Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-07-24
Gen. Hancock and the COnserva-
tive Republicans.
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1t is within a month of fourteen
years since Gen. Dix presided at the
Philadelphia convention and Mr..
Henry j. Raymond read its address.
The sentiments of that convention
were cordially shared by Gen. Han
cock in common with all truly con-
servative men of both parties. 1t
was the doctrine of that convention
as to federal powers and state rights
which Gen. Hancock practically
enforced in Louisiana and Texas.
The liberal republican campaign of
six years later was the logical out
growth of that convention, and it
was waged in the same line of
thought with Gen. Hancock's justly
famous Louisiana orders and letters.
Gen. Hancock really stands to-day
upon the platform of Gen. Dix's
opening speech and of Mr.. Ray
mond's address at Philadelphia.
The staIwarts under Garfield stand
in 1880 on the disunion ground upon
which the republican party was
forced by Thaddeus Stevens in 1866
and 1867. The republican journals
which express surprise at the decla-
rations now making by so many
republican leaders all over the coun-
try in favor of Gen. Hancock's cam
didacy, are sadly ignorant of the
history of their own party. Mr..
Leonard jerome and the large class
whom he represents have been abSO-
lutely forced by the stalwarts into
taking up the union contest where
it was left in 1866 and 1867 by the
triumph of the Thaddeus Stevens
disunionists. In 1876 the stalwarts
hypocritically concealed their dis
union sentiments in the hope of
gaining some southern states. But
satisfied now that this is impossible,
the stalwarts of 1880 are again open
ly declaring themselves sdiSunionists.
Between this time and November
next thousands of conservative re-
publicans who voted for Hayes, and
to whose views for a short time in
1876 and in 1877 Mr.. Hayes deferred
in his policy, will be found swelling
the Hancock procession. They cam
not conscientiously avoid this. Gen.
Hancock represents in this contest
all the positions assumed by Gen.
Dix at Philadelphia when he said
1--WE seek no UtOpian vision of gov
ernment, but the grand old reality
of the better times with which the
memory of our fathers, the revolu-
tiOnists of the past and all the hopes
of the country are inseparably en-
twined-one country, one flag, ONE
UNION OF EQUAL STATES.n The
nomination of Gen. Hancock by
the "solid south" at Cincinnati is
the vindication in 1880 Of these re-
marks read by Mr.. Raymond with
great spirit amid enthusiastic APP
plause at Philadelphia in 1866: "But
the concurrent testimony of those
best acquainted with the condition
of society and the state of public
sentiment in the south, including
that of the representative in this
convention, establishes the fact that
the great mass of the southern peo-
pie accept with as full and sincere
submission as do the people of the
other states, the re-established SUI
premacy of the national authority,
and are prepared, in the most loyal |
spirit, with a zeal quickened alike
by their interest and their pride, to
cooperate with other states and
sections in whatever may be neces-
sary to defend their rights, maintain
their honor and promote the welfare
of our common country. History |
affords no instance where people |
so powerful in numbers, in resources
and in public spirit, after a war so
long in duration, so destructive in |
its progress and so adverse in its
issue, have accepted defeat and its
consequences with so much good !
sense and good feeling as has marked |
the conduct of the people lately in
insurrection against the United |
States"
The democrats at Cincinnati de-
clared against administrative CEN
tralization and governmental des-
potism. They demand home rule,
a free ballot and the subOrdination |
of the military to the civil power,
and in all this they simply re-echo |
against the stalwarts of 1880 the
indictment framed against the stall
warts of 1866 by their republican
brethren who took part in the Phil
adelphia convention of 1866.