The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-18

up a verdict. There is no man here
that would do til cannot believe
that there is. Then If the negro can
not help YOU to make the verdict, /
want to know if he can help you to
build up great columns and construct
governments? My Judgment is, that
our fathers were right. l have no
question to make about the negro.
[ have never discussed the question
whether the negro was my superior or
not. If there is a question in any
ones mind that the negro ought TO be
his political equal, / would not want
to disturb the judgment of any such
person. Ny notion is that we are so
different as a people that God AL
mighty never intended our amalga-
nation, socially or politically. And
now, that you may not quarrel with
me too much, [ will refer to what
Governor Morton has said on that
question. Here is what Governor
Morton said in his message to the
Legislature, in 1865, It rs not a
a great message to the Legislature of
the State of Indiana as
1T is a fact so manifest that it
should not be called In question by
any, that a people who are just emerg-
ing from the barbarism of slavery are
not qualified to become a part of our
political system, and take part, not
only in the government of themselves
and their neighbors, but of the whole
United States" seaf
The whites, the blacks, and the In
dians have mingled there and the at
tempt is failure. Why was it that
upon Buena Vista's battle field, four
thousand American troops - some
from Indiana two regiments from
Indiana--why was it they were able
to stand up against and overcome
twenty thousand Mexican troops under
their most skillful leader Be
cause, white man, of pure, unmixed
blood, is the equal of four OF the
mixed races. / don't speak of the
mixing of nations belonging to the
same great blood and race-the white
races. / believe that the lrishman,
the German, the Norwegian, the
Scotchman, the Englishman, IN mix
ing his blood with ours, adds power,
energy and greatness to the race, but
when you cross Gods decree, you in
troduce an element of weakness. So,
gentlemen, we have postponed the
settlement of our Difficult ties for near
ly three years, that this Congressional
policy might become a success, aud
when a success, it results as follows
Let me read you this. | know you
won't believe me when | say, if you
see the negro voting it will result as
follows: They will have negro Govern
ors, members of Congress, Senator's,
Judges and members of the Supreme
Court. Suppose they do send colOred
| Senators and Representative to Con
gress; | have no doubt you will find
men in the North who will not think
themselves degraded by so doing. L
am simply discussing the political eff
feet. In every State where there is a
negro Governor or negro Supreme
Judge, white immigration will cease.
There will be no more white immi
grafton. You can't find a white man
who will locate In a State that has a
colored State Government. You viii
absolutely shut of, at once, and eff
| fectually, all emigration from the
Northern States, whenever that effect
shall happen. Thus they will remain
permanently colored States N the
South, and white men would remove
| from them under such circum-
stances. How do you like that idea D.?
Voices, " All right. Why, that is
Governor Morton speech, / Laughter
condemning all that has been done
| by Congress upon the reconstruction
policy, and speech made when there
was no election to be carried, because
in the Fall of 1865, when we were not
electing State ticket, there was DO
question Of political agitation, but
it was a deliberate speech, made to
the people that they might under
| stand what was true. When you
Africanize ten of the States of this
Union, as Governor Morton says will
be the consequence of this policy,
what becomes Of your prosperity? Do
| you men wish to trust your products
| to the care of an Eastern mark ct
altogether, or do you want a South
ern marketf- Let the West and the
North, the East and South, all be
prosperous. Let US feed them. Let
the South have their rice, and tobacco,
sugar and cotton, and become a pros
porous, great and happy people once
more, and then we can sell to them
all we may have to spare. But when
ever you give up ten of those States
to negro control, ypur market is gone
forever. [ need not argue that before
the intelligent men of Jay and ad
| joining counties. You know that
where the negroes have had control
| of lands in this country, there has
been no market. They have had
nothing to sell, and of course have
had nothing with which to buy. Gen
tlemen, l would like to discuss this
question little further, but | have to
pass on to some other points.
To this lengthy harangue Governor
BAKER replied as follows
My distinguished competitor is
much disturbed about my opinion on
the subject of negro suffrage, as ex-
pressed In speech that / made over
in Ohio. l am not going to take back
word that [ have ever said on the
subject of human rights. Ny friend
and his party have had little spite at
the Declaration of Independence for
some time; and at the Fourth OF July,
too. In fact the Fourth of July has
ceased to be Democratic institution.
Now, if my friend wants to take a tilt
at the Declaration Of Independence,
all I have to say is, go in
Over in Ohio they proposed to sub
NIT this question. to the people-a
doctrine l have always adhered to.
You alone can amend your constitu.
ton; you have never been guilty of
rebellion you have never dismember-
ed your State government; you are
not obliged to permit negroes to vote
unless you want to; and don't say
that you ought to do it. But over in
Ohio they had Democratic Supreme
Court some twenty years ago, which
decided that if a man had one drop
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