Weekly commercial herald., 1885-09-11
HOADLYS SPEECH.


ing speech for the Democracy of Ohio
at Hamilton last Saturday. In the
language Of the marines sit is a regu-
lar stingaree." Much of it is taken up
with State affairs, but enough Of it IS
devoted to John Sherman and the gos-
pei of hate he preached at Mount Gil
cad, to make him turn green with
chagrin and sweat ice water. He is
too cold blooded to exude normal pers-
piration.
"The leader of the Republicans of
Ohio" declares Gov. Hoadly, "has care
fully prepared an appeal to his party,
and sent it from the stump through
the press to the country. He waves
the bloody shirt. He endorses
policy Of alienation and hate. He seeks
to transplant and cultivate in this
country the feelings of the English
aristocracy, to arouse section against
section, to govern the South from the
North, as Dublin Castle governs Ireland
as conquered province, and all this
in the year of grace 1885, and twenty
years and more after the end of the
war.
"The average life of an ordinary
generation is thirty years. Owing to
the casualties of war, which cost our
country at least a million lives, the
duration of the generation now passing
away has been less than this. Twenty
five years have elapsed since Lincoln's
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 mill
tary 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 towards none.
Seward and Sumner, Chase and Doug
las, Lee and Breckenridge, these are
historic not living names. Alone of
the authors Of the rebellion Jefferson
Davis survives. Boys born when the
war broke out have been voting for
six years past. Boys born after the
war will vote next year. Boys too
young to bear arms are now mature
men of 35. There is a new South,
and a new North, new generation
full of new life is at work. A very
large proportion of the people of the
South have never seen slave, and
have lived under no other regime but
that of universal suffrage.
sis it not time for Sherman and
Foraker to accept the result of the
war, and no longer to continue the
battle?
"Eight million bales Of cotton, the
probable crop this year, are in sight.
There are no idlers in the South; why
croak in the North? White men and
black men are side by side at work.
The South is developing new indus
tries, weaving cotton cloth, digging
coal and iron, forging steel. God and
nature, religion and the human heart,
are forces against which Sherman and
Foraker contend and foster plots"
Gov. Hoadly said, to the policy of
alienation, the Democratic party op-
posed union; and for hate it substitu-
ted love.
The following sentences Of the dis
tinguished Ohioan are particularly rec
commended to the perusal Of the Even
ing Post, which took occasion, some
days ago, to make telegram in the
es-Democrat the excuse for char
acteristic stab at Gov. Hoadly; and
which has been as persistent in grind
ing grist for the Republican outrage
mill as the blackest Radical in Radi-
caldom:
"Let us, then, Danish these unman-
ly fears Of Southern wrong.doing,"
said the speaker, "and cease to exag-
gerate occasional personal conflicts into
1 wars of races. Andersonville and
Copiah are worn out. Turn out some
new grist, oh grinders Of the outrage
MILL Home rule, and as little applica-
tion of the eternal principle Of regula-
tion as is consistent with the greatest
liberty to all, will in time cure all ills
of State and Nation"
The following ringing sentences
from Hoadley, in which the animus of
Sherman's baseless SANDERS against the
motives Of the administration in ap-
pointing Southern men to Cabinet po-