Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-07
GOVERNOR HoADLY,s REPLY TO SHERMAN.

ty, Ohio, on Saturday, Governor Hoadly
said:
1.-THE leader of the republicans of Ohio
has carefully prepared the appeal of his
party and sent it from the stump through
the press to the country. He waves the
bloody shirt; he endorses the policy of ali
enation and hate; he seeks to transplant
and cultivate in this country the feelings of
the English aristocracy towards the Irish;
to array 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 1855, twenty
years and more after the close 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
million lives, the duration of the generation
now passing away has been less than TINS.
TWENTY-FIVE years have elapsed since Mr..
Lincoln's election. Five sixths, perhaps
more, of the men who devised rebellion, the
men who fought its battles and the men
who overcame it have passed away. The
great civil and the great military leaders
Lincoln and Grant-both sleep in graves
beloved by 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 Fessenden,
Douglas and Stephens, Lee and Brecken-
ridge-these are historic, not living names.
son 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 ma
ture men of thirty.fve. There Is a new
South and new North. A 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 than that of universal suffrage.
Is it not time for the Shermans and the
Forakers to accept the results of the war
aud no longer to continue its battles ?
Eight million bales of cotton, the probable
CROP of this year, is 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 in
dustries, weaving cotton cloth, digging coal
and iron, forging steel. God and nature,
religion and the human heart, are the forces
against which Sherman and Foraker con-
tend ard Foster plots"
To the policy of alienation, the speaker
said, the democratic party opposed union ;
for hate it substituted love.
"Let US, then, Danish these unmanly fears
of Southern wrong-doing," said the speaker,
land cease to eSaggerate occasional per-
sonal conflicts into wars Of races. Danville
and Copiah are worn out. Turn out some
new grst, on! 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 of all will,
| in time, cure all the ills of State aud ma.
| tion.u =
"Mr. Sherman is distressed because Lamar
and Garland and Bayard, two members oil
the Confederate Congress and one man who
sympathized with them, are at the head OF
great departments of the Government. Oh,
yes it was we'll to put Mr.. Key at the head
of the PostofIice Department.. One Confed-
crate in the Cabinet was all right, but two
two are a lamentable concession to trea-
son. No, not quite this even. Alderman
! was proper Attorney General, and Key a
most becoming Postmaster General, but two
at time-Garland and Lamar together
ave, there's the rub. The tears of croco-
dies are freely shed, as Sherman softly
sings, sInsatiate archer, would not one suf-
fce?' Mosby, Madison Wells, Malone and
Chalmers tie guerrilla, the Returning
| Board, the regulators 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 the
unregenerate children of the political Satan,
unfit to serve the Republic"
The speaker said he asked for re. election
as an approval of the present administra-
ton. "Now, I ask for more" said he. II
solicit approval, not forbearance. MIR.
Cleveland has held office six months. Con-
gress has not been in session, yet much
has been accomplished. The spirit of re-
form and economy has entered all the de-
partments. Useless Offices and expenses
have been done away, while the perform.
auce of duty, civil and military, has been
enforced. The Government is not solicit
Gus to provide soft places for pets, but to
save money for the people, and to keep the
faith pledged in the platform. If the navy,
which the republican party destroyed, be
restored, it is now certain that it will be
honestly done. Under this Administration
there will be no loose contracting, no jobs
let at prices nominally low to he made high
by extras, or By scamping the work. The
democratic Presidents, Jefferson and Mon
lOo aAO Oihi duuCd W Ooi eSiAhtOi
residue which republican extravaganza has
not wasted on corporations and favorites-
is saved from cattle kings and other plum
derers for the benefit of the people"
Here in Butler county, the speaker said. was
memorable instance of the beauties of republican
professions. Ferdinand Vandoveor, Brigadier-
General in the late war and veteran Of Mexico
could not secure civil appointment. Against
foreign foes and domestic traitors he freely ex-
posed his life," said Judge Hoadly, "but under
republican President he has not been good enough
to DO even whiskey gauger. Thank God, Grow
er Cleveland has destroyed all this. Democrats,
who for twenty years have only been considered
ut to be Unlisted as private soldiers at S13
month are now, at least occasionally, promoted
from hard tack and sow-belly to the oysters and
champagne of official position. at last it has be-
come possible for tho majority of the American
people, the majority not in numbers merely, but
in all that makes nation great-in intelligence,
virtue, sobricty right thinking and right living
to see an ofccholder, occasionally, at least, So
lected from their midst"
SIT is sweet, it is delicious, brethren, to hear
the republican lamentation as expressed by John
Sherman, who worked tho Treasury Department
for all it was worth in 1880, to nominate hmseffor
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