The daily gazette., 1880-09-20
MIR. CONKLING's SPEECH.

Senator Conkling's first speech in
the Presidential canvass was delivered
in this city Friday night, and the sub
stance and essence of it are reported in
our columns this morning. 1t is OF 0
Of the most notable. speeches that peo
pie ever listened to or ever read. Yet
it lacks the eloquence it's author often
exhibits. 1t has no grace of style,
no fine poetical, and sonorous pas
sages. M tiu5 nsiH,, f.a. .,l, .,7,i
There is nothing in this speech ex-
cept an elaborate assault upon the
Southern States, their population,
their poverty, their insignificant com
merce, their alleged lawlessness, the
criminal spirits and designs attributed
to them by the speaker. Indeed this
is the whole of the speech. 1t is the
bloody shirt and nothing else. 1t is a
confession that the war of the rebel
lion is still the orly hope and the only
political capital of the Republican
party. ''' 'a"I ''''@ .""'h
If the position and argument of
Mr.. Conkling are sound, the Southern
States ought not be tolerated in the
Union, and civil war ought to be pros
ecuted against them without truce and
without quarter until theif people are
entirely exterminated; every merchant
who sells goods to a Southern custo-
mer should be punished, and every
politician in the South who is not a
carpet-bagger and an open and avow-
ed public robber should be cast into
rison for life. .,F.. ...-,
n This is the whole doctrine of the
speech; and upon this doctrine Mr..
Conkling goes on to contend that Gen.
Hancock should not be elected. -
In behalf Of Gen. Garfield, however,
he has nothing TO say, except an insig-
nifican. generality. He thus shows hir-
self unwilling to degrade himself by en-
tering into any defence of such a record
as the candidate of the Republican party
is blackened with. This is to his credit.
Bat, on the other hand, he bestows a
hearty euloey upon Gen. Grant. Mr..
CoDkling is still for the Third Term and
for imperialism. He is still willing To
violate the most sacred tradition Of the
country. He would still advocate The
renewed promotion to the Chief Mags-
tracy OF The man who at the end of 1876
collected troops at Washington in order
in case Of need, 70 determine a disputed
election by the bayonet. This is some
thrg that Mr.. Conkling does not disap-
prove, but the contrary; and yet such a
iact is far more atrocious, far more dan
gcrous to the pc ace, the welfare, and the
permanency of the republic, than any.
thing the Senator so violently denoiinces
in his accusations against the South.
It. is pleasing to turn from such o
speech as this, with its elaborate array oi
perverted statistics, with the malignlty
of Its temper, with its unstatesmaDlrke
and unpatriotic effort to renew aud per
petuate the passionate hates Of civil war
with its calumnious imputations and III
frantic logic. to the cheering and pro
phetic spectacle just presented by thu
people of Name in their overthrow o
the Republican party at The polls.
No, Mr.. Conkling, your ferociou:
speech is in vain. The people of the
United States mean TO have peace, and
not the rancor of fraterual hatred. Whey
mean TO turn out the party of the Elec-
toral Fraud, the party of imperalism,the
party OF. boundless corruption. You
and yours must step down and out =
N, Y, San.