The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1880-08-20
"The Camp-Fires are Redeem
ing.s

DR.. John ID. Woods, a former
citizen of Mississippi, and mem.
Der OF the press gang in this State,
made u rattliug speech at a Han.
cock ratification meeting lat Glas-
gov, KY, on the evening OF the
July 10th, from which we
clip the following eloquent aud
stirring PASSAGE:
"Our enemy is sleek with official
fatness and insoleut with long con.
tinued lease OF power, and:grows
blindly desperate and savagely pa
triotic at the bare suggestion ol
dispossession. Ii numbers a vast
army OF office-holders and theil
kinstolk Office seekers and their
groomsmen, and is smartly backed
by Credit. .Mobiliers and their pen.
stoned stockholders aud DeGolyer
contractors aud five thousand dol.
lar fee lawyers.
However formidable this con
frontment, this silvery sea of wo
manly beauty, which ripples sc
sweetly in smiling approval before
US this evening amid the lighl
blending trom the queen OF night
aud her starry retinue, aud the
glamour OF weird lanterns and
flashing pyrotechny, stretches oul
its silver lining OF hope aud PIC
lures the canvass OF the future
with standards perched with the
eagles of victory. The earnes'
determined faces of this vast, man
ly throng forestalls assumption Of
bare probability aud plunges with
quickeniug suggestiveness rar into
the splendor OF waiting achieve
ments.
The camp fires of the nations
democracy are reddening the sky
from craggy coasted Maine athwart
the continent to it's golden gated
Occident, AMI adown South
ern slopes and blossoming
valleys to the Mexican gulf, the
watery cradle OF the mighty gull
stream-the mother of tropical
voluptuousness and ambrosial es'
sence.
This spontaneous uprising aud
enkiudling enthusiasm which
breaks upon city and hamlet, over
wide stretching plains and into the
shadow OF mountain fastness, gives
earnest of the patriotic outbursI
which in 1880 proposes to right the
fostering wrong OF 1876.
The great Usurper, by chance o.
returning board villainy and visit
lug statesmen deiilement, will bt
called upon to nnload in March
next, aud Winfield Scott Hancock,
who knew how to be a soldier IN
war and civilian in pesce, the
noble descendant of an illustri0us
revolutionary grandsire, will guide
CDR old ship OF State out OF the
shoal waters of sectional hate and
quicksands OF constitutional Ell
,croachments into the placid and
brotherly waters Of national unity
aud constitutional government.
Young ladies, beseech you tc
found the price of your smiles aud
hearts, and your little love kissing
ct ceteras, in this campaign, upon
a negotiable pledge OF Hancock
and English honor, payable at bal
lot box maturity oil the second day
of November next.
Wives, you who so well know
how to subordinate alike the mill
tary aud civil authority, when you
have a mind to, put an embargo OF
your nectared lips and fair necks
aud see that no husband sips at tht
one nor encircles the other without
u breath redolent of Democratic
vow.
Fellow democrats, conjure you
by the love OF the beautiful ant
pure women who trust you for the
coming battle, by the remembrance
OF your dead fathers who abhorlet
corruption and went to battle ant
to death against tyranny, and fol
the honor of your name with pos
terity, to stand as becometh men II
this great fight for supremacy o
good aud equality Of sections.
Looking over this vast assem-
blage where confidence silent,
speaks its babitatiOn and doub
finds no lodgment; where every
face ripples with the JOY OF expec
tation aud every eye dances to thu
cadence of hope, victory whisper
Its coming and bids US be worth,
| of its laurelS,