Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-09-23
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Storrs, the gentleman who, when
Frank Pixley and his associates
were clamoring for a strong anti
Chinese plank in the Chicago plat
form, told the Committee to draw
1t "mild." The illustrious Storrs's
forte is abuse of Democrats and the
Democracy. No language is too
foul for this fl!ppant fellow to APP
ply to party whose history is
coeval with that Of Constitutional
government in the United States,
nor are any accusations too gross
for this handler of offensive epi-
thets to hurl at our party. One
part of bis mania is claiming for
the Republicans the merit of put.
ting down the rebellion.
Hon. Van Bennett lately made a
speech at Fort Scott, Kansas, in
which he thus referred to Storrs's
haokneyed howl:
This same paid defender CT Re-
publican crimes, Storrs, says,
"When we remember that q great
rebellion In the interest of slavery
was crushed, we did it.n
am tired Of hearing this ever
lasting nonsense about "wen crush
ing the rebellion. This scarlet lie
has run long enough. Will some
one tell me how, when and where
"we''-meaning the Republican
party-crushed the rebellion. Was
1t at Bull Run that you crushed it?
Was It in q dozen battles in which
our armies were defeated that Re.
publicans crushed it2 Was it under
the leadership Of Republican Cen
erals that you crushed 1t? Was it
Grant, Mcclellan, Sheridan, Rawl-
ings, Thomas, Rosecrans, Logan,
Butler, Sickles, Hancock? These
men were all reared and educated
Democrats, and all of them
voted for James Buchanan in 1855.
Grant said, in the only speech
of his life, at st. Louis, at
| n welcome rendered him when
Colonel, "If he thought the war was
waged to interfere with slavery,
or the institutions of the South, he
would tear off his epaulettes and
20 home" John A. Logan wanted
q Brigadier's commission under
jeff Davis, and sent hundred
young men to the rebel army, and
swore the Union forces should not
invade Kentucky or the South un-
less they crossed over his dead
body. But they bought Dirty.
Work Logan or he would not have
trained in the Union army. Was
1t Phil. Sheridan, who was reared a
Democrat, and an Irishman so
strong that he detested the con-
glomerated macs of Know-Noth.
lings and Americans that stopped
over into the Republican party,
and have been held there evel
since by the cohesive power OF
plunder? No, no, my Republican
friend, you could no more have
lcrushed the rebellion than you car
90 forty days without stalking Of
receivinga bribe or organizing
land eteal, or q liquor steal, Oh
some other infamous ring. The
democratic party furnished you
every brave, true and patriotic
General, and the Democratic party
furnished all the men for one side
and three.fourths for the other, and
then crushed out family quarrel.
[Vociferous applause. When the
Democrats volunteered and went
to the front you commenced to
carry the Northern States. You
increased your vote in every North
ern State in 1S63-64. Without DEM
Ocrats you would have been run.
Ming ever since Bull Run.
It is perhaps convenient for Mr..
Storrs to come out to California to
revamp his old calumnious fish
woman's tales. They are getting
quite stale in the Eastern States,
and may recover some freshness
and semblance of life in the stimu.
lating air, full Of ozone, of this
Coast.
There are some very instructive
military statistics available which
show, in a very clear light, the
part Democrats took in the war for
the Union. We present a few
groupings Of the actual figures as
they exist at the War Department,
which ought to make these howl
ers ashamed of themselves. Thus,
the old slave State of Missouri,
which now rejoices In Democratic
majority of from 6o,OCo to $4,000,
furnished to the Union army more
troops than Vermont. New Hamp.
shire, Rhnas Island, Connecticut,
California, Nevada and Oregon
combined. Here are the figures,
the record embracing from April
18th, 1851, to the close of the war:
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