Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-29

belief were manufactured to order for
campaign purposes; the South was rep
resented as just on the eve of a new
rebellion to overthrow the Government
and re-enslave the colored people, and
all the black and lurid images partisan
hatred could conjure up were evoked to
fire the Northern heart against the
people of ten great States, and merely
to keep the Republican party in pow
er. In 1876, in spite of the pacific
effusiOns of Mr.. Hayes which none of
his supporters took any notice Of, the
campaign was waged on this old Sec
tiOnal war issue, and graves were re-
opened, and the bones of dead soldiers
were dug out of the dust to swing from
the stump to excite Northern citizens to
vote for the Republican candidates.
And during the three years since Hayes
was inaugurated the Republican man
ayers in Congress and elsewhere have
kept up the old yells against ga solid
South" "rebel Brigadiers," the '.mas-
sacres of negroes" and the determine
ton of the South to seize the Govern
ment. True, sensible men had learned
that these cries meant nothing in par
ticular, but were the tricks of dema-
gogues to deceive the masses. Never
theless they were potent for mischief.
and they prevented the union and good
feeling and devotion to great material
interests which the good of the country
required. .--
Unquestionably the nomination of
Garfield. who was a political soldier in
the war and has been one of the de-
nouncers of the South ever since. was
meant for continuation of the old line
of party tactics. Despairing of carry
ing single Southern State in the cleo
ton the Republicans hoped to make
Northern capital by reviving the old
war issues and revamping WORKOUT
tales of crimes never committed to send
new thrills of terror through the North.
But the nomination of General Han
cock-a non-political soldier, a thor
ough Unionist and patriot who had
fought for his country. against the
Indians and in Mexico before
the Rebellion began, whose first speech
was Tor the Union against secession in
California, whose heroic conduct on
twenty battlefields earned for him the
highest military renown, whose con-
duct, as commander, in subordinating
the military to the civil power, and act
ing as the servant of the laws instead
of their subjugator, stamped him as a
true statesman and patriot-has COM
pletely upset Republican calculations.
And General Hancock was first nomi-
mated by Louisiana. He was the South
ern choice. He represents the Union
sentiment, the Union idea, the Union
cause. If anybody is entitled to appeal
to the soldiers who fought and bled for
10 80
horse was shot under him at Chancellors-
vile, and who, returning to duty before
his wounds were healed, was obliged
to ride to the front in carriage. All
the miserable trumpery and sectional
lies used in former campaigns have
been paralyzed by the nomination
of this brave soldier, who incar-
mates the !. patriotism, the loyalty,
people. The bloody shirt has been
buried, and the ouurage-mill as a politi-
cal factor has gone, never to return.
Sectionalism has struck it's last blow.
The people; North as we'll as South,
are sick to death of this stale and musty
rubbish about rebels and negro raids.
The war ended fifteen years ago by a
total surrender of all combatants.
There is nothing to fight about. The
only States now are the loyal United
States of this Republic. The people
know no North nor South, East nor
by country, with one set of interests,
with one Constitution, and one glorious
Nationality. All the interests of all the
States demand fraternity and concord.
1t would be easy to fill a whole page of
our paper with statistics showing how
the manufacturing, the mercantile, the
the social interests of our
Northern States require the immediate
pacifcation and fullest recognition of the
South. Build up that rich section
in industry and enterprise, de-
velop it's wonderful resources, put
capital and machinery and me-
chanical skill at its disposal,
fill it with intelligent people trained to
labor in modern ways, invigorate its
waste places with the stimulus of new
and every city and town in
the whole North will be the richer for
it. The nomination of Hancock means
just this practical goodwill and fra
ternity. 1t means death to all pestilent
sectionalisms. 1t means a new Union
with no black discords nor ugly mem
cries to ALLEVIATE State from State. It
means a new Nation cemented indis-
solubly by the blood of three wars,
without seam in its indestructible
Nationality. 1t means Massachusetts,
and New York and Michigan, in all
that makes these Commonwealth rich
and great, all the. way to the Gulf. 1t
means the American people as one
body, with one mind and one mighty
purpose. And his election will begin
new era in the history of the Great Re-
public.-N. Y. EGpress.
-"Nothing,can intimidate me from
doing what l believe to be honest and
right" wrote General Hancock in 1867,
when the greedy horde of thieves and
plunderers who hungered for the life
blood of Louisiana and Texas found him
resolutely guarding those States. That
his death-kpell, and Congress