Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-09-17

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| Many loving mother looked anxiously out
| from her lonely cabin for that son who never
came again. What number OF brave and use
| know it gave courage TO every man In arms
against us. IL would be unjust, then, TO
| charge altogether on the South the debt of the
| country. The debts of tho South have been
| repudiated by the million. win they be more
careeul Of oursI l ask You again, are you
Wiling to contido this country to that party
which tried TO destroy it2 And you cannot
| afford to do IL. Is there anything IN your ag-
| ricultural or industrial interests to prompt
| you to place the Government in the hands of
| these DcmoeratsY The revenues of the coun-
| try, of the Nation, must be raised by indirect
| taxation No capitation shall be levied on
| States and districts except in proportion to
| representation in Congress. In the revenues
| of great Government like this, with forty
| eight millions OF people, it is obvious that
| large sums of money must always be raised,
and this must be done, too, only by protect
i've tariff; nothing more, nothingless. No one
| contends for prohibitOry tariff. We want only
to manufacture on the same terms as other
counti les. What has been the success of this sys-
| tenn IL has developed our manufacturing inter.
ests. Duties are shown to be largely paid by
foreign manufacturers. Can there be any OBJ
lection to this2 As duties must be laid and
taxes paid, what reason can be given why the
burden should not be made just as fight as
possible on our people, by developing our own
| industries? BY this system we made safe
market for our agricultural products at home,
we make of ourselves q complete and indie
pendent Nntion-when all the wants and some
of the luxuries are suppaed;
There is nothing, then, i'm the industrial con-
dition of the country that calls for change
When you have a revenue to raise put 1t in
shape that it will enable our manufacturers to
compete with those of other countries. met
at famous watering-place, recently, an intel
ligent English manufacturer. He said, you
have good manufactures In your country.
am always ready to concede that, but there is
one point on which we beat you. 1t is In
oheapness of labor. replied that we do not
want to compete with England on that point.
II may be in future ages that we WILL but now
we are able 10 supply every man who viii
work With good food, raiment, shelter, and
education. III we have to meet that difficulty,
we will meet it us best we can. We have yet
work for every man, and can give every one
an honest days pay for his labor
Industrial interests are the prime objects to
be considered. Why then, change the Ad-
ministratiou? Have you Il feeling that the OPP
position party will do betteri They charge
that we are sectional party, but we deny It.
We put down the rebellion for the good of the
whole people We sought to maintain tho
Union for the same purpose To-day the re-
suits of the rebellion are to the benefit of the
South, if they would only look Mt it right. The
effect of the revolution was to make Great
Britain a frcer land. The victory of the
Union was victory for the whole people, for
the South as well as for the North since we
are one: The crops now in the south are
demonstrating the fact that free labor is
attended with better results than
slave labor Instead of trying to
keep up cruel war. in the South, il
its leaders had tried to keep mp peace, and
encourage mutual union, the result would be
a blessing. But they will not do this. By
this strife, and by it they have made the South
solid They say to the North: You are the
fighting party. You keep up sectionalism. Is
that n sectional party which strikes down and
erushes out corruption? Take the thing as it
stands to-day. Read the report of the cleo
tion in Alabama. Every party must be ruled,
of course, by the majority of that party. The
South is ruled by tissue ballots and bullets. 1t
Is solid from this. 1t is place where you or
could not discuss political issues. What was
the terminate n of the political meetings held
in Alabama while Hayes was u candidate2
They were all dispersed by roughs and bum
mers. General Weaver. Greenback candidate
for President, went down there and staid
few days, and was dismissed without insult,
believe though unable to be heard. Randall
was driven away amidst insult and threats. l
prefer to take the reports of these men, since
they are not of my party. Those who enter
the Southern soil must either bow donw or be
crushed down. And gentlemen of the South
have the face to stand up and say the elections
are fair. do not desire to take their evidence
in the matter As have asked my Greenback
friends to consider their position want them
to consider their rights as freemen to vote,
and that as they vote their ballots may be fairly
counted; ask them to reconsider their posi-
ton, and determined whether the party that
secures the rights of all is not the Republican
party? You cannot tritle with the rights of
any other man and have your own safe.
Wrongs done to others will always return to
the first aggressor. Is there any encourage
ment for the freemen of the North to trust
their votes in the hands of this party? Will it
be attended by benefits to your interest as
common citizens, as freemen of Nation2
Fair elections is the demand of one of the res
Olutions Of their platform. How they can look
each other in the face without laughing ut
the absurdity of this resolution cannot un-
derstand. The Democrats who cry for a free
and fair ballot set themselves Squarely in
favor of Il bill which would have deprived
the United States of its supervision
of the election of its own lawmakers, the Com
gressmen, especially from the South. There
is no one who wishes to deprive the South of
any rights. We tender her everything that we
possess, but it is not just to accept the benefits
IIniOn and mpnfnl
reservation. These leaders first tried to de-
stroy the Government with the sword. Next
they thought to break 1t down by the haggard
figure of starvation; yea, even the present
Congress said ii would starve the Government |
unless the President chose to sign the bill
which they had passed affecting the elections
The President met this bill with that trmness
that has characterized his entire Administra-
tion. Finding the wiz of the President un-
doubted they contcnted themselves by pass
ing bill which appropriated all that was
necessary for the sustenance of the Federal
proud of the men holding official positiOnsin
the department in which have had the honor
to be The head. Colonel Dudley, of your State,
with the others, struggled whole year with
out dollars pay. These men, who are enc
mics to the Government, could think of no
way in which they could so successfully show
their anger as by Withholding these much
needed appropriations; When you hear talk
of the extravagance of the Republican party
let me say we carried on department of
the Government for one year, lacking
fourteen days, without dollar. l wish
now 10 refer to the candidates of these two
great parties 1t is well TO learn of these,
though the cause always rests high above the
leaders. Whatever there is good or bad in the
Republican party is represented in General
James a. Garfield.
He is necessarily bound to the party which
puts him forth. Hancock stands the embodi-
ment of the Democratic party. Whatever
there is good, and am sorry to say whatever
there is bad in that party is represented by
him. He can not separate himself from that
party. He stands where stood Greeley and
Mcclellan. | respect General Hancock as a
soldier. would not disparage so eminent q
Citizen. If you elect him you put again in
power the Democratic party, which made the
rebellion, and again you become the subjects
OF the South. Whatever they may say, by pro-
tession we know their desire. We can not dis
regard the humblest man of the South or the
North. You have reared monuments in mem
ory of the soldiers who fell. have known
General Hancock since the first day of the
war. He had the advantage of the military
education which the United States gave him,
and he has rendered good service in return
for il. Yet he indicates principles we can
not follow, he marks out II pathway we
can not adopt. Upon his election the South
returns to power without any feeling of recon-
Citation. We desire peace, but we can not
purchase 1t at the expense of u single tram
meled voter, be he white or black. Let us not
tire in our work until labor is honored, man
hood respected and freedom revealed. Let us
stand together, ana we will succeed. have no
feeling for Hancock but one of friendship. He
LED our men gallantly, but now he leads
not where we wish to follow. When we passed
UP lne JdllleS INlNtT 10 hSshulJ We
honorod the brave sunken Merrmao for the
good work she had done, but as she lay in the
midst of that mighty river with her cOlors still
proudly floating above her, she marked out
path TO avoid not TO follow. Her flags were
signals OF danger, and not of safety. We
honored, yet We avoided her. So with great
men when they have become stranded. We
may honor them for the good done, but no
longer can we follow in their poor paths. They
signal road OF danger and it must be avoided.
We honor Hancock but we must leave the path
he would have us walk, While we regret to
part from such men we must, with resolution,
keep ever on. The candidate whom we have
nominated was a volunteer, but surely no man
will put the regular soldier above the Volun-
teer. don't institute comparison between
brave men. If he did his duty faithfully,
honorably, well, he is my brother. The Re
publican party stand to-day as on trial before
the people.
We do not fear that trial. We are ready 10
stand before that bar, and hold up our hand
and await the decision of just people. We
have been the triumphant party since 1860.
We have honored the Nation, in the election
of such Chief Magistrates as Lincoln, Grant,
Hayes. Undaunted in danger, undismayed In
disaster, torgiving, is James A. Garfield. To-
day we oher him TO the people of the United
States the fourth pan6idlta M tha RanuL.