The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-10-22

III OIAef WOfGS, ne Will run Inc machine TO suit
them, or they will run the thing themselves.
They are not going to be played with any
longer"
1t cannot be denied that tho solid South"
nominated Gen. Hancock for the Presidency
because he would serve as a temporary mask
for their purposes. 1t cannot be denied that in
so nominating him, because" as Wade Hamp-
ton says. ''he was an available man." the e sol
id South meant business" The character
of that business" will refer to directly.
But first let me remind YOU again-for some
of rs are very forgetful-that Hancock, ii
elected, will doubtless owe his election to the
"soId South, because it was the "solid South
which nominated HIM, and because the 1873 elect
oral votes of the "solid South" will make three
fourths OF the 1875 necessary to elect.
Now, with President not only owing his
nomination, but also owing three-fourths of his
electoral vote to the ''soid South" and only
one-fourth of it to fraction of the North, how
would he be likely to be influenced in all things
administrative Would the ''sold South" OF
the traction of the North influence hlnp
inns IL very serious question, and there is
but one candid answer to it. The 'solid
South would own him, "body, boots and
breeches !"
But some of you good Northern Democrats
will say: "Don't you believe it. Hancock has
puI Hl1llSCll On ICCOIO W tuC I'LL tCOubbs
Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments. He
mas put himself on record as to Southern
claims, and SO on. HE is q man of nerve, and
will not go back on his promises"
All, my friend promises are not as good as
performances.
The I" solid South makes no promises now,
although the past is strewn with the wrecks of
heir shattered promises and broken oaths ; the
"solid South" will "see" to this matter them
.YJ1o CHI
hem to act. Hancock, be assured, twill run
he machine to suit them, or -" what !?
they aoiU run the machine to suit themselves.
What means that threat? Do you think, my
God friends, that the "solid South" that
power devoted to oaC1aed labor which has al
'eady waded through seas of blood for this one
tea-that power which is not "going to be
Jlayed with any longer" will hesitate at any
means to reach their zone great object 2"
Should Hancock "klck," are there not more
ways than one by which "they will run the ma
chine to suit themselves"
Do you remember the singularly-sudden
death of President Harrison, ana how soon
thereafter his successor "Iylerized?"
Have you forgotten how soon after the death
of Taylor Fillmore apostatized to the South?
Have you forgotten that Franklin Pierce was
brought forward as the candidate of the free
soil Democracy of the North, and how soon
same South?
Do you remember the mysterious Irrational
Hotel p Il onlng" and it's marvellous effect upon
poor unnerved President Bucha an?
Do you forget the assassination of President
Lincoln, and the equally strange change Of
mind that came over his successor?
Do You imagine for an instant. in your guile
less innocence, that the Democratic hand that
controlled Tyler and Fillmore and Pierce that
rnnerved poor Buchanan that assassinated
Lincoln; that deluged our fair land with blood
and covered It with hecatombs of our slain
brothers; that delights in whipping and
slaughtering white or Black if he dare exercise
free mans will; that stuffs the ballot
box and smothers beneath fraudulent bal
lots free voting that is guilty of such
numherless Infamous outrages under It's
peonage laws that holds its own narrow and
selfish pride of rule and lust of power SO dear
and human life so cheap; is it at all likely. in
view of their past and present heinous crimes
that the hand of the solid South would hest
tate to sweep off its INSTRUCTED path Hancock
or an English2
All my friend, when the time comes-should
they be elected, which God forbid Hancock
will be made to understand this thing, and if
he does not quail at once means will not be
wanting to make him float gently along in the
Southern gulf stream, or Enthusiastically bob up
and down responsive to the waves stirred by
every "sohd Southern" breeze!
The sole" traitor boys of the South-the
"old boys, with periured lips and murderous
hear and bloody hands the ''old boys of the
South" will "see that Hancock runs the Gov
eminent just as they want it run!
And how do these grim ssold bows Of the
South want it run? What says Wade Hamp-
ton? "The principles they Qee and Jackson)
died for are again on trial to-day What said
the orator at Kizer Hill. Ala? ':If Hancock is
elected you will be paid for all the property
you have lost through radical rule, . = =
and we can redress all our wrongs What said
Re- resentatlye Blackburn only last year? ''We
do not intend to stop until we have stricken the
last yestge of your war measures from the stat
ute-books." What did he say, the other day, at
Batavia, Ohio? "Let the Radicals cease their
q. WI about the solid South She il solid.
thi nix God She was solid for jeff Davis in
1869, and will be solid for Hancock in 1880 .
What says jeff Davis when he asserts his ''un-
shaken belief in the right of secesSion?'.
What means the reputation of Southern State
debts? What means the system of peona re
the system of owned labor now existing in the
South?
Do not these expressions Of the "solid South
ern" leaders, these acts of the ''solid South, -
constitute o platform of intentions more elo-
quent, more truthful, more in keeping with all
the past history and traditions of the South
than any platform that can be drawn and
paraded before the people by Northern Demo-
Gratis?
Should Hancock be elected, the programme
of the solid South is all too plain.
The national debt of nearly $4,000. 900. 600
will be repudiated on similar pretexts that have
led to the reputation of Southern State debts.
Southern war claims, which, as thus far esti-
mated, reach the startling aggregate of $3,000.-
100000, will be paid by the issue of 3-per-cent.
1O0-year bonds-as has been already proposed.
An adjustment will be made with the holders of
the immense Confederate war debt SO as to
make good the credit OF the " solid South in
the event of another war. The Supreme Court
the principle of the Manning bill. so
as to make it "solidly" Democratic or.
in other words, solidly Southern in
sentiment. That court, SO reconstructed. will
construe the constitutional amendments SO as
to make them dead letter. or wipe them out
altogether as having been irregularly adopted.
Rebel pensions and bountes will be paid The
$4,000 Republicans and Democrats now holding
office because of experience. fitness and ability
will be summary kicked out and raw men put
III their places with Bourbon Democracy as
the sole recommendatlon-and of these most
will be Confederates. AS in the Senate and the
House they have kicked out seventy-six Union
soldiers, mostly wounded and crippled defend
ers of the Union, and put into place eighty
eight rebel soldiers, so in all the departments
and offices under the Government the hatred
of the solid South" for the Union soldier
will be shown. Nor is it at ali sure that the
audacity of the "solid South " will stop at
these measures. 1t may even amend the pen
SION and bounty laws by absolutely cutting off
from their beneticent provisions the Union
soldier, while placing the rebel soldier in his
stead it win abolish all Federal election laws
in order by fraud to consolidate and perpetuate
its power it will abolish all restrictions upon
rebels. JEFF Davis will be pardoned, and pen
stoned, and returned to official power. The
army via be reorganized. Confederates will
swell its ranks in place Of Union men, and
from Sherman down the old Generals of the
Union army will be legislated out and Confed-
crates legislated in. West Point will be recon-
strueted. So. also, the navy. Attempts viii be
made to introduce peonage and landlord-ien
laws in the North; AMI to lead up to this last
the present protective tariff. which fosters our