Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-16

The burden of Secretary John Sherman's
speech at Chicago, Thursday evening, was
an effort to hide the real issues of the polit-
jcal campaign by mere assertions that there
is no cause for change in the political con-
troll of the national government, and that
change from Republican to Democratic as
cendancy would be disastrous and revolu-
tionary. His appeals were on the one hand
to the sectional prejudices which men of his
party deprecate when endeavoring to pass as
gentlemen or good citizens, but which, new
ertheless, it is their aim and effort to
keep E, alive for party uses. On the
other hand his appeal was to the
selfishness and tmidity of business
men, whom he seeks to alarm with the
notion that the material prosperity of the
country would be endangered by the election
of Gen. Hancock to the Presidency. So far
as the friendly telegraphic summary of his
speech goes, it was model of Republican
campaign efforts-throughout false, hypo-
critical, treacherous and traitorous, and yet
so cunningly framed as to contradict the
half apology which Mr.. Sherman makes for
himself in saying he is no doubt biased by
his long association with the Republican
party. No unprecedented man will rise from
critical perusal Of the speech but with
doubt of Mr.. Sherman's honesty of purpose
and of his faith in what he himself asserts
for others to believe.
Substantially Mr.. Sherman charges, as to
the issue he raises of State rights against
nationalism that it is the purpose of the
Democratic party to humiliate and degrade
the national government and deprive it Of
its rights and authority. In this, Mr.. Sher-
man not only ISLANDERS the whole body of
American born citizens, SO far as they are
faithful to the theories upon which this re-
public Was founded, but he lies, wilfully
and knowingly, as to the disposition of the
Democratic party. The doctrine of State
rights, as Mr.. Sherman and his associates
in deoeivlng the people affect to understand
it-the doctrine by which nullifi-
cation and secession was attempted
to be sustained, has pervaded sections of all
parties, bat was never recognized or adopted
by the National Democratic party. It had
its advocates and followers in Massachusetts
long before it gained footing in South Caro-
lima. The putting down of notification by
Democratic administration thirty eight
years ago, and the suppression of the late
rebellion by the aid of more than one mil
lion of Democrats in arms have forever
doctrine of State rights. The true doctrine,
as carefully handed down by the men who
framed our government, is that the
national government is one of
powers limited to those which
are expressly granted by the written
constitution. Time has proved that these
granted powers are ample for the mainten-
ance of the union and for all the useful
purposes of a national government History
proves that the Democratic party has as
zealously asserted and protected the rightful
authority of the general government as it
has resisted unauthorized and unnecessary
extensions of the national power. And all
history proves that the natural rights of
the people. their freedom, their prosperity
and their happiness, are limited and circurn
scribed, if not enterly taken away, when
ever and wherever the authority of the
national government is not limited and cir
cumscribed.
The pretense of Mr.. Sherman that the
Southern people are still disloyal or bent
upon reversing the results of the war for the
Union is mischievous, and itself disloyal'
Mr. Sherman knows that these Southern
men are Americans, as We of the North are,
in all their political and personal interests
that when their appeal to arms failed they
manfully yielded all they had fought for
that they asked nothing in arrogance, and
that they have received no more than the
very necessities of our form of government
required should be given to them. They
have proved their submission and loyalty of
feeling in every form possible to honest,
self-respectIng men. They could not