River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-29
A SCATHING REVIEW.
General Garfield Describes
the Position of the Dem
ocratic Party.
A Specimen OF Hancock's
Craftsmanship.
A Telling Communication from the
Poet Laureate.

OF representatives
Mr.. Chairman, it is now time to in
quire as to the fitness of the democrat
ic party to take control of our great ma
ton and its vast and important interests
of the next four years. Iput the ques-
ton to the gentleman from Mississippi,
Mr.. Lamar, what has the democratic
party done to merit that great trust
He tries to show in what respects it
would not be dangerous. | ask him to
show in what it would be safe. | atfilm
and | believe do not misrepresent the
great democratic party, that i'll the last
sixteen years they have not advanced
one great national idea that is not to-
day exploded and as dead as Julius
Caesar And if any democrat here will
rise and name great national doctrine
his party has advanced, within that
time, that is now alive and believed in,
| will yield to him. Applause. In
default of an answer | will attempt to
prove my negative
What we're the great central doctrines
Of the democratic party in the presl-
Dental struggle of 1860? The follwers
of Breckenridge said slavery had
right to 90 where the constitution goes.
Do YOU believe that to-day? And is
there man ON this continent that holds
that to-day? Not one The doctrine Is
dead and buried The other wing of the
democracy held that slavery might be
established in the territories if the peo-
pie wanted it. Does anybody hold that
opctrine to-day? Dead-absolutely dead!
Come down to 1864. Your party, UNI
der the lead Of Tilden and Nallandig
ham, declared the experiment of war
to save the union was a failure. DO
you believe that doctrine to-day? That
doctrine was shot to death by the guns
of Farragut mt Mobile, and driven in II
tempest of fire from the valley of the
Shenandoah by Sheridan less than a
month after its birth at Chicago.
Come down to 1873. You declared
tionary and void. Does any man on
this floor say so to-day? If so, let him
rise and declare.
Do YOU believe in the doctrine of the
Broadhead letter of 1868 that the So
called constitutional amendments
should be disregarded? No; the gentle
man from Mississippi accepts the re-
suits of the war! The democratic doe
trine of 1868 is deadl
| walk across the democratic cam
paign ground as in graveyard. Under
my feet resOund the hollow echoes of
the dead. Their lies slavery, n black
marble column ut the head of IFS grave
on which | read: Died in the flames
of the civil war; loved in its life; lamen-
ted in its death: followed to its bier by
its only mOurner, the democratic party
And here is double grave: Sacred
to the memory of squater sovereignty.
Died in the campaign of 1860. On the
reverse side: Sacred to the memory of
bred Scott and the Breckenridge doc
trine. Both deaths ut the hands of
Abraham Lincoln! And here Il monu-
ment of birthstone: Sacred to the mem
ory of the rebellion; the war against 1t
is failure; Iiiden ct VaHdndighom
fecei7,H A. ID. 1864 Died on the field
of battle; shot to death by the million
guns Of the republic. The doctrine of
secession, of state sovereignty, dead.
Expired in the flames of civil war; amid
the blazing rafters of the confederacy,
except that the modern Hneas, fleeing
out of the flames of that ruin, bears on
his back another Anchises of state SOW
ereignty, and brings it here in the per
son of the honorable gentleman from
the Appomattox district of Virginia
Mr. Tucker). Laughter. All else il
dead.
Now, gentleman, are you sad, are
YOU sorry for these deaths? Are you
not glad that secession is dead? that
slavery is dead? that squatter sover-
eighty is dead ? that the doctrine of the
failure of the war is dead? Then you
are glad that you were outvoted in 1860,
in 1864, in 1868 and in 1872. fyou
have tears to shed over these losses
shed them in the grave yard, but not in
this house Of living men. | know that
many a southern man rejOices that
these issues are dead. The gentleman
from Mississippi Mr. Lamar)has cloth
ed his JOY with eloquence.
Now, gentlemen, if you yourselves
are glad that you have suffered defeat
during the past sixteen years, will you
not be equally glad when you suffer dc
feat next November? Laughter. But
pardon that remark; regret it; |
should use no bravadO.
Now, gentlemen, come with me for Il
moment into the camp of the republi-
can party and review its career. Our
central doctrine in 1860 was that
slavery should never extend itself over
another foot of American soil. Is that
doctrine dead 1t is folded away like
a victorious banner, it's truth is alive
forevermore on this continent. In 1864
we declared that we would put dow the
the rebellion and secession And that
doctrine lives and will live
while he second centennial has
arrived Freedom, national, universal
and perpctual-our great constitutional
amendments, are they alive or dead?
Alive, thank the God that shields both
liberty and the union. And our nation
al credit! saved from the assaults of
Pendleton, saved from the assaults Of
those who struck it later, rising high
in doubt left its chief It's only enemy,
the democracy, should triumph i'll No
vember.
MI Chairman, ought the republican
party to surrender its tTuHcheOn of COM
mand to the democracy? The gentle
man from Mississippi says if this were
England the ministry would go out i'll
twenty-four hours with such a state of
things as we have here. All, yes
that is an ordinary case of change Of
administration. But if this were Eng
land, what would she have done at the
end Of the war? England made one
such mistake as the gentleman asks
this country make, when she threw
away the achievements of the grandest
man that ever trod her highway of
power Oliver Cromwell had over
thrown the throne of the despotic pow
er and had lifted his country to place
of masterful greatness among the ma
tons of earth; and when, after his
death, his great scepter was transfer
red to n weak though not unlincal hand,
his country, in moment of reactiona-
ry blindness. brought back the Stuarts.
England did not recover from this folly
until in 1859. the Prince of Orange
drove from her island the last Of that
weak and wicked line. Did she after
ward repeat the blunder?
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Hancock as a Statesman.
New York Evening Post
We find the following paragraph in
the Cooperstown N. " FreemHn's
J0agndi
The New York Er9ii,g Part inquiries Of
leading democratic journal "a to what General