The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01
A RATTLtNG TAR-HEEL TALK!
Why the South is Solid

. Why the south is solid!
AT the recent great Hancock demon
stration in New York, cx-Congress-
man Wadtiell, of North Carolina, made
a splendid address from which we ex,
tract as follows: old.
Gen. Wadtlell began by saying that
he had just come down from Maine,
where he had had finger in that
notable pie. 81 spoke in Vermont and
I spoke in Maine,' said the General,
s.and l hope to keep on speaking for
the good cause until the election In
November. A good deal has been
said about the rebel brigadiers. am
one of those rebel Brigadier- Generals.
Look at me. How do you like my
appearance There are no horns ON
my head, no hoofs on my feet"
Laughter and loud cheering.1 Gen.
Waddell turned his attention to the
speech of a noted Republican in the
Academy of Music, recently, and gave
a word picture of Senator ConkIing,
with his magnificent physique, his
elegant apparel, and his sonorous and
easily flowing sentences that was recog-
nized ut once. He saw in Mr.. Conk.
iing's speech but three great divisions.
The first was devoted to expressing
contempt for the present fraudulent
Administration; the second to the false
presentation of figures furnished by
Secretary of State Sherman the third
to sneering ut the poverty of the South,
which had been robbed by the Senator's
own party after being devastated by
the war. The speaker deprecated the
tone of the speech and Of many others
from Republican lips. 1t seemed that
| the whole effort of these orators was to
teach the children who stood by their
mothers knee side in the North to
hate the children of the South, for sins
which their fathers had committed and
for which the children were in no way
responsible. There was u great cry
about the sssolid South" but that cry
didn't come from the men who had
worn the blue.
| ssIt is small and pusiIlanimous for a
NOrtherner to talk about being afraid
! of the South" shouted the speaker
s'You whipped the solid South with
arms in its hands fifteen years ago, and
now talk about fearing the solid South.
The South is solid, and don't you for
get 1t [great applause1, but not in hos
tility to the North, not in hostility to
the Government. 1t is solid for the
Union [cheers,l for the flag [wiId ap-
plause !, for pure and economical atl-
lninistration of public affairs, and for
the election of that man whose churac-
ter is as pure as his sword blade that
flashed in the battle fires Of Gcttys-
burg. [Great applause.l
"But If the South is sold, who made
it so: I'd like to ask that question of
the solitary Republican that may be
rfx
had had the wisdom and magnanimity
at the end of the war to have adopted
the right policy, you would have di-
vided tho South rs that aisle divides
this audience, and much Of the best
would have been on your side. But
you lacked that wisdom and magma
nimity, and instead turned in upon us
the worst set of scallawags and rascals
that ever preycd on Wur-devastated
country. If you at the North had been
treated by the South as the South has
been treated by the Republicans, you
would be solid. Suppose you people OF
the great State of New York saw thir-
teen gray-coated soldiers march up to
the State House at Albany, declare
themselves the Legislature, put the
seal of the State upon the State bonds,
send an agent into Wall street to sell
llShA loA ~ CCAto Oll u sAolAhS OIl Iuh
away with the proceeds, and all this
between two days; If you saw gentle
men black, not as the ace of spades,
but as the ten of spades, which is ten
times RS black as the ace, sitting in
your halls of legislation with their feet
on the desk, reading a newspaper bot
tom side up, and making laws for tho
government Of the Angio-3axon race
and not able to read the laws they
made; if you saw all this and had to
endure all this, wouldn't you be &
solid North? [Applouse.l The South
is solid-solid against the Republican
party. But what pretty lot Of fellows
we'd be If we only voted the right
way. There are rebel brlgadicrs who
are lovely in the eyes of the Rcpubii-
cans. Longstrcet was thought to be a
, pretty good sample, and he is Minister
, to Turkey; Mosby was brgadier, in
/ an irregular sort OF way though, and
he represents the Government in China.
Oh, yes, the rebels are all right as long
? as they vote all right" [1aughter.l
, Gen. Waddell then turned his atten.
ton to the Republican arguments o
, rebel war claims and pensioning rebe
, soldiers. lie showed plainly that theil