The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-08-15


no more, thou son of Ham, for the white
man has taken up the shovel and the hoe,
land we will feed you and yours, and you
shall not starye." EApplause.
i The Union League has gone down there,
and it tells the black man that he has be-
come Prince in the house of David, the
beloved in Israel. Tt, too, says, "work no.
more you are too busy making State con-.
stitutions to hoe corn. EApplause.J Let
the corn crop go, let the cotton crop be
lblighted, but build State constitutions"
II Applause These field hands of the
South are invited to this banquet Of pow
er, and no wonder the fields Of the South
lack for laborers, no wonder tho wealth
lof the South is destroyed, no wonder the
Northern people are heavily burdened.
70 wonder that instead Of paying two dol.
: las for taxes you pay four-paJ your own
sharc and the share of the South ike
wisa.
THE NEGRO AS 4 MAN AND VoTER.
Bu, my fellow citizens, there is aDoth.
er feaure of this question to which
must cal your attention. The sole pur-
pose Of his standing army, the sole pur-
lpose Of lesving these States out Of the
union, the ole purpose Of destroying lib
lerty IN all it, forms, is to increase and
multiply the Iower of the Radical party
: OF the North bS adding to it the trained
black voters Of f'e South, by virtue af
the bayonet ah one of those persons
that hold first, upon the question of SUI
frage, that il Is not question of federal
politics at all. I takeit that no man of
honesty, no man Of common intelligence,
! believes that Congress las the right to
force code Of suffrage q the State Of
Indiana. Has Congress TIE right to en-
force negro suffrage everywlere2 will
. read the Chicago platform-hat trans
D parent fraud upon the question directly.
. They say they have power tC enforce
. it over ten States, but not power to en-
: force it over the rest It is q qusstion
e for the States, and the States alone. IF
Q the people Of any State desire to insor-
' porate the negro race into their votiLR
0 population, that Is their business, ana
!. not mine. But should never do it, and
: will give you my reasons why. If the
4 people of State desire to do it, they
9 have the power TO do it, however unwise
r the act may be; but the power of Con-
! gress does not extend to that. No ques-
Q tion is palmer than that; and the Demo
}, cratic party stands upon that doctrine
}, But We 60 further. We hold that the
0 attempt to mingle and commingle two
J. separate and distinct races in the control
r Of one government, has, according to all
history, resulted fatally to the govern
d ment that attempted it. have no pref
n udices against the negro, | have no
!. prejudices against anything that God haa
: made. What right have II The hum
Q blest and lowest thing of animated crea-
!, ton has my sympathy and my respect,
e because God made it. It is not because
!? | would trample upon the black man that
o I would deprive him of the right of suf-
g frage in this country, but because the
= right of suffrage in his hand is an ele-
8 ment of his own destruction, as well as
a yours. would give the black man ev-
y cry civil right known to the law. Suf-
J frage is not q right; it is a social ar
rangement. I would give the negro the
: right to hold property, the right to make
g contracts and enforce them, collect his
d wages, sue and be sued, testify in courts
# for / would elicit truth from any source,
b and weigh the character of the witnesses,
and let their evidence go for what it was
b worth-but when you ask me to take that
n race into political partnership with the
= great, white, conquering race, to whose
Q hands, and to whose hands alone, your
i fathers gave the government of this ma
# ton, then, | say, sacrilege is attempted,
d and l recoil from it. (Applause.l Take
I, the history Of the world. Some say that
g suffrage is natural right. Why, / was
z on the stump for four weeks in New
}, England last winter and spring. | talk
,, ed to those New Englanders.
y They said that suffrage was natural
i, fright to men. They said, els not the
., black man man and brother hasn't
is he the right Of suffrage because he has Q
10 soulY" Ny answer was, when your faith
d era came here, on TO these hills of New
70 England, they found great proud race,
, native born here, more intellectual, bra
it YER, more warlike, o race that produced
l. warriors, yea, statesmen and orators. The
J. King Phillipses and the Tecumsehs of
10 the Indian race compare favorably with
% the great men of any other race; and I
e asked those men why didn't your fathers
h give suffrage to the red man when they
( came here 2 You landed from the May
r fowr: you found those hills and these
It valleys full of these people that owned
, this land. Did they give the red man
!, the right to vote But his right is far
> higher than the black mans. and he is moro
| capable of exercising it. But let me ask
the consistent radical, why don'tyou raise
II the cry of suffrage for the red man on the
e borders. The Indians are there in largo
d numbers. ] know many of them person
) Ially, and my friend Colonel Thompson,
K lwho spoke here the other day, and said,
p give the negro the ballot south of the
IS Ohio river, and deny it to him North
sl he knows those Indians out there, too.
a He knows their superior intelligence,
Q The Cherokee nation is civilized ma
n ltion, and the Delawares and Choctaws and
: Ohickasaws are civilized likewise they
e Ihave schools, own lands and property,
It and have cattle upon thousand hills.
n Who is it that advocates Incorporating
]; them into the civil policy of this govern
e Iment2 And why? Simply because
IS there is no capital to be made out OF the
n red man. But apply this principle and
!, let us see where It would go to. Hun
IS dreds of thousands of Cinnamon are crow
It ding to our shores they are people OF
Il wealth, likewise. Some of the Japanese