National Republican., 1880-10-06

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Ben on account of the purity of his
democracy. The bounding hearts Of the
secessionists leaped at once to embrace the
northern democracy because it had licked
their people aud wiped out their darling
experiment of a confederacy, and their
hatred and detestation of LINCOLN and his
hirelings is all owing to his inability toput
them down and hang their leaders,
So, on the other hand, the failure of
GRANT to secure the good will of Ben
HILL aud the southern statesmen is due to
his failure to put down the rebellion, and
such patent facts are very convincing used
In connection with BEN BUFFERS oath and
stati sites.
The democratic party, having concluded to
put in it's record as the responsible agent in
cleaning out the secessonists and sustained
it by an affidavit of BEN BUTLER, is ready
for business, but on the lookout for bug
bears. The matter of rebel claims is bug
bear. HANCOCK says so. He has not been
in congress to see the flies, but the long
time 1t took to squeeze that letter out of
him shows that he was looking over the
vouchers for 81, 300, 600 600 which his fellow
dems have been placing there the last six
| years and he didn't find one belonging to a
reb--not one. BUTLER might swear to that
also were HANCoCK's word not sufficient.
! This bugbear having been got rid of there
is plain sailing, notw outstanding some APP
! pearances that seem to initiate against the
democratic theory. There is tn opparition
Of BLACK in the way, or the man is still
alive. IL takes pretty strong imagination
| to believe that he went into the business of
coercing states and helped put down the
rebellion, but he is puugent democrat and
much admired by HANCOCK and flvorably
mentioned by journals Of the party for
| secretary of state 1t is believed that
! HANCOCK has moved forward far enough
TO look upon the suggestion with favor, and
no one doubts JEREMIAH's democracy. 1t
is almost as genuine as WADE HAMPToN's
or JEFF DAVIS. 1t may be that lie was
the man who abolished slavery and set the
negroes to cutting their masters throats
In this day of miracles in history it is hard
TO tell. Possibly LINCOLN banished VAL
LANDIGHAM becau sc of his vigor in fight
ing secession, and it is well known how he
prosecuted MCCLELLAN for proposing &c
make the war "slort, sharp and decisive,
and court.martialed FITZ-JoHN PORTER fol
springing, red-handed and blood.thilsty, tc
the support of General POPE.
When we think these things over and
read BAYARD's speech where he shows how
JOHN SHERMAN stood in the way of re-
sumption, how nnxiously and earnestly and
nightly the democrats worked and tussled
and engineered to destroy the greenbaci
and stamp ont the hercsy of the Ohio idef
urged by republicans like Ewing, PENDLE
TON, THURMAN, VOORHEES, and ALECF
STEPHENS, how they voted to make BEs
BUTLER governor of Massachusetts becaus,
of his emineutly sound views on fiat money
and PLAIsTED for governor Of Maine be
cause of his solidity on the currency, aut
numerous other convincing things Of tht
same sort, not forgetting HANCoCK's tele
gram to the greenback candidate, sayiny
that his election will strengthen ou
hands" we cannot help believing tina
there are miracles in history, and the dem
ocrutic party holds the monopoly