Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-25
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The following is the speech delivered by
Sen. FRANK P. BLAIR, Democratic candi-
date TOR Vice President, at Indianapolis, on
Wednesday, September %, 1858, at the
mammoth Mass Meeting: -ezs. -. -,
FELLOW CITH EMS, LADIES AND GENTLE
MEN Lthank you for the Kind conpii-
ment you have bestowed, upon me to-day.
shall be compelled TO tax yonr patience
to-day by asking you co permit me 90 de-
part from the old anc well-estabiish ed Gus.
tom in your midst, that OF delivering my
speech ertessp5ore; asad shall beseech your
patience In listening while L read the OBJ
servations intend to deliver to-day. ask
this of you because our opponents have
been 60 assiduous in Misrepresentation of
that which have said heretofore, and in
making speeches Tor me that never made
myself. Iintend to-day that there shall be
no mistake about it, and will read from the
manuscript which will afterward be
printed. 7'--i Sio9lf-ysai
Radical revolution does not stop with
changing the complexion OF the Constitu-
ton, but changes the very color of our peo-
pie. The mixed white and black is the
badge intended by nature to forbid the
bans to the unnatural cross, branding bast-
ardy and disease in, the very. countenance
OF the new born citizenship tospring from
negro equality. ct it is the line most in
favor by our Radical rulers, The new pro-
cess designed to create us-one people seems
to require chat the new species should wear
the same uniform in the ext. rnal aspect
That PREJUDICE which produces the hostil-
ity between di7erent castles the world over,
and begets Inequality from the inevitable
results of such contests, can only be eradl-
Gated by blending colors. Negro equality
and negro suffrage may enlighten and ele-
vate one Northumberland and sub
jugation may bring down the other race to
che inferior standard-but unless the blood
is mixed andanew type and visage is pro-
duced, the old lelementAthe old prejudice
and constitutional nature prevailing-the
equilibrium sought by our Radical doc
tors will again be Overthrown. This in
fers amalgamation as an essential and nee
Sssary Ingredient of the attempt to make
one people out of many races.
These reformers of our Government de-
duce universal suffrage from the Declara-
ton of Independence; and at first an
nounced that it was their main object TO
secure that right to American women. The
devout creed of Wade, Wendell Phillips,
Gerrit Smith, Lovejoy, Pomeroy-all who
believed in universal suffrage-held it sa-
cred as the right of won en,as the fairest and
best of our species-now W this whole party
have abandoned this doctrine; although
they have been absolute in Congress tor
eight years, they hive not fcountenanced
the sIi ightest motion in favor of this grand
religious idea that rose with them above
all party politics, above all manhood, as
sumption, of seffshness; now lis all turn
ed to asanhood suffrage y How this chan ge !?
Has this Radical fanatic sect turned Mo-
hamedans2 Have the women, the fairest
portion of creation, ceased to have souls to
be, saved? Have they, no rights in So
ciety, no copjugal rights, no maternal in
stincts or duties to protect; or have they
no minds, gifted with intellectual power,
to combine their suffrage as q safeguard !?
In this land of heroic, magnanimous men,
American women have, from the founda-
ton OF our freedom as colonists of the New
World. held 1t their prerogative to send
their husbands, fathers, brothers, as their
representatives, to pass through the con-
ffict of parties in the canvass before the
election and the struggle at the polls; in
the Legislature, Che Judicial forums, and
the Executive councils Whe the last ap-
peal of arms became necessary, then the
spirit of true manhood appeared in the
galiantry displays by the softer ser, which
gave life with Joy, in defense of those
whom it removed from danger. This was
the manhood principle that appeared at the
beginning of our career. But how have
those, who claim the glory of having made
n
of human nature, respected the rights
ofeither man or woman in that desolated
region? Have they restored the Union p
Have the States their ori ginal governments,
With constitutions unimpaired, as mem,
bers of it? Are the men, their citizenship
restored, left undisturbed under their own
laws. was pled ged in their parole? Or
are the women secured in their privilege
of having their husbands, fathers and
brothers to represent them In their suffrage.
and in ali the nolitical canacities entrusted
to them az onardians of their freedom and
;ntarestS - - II
Mo- The ;rte,l;oent race of tbe soi,th
yomen az well az men are strinned of ali
saonr;t,, Cor tba r;ghts nled~ad hv oct ot
Congrese Snr;ng the war and in the 20 nit.
nIation' conci,.fiinrs And worse the
nfgro. repliona race. of different inter
ests. feelings. habits and desires. is given
the nower TO impose constitutions and laws
on another nation of neonle. men and
Women ufterIv AGAINST their consent. and
to establish them, bv oaths and other com
6itionsS so absolute as to make them IRE.
Isrsai,Ia hv the fntnre snffra oe Of a ma ior.
itv of the peopie. And this is the sood
faith of the Radical. Universal Eouali1y
Sntfro 1a nartv = - : : 80 go. ,
uIetast tb.t tho ,,,b;to ~, ~, -,
GU, - .nhia &c ho,S;no oeHoa a,a ,,o.;'o
SoutH iapae.e " noiulns oniTe anu to.i.ls
ioF aEepIesentsslyn, Mcle suiiey " pslJuIy
Oy eoirH inIv I pug. Wal ~ vlolaIion VI Inei II
aileglance, ,h aoes m9S Wy A any @ .onI
Apply 70 Tue "onlen, ~no neveI oouh au
oatn or neia an ONCE 70 orlng tneul, unoei
the oisaDllltles. .oI Ine nagranIIyz zulconssi-
Guti0nai act OF IoIieiture pSsseu Dy Cne
haaicass ahu yeC eney pu. an lne women
OF the 29uIu al tne mercy 1l Negro iegisia-
Giom e oneh; tne ahas "a aolufe .;e, tne
wbite and black alike to sI,ffraee. as he
longing to one common humanity. They
Genv N to their own fair country women
however Intellectual and cultivated, and
Give to the gross, ignorant, hateful Al.
rican caste the power of making laws and
Establishing relations, creating dissolute