Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-24

which the sting masses must ask is. what
is that cad The Democrats say that there
are no longer any serious issues between
tie two great parties. The assertion is
false. All the questions which have been
in issue since the close of the rebellion are
still in issue, and they have gained fresh
Importance from the audacious policy of
the Southern leaders. The Democrats have
no intention to follow out the Republican
policy if they win the day. Their purpose
is to force the country back upon its! path,
and if they can to bring it again to the
point it occupied before the war.
The South has abandoned nothing, and
the South leads and controls the Demo-
cratic party. Hancock is mere circum-
stance in the evolution OF Democratic
Southern policy. He is accepted by the
South because it is believed that he can be
used, and the uses for which he is required
are such as no lover of the Union can re-
gard without the greatest apprehension.
He must be a foolish and obtuse observer
who imagines that the Democracy, which
has fought every measure of reconstruction
from the beginning until now, will, if it
finds itself in power, surrender all its most
cherished purposes, and set itself to uphold
those governmental doctrines it has re-
sisted hitherto with all its might AT
present it is putting Hancock forward as a
lure, but behind him stalks the old Confed-
eracy. and despite all pretenses it is the
same Confederacy that sought to disrupt
the conquered that they were wrong,
though it may convince them that they
are not strong enough to succeed by force
of arms. 1t has never convinced the
South, and should it be returned to power
its first acts would be to vindicate its
judgment by overthrowing all the work
of its antagonists. 1t is the firm persua-
sion of this that has prevented Demo-
cratic success for SO many years, and there
is nothing in the present situation to war
rant belief that it would be less dam
gerous now to admit that party to power.
General Hancock's military record has in
truth nothing to do with this campaign.
1t is the record of his party which is in
question, and that, as Grant observed, is
bad. 1t embodies all of disloyalty, of
heretical doctrine, of opposition to the
theory of national existence, that can be
found in the country, and this being SO it
matters nothing what the record of the
man who leads it may be. When
rebel brigadiers ike General Terry come
forward as supporters of Hancock, the
wayfaring man, though he tie fool, knows
that it is not because the brigadiers have
been converted, but because they thinh
| they can make a stalking horse of Han.
cock, behind which to carry on the schemes
which will not bear the light of day.
Hancock in fact is damned by his associa-
tons, and this must ever be the case when
party seeks to cover up it's record by
hosting false colors. The Democrats do
not want to discuss States Rights They
prefer to dwell upon Hancocks letter to
Governor Pease. But even that shows
that he was cold friend to his country
when warm patriotism was needed, and it
only serves to highten the suspicion which
his present utilization justifes.