author of the fortune; that
John sherman during his official career was their
agent registering their viii, and when he failed
Go do 10 was a yiolator Of Law and public mall
cfaclor
lie bestowed some little time to the exposi-
ton of Garfield as he understood him from long
acquaintance with him personally and by &C
quaiutance with his political courses; read ex-
tracts from a speech Of his in the S9th Congress
i'm reference % Constitutional Amendments, in
which ne advocated the perpetual disfranchisc-
mcnt Of every man i'm the South who engaged
IN the unhappy fNtcrnal strife between thesec-
tions. dcnomcins them all as infamous and
clearly exhibiting his littleness of soul and his
utter mcapacity TO comprehend the duties of
the great station 20 which he aspircd; also de
tailed the story of his Incompatible meanness
% Hancock after the issuance of his Order No
80 I'm which Hancock took the position that
the States had never been ont the Union and
upon the establishment of peace they were
clothed 20 Instant with the political rights of A.
merican citizens. and thar the Civil Authorities
should. IN the South as well as the North, rs
long as peace prevailed De clothed with supreme
authority Thercupon this pioUs stateSmanlikc
and pio-iysclit-,,uuting politician introduced
acts 50 controlling army regulations that Han
cock would be dropped from the list of Major
Generals, his heroic and mspottcd record hay-
ing no weight with him when it antagonized
his darling desire 10 lap the blood of his foes,
showing that an his fountains flowed bitter wa
tiers which were swectened only when DeCiol-
yer or Credit Mobclicr jobs were thrown into
their current. Senator Hereford referred 70 the
fact that Carfcldism had been practicod i'm
jefferson County, when but eleven men voted
i'm the populous CharlcStown township.
He referred briefly to the contests in the past
between the Wing and Democratic parties, and
while declaring that ne had always been DEM
ocrat for which his father, Wing had de-
/ uonccd him as hopclc,Sly lost, said that both
were constitution loving parlics-both cultiva-
( NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. between the sections both
/ lad splendid histories cmbcIishcd by great d.
| clicymcnts, and both would have sPurned from
/ their bosoms as loathsomc reptile, any man
whose career was marked by such acts as those
he referred TO of Garfield's that every true Wing
and every true Democrat were now fighting un-
der common banner fer a common cause.
His speech was concluded by handsome Gu
| logy ON Hancock, between whom and Washing
7 - he traced the closest analogy of character.
Ii WAS one of the most instructive, conclusive
and able 20 which We have cyerlistoned, and he
made hosts of additional friends among pco-
pie who were before highly impressed with the
value of his public service and his unspotted
character as a man.