The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-09-11

pronounce in the war times with oh
Jurgatlon and horror? Well. he, too,
under a Republican Administration
represents abroad the country which
ne tried to dcstroy.n DON'T YOU feel
proud OF him? And there is the late
Postmaster General under Hayes, thp
rebel Col. Key, who "tricd to destroyu
the Government, for experimenting
whose mail bags he was afterwards
paid SS0OO year by the Republican
Administration. How does that look
TO you? But yoL tell me these men
nave Joined the Republican party.
DOCS that then, atone for their trca-
son 10 thelr country and its flag? Do
you wish TO be understood to say that
Il United States army officer who at
Ine beginning Of the rebellion, deserted
ms command and his cOlOrs and went
INTO the rebel army and fought Us for
lour years unto the bloody death, can
square his account with the Govern
mcnt by joining the Republican party
and taking II lucrative office under it?
And is he any better for his double
| descrtiOn than the rebel officer who
lay down his sword and returned to
MS allegiance ut the close of the war.
put concluded to vote the Democratic
tictket?
In conclusion, he arraigns the Re
publican party as war party in times
of peace. 1t is the Dcmocrrtic party
which is the anti-scctionaI party, the
national party. The South came to
Cincinnati with the olive branch.
For this reason it supported the NOM
ination Of Hancock.
If the people Of the North are
thoughtful and wise, they will accept
this protfered token of loyalty and
good will, and make the hero who was
lion on the heights of Gettysburg
the President whose mild and Just |
rule shall usher in lasting era of
of peace and fraternity between the
once contending sections. The South
wants peace and good will. She is
building the waste places of war; she
is just starting upon a new career of
enterprise, and business prosperity.
The North wants Southern trade and
southern money. The whole country
wants rest and repose, and unity and
brotherhood. Down with these war;
cries; down with these SANDERS and
this sectional hate down with the
party which engenders these things,
which can live and thrive only on the
of fraternal blOOdshcd, and
which would poison a new generation
with the hatreds and animOsities of
their fathers. There is danger in all
this to the future peace of the country.
The men of the South who fought i'm
the war will never again take the
sword, no matter how much they may
be goaded or taunted. But who shall
answer for their children if the Re-
publican party continues to bear rule,
and the successors of the Blaines and
the Frycs and the Hales
continue this ceascless aggravatiOn
Can the American people afford to
keep party in power which thus
threatens the Union with future con- i
yulsions?
battle for national purity and national
peace, you hold the centre Of the line.
/ pray you to stand firm for The right /
firm as did our glorious leader at {
Here will be the thick |
est of the tight-here you will receive !
5he mighty shock of the enemy's |
grandcst assault. All around you his I
orces are now massing for the charge. /
lose up the ranks, stand to your guns, {
10 your duty like men and patriots, I
md you shall send the broken legiOns q
If the foe flying in wreck and despair $
rom this great central battlefield of t
he campaign. God grant that when @
he sun shall go down on that coming Q
october day you may have won here {
victory which shall thrill the land a
rom end to end, and cause the anxious a
Iearts Of patriotic men everywhere to {
cap for joy that the power Of the OPP d
ressor is broken and the Republic G
nay live and be immortal. n