The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1880-10-21
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{ The people u ibe south seem /
thiak that Northern Republicans are ia
aueaeed BY feeling Of bate toward
sae1, aud Aie Ifyiag BY appealing 4
D shis feeling Of hate. to prolong thei
J bossi ppo1 the Ma ioual government Ii
!, regard 70 any feeling Of hate we thiuI
, they are greatly mistaken.
A. the very commencement Of III,
campaign southern leaders at Cincin
aaii promised . The Democratic part,
Tie US votes q the solid South. Wa,
not this sectional 10 the highest de
greer By what right or authority did
they promise il Was not this really /,
challenge TO the Norlhy They said
notf 20 many words but ia substance
ana spirit, We have made the south solid
4gAnsl 81, aud you cannot help your.
sslygs, We need but small humble,
q yotes more aud these we can easily
get among our friends at the North and
thea NO will run ,hings TO suit our.
saivess = What less could the northern
Repubiicans do than TO take up thu
challenge. They sincerely believe that
a least four Of these southern s,ates
have been made solid for the Demo-
cratic party by violence and fraud. IL
not IRON hatred Of the south but in
pure sell defence that the North be-
comes solid again. IL Ia not for the
purpose OF taxing away any Of
Tue rights OF the southern people but
20 preserve our own rights, and so long
as the southern leaders boast of solid
south Ia The same spirit that they OK.
hibi'ed at Cincinnati they must expect
a sold North az ainst them.
II the people OF the North were
thoroughly. convinced that The senti-
ments expressed by Gen. Hancock in
bis recent letter, aud by Gen. Roger A.
rryof 10 bis recent speech 10 New
hork, were the sentiments of the south
ern people, generally. there would be
an end Of the solid North. What thew
want Is absoiale safety to the Union.
and The party which offers the best
guaranty Of this safety will be likely to
receive the best support. We quote
iron' Hancock's letter and from Pryor's
speech aud ipdorse both as being all
that tue mOst stalwart Republican ct
the North asks or claims. Gen. Han
cock wrote,
When the rebellion was crushed |
The heresy Of secession III every form
and every incident went down forever.
II IS q thing of the dead past. We
move forward not backward II
we're President / would veto eli legisla.
'lln which might come before me pro-
Viding for consideration or payment Of
claims Of any kind for losses or dam
ages by persons who were in rebellion,
whether pMdoned or not"
Gen. Pryor said
True 1t is that the people of the
South struggled and suffered with nm.
surpassed heroism 10 the vain attempt
10 maintain their ill-starred Confeder-
ICY, and true It is that they were pro-
oundly afflicted by its fall; bat on a
,slm retrospect they are convinced thai
ts establishment would have been pre-
various and ehoft-lived at best that bv
Incorporating into its constitution the
light OF secession they introduced into
Is vitais the poison Of self.destructiou
hat, grounded upon slavery as its cor
ier stone, IL Was doomed Inevitably to 4
rumble under ihe pitiless peltinss of 4
n Indignant pablo opinion, II, indeed. |
be catastrophe were not sooner pre-.
'iPitated by servile revolt instituted /
nd supported by the sympathies of
Wiser after the event 4
han In the frenzy OF an angry conflict.
be people Of the South, instead Of La
len.lng The miscarriage of their enter-d
rise, are Proue rather TO recognize the
hasteni1g hand Of an everything
'royidence in the blow thai amots
avery aud accession into izepArabls
ain" liz
AZ soon as The southern people show,
, word and deed, al home and throagA .
'eir representatives 10 Congress, that
ie above sentiments are shared BY .
outrolling majority Of their people
icy will have no reason TO complain
The bloody shirt at The Nc. ID. 0