The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-08-06

ton, but the old party with whose tactics WI
are entirely familiar. The last House OF Rep
resentatiyes, which was Democratic, adjourned
without appropriatins dollar to feed your ar
my and navy or to keep in existence the depart
ments of your government, and but for Re
publican President and determined minority
it might not have even been possible for thu
assemblage to have been here. There had beer
1886 900 600 collected with which to run thi
government or this the late rebellious States
had paid but $14000000, and yet they said tS
us unless you will allow us to deprive the ex'
ecutive of the power to use the army If need bt
| in enforcing the laws of the United States, un.
less you will surrender to us the absolute con-
troll Of the election OF Congressman, not a dol
lar OF this shall be appropriated to the purposes
for which 1t was raised.
Blackburn and other leaders OF that party de-
clared that not dollar could we have for the
support OF this government unless We would
consent to their demands, but, thanks to the
Republicans. these laws are still in force. They
attempted the repeal Of the law which provides
for putting only Union soldiers on guard about
the capitol grounds so that Confederates could
take their place. During the last session their
policy has been that of silence. When Young,
OF Tennessee, attempted to speak, they told
him to keep still, but he Quoted them by saying
that lie wouldn't say anything that would do
any harm.
Ia this contest we do not propose to waste
time in discussing Garfield or Hancock but the
record Of the parties Of which they are made
the representatives.. The grand Issue is not as
to men, hut as to what policy shall govern this
country. The Republican and Democratic par
ties have never been in accord, except that the
Democratic party not unirequently Endorsed
some of the Republican doctrines ,our years
too late.
We may all ask where do the Democracy ex-
pect to get the 1S5 electoral votes necessary to
seat Gen. Hancock They expect to carry the
eleven States that In struggle OF four years
tried to destroy this government. They expect
to carry Delaware, whose executive, in response
to the call Of President Lincoln for troops, said
that the laws OF that State wouldn't allow him
to furnish aid to suppress the rebellion. They
the first Union soldiers were shot down and
whose executive SAID that all he could do would
be to preserve the peace within his own bor
ders They expect to carry Kentucky, whose
executive declared that he would furnish no
troops with which to conquer sister State
They expect to carry Missouri, whose executive
declared the attempt to suppress the rebellion
az inhuman, revolutionary and dlabolical. From
the States that made war upon the lie Of the
nation they expect to get 100 electoral votes,
and from these other States SO more. In addi-
ton TO these they hope to carry Indiana, which,
but FOR the heroism and ndomitable courage of
Oliver =. Morton, who was fortunately In the
executive chair, would have been IN open SYM
patty WITH If she had not actually contributed
aid in the destruction Of our national fabric
They hope to carry New York, whose metropo-
lis Fernando Wood attempted to put out OF the
Union and set up for itself. and in whose streets
the poor colored man was hunted down like a
wild beast. These two States, with solid south,
will give them the power to seat their candl-
date and inaugurate Democratic policy which.
in 1865, declared the constitutional amendments
revolutionary and null and void, policy fully
endorsed at the time by Gen. Hancock, their
present candidate.
The source of strength will be the source OF
power. The sixteen States south will control
and shape the policy OF this government rather
than the two States north. They have always
controlled the Democratic party, and they al
ways will. 1 am not surprised that the people
OF this country are alarmed even at the posi-
bility OF the Democratic party coming into pow
er, when they see the leaders in the late rebel
lion, with those IN the north who were in sym
pathy with It, shaping it's policy. But 1t is said,
on the other hand, that they have accepted the
results Of the war. 1t is true that they believe
they were beaten, but they are satisfied that
they ought not to have been. They know the
black man is free, but they don't believe that he
ought to be. They know the amendments are
a part OF the constitution, but they don't be-
live they ought to be. They know that the col
ored man is citizen, that the national debt
will lie paid, that they will never receive pay
for their lost property, that the soldiers OF the
rebellion will never be pensioned. They admit
all these as true, but they do not believe they
ought to be. They cry out for free speech and
1t is only where they hold undisputed sway that
free speech is suppressed. In the ten counties
the district OF Chalmers, in Missis-
sippi, there were $1,000 Republican votes in
1872, and but 300 in 1873. Two counties Civ
ing about 1,4O0 each in 1872, gave none in 1873
The heavy Republican majority in Green coun-
ty in 1872 was reduced to barely two votes in
1878. The Democracy are determined to GARY
this election by murder, fraud and by every in
strumentalty that will defeat the will of the
honest voter. They deny that we are nation
and declare the war to have been a contest be-
tween the States, and not war for the sup
preston of a rebellion, with the government on
the one eide and unhuDg rebels on the other.
If we are not nation, then every soldier who
fell in the rebellion died in vain. They declare
that the war settled nothing except that the
north was stronger than the south. Ben Hill
declared that he was not Senator, but an am
bassador. Stephens says that this is sort OF
a nation-a nation OF nations. II there were
no other issus than the question OF whether we