The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-08-20

auouSuk@bou. tAppA8uoe. 1A0 real ana
vital issne in this csmpaignis is the question
Of unionism a agains sectionalism the
question is whether the Union is to be
restored and perpetuated, or whether SEQ
tlonalism and disunion is to continue to
exist (Applsuse.) The Republican party
as aparty has practically ignored the to ex-
istence of the Federal Union by its ap-
peals to its own voters of the North to
sustain that party in their bitter attacks
upon the people of the South; and they
have forgotten and ignored that broad
spirit of unionism that reaches out and
covers the whole country in its grasp.
(Applause.) AS q people it is time for
us to return to questions grayer and more
important for the whole people than those
of hate, of sectionalism and disunion.-
The questions that really concern us as q
people relate to our returning prosperity,
to our progress as nation and to the ele-
vation of our people intellectually and in
business sense. (Applanse.)
THE REPUBIIC1N IDEA.
The campaign of the Republican or
ganization is inaugurated upon the old
sectional issues. Hate is their animating
idea. (Applause.) Their party policy
commands them to forsake their old party
associates South, and they unhesitatingly
obey. They would be unable to point to
"solid South" to talk of "Southern
outrages," to falsify the record and preach
gospel of hate if they would admit and
recognize the fact that it was possible for
them to carry Southern State for the
Republican organization. This fact they
make the basis of their party policy, and
and they utterly abandon their party as
sociates South. In Alabama they seek
the cover of Greenbacker and fight be-
meath his banner. (Applause) In Vir-
ginia they properly cover themselves be-
meath the banner of repudiation and re-
adjustment, and practically ignore the
teachings that belong to a great people
the national credit and State faith. They
clamor they have no votes in the South
they do not want them, for if they had
them their vocation would be gone and
their teachings would be idle. They
would no longer be able to appeal to the
bitter passions of the North. If the
Southern outrages they paint and the ina
bility to vote they preach be true, the re-
sponsibility is upon them and not upon us
for they have had entire control of the
government for fifteen years and have
utterly failed to restore the Union. ZAP
plause.) They have not attempted it. It
was not their interest to produce it.
Their interest and their policy have run
in a different direction and they have pur-
sued the path of hate and sectionalism
and not that of peace and harmony.
NOT NATIONAL PARTY
The Republican party has ceased to be
national, if it ever was such. Applause.
While the nation progresses, business
energy revives' and prosperity crowns us
in every section, this great giant Poly
phemus, with his eye in the back of his
head, can see but one section of the coun-
try and will not recognize the inevitable
march of events.
Hancock forcibly says: "The war for
the Union was successfully closed more
than fifteen years ago; all classes of our
people must share alike the blessings of
the Union and are equally concerne ed in
its perpetuity and in the proper admins
tration of public affairs We are in
state of profound peace as one people
we have common interests" Applause
and cheers for Hancock. These are the
teachings that best fit the situation of this
great people now. What good can come
from the success of the Republican or
ganization but continuation of hate, of
sectionalism and disunion? What can
come of ours but the restoration of the
Union, the settlement of all questions of
sectionalism and the return in every State
to those questions of administration, of
internal improvement or tariff, or of an
economical administration which properly
belong to the sphere of government p
Their policy is continued disunion, in
creased hate and the perpetuation of bit
terness; ours is unionism, progress and
the restoration of business life m every
section of the Republic. Applause.
CHARGES THAT ARE UNTRUE.
The charges they make as to the condi-
ton of the South. are untrue. General
Grant, in his speech at Little Rock on the
18th of April last, said: Citizens, on
first landing ON the soil of your State
and at every stopping place on the road,
in the crowds of people met and the
greeting received, saw that the feelings
Of the past were gone. Nothing viii ad-
vance your prospects so much as an entire
absence Of sectionalism. have noticed
in my travels that sectionalism is passing
away" Applause and cheering. In his
speech at Cairo on the 10th he said " To
stand divided we are too nearly equal,
man to man, to be great and prosperous
people. Let us hope that there may be
genuine union of sentiment, 3 generous
rivalry in the building up of our several
States" Applause We must live to-
gether, and this great people, in their
march of progress, cannot stop for bick-
erings and quarrels. The genius Of our
people is progress, business and energetic
life; and the party that stands in their
road will go down before the march Of
events. General Hancock il represents
tive of this unionism; the Republican
party and its policy are the exponents OF
the reverse. Their policy destroys our
control Of the manufacturing interests 'of
the Republic; takes from the North that
peculiar control which has heretofore BE-
longed to us, and places factories, furnaces,
rolling-mills and workshops by every
/ river In the South. The South has been
| agricultural. That is its natural sphere.
| Its enormous products from the soil have
/ been, and ought to continne TO be, the
most important element in her progress
| and prosperity. Disunion, hate and per
/ secution force them to depend upon them
/ selyea and thns deprive No Of what ID, and
an dht ~ e<,nfimuA IL, he oar natural mar