Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-10-15

time the question of a sectional issue. There
! 1s no question rs to a Republican policy IL is
nxed ana settled. Everybody knows IT, old
and young, and we can take it ms n fixed fac.
| tor in any estimate of the future that that
policy which has been the pillar of fire and
! cloud which has led us through the Red Sea
of war out of tho wilderness Of financial de.
preston into the bright Canaan of prosperity,
that viii be the policy of the Republican par
/ " in the future, as ithas been i'm the past
/ lApplause.l But when you come to consider
/ the probable or possible action of the Demo.
cratic party there arises this question:
WHAT WILL THE SOLID SOUTH DO,
| What will the Solid South think, what will the
! Solid South say, I'm regard to this matter2
] And so the voter, before he determines what
he shall do, must ask himself with regard to
! the currency-what will be the action, what
/ will be the feeling of the solid South with re-
/ gard to thatI When he asks himself with re-
! gard to the public debt and public credit he
must inquire, win the solid south protect that
/ credit, which is destroyingi its own by repu-
diation! lie must ask himself with regard to
! the protective thrift, will the Solid South give
! protection to our industry which has been
solid in favor of free trade ever since the war;
And when he goes beyond that, and inquiries
! with regard to a free bullot that most price,
| less heritage of a 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. If you wish to know what
| the Democratic party in power win do, you
have only TO ask yourself one question: What
can IL 90? and you have got the answer.
There is one thing about the Democratic
! party, there is nothing mean about it. 1t uses
all the appointed means of grace without
! soruple. Laughter, It never did stand on
! t11fies yet. You and have known time and
| again when thewiseacres 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
] W They told us that it dare not pass the
Fugitive Slave law, but they made YOU here
| in Chicago hunt the fleeing slave. They told
/ us that 1t would not-nO, IL could not--I re-
member as late as December, 1861 that n
senator OF the United states passed through
| the country lecturing upon the impossibiity
! OF civil war I'm America. All the same it came,
! didn't it, Laughter But then they tell us,
/ they have told us, that the Democratic party
| OF the Solid South could never submit to the
| outrages that were shown upon the Ku- KluX
/ record. On mol Nevertheless, men bled and
| died. Nevertheless the rife clubs and the
| bulldozers whip made themselves heard and
ielt Oh, the Democratic party cannot even
Keep its graveyards out of the census. Laugh
ter. II means business all the time; and if
You want to know what they will do, lust in.
9uire wnat they can do. Now, let us think of
WHAT CAN THEY DO?
Well, in the first place, they can make your
supreme Court solidly State rights for a gen.
Grafton. They can put twenty one men on
there, in accordance with pending measure,
and give you Dred Scott decisions the rest of
your mortal lives. Laughter. Well, it amt
much; il amt any thing to what they can do.
They can split Texas into four more States,
and get eight senators and four more Repre-.
sentatves and twelve more Electoral votes
out OF it; and then they can marry the Nor
mon Church, which admits of polygamy
laughterl, and make State out of Utah and
the saints. Then they can SteD over into New
Mexico and strike hands with the Greasers-
natural born Democrats laughter and ap-
piausel-nen that hate water and schools as
the Devil hates holy water. l say they can
make out of these each a State and give
themselves 1876 solid Electoral votes instead of
l3s 1t amt much; but your children would
"a oh n rad
they tell us this can not be done, because they
say Hancock is a patriot; Hancock is n great
man; Hancock will stand by the country
Fellow citizens, man is always just as big as
his friends, just as good as his friends and
Just as strong as his friends, and no better.
You act on IL every day of your lives. You say
that man is known by the company he
keeps; and you cOnduct your business upon
that very principle. If your debtor spends
ms time in gambling hells, you do not give
him any more credit, that is certain. Now,
say that Winfield Scott Hancock, If he should
south, viii do what the Solid South demands
He must do it. man is not great man sim
ply because he buys his trousers by the acre
laughter and appausel II man is not neces.
sarily great patriot simply because he failed
to desert during the Rebellion. | tell YOU fell
low citizens, that every man who jumped over
gave more, and showed more of patriotism,
than Winfield S. Hancock. Applause The
clerk gave what the widow cast into the treas.
ury of the Lord-all that he had;
;.
MENT IN HIS LINE OF BUSINESS,
that was all. The one tore his life out of its
projected orbit, and faced pauperism as well
as danger; faced poverty for his children as
well as Rebel prisons for himself; the other
had only to sit still and look handsome, and
do his duty tOlerably well, to reap honor and
glory. loud applause. 1 do not believe
that there could have been found any man
who could stand in Winfield 5. Hnncock's
place and do other than he did. What was
he? Captain in the Federal army at the be-
ginning of the War, the pet of the Command
erin Chief, sworn to sustain that flag, Il ma
tive OF pennsylvania, where in the name of
did? Loud applause There was nothing
else for him TO do, except to herd with de-
serters ana nty-jumpers that is all He
could not get around it in any other way.
Now say, fellow citizens. that this man, how
ever great he may be, will obey the behests of
the controlling power of the party which
elects him. if it should Why? We have three
men in our history who have abandoned the
councils OF party-Fillmore, Tyler, and
Andrew Johnson and every one of them has
gone down to history as renegade. Winfield
;. Hancock will never do il. But they say
"he was great soldier, and therefore he was
nominated That il not the reason he was
nominated, fellow citizens. Did you ever
think what voice it was that presented him mt
Cincinnati? 1t was the voice of louisiana
Did Louisiana choose him because he was a
Federal soldier? 1 will tell you why they
chose him. They chose him for the same rea-
son that the old darkey jumped into the river
and pulled out the boy who mad fallen over
board from his boat. When he was commend
ed Tor his bravery, somebody said; Is il
your boy, uncle?' MY boy! Br ,ss God, no."
"Well, what made You jump in and pull him
out thenP' "What made me Jump in arter
him? Bress God, he had all the bait in his
pocket" Applause and laughter Winfield
5. Hancock was nominated for the same rea-
son. Laughter 1t was not the soldier, but
~ was me solulefs UNIFORM with Oruer NO 40
pinned to its coat'tail. The uniform was up
tor Northern votes Order No. 40 is Il pledge
and promise to the Solid south that he would
give them all they asked, even to the half of
Kingdom. n. nothing N
you. You great. hearted, good natured peo.
pie of the North have made haste to forget all
that there was in the War, and all that has
been since. Did you ever think
WHAT ORDER 80. 40 MEANs2
what IL was? Let me give you one idea OF 1t.
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.
The act declared that there were no legal
Governments there. And every one of those
district commanders is remembered Mt the
South 20 day. lApplause.l Thatmagniticent
Ih0mns lapplausel who turned his back up
ON Virginia, who refused to listen to the pray
ers OF his family, whose members ON that aC-
count refused To look upon his dead face, was
one OF them. Gray eyed, calm hearted Meade
was another. Terry, who caught the hot iron
from the forge, and first showed the mettle of
the soldier there; ord, the scholarly and quiet
patriot; Candy, who folded his arms upOn the
laya-bed and met death rs lie had lived, calm
ly as summers eve-aL of these were among
those men, and every one of them, except
end to-day by every one of the solid Demo.
cratic south. Now, what did Hancock do?
Dld You ever think of itE He was authorized
20 say to this Judge who was melting out in
justice, "Colne down OFF of that bench" He
was authorized TO say to that Governor who
was pudoning criminals, "Step down and
out" He was authorized to say to that Sher-
III who held the process of u court in his hand,
and would not execute it, Get out, and will
put a man there" What did he say? lie said,
81 viii do none of these things" Did Il mean
any thing? Nothing 20 you. Did itmean Hnv
thing to the people of the South? Just think
that in the July before there met there I'm New
Orleans company OF men as you have met
here to night to discuss the political situation
They were white and colored Unionists of
Louisiana met to organize the Republican
party. Upon gotten-up plea or cry of prov
ooation from every street and alley came or
ganized bands, armed to the teeth, who called
themselves "The iiremen of New Orleans"-
God only knows what names they muster un-
der to night and when that sun went down
there we've 400 Union iunl lying i'm their blood
ON the streets of New Orleans. Phil sheridan
was sent there, and these men began TO think
that the ayenger of blood was ON their heels,