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Shall The Policy Of Hate Continue To Prevail?

Shall The Policy Of Hate Continue To Prevail? image
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Day
20
Month
August
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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The vital issue in tluseampaignis one of inionism against sectionalism, the iesue raised in cveryeampatgnsinee the war. The reptibiiean party ñas always beeh and now isa sectional organization. When it exhibited any strength in the Southern states it was during theperrod f reconatruetiorv, and at a time when the intelligent and better portion of the people ref used to take part in politics. Since they began to exercise theright of goveming tfiemselVes, the republican party graüually decreased in strengt!) until it is praetically obiiterated in all the old lve state?, lts existence tliere at all' was only temporary. To-day it is eonfined to the notliern states, and is henee purely a sectional party. It has practieatty ignored the existence of the federal imíon by its appeals to its voters of the north to sustain that party in its bitter attacks npon the south, ignoiing that broad spirit that should reach out and cover the whole country in its grasp. At a meeting of the leaders in New York the other day to consider what, if anythiiig should be done in the squthern states it was resolved to mnke nt eiïort tliere. Why? Becactse if one or more hou ld happen to give its vote to G arfield, they woold lose their old cry of a "solid south." Their existenee as a sectional party might cease. ïhere other and more important issues than those of hate, of sectionalÏBin and practieal disunion. But suggest the necessity of revisión of the larifï, and the response comes: Behold a solid south!" Refer to the currency (iues-tion. and we are met by the statement: "Behold a solid south!" Anything offered to enhance the material prosperity of the country brincjs forth the stereotyped phrase; "Behold the solitl' smih !" If an idea i s broaehed that the government aaigbt be conducted in a this sectional party is to be continued iï at a!l by appeals to out-vote a "solld south." It fee upon fíate and fatten apon outrage.. It gloats overassassiiiuöon prcwided it occur in the "solid It does not want peace nor friendship; it prefers to preach the goapel of hatred for upon itit thiives, and I B the essence of its being. The republiean party wiH pay Jij irom now uníil election íor a firstelass outrage committed anywhere befcwMason and Biion's line. j eess in th eoming campaign depends fargelj upon Toss of life or serious injury to one ormore persons in the Old slave state. An assassination f a single colored person would ndoubtedly be worth thoiisiinds nf vnfno' t„ +1 _ „.. .vivo w II1C1U, To this extremity, shameful tliough it be, is the party reduced. Said General Hancock: fr,nJe W;!r for the Hnion was successfnlly closed more than fifteen yearaW Wie blessings of the imion and are equalfy concerned in its perpetuity and in ÉiJTySi adm"stn;UOn public a f Uns. We are m a stale of profonnd WUat nobler teaching canbe uttered tftan these voieed by our leader? Are they not patriotic? VVill they not if carnedoutbe the best for the country?! r&ere is no seetional spirit to be infered from thern. They are the promptings of a man imbued with the Lest interests of bis country, wlio, Rnowiiienoseetionalisn! freed from spirit of bate toward any portion, wiJl, if elected, be president over all. His policy is unionism m. gress and the restoration of business whereas the repnblícan policy means a continuation of bato, af stionalism and disunion, a perpetuation of bitterHess. In that unity settled forever by the war, we ought to rise above blcfcerfnm and quanels fomentad by republican Poney, and move forwárd in the march ofprogress. The Renins of ourpeople i progress, business and energetic life aml the party that stands in their road' wi go down before the marcli of events o natoon cm thrive while one-half the people seeks to persecute theotherlialf Ixarfield himself said in congress not long ago that „ "The man who attempts to eet un a wftl?ñnt8eRtlOtíal issues win "'"Iliinise ' without a party and without support " Mr. Garfield stands to-day as the representative of hate and sectionalism. JU?t us hope that his prediction wil find himself without a party and without support. The question is thus broadly Presentad and easy of comprehension: Garüeld representa a portion of the country, bounrted by the lakes on the north and sectionalism on the southIlaneockrepresentsthe whole country' Th pjrtrïication of Gen. Ilaneock's hlxerman letter falla on the Republicans here like a thunderbolt. Democrats jubilant oyer the letter, and taunt the Bepubhcans by inquiring if they "want any more of Hancoek's Tetters?" From althth1MnBbe,íraíliered'ít is safe to W-Lhf f eï twant any more.lealèr g er tO avd

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