The Princeton union., 1880-10-28
Lincoln, ana tne equany strange cnange or
mind that came over his auccassor3 80 4

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nina that came over his successor? al.
DO you imagine for an Instant in your guile
less innocence, that the Democratic hand that
controlled Tyler and Fillmore and Pierce; that
unneryed poor Buchanan that assassinated
Lincoln that deluged our fair land with blood
and covered it with hecatombs of our slain
brothers that delights in whipping and
siaughterlng white or black if he dare exercise
a tree mans will; that stuffs the ballot
box and smothers beneath fraudulent bal
lots 1ree voting; that is guilty of such
numberless infamous outrages under its
peonage laws that holds its own narrow and
selfish pride of rule and lust of power so dear
and human life SO cheap is it at all likely. in
view OF their past and present heinous crimes
that the hand of the "solid South would hesi-
tate to sweep OFF its obstructed path Hancock
or an English
All! MY friend, when the time comes-should
they be elected, which God forbid Hancock
will be made to understand this thing, and if
he does not quail at once means will not be
wanting to make him float gently along in the
Southern gulf stream or Enthusiastically bob up
and down responsive to the waves stirred by
every " solid Southern breeze
The "o!d" traitor boys of the South-the
"old boys, " with perjured lips and murderous
South will ':see' p that Hancock runs the Gov
ernment just as they want it run!
South want It run? What saws vs. VaGe 54s Ran ~ nne
ton? : The principles they Qee and Jackson)
dled 1o1 are e. again On trial to-day" What said
elected you will be paid for all the property
you have lost through radical rule, IS x *
anu we can redress all our wrongs What said
Representative Blackburn only last year? s:We
do not intend to stop until we have stricken the
last vestige Of your war measures from the stat
Batavia, Ohio? ::Let the Radicals cease their
brawl about the 'solid South She is solid,
thank God! She was solid for jeff Davis in
1862 and will be solid for Hancock in 1SSO!"'
What says jeff Davis when he asserts his 'un-
shaken belief in the right of secession %
What means the reputation Of Southern State
debts? What means the system Of peonaee-
the system of owned labor now existing in the
South?
Do not these expressions of the ':solid South
| ern . leaders, these acts Of the ''sold South"
constitute platform of Intentions more elo-
quent, more truthful, more in keeping with all
the past history and traditions Of the South
! than any platform that can be drawn ana
| paraded before the people by Northern Demo-
Gratis?
Should Hancock be elected, the programme
| of the ':soGd South is all too plain.
The national debt of nearly So, 600, 900
| will be repudiated on similar pretexts that have
| led to the repudation Of Southern State debts.
| Southern war claims, which, as thus far esd
mated. reach the startling aggregate Of So o0O,-
0OO.000, will be paid by the issue of 3-per-cent
! 100-year bonds-as has been already proposed.
Al adjustment will be made with the holders Of
the immense Confederate war debt SO as to
make good the credit Of the solid South" in
| the event OF another war. The Supreme Court
viii be reconstructed in accordance with
the principle of the Manning bill, so
as to make it "solidly'' Democratic, or,
| in other words, "soidly Southern in
sentiment. That court, so reconstructed, will
| construe the constitutional amendments SO as
to make them a dead letter, OR wipe them out
altogether as having been irregularly adopted
h@ Rebel h@ pensions and bountes will be paid. The
$4,000 Republicans and Democrats now holding
| Office because OF experience, fitness and ability
will be summarily kicked out and raw men put
in their places, with Bourbon Democracy as
the sofe recommendation Of these most
| will be Confederates. As in the Senate and the
House they have kicked out seventy-six Union
soldiers, mostly wounded and crippled defend
ers OF the Union, and put into place eighty
eight rebel soldiers, SO in all the departments
and offices under the Government the hatred
| of the solid South" for the Union soldier
! will be shown. Nor is it at all sure that the
audacity of the ''solid South - will stop at
these measures 1t may even amend the pen
! sion and bounty laws by absolutely cutting off
from their benefcent provisions the Union
soldier, while placing the rebel soldier in his
stead it will abolish all Federal election laws
in order By fraud to consolidate and perpetuate
| its power; it will abolish all restrictions upon
rebels. jeff Davis will be pardoned, and pen
stoned, and returned to official power The
army will be reorganized. Confederates will
swell its ranks in place of Union men, and
from Sherman down the old Generals of the
Union army will be legislated out and Confed-
crates legislated in West Point will be recon
structed. So, also, the navy. Attempts will be
made to introduce peonage and landlord-hen
laws in the North; and to lead up to this last
the present protective tariff, which fosters our
piv her
piness and competence to millions of content
ed artisans, mechanics and laborers in the
manufacturing centers and which, by affording
home market to the productions Of the soil,
contributes indirectly, yet very largely, to the
prosperity of the farmer, will be stricken down,
and a s' tariff for revenue, which will ruin the
manufacturer, ruin the farmer and pauperize
labor of every kind, will be enacted. Consider
for a moment, my Michigan friends, what a
tariff for revenue only" means to you-hoN
it would affect your local industries. II
would put upon the Stree list" nearly
ests, your mines and your manufactures, be-
cause there is little, if any, revenue derived
therefrom. How would you like to have you
grains, your cattle, your lumber, your timber
your copper and your iron ores placed upon tht
"free list?" And how would it affect tie price
of labor? All that is within the programme o1
the "solid South" Meantime the national
banking system, itself a bond of Union, will b.
stricken down and the old State system AGAR
adopted. Everything will be done, that can b<
done by a 'ssolid Southern Government, ant
Congress- and Supreme Court, to increase tn
power of the "solid South" and ruin ant
pauperize the North. -..'.. ..-
! But, says q confding Northern Democrat
''they wouldn't dare do all these things. W.
of the North would not stand it y
Ireply, in the words of another Northern
Democrat, "What are you going to do abou
lt?" You already side with the 'solid South
in striking down the securities against fraud il
the Federal elections. Those safeguards one
gone, your unwilling hands are tied. Congress
men, as well as Presidential electors, Will b.
counted in at the North just as the "soit
South" dictates. You will be manacled han,
; and foot. ''What are you going to do abou
itY'
"Well," you say, &c if the solid South wer
to grind us down in that way, and stamp on u
when we were down, suppose we would hav
to resort to force.'
Let me ask you how a "resort to force
would be met? With the Presidency, the Con
gress, the judiciary, all the Offices, the army
u the navy, and all the well-drilled and disci
. plined militia regiments of the "solid South
to meet, what very brilliant chance of success
would you have my friend, if you, etc., ere
, i sorted to force p
"Well, you say again, the Northern State
could at least secede."
There at last nv Denocratic friend vor hav