Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-09-16
The Ohio Campaign.
HoApEX's SPLENDID sPEEcH-A PLEA FOR
PEACF>kND FRAFERNITY-sHERMA
AND NoRAKBR ExCORIATED.

AND N0RAKBR E1CoRIATED.
HAMILTON. O>September I'm open
ifg The campaign here this evening Cover |
nor Hoadly referred to the recent speeches |
of SeatoT Sherman and Judge Foraker in
the following language: "The leader OF the
Republicans of Ohio has carefully prepared
the appeal of >his party, and sent 1t rom
the stump through the press to the coen-
try. He waves the bloody shirt; he en-
dorses the policy of>2lienatlon ana nate,
he seeks to transplant aRa enitivabe IN snis
country the feelings of eEnglisn Arls.oc.
racy towards the Irish, to Mouse section
against section, to govern the outh lIon
the North as Dublin Castle govS[ns LIZ,
land-as a conquered province, ,-&u an
This in the year of grace 1885, twNH.y
years and more after the end of the wa
The average life of an ordinary generation
is thirty years, Owing to the casualties OF
var, which cost our country at least mill
lion lives, the duration of the generation
now passing away has been less than this.
twenty-five years have elapsed since Lin
coins election. Five-sevenths, perhaps
more of the men who devised the rebellion,
the men who fought its battles and the
men who overcame it, have passed away.
The great civil and great military leaders,
Lincoln and Grant, both sleep in graves
bathed in the tears of the whole nation,
South and North, for both died with words
upon their lips and feelings in their hearts
of charity to all, malice toward none.
Seward and Sumner, Chase and Fessenden,
Douglas and Stephens, Lee and Breckin-
ridge-these are historic, not living names.
Alone of the authors of the rebellion JEFF
ferson Davis survives. Boys born when
the war broke out have been voting for
three years past. Boys born after the war
will vote next year. Boys too young to
bear arms are now mature men of thirty
five. There is a new South and new
North. A new generation, full of new
life, is a. york. A very large proportion
of the people Of Of the South have never
seen a slave, and have Il, lied under no 9th
er regime but that of universal Suffrage
Is it not time for the Shermans and th6i
Forakers to accept the results of the war,
and no longer to continue in battle? Eight |
million bales of cotton, the probable crop
this year, are in sight. There are ne
idlers in the South. Why croak in the
North? White men and black men are
side by side at work. The South is devel- |
oping new misunderstanding cotton
cloth, digging coal and iron, forging steel. |
God and nature, religion and the human
heart, are the forces against which Sher-
man and Foraker contend and foster
plots.'
To the policy of alienation the speaker
said the Democratic party is opposed; for
hate it substituted love. ''Let US then
Danish these unmanly fears of Southern
wrong-doing," said the speaker, ''and
cease to exaggerate occasional personal
conflicts into wars of races. Danville and
Copiah are worn out. Turn out some new
new grist, oh! grinders of the outrage MILL
Home rule and as little application Of the
eternal principle of regulation as is con-
sistent with the greatest liberty will in
time cure all the ills of State and stations
Sherman is distressed because
Lamar, Garland, and Bayard, two members
of the Confederate Congress and one a
man who sympathized with them, are at
the head of the great departments of Gov
ernment. Oh, it was well to put Key at
the head of the Post-Office Department..
With one Confederate the Cabinet was all
right. But two-twO are lamentable
,eo:sat'ssion to treason. No, not quite this.
Even Akerman was proper Attorney
General, Key, a most becoming Postmas
ter-General, b1t two at time-Garland
and Lamar together; aye, there's the rub.
Tho tears of crocodiles are freely shed as
Sherman softly sings: 1nsatiate Archer,
would not one suffice?'
"Mosby, Madison Wells, Malone, and
Chalmers-the guerillas, the Returning
Board, the repudiator and the Fort-Pillow
butcher-all these have had their garments
washed; but Lawton and jackson, Jonas
and Lamar and Garland, the best and
purest of the South-these to our Senator,
are unregenerate children of political sa-
tan, unfit to serve the public.''
Speaking at jollification meeting in
this city last November, l plead for gene
rous confidence in our newly elected Presi-
dent, and that every Democrat, educated
though he might have been for twenty-four
years in opposition, should treat him with
sympathy and guard against carping criti-
cism. Leave that to Sherman and Fora
ker. Now, 1 ask for more, I solicit ap-
proval, not forbearance.''
Mr.. Cleveland has held office six months
Congress has not been in session, yet much
has been accomplished. The spirit of re-
form and economy has entered all depart
ments. Useless officers and expenses have
been done away with, while performance
forced. The Government is not solicitous
to provide soft places for pets, but to save
money for the people and to keep the faith
pledged in the platform.
'1t is sweet, it is delicious, brethren, to
hear Republican lamentation as expressed
by John Sherman, who worked the Trea-
sury Department for all it was worth in
1880 to nominate himself for President,
and who never recommended a Democrat
for civil office in his life, that the impartial,
non-partisan civil service of our country is
IN DANGER
WHY AYERS Is THE MAN.-When John
S. Wise referred to Rufus A. Ayers with