The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-08-10

the Union, and as cherishing yet the ex
| Ploded dogma of secession as q tenet o.
the States rights creed. In vain have
theSouthern people endeavored 70 vindi.
cate their patriotism by protestation and
acts Of loyal devotion to the Union
Hitherto, in every direction, it has suf
hced for the defeat Of the Democracy that
the "bloody shirt was waved by stal
wart arms, and fabricated outrages y
propagated by Republican papers. So
at Cincinnati, the Southern Democrats
said:
You may impute TO us hostility to
the Union, but we will refute the calum.
nious accusation by setting as sentinel
over the Union the vigilant and uncon-
querable hero Of the Union. You NAV
impute to Ms the mischievous heresy Of
State sovereignty involving the right of
secession. Now we will disprove the
charge by nominating for the Presidency
man educated by the general govern
ment, and taught the supremacy Of the
nation 40 the first and fundamental rule
Of political faith, man who holds his
commission from the Federal government.
who gets his subsistence from the Fed.
eral government, for whom no career is
open but in the service of the Federal
government, who knows no other object
Of fealty than the Federal flag man, in
short, whose every interest binds him to
the support of the Union by the most in.
innate and indisputable ties. You saw
we are still unreconciled to the North.
and that in our hearts still burn the
secret flames of sectional animosity; then,
to repel the reproach we take to our bo-
SONS the man from whom we sustained
the severest blows in our Confederate
struggle the man who arrested our
retreat at Williamsburg who checked
pursuit at Fraser's Farm; who hurled
our 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 a
sacri6cial Offering of every principle and
of every prejudice inimical to the Union,
and proclaim, by an act that none but the
fool or knave will gainsay, that they re-
nounce every sectional feeling and ambi-
ton, and are for the Union, one and in
divisible, now and forever.
Our adversaries are in the right; in
this canvass the interests of the Union
are imperiled. But by whom Not by
the party which rallies around the hero
Of the Union; not by the Democracy,
whose party is commensurate with the
limits of the Union, and who speaks the
same patriotic accents from Maine to
Texas; not by the Democracy whose
gospel is "peace on earth, good will to
all men" and who would still every re-
sentful emotion and hush every sectional
murmur; nor by the Democracy, who, by
the prevalence Of spirit of fraternal con-
fdence and affection throughout the land,
would bind the Union together by ties
more enduring and indissoluble than the
fetters of a military repression-by iden-
tity of interests, by unity of feeling, by
the fellowship of 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 fame of Sec
tional fury-who, by appeals to angry
passions and ungenerous suspicious. would
exasperate the people Of the North against
the people of the South-who, by system
attic injustice and persecution, would re-
pei the profered affections of the South
and drive them, in despair, upon some
course of 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 col
umn, and now, as heretofore, when Han
cock led the Union column, it will suffer
neither repulse or defeat.
And 80, fellow-Democrats, finish as
began. We are going to win this fight,
and we are going to win it because the
hours come and the man! Applause.