The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1868-09-26

famously belied. Not to be too lengthy, l
assure you that this public opinion that is
driving the North to the support of the
dangerous Capitalization power in Congress
is based upon falsehood and misrepresenta-
ton. AS l expect to be judged by my
Maker at the great day of final Judgment
l state to you solemnly that from extern
sive travel in those States, from converse
tons with all classes and colors, believe,
before high Heaven, that all these news,
paper representations of hatred to and out
RACES upon blacks by whites, are baseless,
wicked fabrications, concocted and re-
ported expressly to create this fearful public
opinion which should sustain change
of the fundamental principles of the Con-
stitution."
The speaker then referred to the riot at
New Orleans, which he ascribed to the
attempts on the part of the Radicals to
overthrow the State organization which had
been effected under the policy of Mr.. Lin
coin and Mr.. johnson. 1t disfranchised
the white and enfranchised the black man.
He then spoke of the outbreak at Mile
ken, Texas the report of the Generals who
were praying heaven not to force upon
ernment against their will. would like to
read you few extracts from this memorial,
because they state, in words simple and
truthful, the precise condition of the ne
groes and the white population in those
States. They state to you facts which l
have no doubt nineteen out of twenty of all
the white people of the South would testify
to under oath, and facts which every man
in the North and every man in this assem-
travelled at the South, would testify to,
also
Fellow-citizons, l do not rely entirely
upon the statement of these Southern men.
Let me call your attention to the state
ment of a Northern man, General in tho
Northern army, who has lived and travelled
throughout the South during the last three
years. refer to General Tarbell, of the
State of New York, who is endorsed by
Governor Fenton, the Republican Coy
ernor of the State of New York, as highly
intelligent, patriotic and reliable gentle
man.
Three years ago this fall. when General
Grant was in Wisconsin, he held the same
views which now hold on this question,
and authorized me to state to the people of
Wisconsin and to the Convention assembled
ut Madison, that if Congress should insist
on negro suffrage rs the basis Of recon-
struction at tho South, wo should be
obliged to keep a standing army there in
order to prevent war Of races
General Grant, in the report which he
made in December, 1865, said the condition
of tho South was so good, so quiet, 80 fine
Il feeling prevailing among the people OF
the South, that the army, with very few
exceptions, can be withdrawn. But Con-
gress insists upon this new Radical policy of
forcing negro suffrage down the throats of
the white people, and therefore the neces-
sity OF keeping the army at the South, and
keeping the Freedmen's Bureau there to
manipulate the negroes and organize them
as Radical party.
CONCLUSION.
My fellow citizens, am not here for tho
purpose of dealing in oratory or rhetoric.
/ come to deal with plain naked facts ; to
deal with the judgments and consciences of
men, and | say to my Republican friends,
who with me supported Mr.. Lincoln in his
administration, you who with mo support
cd his plan and policy of reconstruction /
say that you as well az l ought to adandone
this Radical policy. You ought to trample
it under your feet, for it is a policy at war
with the Constitution, ut war with civiliza-
ton. 1t is u policy which is involving en-
ormous expenditures, paralynes the South,
destroys industry, prevents it from produce
ing, and instead of adding anything to the
strength of the Government. it is taxing it
beyond our resources to bear Fellow-citi-
sons, l may use strong langnage-I never
deal in denunciations of individuals L
deal with ideas, and have summed up in
a few words tho grounds upon which l
impeach this Radical policy, before the
American people. Before tribunal more
august than the Senate, before the civilized
world, before high Heaven, impeach this
Radical policy of high crimes and INSIDE
impeach it as crime against
the laws Of nature, which God the Almighty
has stamped upon tho races of mankind,
because it attempts to force a political and
unniol and IN n "a tI1raI Ouualitv hntxvoap tha
African and tho Caucasian, between tho
alien and inferior and exotic race from the
tropics, and the highest type of the human
race in this temperate zone. i impeach it
IA u crime against civilization, because it
by force wrenched the Government out of
the hands of the civilized white race in ten
States of this Union, to place it in the hands
of tho half civilized African.
s. impcach it az crime against the
Constitution because 1t tramples down the
rights of the Suites to fix for them the quail
ification of their own electors-a right with
out which State ceases to be republican
ut all.
4. impeach it as crime against the
Constitution and against National faith,
because it annuls the privileges constitu-
tionally granted to those most intelligent,
the white men of the South, and in open,
palpable violation OF the Constitution, dis
franchises tHom.
s. impeach it as u crime organized
against the existence of ton States of the
Union-the liberties of eight millions of
in express terms it annuls
all civil government, by which alone those
liberties may DO secured, and places them
under an absolute military despoiism.
q. impeach it as q crime against hui
mainly, tending to produce war of races,
to the utter destruction OF one or both-a
result which can not be prevented except
by lurge standing army, which our re-
sources can not bear, nor our Liberties long
survive.
7. impoach 1t as an utter abandonment
of the purpose for which the war was pros
ecuted-of the idea upon which we fought
and mastered the rebellion:
g. impeach IL because it tends to make
false all the promises and pledges made by
the friends OF tho Government in its fearful
struggle to put down the rebellion, and
because it tends to make true all prophecies
and forebodings of its enemies.
0. | mpeach it for its destruction OF the
National faith and the National credit,
bringing high taxation, unbearable taxa
ton, whibh must inevitably lead to repudia-
ton, unless better policy be adopted.
In conclusion, fellow citizens, the candi-
dates of the two parties are placed in nomi-
nation. General Grant and Mr.. Colfax
represent the Radical policy and the radical
party. They base their reconstruction upon
the ruins of the States They base their re-
construction outside of tho Constitution.
They base their reconstruction upon tho
half civilized negro basis, and upon white
Acknowledgement.
On the other hand, Seymour, the dis
tinguished statesman of New York Blair,
the distinguished hero and statesman OF
Missouri, stand upon the Democratic plat
form, which buses reconstruction upon the
Constitution, upon the rights of the States,
granted and secured by 1t, an upon the
civilized white basis, as the only sure and
safe foundation for republican government
Loud cheers.l