Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-19


Union by its appeals 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
people ii is time for us to return TO
questions graver and more important
for the whole people than those of hate,
of sectionalism and disunion. The ques.
tions that really concern us as people
relate to our returning prosperity, to
our progress as q nation and TO the ele.
vation of our people intellectually and
in business sense. Applause.
THE REPUBLICAN IDEA.
The campaign of the Republican or.
ganizaton is inaugurated upon the old
sectional issue. Hate is their animating
idea. Applause. Their party policy
commands them TO forsake their old
party associates South. and they unhesi.
tatingly obey. They would be unable
to point to a "solid South" 10 talk OF
Southern outrages," To falsify the rec.
ord and preach gospel of hate If they
would admit and recognize the fact that
! it was possible for them to carry q
Southern State for the Republican or.
ganization. This fact they make the
basis of their party policy, and they
utterly abandon their party associates
South. In Alabama they seek the cover
of the Greenbacker and fight beneath
his banner. Applause. In Virginia
they properly cover themselves beneath
the banner of reputation and read
justmeIt, 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. II
! the Southern outrages they paint and
the inability to vote they preach be
true, the responsibility is upon them
and not upon us; for they have had
entire control OF the government for
| fifteen years and have utterly failed 10
restore the Union. Applause. They
have not attempted it. 1t was not
their interest to produce it. Their in.
terest 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 il ever was such. Ap.
plause. While the nation progresses.
! business energy revives and prosperity
-. q, Il
giant Polyphemus, with his eye IN the
back of his head, can see but one sec.
ton of the country and will not recognize
the inevitable march Of events.
Hancock forcibly says: "rhe war for
the Union WIS successfully closed more
than fifteen years ago; all classes Of our
| people must share alike the blessings
| Of the Union and are equally concerned
in its perpetuiiy and in the proper ad.
ministration of public affairs. We are
in a 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 organization but a
continuation of hate, of sectionalism
and disunion What can come Of ours
but the restoration of the Union. the
| settlement of all questions of sectional
ism and the return in every State to
those questions of administration. of
/ internal improvement or tariff or Of an
economical administration which prop
erly belong to the sphere Of govern.
ment? Their policy is continued dis.
union, increased hate and the perpetu.
alton of bitterness; ours is unionism,
progress and the restoration of business
life in every section of the Republic.
| Applause.
cHARGEs THAT ARE UNTRUE.
The charges they make as TO the con
dition of the South are not true. Gen.
Grant. in his speech at Little Rock on
the 18th Of April last, said j. 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. Moth
ing will advance your prospects so much
as an entire absence OF sectionalism. |
have noticed in my travels that section
alism 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
n great and prosperous people. Let us
hope that there may be genuine union
OF sentiment, n generous rivalry in the
building upof our several States" Ap.
plause. We must live together, and
this great people, in their march Of
progress, cannot stop for chickering's and
quafrels. The genius of our people is
progress, business and energetic life I;
and the party that stands in their road
will 60 down before the march of events.
General Hancock Is q representative Of
this unionism the Republican party
and its policy are the exponents of the
reverse. Their policy destroys our con.
troll Of the manufacturing interests Of
the Republic; takes from the North
that peculiar control which has here
tofore belonged to us, and places fac.