The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15


you fear of fluctuatiOn in its bonds alarm
her country with the fear of change and
ms. priestcraft cry of solemn mysteries in OH
ery which none but the initiated can und
for stand-with the constant beating of the
he Chinese gongs they hope to divert the pU
he lie gaze from the fearful corruptions
by Grants administration, from the larcei
fiI of the Presidency for Hays and the ofic
I'm reward of the thieves who stole it, from I
be disgraceful conviction of Garfield by col
of mittee of his own party, from the ignomI
en- ious dismissal of Arthur by a Republics
n Administration, and from the swarmir
X horde of Government officials, who Iii
On blue-bottled flies have become 50 bloated
9r- office that they buzz with Indignation whe
be disturbed in their absorbing process.
n. But again | ask you, Why is it you Oh
be trust the South
u 1t has been said that Southern men hat
the old flag and despise the soldiers OF tn
to Union army. This is not true. When tn
81 old flag was used to cover with its protect
le ing folds the headquarters of reconstruction
lie satraps who denied to the South all tn
he blessings of civil liberty, and when the uni
r, form of the United States Army was useC
to cover the plant tools of Radical politi
d clans, we believed they were prostituted t,
IT base and hateful purposes; but when on
: came wearing that same uniform who wa:
: | as generous in peace as he had been brave
e power over US and proclaimed the civil
[ above the military N time of peace, then
: once more we could look with respect upon
a the uniform which covered the manly
/ figure and the gallant heart of Hancock.
e He lifted from between US and the old
1 flag the back banner of Radicalism which
2 had INSTRUCTED our gaze and embittered
) | our feelings, and once more we could greet
with welcome the Stars and Stripes of the
A merican Union.
We can never forget in Mississippi how
old Gov. Clark was seized and thrown into
Fort Pulaski, for calling the Legislature of
the State together. Nor later, how Gov.
Hunphries was driven by Ames at the
actual point of the tayonet from the Gov
ernors official room, how every judge was
removed, how every officer from Governor
down to Justice of the peace was dismissed
by military order and his place supplied by
military appointment, and how the editor
of leading newspaper in our State was
seized, imprisoned, and tried by military
commission for maintaining the freedom of
| the press.
| And we would be worse than ingrates if
we could ever forget how Hancock, tower
| ing above these miserable tyrants, like a
| giant above pigmies, stood on our borders
| in Louisiana proclaiming freedom of speech,
| freedom of the press, trial by jury, and all
| the civil rights of man. We honored him
| then, we honor him now, and the honest
heart of an honest people will honor him
| for it forever. | said a year ago the Con- !
| federate felt neither jealousy nor hate for |
the Union soldier and | prophesied then |
that if the Democracy would only nominate |
Hancock for President we would send up |
Confederate shout that would echo from |
the Potomac to the Rio Grande, and as it
came booming across the Ohio would awake
a responsive chord in the hearts of the
Union soldiers of the North. | claim that
my prophecy has been fulfilled. We feel
no hate for the Union soldier, and we be-
ieve that but for the politicians the soldiers
would long since have restored peace and
goodwill. We are proud of the fact that
our candidate is a soldier of the line who
stood where the missiles of death came
thickest where manly blows were given and
received, and that he is not like Garfield, a
butterfly of the staff with glittering uni
form and loud-sounding titles won by favor
and not by service. And we hope that the
boys in blue remember with respect at
least the war-worn veterans in gray that the
same chivalric feeling remains which made
''the 'Reb and the Yank' OH the picket
line sometimes establish an informal truce.
coffee and tobacco, and give each other
timely notice before the deadly work of
war was renewed. And [ repeat here what :
once said to a Confederate audience. |
When the bitterness of hate shall have !
passed away and some blinq OLD band shall
sing the praises of American heroes, while [
eager children listen to their deeds of val :
or, the story of Grant and of Lee, of Ham '
cock and Stonewall Jackson, will equally
excite feelings of lofty emulation. When d
Mr.. Conklng nominated General Grant at i
Chicago, he said if any ask me whence comes | L
our candidate | answer from Appomattox. /
If any shall ask me whence comes our can
didate ! answer that he comes first from the /
heights of Gettysburg, where he met and
drove back the Confederate army and up
held the flag of the Union. That he comes t
next from Louisiana, where he met and d
drove back a swarming horde of carpet-ba f
thieves plunderiqg q PROSTATE State and q
upheld the Constitution of the Union, and
that he comes last from the hearts of his v
bearing aloft his own declara- C
ton of independence: The great principles C
ance of this people and ever should be- O
Like his great prototype, Andrew Jackson, t
he was ready to lay down his conquering {
sword in the temple of civil justice. When O
Jackson had saved New Orleans from pill n
Iage and plumber by british troops, lie was +;
brought to the bar of justice for having fl
proclaimed martial law and placed the mill I
tary above the civil power. When Hancock !,
the conquering hero, had saved New Orleans q
iOD4 HtitfSS 3fu HlHIRoi ny 1SdulOtfl thieves, II
be was forced TO retire by Republican e
for having proclaimed the n
civil above the military power And he Il
was like jackson again. g
1t is told Of jackson that during his t.
Florida campaign his militia claimed that e
their term of service had expired and at o
tempted to leave him, but Jackson, with the u
I'D flag in his hand, rallied the volunteers
md drove the militia back into camp. A p
Il, a., | q
hat their term Of enlistment had expired t
md attempted to leave him, when Jackson, g
With the old flag again in his hand, rallied
he same militia and drove the volunteers e,
back to their duty. And so when we Con- c
ederates undertook to secede from the Il
Union Hancock and the war Democrats t
With the old flag in their hands, rallied the lc
Republicans and drove us back into the h
Union. And now, when the Union has been 81
aved and the Republicans are endeavoring S
o destroy the Constitution, Hancock and ii
he war Democrats with the old flag again b
n their hands, are rallying the late Confed- c,
rates to drive the Republicans back to the C,
Constitution. The Confederates loved the Sc
Constitution better than the Union, the n
Republicans loved the Union better than tt
he Constitution, but Hancock and the war ell
Democrats loved the Union and the Con- A
titution one and indivisible. Like Wash a
ngtou, he was great in war like Washington, tt
lie refused imperial power and was great in b
1eace like Washington, when he has held c.
wo terms of the Presidency-as he will a
lie will retire to private life and be forever n
,reat in the hearts of his countrym men. h
Loud applause.) The Republicans say that a.
Hancock has no civil record. 1t is true that W
Hancock was never a politician, that he is
never held seat In either House of Con- r.
,ress, and that he was never elected by the b
people to any civil Office. But when acci- Sc
lent made him the Governor of Louisiana W
md Texas he displayed knowledge of the ii
rue principles Of constitutional liberty SC
which the most profound constitutional fl
awyer might have admired. AS Cromwell, Il
uho nexar drew : sword until he was forty fe