Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-09
Tho Carmel j Bag Dynasty.

uel ]. Tilden, Esq, the Nestor Of tn
party in the Empire State, delivered on
of his mastery speeches, few day
since, at Chatham, New York, from
which we extract the following para
graph CONCERNING the carpet-bag dynast,
now ruling in the South, and the pestifs'
rous interference it is exerting on the
colored race in the Southern States;
The next pretense is that they will moi
deal fairly with the negro. Fellow
citizens, il is not, it is not among our
our Republican friends that the negro can
find safety and refuge. The men OF the
South, who have lived in the same com
muniiy with the negro, with whom he IL
ACQUAINTED, with whom he has relations,
are better custodians of his safety aud
his prosperity than we. We cannot
stretch our hands q thousand miles TO es
tablish a police over the relations Of the
white man and the black man in Mis-
sissippi or Louisiana. We may spend
one hundred or two hundred millions a
wear in trying to do it, but we cannot.
And the vagrant men who 20 down from
the North as the particular friends Of the
negro, and who seek to come back as hep
resentatives in Congress or in the Senate,
not to govern the negro alone, but to gov
ern us-those men have all the weak
nesses and are subject to all the errors
and crimes that belong to humanity when
it has irresponsible power. Applause'
To-day what do we see? Why, we see
that while Christianity, while philan-
thropy are vsinly attempting to solve this
problem in regard to the negro, that the
extortien, oppression and abuses OF
Northern men who have gone down there
10 lead and marshal the negroes until
thew govern the white race South, and
help to govern us, are so great that they
are making revolt, even among the me-
proes themselves, and TO day everywhere
throughout the South the negro is turning
from these philanthropists," who are his
bane. his calamity, and his destruction,
and are seeking in their deportation
against ali prejudices, against all the
natural tendencies of their situation
ARE seeking relief in forming Seymour
and Blair clubs, as an escape to the
black man from carpet bag rulers and
Freedmen's Bureaus. Loud laugh
Ter and applause. 1t is for you to
saw whether you will submit to the gov
eminent of a class that revolts even the
ignorant and untutored African; that re.
volts the field hands of the plantation.
1t is for you TO say at this election
whether carpet -bsggers shall govern not
merely Florida, not merely Georgia, but
whether they shall govern New York,
Penusylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
TCries of "Never," mo" no." A
single remark now, and l draw to a close.
1t is for you TO decide in this election,
and if there be Republican here
present, I appeal to him frankly and
candidly whether you will consent that
one man in Florida, massing together the
negroes of that State, in number less thar
one-half of the population Of one of our
congressional districts, not more than
the county of Columbia 10 the district
that proposes to elect Mr. Wheaton
-rgreat cheers]- ask you whether
you will consent that a number of ne.
groes, not more than the population OF
the county of Columbia or the county OF
Duchess, shall elect two Senators to the
United States-one for four years and
one for six years-as they have just done
in Florida, who shall exercise as much
power over all questions of commerce,
over all questions of currency, over all
questions Of business, yea, over another
question that deeply concerns you and
me-over the question of how much
Ill Int hoH ha
done with the money-the little of it
that gets into the public Treasury
laughter latter it leaves our pockets
whether You will consent that these forty
thousand negroes in Florida shall exer-
else as much power through their Sens-
tors as four millions of white men in the
State of New York; [" No, no." APP
plause] A few days ago there came to
nv house, in the evening, a business
man of the city of New York, Republi.
can and member of the Loyal League
club, and he brought with him two gen
tlemen from Florida; one of them was
LAWYER aud the other president of
railway company, and they came to con-
suit me on the business of that company.
These two gentlemen are men of high
character, and of as much intelligence
and as much respectability as any men
in the audience. During this interview,
they told me who these two gentlemen
we're who represented the interests of
Florida in the Senate of the United
States. They both protested to be New
Workers. One was Mr.. I. W. Osborne,
of the city of New York. / thought of
getting ont search warrant to find who
he was. Laughter. ! never heard Of
anybody who had heard Of him. They
said he had lived in the city Of New York,
where / have resided for thirty years
past, and yet never heard of him, and
| could find no one who ever heard of
him. [Continued laughter This mas
goes to the Senate. They have all TIE
members of the Legislature, and the
Governor and the Chief Justice, and they
have voted themselves enormous salaries
out of the impoverished people Of
Florida, and they have taken full pos
session, and have seat these two carpet
baggers to represent them in the Senate
of the United States, one for four years
and the other for six years, to have just
as much voice in everything that con
Germs you as the men who are elected by
you from this great State. / have heard
Of the slave power, but what abuse OF
what danger or what evil in it was there
which equaled this 2 / trust that when
this state of things comes TO be UNDER
stood by the intelligent people of TIE
country, they will be swift to apply the
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