Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1880-08-04
Another Prominent Republican for
Hancock.
From the Detroit Free Press.

Hancock.
From the Detroit Free Press.
An earnest and conscientious
Republican friend writes me tina
he has been told that intended &c
vote for General Hancock, and ask,
ed if it is true. ! have been asked
the same question by quite mum
Der of my former political associ-
ates. To explain my position &c
every enquirer would occupy toe
much of my time, and, too, | have
never allowed an election to pass
without having it pretty well un-
derstood what my relations were to
the contest. The report concern
ing my intentions is correct. The
Republican party needs change
of diet. Defeat purifies continu-
Gus successes enervate-corrupt a
political party. The entire ener-
gies of the Republican party are
spent in President making; neces-
sary legislation that does not bear
on that object is deferred. Ses-
sions of Congress are spent in an
tagonizing the South, in accusation,
in calling names, in stirring up the
passions of men.
Slavery was the bone of conten-
ton. The old argument was that
the country could not exist half
slave and half free that the inter-
ests of the two sections were an
tagonistic; that the abolition OF
slavery was the sine qua non.
Slavery has been wiped ont, the
negro clothed with the right of
suffrage, yet fifteen years have
elapsed and the war of words con-
tinues. The best interests of the
whole country demand that this
strife shall cease.
A "solid South" is the creature
rather than the occasion of this
strife. But eleven States seeded,
Delaware, Maryland, Missouri and
Kentucky refused to join in the Sc
cession movement, and West Vir-
GINA was admitted to the Union
prior to the close of the war be-
cause of her Union sentiments
What the intensity of the sectional
hate engendered by the war of the
rebellion failed to do the course
pursued by the Republican party
for the past few years has accom-
plished-a united South. The
ledger of the Republican party
recognizes no distinction between
the "Southern States" Every
crime committed in Louisiana OF
South Carolina is charged NJ
against "the South" The tern
"solid South" is an Insult as well Il
Delaware, Maryland, Missouri
Kentucky and West Virginia as t.
\ew York, Indiana, New Jerse.
and Connecticut.
The "South" was divided. i
1864 Abraham Lincoln carrie,
three ont of the five Souther
States voting. In 1868 Grant car
ried six of the seeding States an
} eight Of the Southern States. /
1872 Grant carried seven of tn
, Southern States. But, say, on
Republican friends, these State
have become Democratic becaus
, of the intimidation and violenc
: that are used to prevent the negr
: from voting.
3 The total vote of the sixtee
= "Southern States" in 1868 VS.
!. 1924, 800, in 1872 2,0sl, 900, and i
3 1875 about 2,S40,000. All til
!. States did not vote in 1868, bu
: they did in 1872 and 1876. Tt
e twelve Southern States that vote
: in 1868 cast $4,000 votes f
4 Grant, and seven out of twel'
a gave him majorities, aggregate
: 103.500. In 1872 these twel'
States cast S40,83 votes for Gran
q and seven States gave him major
@ ties aggregating 100000. In Is
: these same twelve States cast $50
9 4S4 Republican votes, yet the Il
n publicans lost every State, exec
Il lsave the mark) South Carolin
v Louisiana and Florida. AccordiI
/, to the census of 1870, the numb
;, of white votes in the sixteen Sout
s ern States was 100000, and {
n number of colored votes abo
931, 900, or a total Of 2,9lS,O
IT voters. These States in 1876 ca
g 1,102,303 Republican and l,7Ol %
y Democratic votes, or total of
y s03,303 votes irrespective of sc
T. eral thousand votes cast for 9th
,r candidates), or within about 10
D. 900 of the entire voting populati
according to the census OF IL,
g, Several other States cast less vol
Is in 1876 than the census OF IL
ID gave them, notably Pennsylvan
y. 10000, Connecticut, $1,000, e
N From these figures it is clear Il
he the Republican party cast
he largest vote In these States in 18
n and that the total vote cast apprC
Do mated the total voting populati,
They furnish the most conclus
u proof that the result at least v
n not affected by intimidation or
I'd lence.
ne But | am asked IL / am will
o. TO turn over this government
ID the "rebeli' The seceding Sta
he have 95 out of the 369 electo