The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-21
NEGRO SUFFRAGE DENOUNCED
The Monroe Doctrine to be Enforced.
SPEECH OF MONTGOMERY BLAIR,

A large andenthusiastic mass meeting
was held on Wednesday evening at the
Cooper Institute to ratify the Democrat
ic State ticket nominated at Albany in
| September last. An address to the De-
mocracy of the State of New York was
read, and its main points relative to the
| platform of the party in the contest were
enthusiastically %applauded. Speeches
were delivered by General Slocum and
Messrs. Montgomery Blair, John Van
| Buren, and S. s. Cox. President John
sons reconstruction policy was endorsed,
negro suffrage was denounced, and the
necessity of enforcing the Monroe Doc
trine in regard to Mexico was main
tanned. Mr.. John Kelley, Sheriff of
New York, presided, and after n short
speech from General Slocum, Mr.. Blair
was introduced. Mr.. Blair said
FeUoW-citisens, Republicans and Dem
Ocruts II need not tell you that the
late issues that distracted patriots, the
lovers Of our constitution, have worked
out n common result, which should
bring them together in one party, as the
effort to reach it as soldiers in the war
brought them together in arms to a V
the constitution. The simple aphorism,
"The federal Union must be pre-
served,n was the answer of jackson to
John Cataline Calh0un's state rights
distractions to countenance his conspir.
acy against the rights of the states and
the great nation they composed. The
Union IS preserved by that final arblter,
war; and the triumph of the govern,
mept has been achieved by leaders and
soldiers of both the great parties, how
ever divided about the cause ana tht
conduct of that war; II i thank goo
that this cause, the fruit of that forbid
den tree "whose mortal taste brought
death into the world and all our woes
has, with complo consent, been eXtlr.
pated from our institutions. lCheers.]
CAUSE or DIVISION IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
The democrats. who broke their party
organization to accomplish this deliver
ancp, and assumed the party name OF
republicans, and planted its standard on
middle ground, between the abolition
iets. who would suhvert the constitu-
tio,l TO attain their object, and the DEM
~oorats. who adhered to slavery to oppose
tbe fatal means proposed by their oppo-
nents, rallied n new party when sought
r. cnotine the slaveholding power in
sycI strict limits that its political power
would he lost by being environed with
vastly sunerior and constantly growing
free Stntd maiorities, tending gradually
~ suftocaie aud extinguish 1t. Theii
noliticol pcpver lost, the ambition OF the
Stontbern aristocracy would fall with it,
Tba GORDON of freedom once drawn
round the section of slavery, even those
WHO bnilt their hopes upon it, admitted
that. like the scorpion III a ring OF lire.
, II wonld die by It's w bite. The very
annrchension of it has produced thai
result. [Cheers.I 'l
POPULAR SUFFRAGE.
|, The basis of all laws and constitution
! id the suffrage of the people. The franz
ers of our governments, State and ma
. tional, make this the common tounda
ton: and to bring this principal to tn
hears and homes of the people, and 1T
practical operation Immediately unde
ifhair snneryision and control, the peo
ME through their immediate represen
@tatives in their respective state Legisia
lures, are made supreme as to the he
stowal of the right of suffrage, whlcI
= animates both the governments OF III