San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-09-25
SPEECH OF
HON. GEORGE w. JULIAN,
AT INDIANAPOLIS, AUG. 9TH.
Calling the Republicda Party and i's
Candidate to Judgment. ?.
CONCLUDED.

NONSLUDEDs
Through n bluuder in making up
tho first page of our last weeks issue,
which was not noticed till it was too
late TO correct it, the installment Of this
speech in that issue was cut off not on
ly where there was no paragraph, but in
the middle of sentence. So in order
for the reader to get an intelligent start
on it again, it will be necessary to 60
back some sentences. The speaker was
showing that the Republican managers
were again making the Haunting of tie
bloody shirt" their strong point. He
proceeds as follows. Ed. FREE PREss.]
The key. note OF the canvass was
struck by the Republican candidate for
Governor in his opening speech at In
dianapolis. He gave us to understand
that should General Hancock be elect.
ed, Utah. with her polygamy, would bo
admitted as State, and thus givo the
party two Senators that the Indian
Territory would be carved into another
State, with two more Senators; that
Texas would be divided into five States
and thus give the parry eight addition.
al Senator'S; that the Judges OF the
Supreme Court of the United States
would be duplicated, and three fourths
OF them selected from the South that
then the reconstruction acts and con-
stitutional amendments would all be
pronounced unconstitutional and void:
and finally, that we should be saddled
with the Rebel debt and Rebel pen
sions. and be comlelled to pay the value
OF the slaves unconstitutionally set free,
who, of course, would all be put back
into slavery. This brilliant unturing OF
the bloody shirt at.the opening of The
canvass, by gentleman Of Mr.. Porters
coolness and proverbial moderation,
seems little remarkable, and suggests
suspicion that his picture of Democratic
diabolism may have been painted with a
pencil bequeathed by the late Senator
Morton. Mr.. Porter says this is no fan
cy sketch, no picture of the imagination,
but a sober danger, which may, before
we know it, become an appalling one.
Ii he really believes this, his friends
should provide him with guardian or
responsible Committee to take charge OF
his person and estate, instead Of trying
10 make him Governor. If he does not
believe IL, but i, e;oply o~ol.ias party
advantage by base appeal to popular
ignorance, he is demagogue of very
considerable promise, and should be re
buked by the people according to his
deserts. But this is the Republican ar,
gument, and Mr. Porter is only one OF
the many leaders who are giving it voice.
When Secretary Sherman was in Maine
he told his audiences that questions OF
money, labor. and property sank into in.
Significance" in the presence OF the great
sectional issue. Senator Hoar, as we
have seen. treats the Democratic party
to. day, united under famous Union
General, as imbued with the same treas.
enable purpose and which animated the
revolt against the Government in 1861.
Even Senator Edmunds, of Vermont,
lends himself to the same madness.
These ideas will shape and inspire the
Republican canvass in every section OF
the Union. The Republican leaders are
the everlasting saviors of the country.
Since the Rebellion was suppressed 1t
has been constantly nearing the gates
of death, and especially at every Presi-
dental election. The war has been
over more than fifteen years, and yet the
Rebels" have SO fair prospect OF cap.
turing the Government that the effort to
save it must not be baked in the slight
est degree by any inquiries into the
management of public sffairs since the
close of the conflict. One-half the peo-
ple of the United States are SO infinitely
wicked that at all hazards they must be
kent out of power. This is the Repub-
licau issue. This view Of the situation.
it is true, greatly belit'les the boasted
achievements of the party in saving the
Union and gnrnering the fruits Of the
victory. 1t also excites a doubt as to
whether a Nation thus fearfully besct
with deadly perils and constantly on tho
ragged edge of destruction, is worth the
trouble and vexation of preserving 1t,
Except to the ravenous crew who live by
plunder; but these considerations prob
ably never occur to the men whose days
and nights are completely absorbed by
their efforts TO save their country from
the dreadful pitfalls Of its enemies.
THE REAL ISSUE.
Gentlemen, have no motive and no
wish. to withhold from the Republican
marty its iairly earned honors in the work
of suppressiug the Rebellion, | was
with it and Of it during this great crisis
of its life, and am perfectly willing TO
crown il with all the rlOry it earned ;
but does it logically follow that. because,
under the lead of Lincoln, Seward,
Chase and Sumner. it played grand
part iu crushing out a rebellion which
began nearly twenty years ago. that
therefore. the Republican p1riy Of to-
day should be inirusted With the Ma
tional administration ? Th.re can be but
one possible answer TO this question
We are now in the enjoyment OF peace
and interested in the concerns OF peace
More than the half Of an ent re gener
alton has pissed away since the elos'
Of the struggle. aud il has no more hu,i
mess in this conyass than our war with
Mexico. What the csuBiry wants to-
dsy Is an honest and capable mrnsre-
rneni Of puh.ie affairs; aud the claim q
the corieudinr p1riiss Upoa our sui
frarcs shoald be Judged solely iu Te'cr-
epce 20 this consideration IA rsEard'
that r.ortioa of the Dsnccrsi,e psris
whieh undertook the work Of Nsiinual
dismen,beTueut IN ls6l in defense Ufne
rro slavtTy. an quite a. ready - eon'
denn IL a. 7 an 10 srEisu3 The ecu1se'
Of the uea Eho eoslrstie1 i q 20