The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-08-14
nn. IrwrIL AND GEN. aARrInLD

General Garfield's emphatlc Ut
terances IN the floor of Congress before
he became the presidential nominee
of his party, are strangely out Of har-
mony with the tone adopted by the
Republican leaders in their recent
New York conference
General Garfield said in Congress
long before the canvass, before the
Chicago Convention, and ut time
when presidential aspirations had
probably never entered his mind, that
no man was entitled to the confidence
of the country who ever again APP
ne,lcd to sectional feelings and
prejudices for party success, and that
Il public man in such role "would
soon find himself without Il party"
and he said Il great many more things
of the same sort, and of which this is
Il fair sample.
His words We're taken by the
country as sincere. There was then
no reason to doubt him. And in all
probability he did utter honestly and
truIy his real views and sentiments.
If he did speak sincerely then, he is
acting with insincerity now in al
lowing his political friends and man
ayers to put him in IN unenviable aud
| inconsistent attitude before the
country, because he is permitting the
canvass, which is his canvass, to take
on the hue and color of the same OLD
sectional war paint, and the same
well worn garment known rs the
"bloody shirt 1t is easily recognized
as the sangunary garment though 1t
has gone through some variations
and notifications Instead Of the
"outragen business it is the danger OF
rebel supremacy; the "loyal" person
are on the one side and the eX-rebe
on the other, and the old slogan or
the men who fought for the Unior
should perpetually control the gov
eminent.
This was substantially the talk a
the Fifth Avenue Hotel the other day
of Mr.. Jewell, Gen. Logan, Mr.
Blaine and the other assembled lie
publican chiefs.
Gen. Garfield sat in an adjoining
parIor from l. O'Clock noon, to
, o'clock in the evening, while TIN
thing went on, jarring in fearful dis
cord on all the fine things he himse
. had said in Congress only few year
back, before he became their ca d
date, and he uttered no word
change the tone and color that wa
being given to his candidacy and HI
! canvass.
u We must assume that Gen. Carried
was deliberately taken AS the repr
sentative man of his party in this cal
vasS, and we must assume that he M
been selected with a full knowledge
# his public record, and especially OF h
Congressional utterances.
Now we declare that the Democrat
n narty does not aim nor desire to
a sectional party. And we most pc
itiyely assert that the South, as Sc
aS ton, has no aspirations or ambition
n. for domination Of the general go
eminent. Such views would be
80 absurd as they would be unpatrlot
But in all sincerity the South accep
in the nomination of Gen. Hancoc
of the sentiments or principles that u
ne war is at last really over; that the
are not two classes i'll this country
rebels and loyalists-but on the co
~ trary, that there is one goVerhmeh
H. one nation, and one great body
American citizens, bound in 1lrln
~, yiance to our common country and
~ its constitution and all its existing i
stitutiOns.
And we now challenge the Repu
n. lican party, Mr.. Jewell, and all h
l., political friends, to stand by the Wor'
and the record of their candidate al
standard-bearer and we call up
Vi them, however we may differ on 9th
issues. to help the South and /
q Democratic party in the noble al
patriotic work of burrying the W
IT, and all its bitter memories, now al
st forever.