Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-14
FROM WASHINGTON.

As sample of the Southern idea of
General Hancock's letter of accep-
lance asking for a free vote and an
honest count and to show that the
South is determined to rule the Count
ry under General Hancock, should he
be electe President, the same as they
did for years before the rebellion [ give
liberal extracts from a letter in the
Oklahoma States to Northern friend:
It will be war to the knife, the
knife to the hilt, and the hilt to the
hand, before the Radical negro MAJOR
tiles will be permitted to capture the
States of La, Mississippi, S. Carolina
etc, from the white majoritieS. |
have heard the most conservative
members of our party say that they
will shoulder their shot guns and shoot
the negroes down like mad dogs be-
fore they will again submit to their
brutal and barbaric misrule. Cities
will flame and highways will be chok-
ed with corpses, if your party dare
fulfill the Thompsonian threat-dare
to thus defy the masterful masses who
believe that this is white mans
government for white men and their
posterity forever.
Your party has way Of making mer-
~ at our expense because we have
elevated Federal soldier to the top of
our ticket. You forget that ever since
Hancock has began to make political
record he has touched elbows with the
State Sovereignty men in our ranks.
His Order No. 40 was the inspiration
that united the white people of the
South, an ultimated in the triumph Of
the Confederate Brigadiers.
He supported Seymour in 1868,
when Seymour stood on platform that
declared the Amendments Revolution,
ary, null and void He was the first
choice of the Southern majority al
Cincinnati, because his heart was be.
lieved to be in the right place, though
his sword was drawn on the wrong
side of the line; because it was known
that he stood prepared to fight fol-
Tilden in 1876, whenever Tilden spoke
the word of command; and because
his military skill may be wanted tt
confront and conquer the opposition
of your party to his Inauguration.
So his nomination is not crow, tt
eur palates; 1t is tender and jaicy
quail
United with Hancock is VIM. H
English, who, in speech delivered il
Lexington, Ind, in the war-days 0
1861 said. What means these war
like preparations? Do you mean tt
make war on the South ? The peopl
of the North are the aggressors, ant
before making war upon the Southern
people you should proceed to undo tn
wrongs that have been done them
This was the sublime sentiment, no
of English only, but of the Peac
Democratics on your side of the Dor
der; and the Peace Democrats wer
the master spirits of our party in tina
section throughout the war.
They, and the Secessionists of tn
South will rule this little old retail
partnership of Union from the hou
that Hancock takes the Presidentia
oath.-When that hour chimes fror
the clock tower of the century the
will begin the grandest revolution 9
modern days.--Victory will charge tn
hearts of our partisans with an electri
enthusiasm, that, like the arm G
Acestes, will kindle as it flies 1'h
pent up and patriotic fury in tn
breasts of our people will break fort
and fell the last idol of our oppressol
TO the earth.
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