The Opelousas courier., 1868-06-06
OPENING OFTHE CAMPAIGN
TN MISSOURI ,.s

LIN MISSOURI.
On the 25th, Hon. W. H. O'Bri-
en-, of Illinois, who is running fol
Congress against Gen. Logan, Of
the same State, delivered an able
and eloquent speech to a large
and enthusiastic assemblage OF
the Democrats of St. Louis. We
make room for the following para
graph: .,& 80. get
Go down South, to that country
that sustained you, that sustained
Illinois and the great Northwest,
and furnished a mart for every
thing we had to $ |, and furnish
ed us all the nee aries of life
that we wished to ID schase in the
shape of sugar, cottOa and tobae-
co. She took our pork beet, corn,
our oats, our wheat, our. every
thing we had to dispose of. She
furnished a mart for our commo-
dities, and we furnished to her a
mart for hers; she gave us her
gold and we gave her our beef and
our grain. She formerly. paid her
share of public expenses; We now
pay an army of 10000 to keep it
in a state of slavery, SO that she
will not be. able to say anything.
[Cheers.1 Yes, sir, / charge upon
this party here tonight, and cllal-
lenge contradiction. They are. ele-
waiting the negro of the South
upon the ruin Of the white man.
The speaker then, In whitening
terms. showed that the policy of
the Radicals was in favor OF social
amalgamation with the negroes,
and said that If the army were
withdrawn from the South, Sambo
could not maintain his position
for twenty-four hours. He drew
a sketch of the, state of. affairs
which would ensue from negro
dominancy, and showed that while
they had emancipated' four mil
lions of negroes the Radical party
had enslayed eight millions of
their own race. a. s.sBs.sGsss ysss nj
Proceeding he said i say to
You tonight, that in the great
city of st. Louis, in the great
State of Missouri, you are virtu-
ally In a state of slavery. You
have. men here in your city who
cannot vote, who are not permit
ted to vote-men who never
breathed q breath against liberty
or against the flag Of their coln-
try. Some of them--the most ho-
norable of the clty-are not per-
mitted to register their names or
have a voice Ia making the laws,
by which their lives, liberty and
property are regulated. The man
who is taxed, and who is not per-
mitted TO have a voice in the cleo
ton of his lawmakers is q. slave.
The man who is tried in your
courts here by a law, which he
had not the power either to make
or change either in, the most re-
mote or direct manner, Is virtually
q slave. BY a late. aetaof your
Radical Legislature here, those
men, who cry out aeternal justice
and iberty,p have appointed a
man in St. Louis county who is to
determine who, in this city and
county, shall vote and who shall
not. r ask you If this Is not q
libel upon the age--if it's not an
outrage upon the name of liberty
if it is not b farce worse than
any farce that was ever perpetra-
ted by any despot in the old world.
You have the forms of republi-
canisrn while you have the very
chains Of slavery clanking at your
heels. / tell you that the day of
salvation is at hand; those long
years OF trial and trouble and OF
national travail are past. / tell
you tnat this dark night Of politi-
cal persecution is at an end, and
the glorious morning Is bursting
the dark clouds and shining upon
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