The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-21
SECTIONAL HATE.

can party are fighting this battle purely upon
this issue-sectonal hate Although fifteen
years have elapsed since the close of the civil
war, they refuse to admit that 1t is over, but
maintain that we are still IN the midst of it,
and to prevent the country from going to
pieces they must still retain the reins of gov
eminent If an honest inquirer after the
truth wishes to know why the CORY gar.
ment' is, at this late day, being foresc
Haunted in his face, he will find, upon inves
litigation, that it is kept waving by the stalwart
ofiice.holdcrs and ofticescekers; that tins eter.
nal cry OF 1.-The war is not over" is kept up by
the same gentry Many of them have had
their hands in the public crib for twenty years,
and of course they howl. and cry that the
country will 20 TO eternal smash If they be
compelled to take them out Many of them
have waited patiently for years for their re,
ward at the hands of their party, and now
their turn having come they are prepared TO
say anything, charge anything, do anything
in order to get their hands upon the public
purse They know that in 1876 the popular
IN order to overcome this majority they com
mittcd forgery, fraud and perjury; yet rs the
lpeOplc, to avert bloodshed, IN measure, con.
IdOned the oflense, they, the bloody shirt
party, are prepared to go tostill greater lengths
to continue their lease OF power. See the con
sistcncy Of these so-called republican states
men. In one breath they affirm that this Is
a nation that 1t is united nation and never
can be divided. This is true; but in the next
breath they assert that the war is not over;
that it is not right to allow the southern states
to conduct their own domestic affairs IN their
own way AS the northern states conduct theirs :;
that the south is not on an equality with the
north in this respcctnor in any other respect, but
that in order for the whole country to become
united and continue prosperous 1t is absolute
| ~ necessary for the leaders who perpe,ratcd
the frauds and perfumes Of 1876 to be contin
ucd in power; that it is neces sary to the pre-
scrYation of the government that the manner
of conducting the internal affairs Of tie south.
crn states must be dictated 10y the northern
states, and not only this, but by the repubh-
can leaders Of the north-in other words, all
the craftsmanship, all 'hc morality, all the
patriotism, all the culture and brains Of the
party Of forgery and :raud, and the whole
country will be stolen out, sold out, and ctcr
nally damned if the De Golyer pavement
stateman Is not elected.
No man can be deceived 10y these bowls
and sectional hate speeches, unless he wishes
to be- Why, these knaves and tricksters actu.
ally claim that the general prosperity of the
whole country, which has been brought about
by succession of good crops and the indus
| try Of the people, is owing directly TO the
policy, labors and doctrines of n republican
administration.
! The fact is that the working, and doctrines
! Of these sectional statesmen have kept the
country divided long enough. 1t is time that
sectional hate and sectional strife should cease
and that our country should become in fact
what it Is in name, a united nation. This
can never be while the administration is in
the hands Of men who hold their official posi-
slons only by virtue Of maintaining bloody
chasm between the north and the south.
Gen. Mobilicr Garfield, the man whom the
Bloody Shirt campaigncrs propose to elect
rs sectional president, Tor the purpose of
! prolonging sectional hate and sectional strife
i :" has been member of the house of reprcsen-
tatlve for seventeen consecutive years. Dur
ing this long period he has held important
places on the leading committees, and had
every advantage and opportunity to EXHIBIT
craftsmanship if he possessed 1t. What meas.
ure of relief, what policy or what Legislation
Of public Importance has he originated in this
half of a generation in congress?
"a public man is to be estimated according
to the service he renders, and is to be Judged
by the acts that attest his ability. From 1863
when Garfield entered congress down to 1915,
when the house passed into democratic hands
the republicans had large majoritIes in both
branches of congress, and exercised that power
with scant liberation of the minority.
What did Gen. Garfield do in these twelve
years to en,itle him III any way to be called
a peacemaker? He followed the lead of Thad
deus Stevens and the extremists in all their
Legislation after the civil war was over, and
contributed by his votes to prolong the sec
tional strife by converting states into satra
pies, and governing them with thieves and
adventures who were no longer tolerated in
the communities where they were best known
ale advocated military rule in the southern
states at the very time that Gen. Hancock
issued his Order No. 40, proclalming the
! principles of civil liberty. The so-Caled
f statesman at Washington voted for the bay
onct and military commissions as the best in
struments of civilization two years after the
rebellion mad ended while the soldier at New