Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-09-18
A Racy, neadabIe Speech.

A Racy, AeadaDAe speech.
Col. Dom Piatt made a speech few
days since, on the issues of the day, at
Findly. which pours hot shot into the
Democracy. We extract as follows:
--..r RECONSTRUCTION.
We hsVe passed certain laws, called
acts of reconstruction, and the Demo-
crscy of the North are filed with an
guish st what they are pleased 10 term
their unconstitutionality snd wrong
But the Democracy at the South, led
on BY such men as Longstreet aud
Wade Hampton, call them peace offer
ings-as they are in fact-and beg Of
Andrew johnson and the Democracy
North to be let alone. -
i do not propose to enter here upon
an argument as to the constitutionality
Of these laws. After all that the De
mocracy has done in the purchase Of
housianz and the acquisition Of Texas,
out Of which States were created Is we
create towns, townships and counties,
it is too late to waste our time in such
improbable speculations. I cannot
consent to follow the ground rail of a
Virginia abstraction by considering the
resolutions of '98. and what they are
pleased TO call State rights, which few
understand and believe in. The South
did not fght forthem but treated them
with high scorn, and asserted to the
world that she was struggling for the
recognition Of her nationality, and
falling In that, now scoFns to fall back
on rotten abstTactions dug from the
wormholes Of iniquity.
What ! propose TO fight now is some
thing more potent than that which ap-
peals to your passions and prejudice,
in the assertion that we are Africanlz-
ing Americs, and will end in war of
races, ruincus TO the people We seek to
protect.
ATRIcANIzATIoS.
believe little study of statistics
will quiet this great alarm. We have
something like four millions of Blacks
to our thirty millions of whites. And
while the white races are being aug
mented by emigration, the black
through Democratic social laws, is be-
ing absorbed in the superior Anglo
Saxon and Celtic families. The white
races do not grow darker, but the black
race grows lighter in color, and in a
few years the sons Of Ham will be ab-
sorbed in the Sons Of Liberty, or traced
in darker complexion to be compli-
mented by some fanciful name, as OBJ
tanned for the so-called descendants of
Pocahontas, who are to be Distinguish
ed not 50 much by the high cheek
bones as thick lips and pug noses. y
As for the much dreaded war Of "a
ces, don't apprehend much trouble
unless it should break out in great Vio-
lence in Hancock county. Where the
negroes most abound the negroes are
Verp popular. But for the institution
of slavery, that gave the whip 70 the
white man, and the hoe TO the negro
but for the late war, in which we called
the slave TO our assistance the relations
between white and black would have
been harmonious; and now that sla--
very Is at an end, and the war over, if
we can adjust their rights, they will
be very hsppy together.
----G ORIGIN OF THE cHIYALRY.
The relations of the two races South
has been of the closest sort, and in it,
the one that we call the weaker has
so impressed itself upon the stronger
race that the last has changed greatly
its national characteristics. Do you
know. my friends, where our Southern
friends get that warm hospitality-that
high impetuous courage and dash Of
chivslrY we so much admiref We are
told that II comes Of their cavalier blood |
enriched and heated by 8 tropical sun. |
Wen, my friends, they have no Cava- |
lier blood, and they have no tropical
sun. will not say, as many do, that |
the earlier colonies OF Virginia were |
convict settlements, and therefure the
claim is not tenable. for they might yet |
have been filed with cavaliers. l new
ar could find anything in that class
that united its members for the peni-
tentiary-on the contrary, find deci-
ded qualifications for that place. New
ertheleas, the earlier settlers Of the
Southern colonies we're not Of the sort
claimed. They were not desirable pla-
ces of residence for gentlemen of re-
inement and cultivation, and were
filed up By sturdy sons, criminal or
otherwise, of the Anglo-Saxon family,
with about as much OF the Cavalier In
them sc in the veriest Yankee of New
England. 1 win tell you where the
South got her ehiFslry. From tie ne
gro aud none other. They have been
born with negros. worked and associa-
ed with negroes, until they think, feel,
speak like negroes, and from the ne
Zro they obtained their tropical impul
,es and characteristics. % --.-. Il
You viii mark when one rises above
he level of the multitude and becomes
distinguished for great intellectual
rats be seems to go back and take up
he austere puritsnical type common
10 New England. Take for example {
7our truest Sontherners, John G. CAL
noun, JEFF. Davis and Stonewall Jack
Ion, their three remarkable men. and
heir cold austere egotism, Animated
,y an indomitable will. make them so
ike old 0ssaWotamie Brown that it is
ifhcult to distinguish one from the {
lther. This Is the real Anglo Saxon
ype; but the great mass have been so
,olored by the negro that it is difficult
o realize that they belong to the same
ace. Their very language is the Ian
yusge of the negro, andy do not refer !
here to the eve uns and you uns" Of
he lower and more ignorant class but
o the great mass of their cultivated {
men and women, Any one in the gal 1
cry Of the house or Senate at Wash I
ngton, before the late war deprived US I
# a Southern representation, shutting I
lis eyes while some Congressman from I
Slave State was on the floor, could I
Fell believe he was listening to negro.
never heard the great Henry Clay 5
,ut once, and then he spoke of the I
Democrats as the "Wah party in peace, 7
nd the pesce party in wah-" Amy
me curious in this study Of lingual
can understand what say G
y listening to our former Senator 8
Illen, who caught the habit from Hen t
y Clay, or By hearing the present s
)emoerztic candidate for Governor, q
rho caught it from Mr.. Allen, b
A celebraied naturalist once said q
hat "if you want to understand coon +
ou must eat coon" and the South to f
negro has lived on negro y
ntil the harmony between the two is P
omplete. The negro is in fact the a
atherof the chivalry, and the democra- +"
' North propose 8 war between the b
To. It would be unnatural, and until 4
ON unheard Of. Saturn We are told v
eyoured his children, but here the d
hildren are called upon to devour their v