The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-30
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WEDNESDAY MORNING. sEPTEMBER 30, 1888.
GREAT SPEECH OF GxNER AZ BLAIR
at INDIANAPOLIS.

ePSSCn' nom winch we eXudcL Inc following:
Radical revolution does not stop with changing
the complexion Of the Constitution, but changes
the very color OF our people. The mixed white
and black Is the badge intended by nature to tor
Did the bsIs to the unnatural cross, branding bas
taTdy and disease in the very countensnce of the
newborn citizenship TO spring from negro equal
ly. let it Is the line most in favor With our
haoicalrulers. The new process DESIGNED to ere.
ate Us one people seems 10 require that the new
species should wear the same uniform 10 the ex
ternsi aspect. That prejudice which produces the
hostility between different castles the world over
and begets inequality from the inevitable results
oftuch contests, can only be eradicsted by blend.
ing colors' Negro equality and negro suffrage
may enhRhten and elevate one race -disfranchise-
ment and subjugaton may bring down the other
to the inferior standard but unless the blood
is mixed and new type and vissge is produced,
the old eemeDt-tbe old prejudice and copstita.
tioDsl nature prevaiiDg-the equilibrium sought
by our Radical doctors will again be overthrow.
This infers amalgamaton as an essential aud
necessary ingredient of the attempt to make one
people out of many races.
These refOrmers of our government deduce
universal suffrage from the Declaration of lode
pepdence and at first al announced that it their
main object TO secure that right to American
women. The deyout creed of Wade, Wendell
Phillips, Gerrit Smith, Lovejoy, Pomery-all who
believed 10 universal suffrage held it sacred as
the right of women, the fairest and best of our
IkIs GoCuIse Although NY p@ law been susointe
in Congress for eight years, they have not counte
naneed the slightest motion in favor of the grand
religious ideas that rose with them above all party
politics, above all manhood, assumption. of selfish
ness; it is all tnTned to manhood suffrage!
How this change? Has this Radical fanatic sect
turned Mohamedsns? Have the women, the
fairest portion of creation ceased to have souls
to be saved? Have they no rights in society, no
coDjHgal rights, no natural instincts duties to
protect; or have they no minds, gifted with in
tellectuai power, to combine their suffrage as
safeguard? In this land of heroic, maguani.
M N hava faa
foundation OF our freedom as colonists of
the New World, held it their prer0gatVe to
send their husbands, fathers. brothers. as
their representatives,, TO pass through the conflict
of parties in the canvass before the election and
the struggle at the polls in the Legislature, the
judicial forums, and the exec tive councils. When
the last appeal of arms became necessary, then
the spirit of true manhood appeared in the gal.
l8ntry displayed by the softer sex, which gave
life, with JOY, in defense of those whom itremoved
from danger. This the manhood principle
thst appeared ct the beginning OF our career.
But how have those, who claim the glory of hav
ing made conquest over the South for the rights
of human nature respected the rights of either
man or woman in that desolated region! Have
they restored the Union? Have the States their
original governments, with constitutions unim-
paired, members of il! Are the men. their
citizenship restored, left undisturbed under their
own laws, as pledged in their parole2 Or are the
women secured in their privilege of having their
husbands, fathers, and brothers to represent
/
capacities ntrusted to them as guardians of their
freedom and interest?
No. the intelligent race of the South, women
well as men, are stripped Of all security for the
rights pledged by act Of Congress during the war,
and in the capitulaton concluding it. And worse;
the negro, a repugnant race, Of different inter-
ests, feelings, habits and desires, is given the
power TO impose Constitutions and laws on
another nation Of people, men and women, utterly
against their consent, and to establish them. by
oaths and other conditions so absolute as to make
them irreverssble by the future suffrage of ma
jority of the people And this is the good
faith of the Radical, Universal Equality Suff, age
party. ..1.r g.
The pretext that the white men of the South
capable OF holding Office and voting for repre-
sebiauon, we're guilty of perjury Sy goiog into
the war in violation of their allegiance, does not
by any construction apply to the women, who
never took an oath or held an Office to bring them
under the disabilities of the fisgrantly unconstitu.
| popal act of forfeiture passed by the Radicals
O. ~ e Sesf1 10 iS,.iston Here, then, the
haoiSas so MEe sn ana SaofbiG q eeuaE 3f g
belonging TO one common humanity.
They deny it 10 their own fair country women,
however intellectual and cultivated, and give TO
the grIss, ignorant, hateful African caste the
power Of making laws and establishing relations,
creating dssolute intercourse and habits, which,
wherever people OF their complexion have ever
borne sway, have ever been attended by des-
potism of beastisl passions their whole enjoyment
of life consisting in its seDsuality. In Kansas, at
the latest election where the Radicals carried the
| majority, the question OF negro suffrage and
womsn's Suffrage as submitted by law to the vote
! OF the people at the polls. Negro suffrage had
larger vote than female suffrage, though defeated
| of obtaining majority by a sense Of shame, per-
bsps on the part of white men. who alone voted.
Nevertheless. the negroes had the triumph of car
| rying the majority vote against the women, which
| thus marked the preference of the Radicals for
| the blacks over their own wives, daughters and
sisters, as more competent to choose representa-.
| tives for them and to give laws 20 the State.
| The preference on the part of the Radicals of
| Ohio and Michigan, and other States. was marked
! in a manner still more significant, for while they
| made effort TO olothe the negro with suffrage,
no attempt of any hlnd was made IN behalf OF the
| women.
But to what potency is this element of negro
| suffrage to grow under the fostering care of Radi-
! calism and toe Iutesge of military governments
IL is essential to the system now founded upon II,
| that it must be made absolute by the oayonet over
! the elections of the southern States. Ii must send
| the twenty senators and fifty representatives TO
/ Congress, and an equal number of presidential
electors 20 turn the scale in the North, that the
| head OF the army designated for president shall
/ grasp the government. lts power is then 10 con-
| vert the sham OF negro suffrage into permanent
| military control of elections-and was there ever
! found filter force TO do the bidding of Military
chief in suppressiDg the popular voice, than the
/ three millions of sturdy blacks who now rejoice
that they are let loose IRON all ANTS, and may
break up a form of authority which they connect
. Win tnen 1Ormer Slavery. uas tuo
disciplised white soldery in India taught the mil
lioDs Of sers of that region to revolt against their
native princes, and embodying a position into a
! soldiery OF Sepoys. armed and drilled for that
purpose, taught them to subject more than one
hundred millions Of their blood, hold the rich
est confines on earth, TO company of merchants
of little island hidden in q remote ocean!
SO the Turks became the conquerors OF the
grand section of the Roman Empire ia Europe,
Asia and Africa BY converting tho slavish natinns
thew took in battle aud used as the material OF 40
army, to spread their conquests over Christian
civilized countries. The Jsnissries that csrried
terror 10 the State of Vienna aud spostate
Christian prisoners, filed with the sensual en-
thusasm Of the Mohamet's poygamOus religion.
easily prompted to such rspine among the fair
races whose religion they had ablared. How apt
all the colored races are TO become the instru-
meuts Of military despots, lending 10 the subiu-
cation of prosperous nations enjoying peace under
civil institutions, all history attests. Greece
Italy. SPAIN all the islands Of the Mediterranean
and sl its shores. the happy oceans OF aneIsl
and modern civilization, have again and aga !
fallen a prey TO modern barbarian hordes like the
one now educating by our military satrsps.