Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-07-17

viii elect your President, and when ne
will take his seat, and never before-when
he gets majority Of the electoral votes
cast hy the white people OF the United
States, under the governments oil States,
which governments have been formed by
the white people. When you do that, u
YOU bring him here with majority OF
that vote, there will DO no obstacle 70 his
TRANSFORMATION; there will he no obstacle
10 his installation into Office; ana the
men who would aud will oppose him In
the canvass would then strike with as
much bolduess aud fidelity in favor oil
his right TO the Presidency, and 70 serve
out his time in il, as his own friends
But when You present the case in this
form: here is Seymour, who has twenty,
thirty. or forty more Of this white cleo
torai vote than Grant, aud Grants cleo
ton is decided by the negro vote, the
question then presents itself to the
American mind, TO its heart and soul,
will you permit these negroes TO appoint
President for your No; no; not even
the General Of the Army. backed with all
Of his military power One day OF vir-
tuous liberty in resistance 70 such sys
TEN Of tyranny would be worth ages oil
such slavery.
Sir, these are my sentiments | AN 70
marty man. am no Democrat. l never
was. am for my country, for the Union,
the Constitution, and the enforcement oil
the laws; and ] will 90 under any, man
standard who strikes in that glorious
cause; and / oppose every man who
takes nm arms against il TO the extent oil
my feeble ability. am not responsioie
for the nominations or for the platform ~
New York. believe in the platform.
hug it TO my hesrt, to my reason, 20 my
soul and have no doubt that under us
hammer the free white men OF America
will march on in November next to a
olor;ous yictory-pescefully. There will
he ne blood. You will be beaten so fairly
that You will not have ground to stand
upon. You will haveahe votes OF some
ak or eight States. The storm Of 1910
will rise, and will sweep with more fury
than it did then. twill be the best DAY
for YOU and your country, and the whole
country, that this people have known
since the revolutionary war. :,
But my friend from Indiana received
this platform as a sound and tocsin q
war, Sir, there will be no war. Areck'
less band of revolutionists, and all the
hosts of the negroes Of the South, With
ali their carpet baggers, and leaders,and
adventurers. cannot make any stand
AGAINST the hosts of the white freemen OF
America that will on that day rally for
the Constitution which Washington
made. and for the liberties which it se-
cures and which were fought for during
The revolutionary war. The time will
come when you yourselves will sound
your praises and your peans for the
mighty free white host that will perform
this great work. :. -
EMy honorable friend Mr.. Morton) a
few days ago said that twas vulgar
prejudice to oppose negro equality. MY
honorable friend from West Virginia
(Mr. Wiley made a most passionate
and eloquent appeal in favor OF the
negro and negro suffrage, the equality of
the negro, in the language OF the hon
orable Senator from Massachusetts Mr..
Sumner) the equality of the negro be-
fore the law. That is an equality that
wiser men than you have been seeking
to establish for the last six thousand
years You have never made anything
but a negro out Of the curly headed Afri'
can. and you will never be able to make
ANYTHING but that out Of him. He has no |
fitness for self-government But Sena- |
tors said that il was the debasing effects,
the decentralization, the degradation, the |
ignorance, the brutality that have been
brought upon this race by slavery that |
rendered them unfit to take part in the |
government. They admitted their unfit |
ness. Now, let US see what is the truth |
of the case. / will read q passage from |
Matte Brun. he says: \
"Tbe slave coast of Africa consists of |
several petty States, which are all under |
the despotic sway Of the King of Daho-
mey. This barbarian monarch chooses |
to have women for his body-guard, and |
his palace is surrounded by one thou
sand of these Amazons, armed with |
iavelins and muskets, from whom he |
selects his special military aids and mes.
sengers. His ministers, when they come |
into the royal presence, are Obliged to |
leave their silk gowns atthe gates of the |
palace, and approach the throne walk
ing on all tours, and rolling their hands |
in the dust. The ferocity Of this African
despot almost surpasses conception. |
The road to his residence is strewed with |
human skulls, and the walls are adorned
and almost covered with jsw-bones. On |
public occasions the sable monarch walks |
in solemn pomp over the bloody heads of |
yauuuisned princes or disgraced minis |
tiers. At the festival of the tribes, TO |
which all the people bring presents for |
the king, he drenches the tomb Of his |
father with human blood. Fifty dead |
bodies are thrown around the royal
sepulchre, and fifty heads displayed on
poles. The blood of these victims is
presented TO the king, who dips his
fingers in it and ticks them. Human
blood is mixed with clay to build tenn
ples in honor OF deceased monarchs.
The royal widows kill one another till
it pleases the new sovereign to put an
end to the slaughter; and the crowd as
sembled to these most joyous festivals
applaud such scenes of horror, and de-
light in tearing the unhappy victims to
pieces"
There is the start from which you say
the debasing and unhumanizing and de-
grading influences of slavery have re-
deemed their posterity and given them
selfgovernment. 1t is not necessary to
read more.
Senators, ADLER men. truer philanthro-
rists than you are, or can possibly be,
have undertaken in the past ages of the
world this thing of elevating the negro
race and bringing him up TO an equality
and level with the white man. II is
impossible. Why do not you, who are SO
fond Of it aud wanted TO see il tested, go
10 Jamaica or to Saint Domingo7 1t has
there received test within the past gen
GRAFTON, and yet every day it is more de-
moralizing and barbarizing. The negro
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