Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.
Union, Peace, National PrOsperity-A Rebel
Brigadicr-Kesd What he Says.

SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.
Union, Peace, National Prosperity-A Rebel
srigadicr-Kesd what he Says.
Ben Hills New York speech.
Is it wise, is it patriotic, to teach the
people of one portion of our country to
hate and distrust the people of another
portion of that same country? (Cries of
"No.") The Republican party say it is
both wise and patriotic to do SO, and the
Democratic party affirm that it is mcst un-
wise and most unpatriotic to do SO. That
is the issue before the American people.
After the lapse Of fifteen years OF Republi-
can rule since the close of the war We had
hoped that in this campaign for the presi-
dency this issue would not have been pre-
sented. did not believe that it would be
presented two months ago, for surely it
seemed to me in the light Of the early past,
that it ought to be regarded as an insult
to every intelligent man to continue one
party in power solely because it teaches
the people of the North to distrust and
disparage and hate the people of one-half
of this country; and yet it is true. 1t is
represented that the rule of the
Democratic party will be dangerous to the
interests and the liberties of this country,
but l ask you-if there is Republican
herc-do you on your conscienccs believe
it? "a VOICE. No. and great laugh
ter.) Ifwhat our Republican friends say
is true, the country is in a sad condition.
Suppose it to be true that there have been
(as there have)some unpleasant differences
between the two sections. Are those diff
fcrenccs to be healed by perpetual wrang-
ling or Misrepresentation or abuse? What
can we do to convince you that the charges
against us are false We tell you that
they are false, but they say VIC are not to
he believed. We vote in Congress that
they are false, but it makes no impression
on the other side. Pray tell us what we
shall do? l know of no method of set
Ting this question. Is the South
always to be distrusted, is the party with
which the South works always to be kept
from power because of these charges ?
If tho charges be false you ought to
know it. know of but one way to settle
it, and that is to try us. (Cries of "Good -
and applausc.) Try us, and if VIC do not
prove to you that these charges are untrue
We will covenant never to ask for power
again. (Applause.) -Four years will not
be very long. Try us under the lead OF
Northern Democrats. Try us under the
lead of your Seymour-(applause)-yo
Herman, your Bayard; try us under tho
lead of tho noblest, the greatest and most
valiant of the Union generals, and see
whether we shall be true or not. Gap
plause.) We all belong to the same coun-
try and must prosper together OF fail to-
gctler. The charge is made that We arc
untrustwortly but try us by our works
and judge us by them. But believe that
the people of this country will do US JUS
tice, and l will say some things which
hope you will not forget. l wish to deal
kindly with the Republicans Of the North.
am not not astonished that SO many people
of the North believe those stories, because
they arc constantly repeated in the press
and by their great leaders. believe that
the great mass of the people arc honest
and desire to do right. And now, rs !,
Southern man, wish to say ono thing.
There is one great fact which the people of
the North, and especially the Republicans.
do not seem to sec, and this fact is a most
important one. 1t continues in itself Oh
epoch in the nineteenth century, and yet
am sure that tho distinguished senator
from Now York, Senator COnkling, docs
not even suspect its existence. 1t is this
There was South of secession and slav-
cry; that South is dead. There is South
of union and frcedom-(applause)- THAT
South is living, doing, prOspering every
hour. l conccde that this wonderful
change has been accomplished by great
revolution, and am not one of those who
think that tho revolution of 1861 wrought
no great results, for l think that it
wrought very great results-sOmc of the
greatest in history. There have been three
great revolutions in our country. The
first was tho difference between George
the Thirdiand his ministers which ended
in tho independence of the colonies tho
second, that which began in the move
ment the amend the articles Of federation
which ended in tho adoption of the consti-
tuition, and the third was that which
sprang out Of the differences of opinion
Oh the subject Of slavery and ended i'll It's
destruction. In my honest judgment tIfe
third revolution will take its place in his
tory with the other two. Long after the
war began tho Republican party almost
unanimously affirmed in the most solemn
manner that they had no purpose
to extcrminate slavary in the states but
tho truth is that in the revolution i'll 1861,
as in many other revolutions, there was 4
divinity that shaped our ends, rough hew
them how VIC would, and We are not in
dcbted for the abolition Of slavery to
the Republican party, but to that divine
power which directs human events con-
trary to human will. And looking 1T the
result and effect Of this last revolution,
"a Southern man and 4 born shareholder,
lift my voice to Him and say, God of
my fathers, l thank thee Tho Southern
people have been the most benefited and
arc the most contented with the abolition
of slavery. havc seen the time when l
would have given my life to have prevent
ell the abolition of slavery; now I would
give my life thousand times to prevent
its restoration. (Great applausc.)
SOUTHERN WAR CLAIMS.
How Regarded by Southern Men.