The Ouachita telegraph., 1882-11-25

you.s We have extended the olive branch
to you time and again, and now, having
taken into our stomachs ~
THE BITTEREsT PILL
ever given 81 political party, in the sis lpe
of Horace Greeley, an honest old lairi
and Your time-honored friend, i 2ie,s
you, in the name of our common G etu-
try and by the hope you cherlsl, tor
your children, not to spurn.it. Ds>afen
your ears to the suggestions of your .n..-
mics and mime, who are only bens on
have been introduced to men hero
to-day who tell me they were
OLD LINE WINGS,
and do not like the Democratic n:tsue.
1 want to talk to them. ! tell then that
every man who came up from the city
of New Orleans to address yon on rnis
party. having accomplished IT'S mis- .ion,
born an Old Line Wing believed in
ought to be 1isped in the pray, my
bonored mother taught me to say yery
night. So nailed my political pet ,:rnt
plisked its mission and passed awas
Old Line Wings. put on your stu'fsiug
caps anu think: and when his ors has
shown the wrongs committed in the
policy Of the Federal Gosernmsnt, vii
Democratic dogma of STATE rights;
There has ndt been a wrong committed
on the South-the suspension OF the
babeas corpus and the horrors of recon-,
structjon, but are due to the Federal
a,s tie F 6a Yns Whss Wsrs o5
- NATIONAL BANK.
them. What is the eifectf A tr.Iasfer.
of patriotism from the region of the
heart. where Washington and Leonidas;
putting it in the regionso of the pocket.
owns five dollars in United States
Lars Worth il Of Of interest il to to the United
States Governments. Erdeavoring to
centralize yon by your very pecuniary
whether it might turn out a source of
political and social blessing OF the vilest
tyranny that ever raised it's helmeted
LES and the aggregation of capital, al
ways dangerous to popular liberty, are
some of the works which have been
Radical party into power, Think of it;
Turn over in your mind all the acts of
this party since 1T came into power and
be good Democrats for the rest of your
There is only one way of perpetuat-
ing our liberty, and that is by q speedy
STRICT DEMOCRATIC THEORY
of government. tell you the rights of
the States must be preserved, acknowL
edged and enlarged. The nerve must be
taken from the strong arm of Federal
authority or there is an end to American
Not e. only viii q return to this Demo-
cratic theory, of government place us
again ON the throne of constitutional
liberty, gladden. every home, brighten
every heart and make our land one swor-
thy TO live in again, but there is an-
!. ersweet thought cherish. Perhaps
.you viii cay it is skindling memories of
past But an %as That forset in me bad
that hour when forget that
army WHICH is sleeping on a, thousand
ism, and when 1 cease to be jealous of
their honor and reputation: They sleep
now on the fields where they fell, and
4 their graves nre shrouded by misrepre-
sentation and calumny; and that fiag
which we npreared and bore through
four years of binding battle storm as u
separate people, stands fnrled amid the
sinister shadows Of rebellion and trea-
son. Those heroes fought-that banner
waved NOT for slavery, not in. tue
cause of treason, but for our construc.
tion of the constitution,
TO PRESERVE
the rights of States.
i acquiesce in the result of the war
and trust that the union of thes,
States may last as long as time.
But when the battle is won ut last
when in the civil contest we have pre-
served that which we seemed to lose in
the issue of battle. the Union preserved
and yet our Democratic theory of gov:
ernmept vindicated. will not, oh will
not history clear away the shadows
from their graves, wreathe the ama
ranth around their memories and res
urrecuing their virtues, write them
down the skirmisll line, the pioneers in
the grand battle for constitutional lib
ertyf and will not the same hand clear
away the false shadows from our furled
banner and let. Ii CLEAN adown all his
tory the symbol of our liberties, it's
cross the emblem of our faith, it's stars
sheening forth the eternal truth and
purity of the cause they symbolized
Then, the past vindicated, the present
secure, we may rebuild our waste places
forget the bitterness of the past and re-
whole country. My friends, / thank
SpFECH OE CIpT ETON