Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-09-18
THT REAL ISSUE.
rniOnisR vs.. sectionalisn,.

Following Is the speech of Senator
VIM. A. Wallace, of Pennsylvania, de-
livered at Hancock's home, Norriston,
Pa, on August 10th, 1880:
GENTLEMEN: 1t is fitting that here
In the home of General Hancock, the
campaign which we hope and believe is to
result in bringing his native State to de-
mocracy, should be inaugurated. The
real and vital issue is the question of
unionism as against sectionalism-wheth
er the Union is to be restored and per-
petuated, or whether sectionalism and
disunion are to continue to exist. The
republican party, as party, has practi-
callv ignored the existence of the FEEDER
al Union by it's appeals to it's own voters
of the North to sustain that party in
their bitter attack upon the South, and
have ignored the broad spirit of union
ism that reaches out and covers the
whole country in its grasp. It is time
for US to return to questions graver and
more important than those Of hate, of
sectionalism and disunion. The questions
that really concern US as people relate
to our returning prosperity, to our pro-
gress as nation, and to the elevation of
our people intellectually and in a bust
ness sense. The campaign of the repub-
lican organization is inaugurated upon
the old sectional issues. Hate is their
animating idea. Their policy commands
them to forsake their old party associates
South and thoy unhesitatihglv obey
They would be unable to pointIto ''solid
South" to talk Of Southern outrage, to
falsify the record and preach the gospel
of hate, if they would admit and recog-
nize that it was possible for them to car
ry Southern State for the republican
organization. In Alabama they seek the
cover of the greenbacker and ight beneath
his banner; in Virginia they properly
cover Themselves beneath the banner of
readjustment, and practically ignore the
teachings that belong to the great peo-
ple-the national credit and state faith.
They clamor they have no votes in the
South. They do not want them, for if
they had them they would no longer be
able to appeal to the bitter passions of
the North. If the Southern outrages
they paint and the inability to vote they
preach, be true, the responsibility is up
on them and not upon us, for they have
had entire control of the government for
fifteen years., and have utterly failed to
restore the Union. They have not at
tempted it; it was not their interest to
produce it. Their interest and their poll
cy have run in a different direction, and
they have pursued the path of hate and
sectionalism and not that of peace and
harmony. The republican party has
ceased to be national, if it ever was such.
While the nation progresses, business-eu-
ergy revives and prosperity crowns US in
every section, this great giant Polyphe
mus. with his one eye in the back of his
head, can see but one section of the coun-
try, and will not recognize the inevitable
march of events. General Hancock
forcibly says:
The war for the Union was successful
ly closed more than fifteen wears ago; al
classes of our people must share alike the
blessings of the Union, and are equally
concerned in it's perpetuity and i'll the
proper administration of public affairs
We are in state of profound peace; a.
one people we have common interests.
| These are the teachings that best fl
the situation of this great people now
What good can come from the success O
the Republican organization but con
tinuation of hate, of sectionalism ant
disanionf What can come from our
but the restoration of the Union, the set
tlenaent of all questions of sectionalism
and the return Ia every State to thos
!, questions of administration, of interna
Improvement, of tariff, Or oi -conomica
administrations, which properly belon!
to the sphere Of governments Thei
policy is continued disussior. increased
hate and the perpetuation OF bitterness
ours is unionism, progress, and the restor
alton of business life in every section O
the republic. The charges they make a
to the condition of the South are NO
true. General Grant, In his speech q
Little Rock, on the 18th of April last
said: ..
CITIZENS On first landing on the so
| Of your State and at every stopping plac
on the road, in the crowds Of people