Daily Republican., 1880-09-17

turu tno country over into tho hAndB OF
. party who have disohs srgsd from the
United States capital upon their arrival
into power in Congress, over 70 wound
cd and disabled soldiers, who had fought
In the Union army and on account Of
wounds had been given positions as
doorksspers, &C., and substituted in
their places an equal number of men
WHO were either field or line officers in
the Rebel army, commencing with Cen.
FitzHugh and ending with General
Wilcox.
But, Democrats, II not on your late
record in Congress, you surely cannot
claim TO COM into National power
again upon the strength ofyour success,
when last in power! With your party
divided in Charleston in 1860, with
John c. Breckenridge, the representa-.
tive Of secession and disunion who was
the friend OF the leading men in the
Desaocratic psrty to-day, with the war
on your shoulders and all the evil
results that have followed In its wake,
with your attempt to prevent the Presi-
dent-slect IN 1860 from even arriving
At the White Rouse, and with =
thousand other causes which must
speak in unmistEaabls tones to-day to
every business iHterest Of this country,
| ask what have you in your past his.
tary TO lay upon the shrine Of the altar
OF the Nation and ask TO come back into
powor
1t is to-day the same Solid South
equipped and organized with her 1888
electoral votes that asks 10 come back
into National Supremacy. Are the
people ready'to turn the affairs OF the
Nation Overtnto the hands of the men
who sought to take its life only Is
years ago. The grave Of the Union sol
dier answers "No;" every Northern
home cries out "No;" industry and
capital say "no." That is not ths
cry Of the" Bloody Shirt" have no
desire to cast disorsdit upon the grave
Of any dead soldier in the South. Had
we been there We most likely would
have done as they did, bat the same
leaders who stimulated the Rebellion
are tue leaders of the Democratic party
to-day in Congress and out Of Congress
and they are seeking now to get back
into National power. Are you, men
Of America, ready to turn the nation
over to these people Ne! no!
IL the Democratic party to-day, and
has it been siuce the war, an honest
party in its course of actiouf Was il
honest when it nominated Horace
Greeley PRESIDENT Did he support in
auy sense OF ths word ths Democratic
principles Was it honest when it
nominated Mr.. Tilden, who stood ready
at the doors Of each hotel at st. Louis,
with his money TO control nomination,
and who has done more than any other
living man in America 10 debauch
American poltic5i Was it honest
when it nominated General Hancock, q
brave Union soldier, who most probably
had stood face 10 face battling the very
men who al Cincinnati declared him TO
be their choice
How many men in the Democratic
party to day in Delaware would have
been seen walking arm in arm with
General Hancock during the war Not
one. When did this great change take
place : Tell me honestly, is General
Hancock the true exponent Of Demo
cratic principles in Delaware Hs &C.
cepts in his letter ss inyiolable the l4!h |
and 18th amend ments 10 the Coustitu. |
tion Of the United States. Do yOa Demo.
Gratis here in Delaware do 80, and, II 80,
from what period Of time have you 50
done You march your s,rssts, pro-
yourselves as "Whits mans
party" Your position to-day is pre-
cissly the same towards the black man
as it was during the war.
You have by no act Of yours opened
any nav avenue for his improvement or
advancement. So far 40 the black
man Is concerned in Delaware you
have sat with closed doors aud placed
your heel upon him. And yet General
Hancock accepts the amendments as in
By your Legislature in Del
aware you have placed them so thGt We
nay as we'll have had no coastit1 tional
| lake 1t that there are three reasons
Why tho Republican party should re.
main in power: First-Oar National
prosperity. Sec0nd-If the Democrats
,oms into power it must be- through the
solid South. Third-As = party they
ire not united as to their course of ..
.ction. "
In these three reasons have said :
nothing OF the late Democratic rebel. !
ion in Maine, of oypher dispatches of
he fact that not single Democratic !.
'tsts has by the Legislature ratified
he constitutional amendments, deelsr.
d by General Hancock to ! Q inviolable
'ut ON the contrary whore Republi. Y
an Legislature has ratified them q =
,emoeratio Legislature has subsequent.
? revoked them of the fact, that y
hough a Democratic Congress with q
'emocratic executive, might moi pay
hs Rebel debt, yet that 1t Is q we'll a,
nown fact that under the subtsrfuge :,
I Southern claims there is now pend ,
efore Congress for passage more than
nough to pay the whole public debt of
- United States to wit: $500, 900,
OO.
All these things together with the 81
'ct that Senator Morgan Of Alabama /
as introduced q bill to increase the
embers Of the United States Supreme d
ourt to twsnty-one, so as to wipe out so
SESSIONS and opinions Of this court, the pi
nal law deciding power Of the United M
;atss, certainly must make it appear III
every candid-thinking mind that
lis at least Is no time 10 change the
,litios of the country-that just upon
/ era Of prosperity II would b. mad "
1913 10 run the great risk OF any such VI