Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-02
REPUBLICAN RALLY.
Campaign Address by Governor George L
Woods.

OduiFa1 Auu-SsS Wy SoFSi-o1 SSoiSS -
Woods.
Turner Hall was well filed last evening by
fine audience to hear Ex-Governor George
L. Woods upon the issues Of :he day. The
meeting was called 20 order by ". A. Ander-
son, and the following officers were chosen :
President, Hon. T. B. Mcfarland; Vice
Presidents, n. L. Drew, II. Eldred, A. l.
Frost, C. n. Post, C. L. White, Henry o.
johnson, Frank Manuel, a. 2. Chapman,
Amariah johnson, C. c. Brown aud John
Ryan; Secretaries, j. a. Woodson and J J.
Garter Church, Jones & Beebes band dis
coursed music preceding the call TO order.
Judge Mcfarland opened the meeting with
brief remarks, and then introduced Governor
Woods, who was received with applause. He
spoke in an eloquent straiD, kept the atten-
ton of his hearers closely, and Was
often interrupted with loud applause.
He reviewed the history of the party of
lie sketched the condition Of the country
when slavery was lawful, and that blot was
one of the institutions of the country, an
evil out of the existence of which grew the
sentiment that gave birth TO the antl-slavery
party, and that advance of thought
which crYstailized finally in the form
OF the great Republican party. lap
plaase. The friend OF that evil was the
prosavery party, which gave birth to the
modern Democratic party that espoused the
cause of human slavery, and IN It's cause 1t
became a sectional party and so remains.
Andrew Jackson believed that this is u
nation, and so held to the day of his death.
TApplause But the iGfamy cropped out
that 50 this is not nation" and that there is
no such thing as national citizenship, but
that the States are supreme, and cannot be
coerced So division arose In the Demo-
cratic ranks, and all old jackson Democrats
remember the memorable struggle In which
Jackson, the immortal hero, triumphed, and
issued that sublime proclamation which
stands as one of the giant monuments along
the pathway Of the advance of our nation.
[Applau. e II the Central Co nm ittee would
to-day print and circulate that grand old
document Of that grand old hero, half of these
latter day Democrats would declare it to be
a Black Republican he Laughter and ap-
plause But though jackson triumphed,
Calhoun pushed his IDEAS constantly, until
Ee finally absolutely Caihounized the entire
Democratic party. The pro-slavery, sec
ti2nal, Calhounized doctrine of that party
became SO aggressive that ali clear thinkers
saw that soon a great conflict must come on
admitted into the Union the malcontents
threatened to disrupt the Union because this
State refused to stain its maiden robes with
the blot of slavery. Finally in 1860 the
issue came to the front too prominently to be
Longer evaded without a contest between the
hosts of liberty and thought and right and
the army of wrong, secession. slavery and
States rights And this latter army threat
ened that il the people elected Mr. Lincoln
IL - H. IL
Mr.. Lincoln was elected Iapplausel and
there came a rebellion, which was the legit.
innate result of the doctrines Of the Demo
cratic party. tApplause
Mr.. Woods then sketched the facts f his
tory just before the outbreak OF the rebellion,
how Buchanan's Cabinet scattered the army
and navy. secured the arms and munitions Of
war in the South, secured the money of the
United States in the hands of rebels, aud
otherwise made ready to go out OF the Union
and leave the incoming administration with
out men, means, arms or ships to resist rebels
with. He declared, therefore, that it was
Democratic rebellion, brought on by Demo.
cratic doctrines, and differed by Democrats.
The people remembered how Democrats glo-
ried over rebel victories and bowed their
heads when the flag Of the Union float
over Union triumphs, and everywhere dis
couraged friends Of the nation and
sneefed at their attempts to secure Fl e
government to the world. Applause. The
people remember that these Democrats, who
now claim they saved the Union and fought
the rebels, in the very midst of the mighty
struggle, when the suprenest moment of the
nation had come and the heart of the world
stood sill in the face of the terrible crisis
how that party, in convention assembled,
solemnly declared the war failure and called
for an armistice, which meant i recognition of
the Confederate Government. Applause |
He read from Pollock secret history of the
Lost Cause" Pollock was Southerner and
rebel and a Democrat, wherein on pages
351 aud 352 and 367 he bears testimony to the
aid the Democratic party at the North gave
to the rebels at the South, and how Jefferson
Davis had constant secret correspondence
during the war with Democratic leaders at
the North. The speaker declared that be-
tween the doctrines of the Democracy in
1860 and in 1880 there is no difference, and
that there Is no true Democrat to-day who
dare stand up and avow that he differs
in political thought and sentiment
from Jefferson Davis and the living
leaders of the rebellion. He declared that
the doctrine of States rights is as prominent
to-day as ever, and is the great issue in the
campaign, and he went on to show how the
Democracy, If in power, can and will make it
a national doctrine and carry it to its le9iti-
mate result-a practical disruption of the
| Union. He cited bills reorgsnizing branches
of the Government already introduced into
Congress, and the declaration of leaders that
| there shall be swept from the statute book all
the laws obnoxious to it. He recited the
/ methods by which the constitutional amend
ments are to be attacked and swept away.
he cited the organization of Congress to
| show how the Democracy and ex-rebels are
/ capturing itand getting allthe power into their
/ hands, and are shaping the legislation IF the
/ country in the committee over the most
/ important OF which ex-rebels to-day preside,
/ though they represent but one.sixteeath Of
1 the taxation of the nation The rebel claims
are being pushed and the proof of loyalty -
now required alone bars than, but they
! openly declare that that word shall be stricken
| from the Law, and meanwhile they continue
TO ile rebel claims The Republican party is
claims shall be paid [great applausel; that
/ there shall always be kept alive the distinc-
ton between loyalty and disloyslty lappiause]
/ between right aud wrong Applausel He
sketched the financial system given to the
/ republic by the Republican party and de-
/ clared it the greatest financial triumph ever
( known to the world-graudest to-day on the
earth. Applause His review of the
| financial affairs was clear, and filed
]
official sources, and showing canclusively the
wisdom aud success Of the policy Of the Re-
publican party. He pointed out that all the
isms and ragtag and bobtail parties find it
easy to consort with the Democratic party,
it being one thing here and another there,
| hut with the Republican party there is no
such conserving, for It is a party of fixed
principles. [Applsuse. The one cohesive
force Of all other parties is negative force,
to wit, opposition to the success of the Re-
publican party and determination to beat
It; but by the eternal they shall not do it.
[Gteat applause. He sketched the legsla.
ton of the Democracy in Congress TO show il
had not reduced taxation or worked promised
reforms Governor Woods then took up the
two candidates, Garfield and Hancock, and
reviewed them in the light Of the campaign
aud the issues of the day, and their fitness fol
the chief magistracy. He compared the can
didates for Congress in the Second District
and paid high tribute to Mr.. Page. Will
a happy peroration he concluded, leading the
audience in three cheers for Garfield and Ar
thur.