The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-10-14
WHAT WILL THE SOLID sourH DO.

gard to that? When he asks himself with re-
ans debt and pnSc
credit, which is destroying its own by repu-
diation1 He must ask himself with regard to
protection TO our industry which has been
solid in favor of free trade ever since the war?
with regard to q free ballot, that most price.
less heritage OF freeman, he must ask him
self, what. will the Solid South do or say
made solid by fraud. made solid by violence
But we are asked sometimes what fear
there can be If the Solid South should pre-
dominate. Let me tell you what you can al
ways count upon II you wish to know what
the Democratic party in power will do, you
can Il dos and You % have eng got aan the answer. :
There is one thing about the Democratic
all the appointed means of grace without
scruple. Laughter. It never did stand on
trines yet. You and have known time and
again when the wiseacres of the country have
told us the Democratic party will not do this
why, they told us that it would not seize
upon Kansas, but it did its level best. didn't
II? They told US that IL dare not pass the
in Chicago hunt the fleeing slave. They told
member as late as December, 1851, that a
Senator Of the United States passed through
OF eiS s upSn the the m
didn't it? Laughter. But then they tell us,
they have told us, that the Democratic party
outrages that were shown upon the Ku- Klux
record. On mol Nevertheless, men bled and
died. Nevertheless the rifle clubs and the
bulldozers' whip made themselves heard and
keep its sraveyards out Of the census. Laugh:
You want to know what they win do, just in
guire what they can do. Now, let us think of
WHAT CAN THEY DO?
Well, in the FIRST place, they can make your
Supreme Court sotidly State rights for a gen.
GRAFTON They can put twenty -one men on
and give you bred Scott decisions the rest OF
your mortal lives. Laughter. Well, II amt
TSsy can split Teaas Into ionr moFe States
and get eight senators and four more Repre-
sentatives and twelve more Electoral votes
mon Church. which admits of polygamy
tlaughterl, and make a State out of Utah and
the saints. Then they can step over into New
Mexico and strike hands with the Greasers-
natural born Democrats-llaughter and ap-
el-men that hate water and schools as
peo hafe a cS they
themselves l56 solid Electoral votes instead of
lss. II amt much; but your children would
they tell us this can not be done, because they
say Hancock Is q patriot; Hancock Is great
man; Hancock will stand by the country.
his friends, just as good as his friends, and
Just as strong as his friends, and no better.
that act nam Da Is hHoWS Sy y9S sSe Company hs
keeps; and you conduct your business upon
his time In gambling heiis, You do not give
him any more credit, that Is certain. Now, !
say that Winfield Scott Hancock, he should
become President by the l3S votes of q Solid
south. win do what the solid south demands.
He must do tt. A man Il not n great man SIM
i laughter % ana ID appsusel @ I man is N not % necess @
sarily great patriot simply because he failed
to desert during the Rebellion. tell you, fell
the counter and got under q musket in 1881
gave more, and showed more OF patriotism,
than Winfield 8. Hancock. IApplause.l The
clerk gave what the widow cast into the treas
ury of the Lord-all that he had;
WINFIELD s.. HANCOCK JUST MADE AN INVEST
MENr IN HIS LINE OF BUSINESS,
that was all. The one tore his life out of fits
and faced PIE 2, wsl
well as Rebel prisons for himself; the other
had only to sit still and look handsome, and
glory. loud applause.j / do not believe
that there could have been found any man
place and do other than he did. What was
he? A Captainin the Federal army at the be-
ginning of the War. the pet of the Command
tive of Pennsylvania, where in the name of
God could he have gone except go where he
for % To herd
serters and bounty Jumpers, that Is all. He
could not get around It In any other way.
ever great he may be. will obey the behests of
elects him. Il it should. Whyf We have three
councils OF their party-Fiiimore. Tyler. and
Andrew johnson; and every one of them has
8. Hancock viii never do it. But they say
" he was great soldier, and therefore he was
That Is not the reason he was
think what voice It was that presented him at
Cincinnati? 1t was the voice OF Louisiana.
Did Louisiana choose him because he was a
chose him They chose him for the same rea,
son that the old darkey jumped into the river
%sen sa
your boy, unciesa My boyi Br IS God. no"
out them" what made ap me - jump % f in ar1er e.1
him? Bress God, he had all the bait in his
POCKET" Applause and lsughter:l Winfield
SON. tIaughter.l 1t was not the soldier, but
it was the soldiers uniform with Order No. 40
e s. ySses rsr ne No S s
and promise to the Solid South that he would
give them all they asked, even to the half of
you. You great hearted, good. Peo:
that there was in the War, and all that has
been since. Did you ever think
WHAT ORDER NO. 10 MEANsf
what It was3 Let me give YOU one idea Of II.
The Reconstruction acts empower Generals in
command of districts in the South to regulate
affairs within the Provisional State Govern
ments. They were not State Governments.
Governments Gov n there. And every one of Of those
district commanders is remembered at the
South to-day. lApplause.l That magnificent
on Virginia. who refused to listen to the pray.
ers of his family, whose members on tSat ac-
count refused to look upon his dead face, was
was another. Terry. who caught the hot iron
from the forge. and first showed the mettle OF
s
lava bed and met death as he had lived, calm
ly as q summers eve-an of these were among
Wineid Ham Is 'cu Cursed Sc e to the bitter
end to day oy every one OF d,d the % solid 1emo: no.
Justice, "Coine down on of that bench" He
Go .ep
out" He was authorized to say to that Sher-
ia who held the process of q court in his hand
Il wfl do none of these things" Did it mean
shfns & to she people e shs ESQ souths Jass shnf
that in the July before there met there in New
Orleans company of men as you have met
They were white and colored Unioni.ts OF
Louisiana met to organize the Republican
si
ganized bands, armed to the teeth, who called
themselves "The firemen of New Orleans
der to night; and when that sun went down
there were 100 Union men lying in their blood
ON the streets of New Orleans. Phil Sheridan
was sent there, and these men began to think
that the avenger of blood was on their heels,
and they lifted up their voices and prayed 70
Andrew johnson to take him away, and he
took him; and he sent instead Winfield S.
Hancock, and his very first act was to say, "I
will not enforce this law" And in March,
1857, these very men, in battalions and COM
panies. marched past his hotel. giving him q
public serenade and cheering for Hancock and
JeG Davis.
THAT Is WHAT II MEANT THERE.
But now what does the Republican party
oner in this present situatfonf I feel almost
ashamed to tell you how [ feel about It, be-
cause, living where h ave lived, feeling what
have felt ever since the storm of war was
over, feel that there is an intensity in my
conviction which You can hardly respond to.
We are told that the Republican party is a
party of hate; and IL Is repeated from every
stump and in every newspaper of the Demo
cratic party. Thought we were a party OF
good nature Of the country. / would like to
know who does the laughing II not the Re-
publican party. Why. they have tried a
half dozen times TO start . Democratic
comic paper. and ft has to come over to the
to get somebody to laugh. do
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