Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-07-21
our SOLDTER-STA TESMAN
A DISTINGUISHED EX-coNfEDERATE
SOLDIER ON HANCOCK.

hOLDlth oN HANNuNhs
The following is the conclusion OF
the eloquent speech delivered by Gen.
Roger \ Pryor expressing his conf
dence and satisfaction at the nomina.
ton Of General Hancock by the Gin.
cinnati Convention:
But the.specia cry of the Republi-
cans is that Hancock Is the nominee OF
the south, and that the "Rebel Briga-
diers" want TO make him President for
some end inconsistent with the inter.
esis and integrity Of the Union. II,
indeed, the people Of the South cherish
any sinister design against the Union,
surely they have selected the last in
strument on earth for the consumma.
tion Of their purpose. in man whose
life has been an ecstaoy Of passionate
devotion TO the Union, and whose in.
flexible will no power can wresL from
the rectitude of its aim. But the
South harbors no such design and the
nomination of Hancock by the dele.
gates from the South was meant as a
pledge of their fidelity to the Union.
Hancock was not the preference OF
the Southern people for President,
Their choice-unanimous and enthusi.
astic--was Bayard, Of Delaware
How, then, came the Southern del
egates to profer Hancock as the can
didato of the Dcmocracyl | will tell
you, and mark well the significance OF
the tact Since the close of the war
the Republican party in the North
for purposes OF party aggrandlzementi
have persisted, contrary TO fact, con,
trary to truth, in representing the
Southern people rs enemies still Of the
Union, and as cherishing yet the ex,
ploded dogma of secession as a tenet
of the states rights creed. In vain
have the Southern people endeavored
to vindcate their patriotism by pro,
testation and acts Of loyal devotion 70
the Union. Hitherto, in every election,
il has suffered for the defeat of the
Democracy that the "Bloody Shirt
was waved by stalwart arms, and fab,
ricated "outrages" propagated by Re.
publican papers. So, at Cincinnati,
the Southern delegates said:
"You may impute to us hostility to
the Union, but we will refute the ca.
luminous accusation by setting as sen.
tinel over the Union the vigilant and
unconquerable hero of the Union. You
may impute to us the mischievous
heresy Of State sovereignty involving
the right Of secession. Now, We will
disprove the charge by nominating for
the Presidency, a man educated by
the General Government, and taught
the supremacy OF the Nation as the
first and fundamental rule OF political
faith, man who holds his commission
from the Federal Government who
gets his subsistence from the Federal
Government, for whom no career is
open but in the service of the Federal
Government, who knows no other OBJ.
ject OF fealty than the Federal flag
man, in short, whose every interest
binds him to the support of the Union
by the most intimate and indisputable
tics" "You say we are still unrecon.
ciled to the North, and that in our
hearts still burns the secret fame Of
sectional animosity then, to repel the
reproach, we take to our bosoms the
man from whom we sustained the Sc.
verest blows in our Confederate strug.
gle-the man who arrested our retreat
at Williamsburg; who checked our
pursuit at Fraser's Farm who hurled
oLr assaulting columns from the
heights OF Gettysburg; who drenched
the soil of the South with the best
blood of the South the man who smote
our ill.starred Confederacy to the
ground"
Thus, in nominating Hancock for
the Presidency the Southern people
make sacrificial offering of every
principle and of every prejudice mimi
cal to the Union and proclaim, by an
act that none but the tool or knave
will gainsay, that they renounce every
sectional feeling or ambition, and are
for tho Union, one and indlvlsible, now
and forever.
Our adversarles are in the right in
this canvass the interests OF the Union
are imperiled But by whom2 Not
by the party which rallies around the
hero of the Union not by the Democ.
racy, whose party is commensurate
with the limits of tho Union, and who
speak the same patriotic accents from
Maine to Texas not by the Democra-
cy whose gospel is "Peace on earth,
good will to men," and who would
still every sectional murmur; nor by
the Democracy, who, by the preva
lence of a spirit of fraternal confidence
and affection throughout the land
would bind the Union together by ties
moro enduring and indissoluable than
the letters OF a military repression
by identity of interests, by unity of
feeling by the fellowship ofa sacred
brotherhood comprehending all classes
and all sections within the fold of its
endearing embrace.
If indeed, the Union be IN jeopardy,
it is endangered by the Republican
party--the party who still fans the
flame of sectional iury-who, by ap.
.peals to angry passions and ungener-
Gus suspicious, would exasperate the
people of the North against the people
Of tho South-who, by systematic in
justice and prosecution, would repel
the proflered affections of the South,
and drive them, in despair, upon some
policy as hurtful to you as fatal to
themselves. The Democratic party
is the party of the Union and now, as
heretofore, Hancock leads the Union
column, and now, as heretofore, when
Hancock led the Union column, il will
suffer neither repulse nor defeat.
And So fellow Democrats, finish as
| began. We are going to win il be-
cause the hours come, and the man
Applause. ]
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PROBABILITIES Hancock and En-
glish will certainly receive the 1873