Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-09-09

AAhN ANVA0SH a. shtC SoNhh SuS tuEd
Nixht---A Mastery Reply tn Judge For
rist's Arrangement OF the National De-
mocracy.
We listened with pleasure to Capt.
McIntyre's address at the court house
on Saturday night. 1t was a master
ly retort to what had been advanced
from the same platform by Judge
Forrist, Astounding in argument, in
vective, sarcasm, denunclation and
eulogy-invective and sarcasm for
misconception of history and mis-
statement of fact, denunciation of
northern misdeed as contrasted with
southern offence, and eulogy for great
and immortal democratic statesmen
who in councils and upon battle fields
staked their all for liberty.
The pleasure we enjoyed was felt
also by a large concourse of ladies
and gentlemen gathered to hear what
the Captain might say. These con-
stituted an audience that any orator
might have been proud to meet. The
intelligence, beauty and morality of
the city were present, and if apprecl-
alive smiles, sympathetic and approx
ing mods and hearty applause are evil
dences of success. they were bestow-
ed without stint upon Democracy's
advocate.
Capt. Mcintyre is a straightforward,
earnest, honest man. He means what
he says, and would not for temporary
applause, or even permanent honor,
deviate knowingly a hair-breadths
from the strictest truth, and neverthe-
less on the occasion we speak of, he
backed every statement made by him
by documentary evidence of the mos
( reliable character.
t The Captain commenced by saying
= that the path to be pursued by hin
s was not of his own selection. 1t hat
been marked out by that of the adj
dress he was about to review; but
while pursuing it, he wished in ad
vance to say to any Republicans tina
might be present that he had no per
8 sonal quarrel with them, and no harsl
remarks for them. He wished Il
= have the respect and good will o
. even his opponents. What he had t,
. say was for those that had shaped
Republican policies. Neither had hi
F.: any personal contentious with Green
4 hackers. He hoped, therefore, every
one would bear with him and Civ
{ him undivided attention.
c la a few words he then exposed th,
falsity of the charge Of theft made b.
Judge Forrist against the Nationa
Democracy. He showed that seces
sion was sectional, sustained and re
u sisted south and north of a we'll de
fined line not by a party, hut by pop
d ~ulations without regard to previou
~ political organization, and reminde'
: his audience of the bolt from tn
" Democratic party at Charleston an
IS its nomination of Breckenridge 3
Richmond. He also ridiculed tn
idea of making the democracy re
sponsible for all that TRANSFERRED nea
= the close Of Buchanan's ADMINISTERS
l. ton, and retorted that if the teri
theft could be properly applied t
southern use Of arms and mum
II tons divided among those states a
their share Of the public armamer
to he used in suppression of servil
and other instructions and against
N common foe, such misapplication
N were more than ofsetted by sue
h Republican steals as those {
. the Whisky Ring speculation, {
= which it has been said it was a hi
u thing, bigger than the government
III the Freedmen's Bureau Bank, Seco
ID Robeson's navy operations, and last
though not least, the PRESIDENT.
:, election fraud.
- The Captain acknowledged that h
" alluded to snch comparisons wit
lie regret. For the first time in his pc
ID litical life, as far as he remembered
is had anything Of the sort been don
= by him. 1t was patent to many {
those before him, however, that til
conduct of neither side was blameles:
Why then should speakers be force
to make comparisons? Why rak
among the dead ashes of til
or past for material for Grimm:
ton and retort? People tn:
live in glass houses shout
not throw stones. What good ca
in arise from smashing in of window
IN on both sides even if that can /
II Faithfully and successfully done? !
the future then, let all adopt I'll
language of departed craftsmanship
he "Let the past be numbered wit
as the things that we're. With respe'
to the future, let our eyes |
90 turned to the future and not to Il
past"
IT, As next in order the Captain The
he took up the assumption that the r
ne publican party had put down the r
~. bellion and saved the Union. In til
=. connection he compared the va
numbers that had entered the Unlt
en- service, 2,67s,967, with the total vo
lis cast for Lincoln, 1866, 1852, and ma
ed ing no allowance for the old and d
crepid among those that made
that ballot, asked where Il
Is. 500, 900 surplus came from, if n
from the National Democracy? i
referred also to the Democratic G
ganizers and leaders Of this VS.
MS host-Farragut, Thomas, Smit
Rosecrans, Mcclellan, Blair, Butte
ny Hancock and q multitude Of less
I'm heroes. Even Missouri had furnish'
o. 1919, 900 troops when the popular VIC
ISIS for MI. Lincoln was only 17,028
~ numbers, an6 of the column
-. 5000 that went with Butler TO NJ
" Orleans, not q tenth was Republica