as firmly convinced is unfounded-must none | Speaker Randall's meaning declaration the less be respected to the extent of making as to inauguration by force.

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it an element in future calculations. If with At the same Convention, Speaker Randall, the close vote at the election of President who, in the event of a close election, will play Hayes, when the doubt in the case was re- no insignificant part in the Democratic Revosolved in his favor under an electoral commis-lutionary programme, said: sion bill devised by Democrats, and assented Not only is your nomination strong, but to by a great majority of the Democratic party it is one which will bring us victory. [Applause.]* in Congress, while it was opposed by a You will find me in the front rank of this conflict, second ** * *There is a great mission ahead of the majority of the Republican party in Con- to none. gress, the Democrats still insist that Til-whose very nomination means that if the people ratify your Democratic party, and you have selected a standard-bearer den was legally elected, how will it be in choice he will be inaugurated." [Applause.] the event of a close election of General Garfield? Of course the Democratic leaders as they did before, will inflame the Democratic masses again to a belief that their candidate is elected. What will be the result? Either an arbitration in some form or-Civil War ! The Democratic leaders burning their bridges behind them!-No arbitrations over a close vote! -Revolutionary chicanery and violence.

Representative Hill's declaration that the Democrats will inaugurate Hancock, "Whether they elect him or not!"

A serenade was given to Ohioans at Willard's hotel at Washington, D. C., February 23, 1880, at which speeches were made by Senator Pendleton and other prominent Democrats. Among them was the Hon. William D. Hill, M. C, of Ohio, who, in the course of his remarks, is reported by the papers of next day as declaring that "the Democrats WILL INAUGURATE the candidate to be made at Cincinnati, WHETHER THEY ELECT HIM OR NOT!" This statement has not been and cannot be denied.

Hancock to fight his way in!-He must not resign.

A recent issue of the Washington Post (Democratic organ) suggestively says:

Governor Stevenson, President of the Democratic National Convention, declares that "Hancock is elected!"

The manner and language also in which Governor Stevenson, of Kentucky, the chairman of the Convention, its very organ and mouthpiece for expressing the real revolutionary sentiments of the Democratic party in National Convention assembled, put the motion to nominate General Hancock, is significant of the treasonable purpose to "seat Hancock (as Representative Hill had declared), "whether elected or not.' Here is the report of those words:

Mr. Stephenson, the Chairman, then said:

"The motion has been made that Winfield Scott Hancock be declared unanimously elected the Democratic in favor will say aye [shouts of ayes], you who opposed President of these United States. [Great applause.] Those will say no-the motion is unanimously adopted, AND HANCOCK IS ELECTED. [Applause and cheers.] John Kelly's Declaration -- If Tammany Thinks Hancock Elected, "There will be no more Electoral Commissions; he will take his Seat!"

Said John Kelly, at the Tammany meeting of July 1, 1880, New York city :

"Never since the history of this country was begun, or in the history of any other country, were such outrageous proceedings carried out as by the Republican party in 1876. There can be no question but that the Democratic nominee was elected by the people and by the electoral vote. But the Republicans deliberately counted out the Democratic party and counted in the United States. man who is now looked upon as the President of the Now you have a candidate with whom, if electe 1, there can be no question as to what he will do. There will be no more Electoral Commissions, NO MORE 7 TO 8 BUSINESS."

Thus John Kelly, its leader, announces the deliberate purpose of Tammany, in case of a close election, to refuse all legal arbitration, and if General Hancock thinks he has been elected he Said he, continuing:

will take his seat.

"It will not be a wise act in General Hancock to people at the coming election will be: Has General "The simple question for the consideration of our resign his Major-Generalship in the Army."

Senator Wallace shrieks, “Aggression

Aggression! Aggression ! "

At the Cincinnati Convention Senator Wallace in his address, with carefully selected words, but with that emphasis which declared the true meaning, said of Hancock :

"* ** In this great city of Cincinnati the Democrats of the nation named their last President, and to-day they name their next. [Cheers.] * * He will lead us to victory. His name is invincible. The

Hancock been fairly and honestly elected by the people of this country? And if so, I know that the gallant soldier, Winfield Scott Hancock, will take his seat.

This is a revolutionary declaration in more than one sense. "Elected by the people" is the language used; not by the "electoral vote," but the "popular vote," the vote of "the people."

Barnes, of Georgia, says the South “will get" Restoration under Hancock. George J. Barnes, of Georgia, in an address

word rings out, Advance the column, move on the enemy's to the Irving Hall Democrats, New York, July works!' Let there be no defence, but aggression, aggression, aggression, and victory is ours." [Cheers.]

28, 1880, said:

"The South yearns for restoration. It will get it under reported by the Democratic Washington Post Hancock and English." said:

Senator Jonas of Louisiana-"The vote will be counted right this time "-" We will do the counting ourselves!"

At the same meeting U. S. Senator Jonas of Louisiana declared that the people of the South were as loyal to the Constitution as the people of any State in the Union, and denied that there is any intimidation of Republican voters in the South! and added:

"Louisiana has always been a Democratic State

since the war. We voted for Seymour in 1868, and they counted our vote for Grant; we voted for Greeley in 1872, and they counted our vote for Grant; and in 1876 we voted for Samuel J. Tilden, the great statesman who has left his couch to preside at this monster meeting, and they stole our vote for Hayes. But this will be done no more. The vote will be counted right this time, for we will do the counting ourselves."

General Preston of Ky. advises that every Republican supposed to be stealing an electoral vote be killed where stands !—Hancock “a hungry tiger.”Violence to inaugurate him!

"The present movement would end in restoring the administration of the country to the hands where it was in its earlier days The chair once filled by Washington and Jefferson, and now occupied by Hayes, should never again be obtained by fraud."

Col. McDaniel quotes Dan Dougherty: "It he is Elected he will take his seat," "That's the kind of a man Hancock is!'

In the Democratic Washington Post of August 27, 1880, in its report of the speech of Colonel John W. Daniel, of Virginia, to the ratifying Democrats, occurs the following passage:

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* There was another idea which led up to Hancock. It was what Dan Dougherty, of Philadelphia, said when he nominated him. It is in one short, sharp, and decisive sentence. Let me see how you like it: If he is elected he will take his seat.' [Applause.] You all seem to like that pretty well. [Laughter.] That is just the kind of a man Hancock is." he What they all point at-Civil war. Can there be any doubt what all these exIn a speech recently made at Louisville, by pressions mean? They can mean but one General Wm. Preston of Lexington, Ken-thing-that the Democratic leaders are already tucky, before a Democratic ratification meeting, he tells the fierce Kentucky Democrats that he is tired of hearing them call themConservatives"; that when he first heard the name "unterrified Democracy" it made his blood run cold; and that they must adopt that name and act it out to the letter. Said he:

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"You must stand up and tell every Republican that if they ever attempt to steal another electoral vote from you, you will kill him where he stands. Tell them to the devil with their bonds, but that you propose that another electoral vote shall never be stolen

from you. * ** Before God, I would as soon dare to take the meat from under the paw of a hungry tiger as to let the visiting statesmen steal Hancock's victory. * * Yes, we will vote for Hancock; and yes, before God, if he is elected, we will, man and boy, the last one of us, assist in seating him.".

preparing the minds of their followers for a close election, and accustoming them to their programme of violence. If General Garfield is elected by a close vote-if fraud fails-they propose to seat Hancock by violence. Out of this evil state of things grows the necessity of a large electoral majority for the Republican candidate.

PART II.

The Power Behind the Throne-
Who nominated Hancock-The
Solid South!

It is now well known why General Hancock

Montgomery Blair and the Democratic was nominated by the Democratic party. It

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was largely because the delegates believed party mean to elect" Hancock. the story circulated there by Senator Eaton, Montgomery Blair in a speech at Washing- General Wm. F. Smith and others sympaton, as reported in the Washington Post (Demo-thizing with the Tammany fight against Tilcratic organ,) referred to the Democratic Party den or any Tilden man, that General Hancock had written a letter prior to the inauguration of President Hayes, to the effect that he would obey orders from Tilden and head the revolutionists with his command! Believing this

as:

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* the party that * elected Tilden in 1876, and now means to elect the hero who broke the back of the rebellion at Gettysburg."

Col. Williams of Baltimore, Md., says the Democratic story to be true, and supposing

Democrats "intend to make "Hancock's future "great.”

Col. McWilliams, of Baltimore, in a speech at Washington, Aug. 26, is represented by the Washington Post (Democratic) as saying: "**What did Lincoln say of Hancock? He said that he had a great future before him, and we intend to make that prediction true.”

H. O. Claughton on "the present movement."

H. O. Claughton, at the Hancock ratification meeting at Washington, Aug. 26, 1880, as

that what he would thus do for another he certainly would do for himself, they nominated Hancock under the supposition that he would be a fit tool for their contemplated revolutionary work. It was this that made the South a unit for him-this, and the memory of past favors to the Southern White Liners and White League and Klu Klux Klan, rendered during the brief months of his Department Rule in Louisiana and Texas. The South demanded of the North, in the Democratic National Convention, the nomination of a man like Hancock, who would be "available" for Southern purposes, and the Conven

"The Democratic party is the party of peace and of union, that would blot out alt sectional difference forever, and it has proved this in the nomination of General Hancock at Cincinnati. There was but one feeling among the Southern delegates. That feeling was expressed, when we said to our Northern Democratic brethren Give us an available man.' They gave us that man."

Further internal evidence showing that Hancock was the Confederate Brigadiers” candidate — Wade Hampton's pledge to the Convention of the "Solid South" His cool reference to the results of bulldozing, &c.,

In the convention itself Wade Hampton being loudly called for, in response came up to the platform on his crutches and said:

"Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention : On behalf of the Solid South,' that South which once was arrayed against the great soldier of Pennsylvania, I stand here to pledge you its solid vote. [Cheers. We will prove no laggards in this great race for Constitutional government, for home rule, and for freedom all over this great land. There is no name which is held in higher respect among the people of the South than that of the man whom you have given to us as our standard-bearer. ** * * And in the name of South Carolina, that State which has so lately returned and come into the sisterhood of States, that State which was so overwhelmingly Republican that we scarcely dared to count the Democratic vote, in behalf of that State, I here pledge myself, if work, if zeal, if energy can do anything, that the people of South Carolina will give as large a Democratic majority as any other State in this Union."

CHAPTER II.

Spirit of the "Solid South."

PART I.

Wade Hampton's Speech at

by her Lee and her Stonewall Jackson. Do not understand that I come here to dictate a policy to you, or to advise you what you must do; rather an I here to consult with you as a Democrat, as a man, and as a Southern soldier; as one who looks back to the time when he shared with you privations and suffering and defeat in the

Army of Northern Virginia."

He adjures Virginia by her Confederate

traditions to stand with the "Solid South!"

Staunton, Virginia. Following is the speech of Senator Wade Hampton at Staunton, Virginia, July 26, 1880, as reported by the Staunton Valley Virginian : "The largest political meeting_ever held in Staunton was that on Monday last. The Opera house was crowded with an audience variously estimated at from "I am here to voice the earnest hope that I feel, to utter fifteen hundred to two thousand people. Some three the fervent prayer of my heart. that Virginia, the Mother or four hundred were ladies, and about an equal num- of States, will not prove recreant to all her high traditions. ber boys, while the men comprised voters of every po- We have always looked to her to lead, and we know litical creed and color. Captain John H. Crawford was that she has the right to do so. We know her history, called to the chair, and Major Elder offered the resolu- and we know that in seeking the path of duty she has tions, which were unanimously adopted. Captain ever found the way to glory. I adjure you by your traBaumgardner, in his usually happy manner, then in-ditions, by all that you hold sacred, to lead again Virginia, troduced Senator Wade Hampton of South Carolina. as you have done heretofore, not always to victory, but General Hampton is a man of fine physique and splen- always to honor." did appearan e, and as he stepped forward to the stage round after round of applause greeted him."

The indissoluble bonds of the Confederacy—
The "glorious heritage of hate and lust of
power"-"Turn back the hands."
"After alluding to the fact that his ancestry were
Virginians, and had fought side by side with the sons
of the old State, and to his own services during the late
war, he said: 'So it is that I am bound to you by
bonds which death alone can sever. So it is that I, like so
many of the veterans of the Confederacy, am jealous of the
honor and proud of the glorious heritage bequeathed to her

With 138 votes from the "Solid South," only New York and Indiana needed-Will Virginia “Sacrifice the South ?"

What is Virginia's duty now! You hardly realize, my friends, how much depends on the action of your State. With a united South. casting 138 electoral votes, we need only New York and Indiana, and I believe we shall have them. Will Virginia, when we have success within our very grasp, sacrifice the Democratic party? Will she sacrifice the South? Will she sacrifice the National Goverument by aiding, indirectly though it be, to elect a Republican President? I will not believe it."

By the" exalted teachings," the “enno- | feared it would solidify the North for General bling inspirations" of our glorious" Garfield. To break its force, they made haste four years of rebellion, be not "recreant " to deny that Wade Hampton had used the now! The "one great object" of the language thus attributed to him, and Wade South, Hancock's election, "Fight for it, Hampton wrote a letter in which he admits that he "appealed to the Virginians present and Win." to consider before they voted how Lee and Jackson would vote were they now alive," but says:

THESE ARE THE SAME PRINCIPLES FOR WHICH THEY Confederate Brigadiers in the

The above speech created such a deep feel- The proceedings in the United States Senate, ing in the Northern mind, that the Southern March 3, 1879, exhibit, more than any other as well as Northern leaders of the Democracy | one thing, the love and devotion of the South

ern and even the Northern Democratic leaders
to Jefferson Davis. The bill making appro-ing to a question, said:
priations for Pension Arrears was up that even-
ing, and a pending amendment to grant pen-
sions to the soldiers of the Mexican War was
sought to be guarded by the following addition
to it:

"Provided further, That no pension shall ever be paid under this act to Jefferson Davis, the late president of the so-called Confederacy.'

Thereupon Democratic Senators rose to vin- and vote our sentiments." dicate and eulogize the arch-rebel.

Senator Garland, of Arkansas, roundly de- were not paired did vote for these Confederate clared that Jefferson Davis "sentiments.' No Democrat voted against those sentiments." The Democrats who

"I tell you, candidly and sincerely, that we love Jef-parently innocent clause in an Army bill providing ferson Davis because he represented us in a struggle in which our young men and our old men went down to their graves and by which our women were made widows and our children were made orphans. He represents us and we love him, we respect and revere him."