The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-10-09

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to have carried three Of these states; tney
took them whether they carried them OF not.
/ At that election there were, IN rouna NUM-
bers. 10000 republican she vp' ew n, Pre-
has removed the bayonet, the negroes are
Ieayfn y Them the South Is recovering from tne
war and the carpct,bag devssaeo r ann .iI mas
Ing out Of their hands and giving maJoriues
against them.
Kindred to this talk about "Solid South"
and exceeding it in effrontery Is the cutlery
hands of the men who tried to destroy it.. /
said this exceeded the other In effrontery, be
cause however senseless and baseies5, tna! Is
urged as a simple argument or propOSitlOn
from plain facts and figures, but this, coming
from Republican organs and speakers, is
stamped with such utter inconsistency ana
such damnablc qualification as ought almost
TO blister the tongue that utters 1t. have no
patience to argue with such a pretense as
this can only denouuce It, When we come
this year and present great Union soldier Tor
President, a man who has risked his life
hundred times and shed his blood to save TINS
Union. and a loyal Northern man for vice
President, we are met Dy sucn cas 40 has
honored conspicuous ana Dl0Od-stalneo
rebels with some of the highest Offices IN tho
Government. 1t is rebels Is II, thar you mean py
ment?" Let me tell you there hasn't been
day for twelve years that you nave not re-
warded rebels with office. Grant took an op-
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mean way to "destroy this Government,
fourth rate lawyer though he was, and made
him Attorney General, the law ofhcer OF the
Government which he "tried to destroy.
Have you forgotten that? rebel Judge pre-
sided over your Convention that nominated
Grant the second time, Convention that
cheered to the echo James IL. Orr, OF couth
Carolina an original fre-eater and secession
ist whom your Administration afterward sent
as Ambassador to Russia Longstreet, next
To Lee the leading rebel General. was early
rewarded by your Administration with fat
Federal Office, and has only lately been sent as
Minister to Turkey to represent the Govern.
ment which he came 80 near The ssbe s
fighter and guerilla who shot our brave boys
down from the fence corners and the tnlcket
"a name which We used TO pronounce IN the
war times with objurgation and norrorf
Well he, too, under a Republican Administrar
ton represents abroad the country which he
s.tried to destroy" Don't you feel proud OF
him? And there Is the late Postmaster-Gen-
eral under Hayes, the rebel Colonel Key, who
.stried to destroy the Government, for super
Intending whose mail-bags he was afterward
paid eight thousand dollars year by the he
publican Administration How does that look
to you? But you tell me those men have
Joined the Republican party. Does that, them
atone for their treason TO their country ana
that United States Army officer who, Mt the
beginning of the rebellion, deserted his COM
mand and his colors and went into the Rebel
army and fought us for four years unto the
bloody DEATH can square his account with the
Government by joining the Republican party
and taking a lucrative Office under itS = And
| is he any better for his double desertion than
the Rebel officer who lay down his sword and
returned to his allegiance mt the close OF the
war, but concluded to vote the Democratic
/ But you say; "Oh! yes. Hancock is a good
man. We don't tind any fault with him, but
we don't like his company" You complain
first that you can't trust the democratic party art.
party was disloyal in the war and will be en-
| tirely controlled by the rebel influence. 1
have already shown you the great changes
| different issues. and have Just called your
attention to the fact that what you call the
! rebel element in thoparty Is a minority SEQ
Gm thing shs Snt may surprise you
| Is the rebel element In q minority in the Gov
| eminent, but it Is I'm a very decided minority
In the DemocIatic party also. LOOK agaIn at
| dental election, the democratic vote was, in
| round numbers, 1,600,0)0 in the whole South,
and only 1,03s, 900 In the rebel States, while it
| was 2600, 900 ut the North--a vast preponder-
ance Of 100000 votes, as you see. In the North.
| To hear Republicans talk in this campaign
| you would think that the whole Democratic
strength was ut the South. But you say the
Democrats expect to carry the South So they
do; and they expect. also, to carry good part
Of the North. Do you know that their pros
j. %ss Ses Sr t sss EoEs I
should need, to do that, would be the States of
| Pennsylvania and Ohio, now trembling in a
close balance between the parties. Should
you wake up on the morning of November
| and ind that Hancock has carried the North,
say? ..'1ls,T-e-l .Ir-'T-'., flssFsfl q y
But, fellow-citizens, what is there to this
| most bigoted assumption OF the Republicans
| that all manner of evils and of Ills will come
| upon the country IL the Democratic party sue
iicans any rights in this country Are all men
| outside Of that organization public eneniesl
| 1t Is well to understand some Of these things.
The whole Argument on the 0ener saaS p p,U
1 ty Ia q vast organized conspiracy to overthrow
| the Government and destroy the country
that II they succeed the rebels VIII come lnte
! they failed to accomplish In the war-that the
rebel debt will be paid, the Treasury bank.
rupted by the rebel claims. the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments repealed, and the
negro DISTINGUISHED and practically reduced
| again to slavery.
Fellow-citizens, 1t is amazing that we should
have to meet such stuff as this in every cam
paign; but we shall as long as the Republican
party is In existence. 1t would be charity to
believe that they do not know any better; but
their leaders who say these things do know
better They know that there is not single
word Of truth in them. They know that the
Democratic party in Congress has refused to
pm aiilI Of tbem thar no Democrat anywhere
proposes the payment OF the rebel debt, or &c
disturb the amendments of the Constitution
as 10 the negro, ana tndt Tue purity IN I'LL 1tt
conventions National and State, has SO re-
solved every year since the war, and that Gen.
eral Hancock, in his letter OF acceptance, took
| especial pans to say that he would, IL Presi
dent, exert all his power to maintain these
results of the war inviolate and inviolable
| And so said Mr.. English, also.
My Republican friends, give me your atten-
| ton a moment, while 1 snow you by most
| conclusive and overwhelming test that you
have grossly siandered the Democratic Con
gress, and that the fears you would inculcate
| for party purposes are utterly groundless. One
| of the leading arguments you use this very
year to combat our demand for change is the
fact which you claim that everything Is going
| right now, and that we do not need any
/ change; that our debt Is being paid, our hnan-
ces well guarded, and our people prosperous In
| their business. This was the argument Of Mr.
| Schurz, speaking for you at Indianapolis. lou
| claim that the Government is being well
| enough managed now, and that any change is
| unnecessary. "Now have thee, jew" The
| Congress Of the United States, in both
| branches, is Democratic, and has been, the
| House for six years, the Senate for two years.
| These bodies constitute the legislative do
partment of the Government, and not dollar
| can be appropriated to carry on this Govern
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