The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-09-30
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the close of the war;" A platform
was erected in the open air, bearing
on its front the Hancockian inscrip-
ton, "The Constitution and the Un-
ion" The General was received with
uproarious cheers and waving Of hand
kerchiefs. What he understood by
the Constitution and the Union
was clearly indicated by the speech
which followed. In quoting from
that speech we use extracts from the
report of The Charleston Mercury, the
same having been taken from that
reputable Bourbon newspaper and in
serted by Colonel John W. Forney in
Forney's Weekly Press of August 1,
1868. We trust this combination of
authorities, Bourbon organ and the
biographer Of General Hancock, will
be sufficient to establish the fact that
the speech was not the forgery Of an
obscure newspaper writer" The
speech was also reproduced in The
Tribune on the same date, and was
accompanied by some vigorous COM
ments from Horace Greeley.
General Hampton 'sspeech was made
up almost entirely of a graphic ac-
count of his experience as member
Of the Committee on Resolutions. He
said that the first thing he demanded
was declaration that the right of
suffrage was purely matter of State
legislation, and belonged to the State
Governments that existed up to 1865
The reception of that proposition he
thus described:
Some doubts, however. were ex-
pressed of the policy Of such declar-
alton. Gentlemen from the North.
South, East and West all showed the
greatest disposition to act in harmony
| am free to confess that they met us
everywhere with cordiality and good
will In fact they declared their will
ingness to give us everything we could
desire, but they begged US to remem-
Der that they had a great fight to
make at the North, and they there
fore besought us not to load the plat
form with a weight that they could
not carry against the prejudices which
they had to encounter. Help them
once to gain the power, and they
would do their utmost to relieve the
Southern States, and restore to us the
Union and Constitution as it had ex-
listed previous to the war
This astonishing declaration defines
one principle which the war had not
settled. It is one for which Lee and
Jackson fought, and the bulldozing
and ballot-box stufing in the South
show that it is on trial to-day. The
General continued, showing us how he
''down-reached'' for the Union:
[ could not fail to reciprocate their
kindness, and | felt that | represented
my people in so doing. I, therefore,
withdrew my resolution, and consent
ed to that offered by the distinguished
Bayard, Of Delaware, that suffrage
was a matter for State legislation"
provided they would allow me to add
three words. They agreed to this, and
| then added the clause which you
will find embodied in the platform:
And we declare that the reconstruc-
tion acts are unconstitutional, revolu-
tionary and void That is my plank
in the platform. The great Demo-
cratic party being pledged to that
declaration, [ waK;ed nothing else. /
could wait in patience for their tri-
umph, to show US how it was to be
worked out in their own good time
That the right Of suffrage belongs to
the State is a policy that suits US.
When | presented that proposition,
every member of the committee land
the warmest men in it were from the
North) came forward and pledged
themselves to carry it out to the end
And it was this same proposition
that General Hancock pledged HIM
self to carry out to the end in his IA
nous letter to S. T. Glover, on July
II, 1858. The pledge stands good to-
day, IF it did not General Hancock
would not be running for the Presi-
dency as the candidate of q party
which bases its sole hope of success
on the right of suffrage so belonging
to the States that the Solid South can
stife it at will The whole Democrat
ic party keeps its pledge by sustain
ing ballot-box stuffiing and false count
ing, and the Northern Democrats are.
as in 1868, the 'warmest men in it. "
Their fidelity to this pledge is suffi-
cient proof that they are also true to
that other compact: Help them once
to gain the power, and they would do
their utmost to relieve the Southern
States and restore to us the Union and
the Constitution as it had existed pre-
vious to the war;"
These are the same principles for
which Lee and Jackson fought for
four years." This is the record which
Wade Hampton calls attention to as
proof of his consistent efforts for ''re-
conciling the animosities caused by
the late war" The North is not in
favor Of that kind Of reconciliation.
1t believes, with General Garfield:
''The war for the Union was right
everlastingly right; the war against
the Union was wrong--forever wrong.
Reconciliation on any other basis than
that is surrender to traitors.
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