Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-28

degradation as that which has been pre-
pared by the malignancy of the Radicals
for our people at the South. The nations
have been subjugated, have been har-
raised and have suffered in their persons
and their property; but never in the tide
of time, never since history began, has the
white race been subjected by their own
brethren of the same race to semi
barbarous and alien race Of negroes.
That is humiliation and degradation left
to the malignant ingenuity ofthese Radi-
cal professors of God and humanity. A
voice "The white people will never sub
init to it. and cheers. Now, my friends,
we stand here to-day upon the soil Of this
great empire of Illinois, call it an en-
pire-with one or two millions, perhaps
fully two millions, ofwhite people, with
its noble cities some Of them rivalling the
most magnificent of the new or of the
Old World, with its vast extent Of fertile
soil and its salubrious climate, it is now
great empire in itself and destined to be-
come one Of the mightiest in the world.
Associated with it are the States Of Indi-
ana and Ohio, and on the north lie Wis
consin, Michigan and part Of Minnesota,
| Nv fellow citizens, the whole site
occupied by these great States, these
noble empires, was the bounty of
the old State Of Virginia to the con-
iederate government to pay the debt Of
the revolution. 1t was the gift Of old
Virginia. These great and magnificent
States, containing at this time 100000
| Of population, are the bounty Of old Vir-
ginia to the government. The soil upon
which your wealth and prosperity have
arisen she gave you by the ordinance of
1887, drawn by the pen Of her most illus
trious statesman, Thomas Jefferson-an
ordinance which dedicated this country to
the white race and to freedom. That
Old Dominion, weakened and torn her
self by the inheritance of slavery, yet
with watchful care and noble foresight
with a wisdom and craftsmanship
which have characterized 70 other peo>
ple-took care to shield her children, the
young States springing from her loiDs,
from that institution, which was the only
drawback of her own great prosperity.
Now, what do we do to-day ? This old
mother of States is to- day in shame she
and her people have been enslaved; the
descendants Of her illustrious dead, who,
more than other people at that time,
achieved the independence ofthe govern
ment, are to-day enslaved upon her soil.
And who has riYeted the chains Whose
work is it ? The Senators and Repre-
sentatives from Illinois did their part
the Senators and Representatives from
Ohio, and the Representatives from most
Of the Eastern States did their share
also, as did likewise the Senators from
the negro States that sprang from the
bounty Of the Old Dominion.
My fellow citizens, shall it be recorded
in history that the children had strangled
the mother That you, of Illinois, oil
Ohio, Of Indiana, of Wisconsin, of Michi-
gan and of Minnesota, have turned from
the bountiful mother that gave you all
except your own labor, and that has built
up those noble empires-that you have
turned upon her and strangled her
| L"Never." Her sons to-day lie PROSTATE
in disgrace. The chains are upon their
limbs, by the act of the Representatives
of this State, and ofall these other States.
1t is the act Of the parricide. You, who
have received everything-the soil on
which you live and from which your en-
tire wealth and prosperity have been
drawn you have turned upon the noble
giyer of all these bounties and inSulted
her sons upon their own soil and injected
them to the degradation of being ruled
by an alien and semi barbarous race OF
negroes. Do you think that God, in his
might, can prosper the people that have
done these things 'eNo, SIR l tell
you that the retribution will come, swift
and sure. Your Representatives in your
name, have done deed that will recoil
upon you. 1t is impossible, in the nature
of things, for living man to go about
and still live with dead corpse fastened
to his body; and Illinois cannot prosper,
nor can the Northwest prosper, nor can
any Of the States of this Union prosper,
if they have tied to them the dead corpse
which deSpotism had made at the South.
Your own act, and the act of this people
are sure to bring retribution back upon
yourselves. The despOtism you have es-
tablished at the South will come to you.
The destruction of the prosperity of the
South will destroy your prosperity. You
have made slaves of them, and they in
turn will aid in makiag slaves of you.