The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-09-18

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ton. Gentlemen from the North.
South, East and West all showed the
greatest disposition to act in har.
nony. am free to confess that they
met us everywhere with cJrdiality
ana good will. In fact they declared
osear acittingaess to gire as everything
Ue could desire, but they 6egged us to
remember that they had a Qreat foht
70 make at the North, and Meg there.
Jore 0esOu0ht lg not to load the pLot.
FORM tctth q aCei0ht that then could not
carry against the prejudices Uhich thev
hdd to encounter. Heb them once to
gan the pO,Cer, and they qoouid. do
he,r utmost to relieve the Southern
otates and restore to US the Union and
ConstittttiOn as IL had eriSteq previous
TO the Uar.
This astonishing declaration de.
hilesUnc -pr,uvsPs~.s vvs.s~,s v,s1 " ..r
had not settled. 1t is one for which
Lee AMI jackson fought, and the
bulldozing and ballot.bOx stuffing in
the South show that it is on trial to-.
day. The General continued, show.
ing us how he down reached for
the Union:
could not fail to reciprOcate their
kindness, and felt that 1 reDresen.
ted my people in so doing. l, there
fore, Withdrew my resolution, and
consented to that offered by the dis,
tinguished Bayard, of Delaware. that
suffrage was matter for State legis.
lation," provided they would allow
me to add three words. They agreed
to this, and I then added the clause
,Ciiich you aCiN find embodied in the
platform: "And a0e declare that the
reconstruction acts are uacOnStit,ttion.
al revolutionary and Uoid." That is
my plank in the platform. The great
Democratic party being pledged to
that declaration, / wanted nothing
else. / could wait in patience for
their triumph, to show us how it was
to be worked out in their own good
time. That the right Of suffrage be-
longs to the States is a policy that suits
as. When I presented that proposi.
ton, eUe,u member of the committee
land the aCdrntest men in IL aCere from,
the North came foraSard and pledged
themselves to carry ii out to the end.
And it was this same proposition
that General Hancock pledged him
self to carry out to the end in his
famous letter to s. T. Glover, on July
II. 1868. The pledge stands good to.
day. If it did not General Hancock
would not be running for the Presi-
dency as the candidate of party
which bases its sole hope of success
on the right of suffrage so belonging
to the States that the Solid South can
strife it at will. The whole Demo.
cratic party keeps its pledge by sus-
tanning ballot-box stuffing and false
counting, and the Northern Demo
Gratis are, as in 1868, the "warmest
men in it." Their fidelity to this
pledge is sufficient proof that they
are also true to that other compact !:
"Help them once to gain the power,
and they would do their utmost to
relieve the Southern States and re-
store to us the Union and the COnstl-
tuition as it had existed previous to
the war;"
These are the "same principles for
which Lee and Jackson fought for
four years." This is the record which
Wade Hampton calls attention to as
proof of his consistent efforts for
''reconciling the animosities caused
by the late war" The North is not
in favor of that kind of reconcilia.
tion. 1t believes, with General Gar
field: 1.-THE war for the Union was
right-everlastingly right the war
against the Union was wrOng-fOr-
ever wrong! =" Reconciliation on any
other basis than that il surrender to
traitors.-N. Y Tribune.