Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-10-12

the North have been denying and eycusing what
has been done in the South l say tonight that
as long as this stream of murder goes on in
the South there is no help for the South. lfyou
would reform the South, if you would make the
South prosperous and happy, you must stop the
murder business. 1t must cease, there is no
salvation for the South. Men will not go there to
live. Thousands are ready to fly from there as
soon as they can. Commerce and agriculture
languish, labor is not paid fiourishing. No
Government can flourish in the presence of MUIR
der. From the time that Cain killed Abel down
to the murders in the streets of New Orleans last
Monday, murder has always brought its own pun
ishment and always will. The South must pro-
tect the lives and property of all alike The
great fundamental principle of this Government
now IS liberty, equality and equal rights to all.
And until the South recognizes and entorces that
principle there will be no peace. We cannot go
back We have made four millions and half of
slaves free; we have clothed them with equal civil
and political rights, and we are bound before God
and before the world to protect them in the enjoy
ment of those rights. AS have said to you, was
told the other day by distinguished Southern
man that there could be no peace in the South as
long as the negro was allowed to vote. l answer
him, there can be no peace in this country, and
there will be none until the rights of all men
everywhere recognized and enforced. l say,
again, the murder business must be stopped. In
nocent blood cries to heaven, and makes barren
the soil on which it is she'd l"That's true" and
applause Innocent blood communicates like the
plague and wherever it flows the land springs up
with dragons teeth. Those who instigate murder
must perish in it. Not to do so is to reverse the
DEGREES of the Almighty. Security for life and
security for property lie at the very foundation of
society. They the basis ofintcgrity, of morals,
of religion and of all that holds men together in
society. Until security shall be established in the
South there will be peace, no prosperity there.
ask if our Democratic neighbors in this State of
Indiana are willing to connve at the murder of
men in the South because they are colored or are
Republicans. Remember the white Republicans
shared the fate of negroes in many places in the
South. Our Democratic neighbors must not di-
rectly or indirectly permit themselves to connive
or defend murders that take place in the South.
The time has come to speak out, and we must cry
aloud on this subject. 1t is the duty of every man,
don't care what his politics may be. 1t rises far
above all party questions. 1t is the duty of every
citizen TO frown upon this crime, to put it down
by his influence, his voice, and his vote. If YOU
love the South, stop murder in the South. If you
want to be the friend of the colored people, then
compel the whites to treat them peaceably and
observe the law. If you desire the South to flour
ish, and to become again rich, prosperous and
happy, encourage her to be humane, and protect
life and property to tolerate all opinions, for there
can be no prosperity there until it can be as safe
to be a Republican in the South as it is to be
Democrat, Good, good applause, until you can
20 there, and although they call you carpetbag
ger, be safe as you are in Indiana. No North
man can go there now and live in safety and
comfort. l care not if he be a Democrat "dyed in
the WOOL as the phrase goes; the fact that he
comes from the North subjects him to suspicion.
They call him Yankee carpet-bagger, and he
can hardly go far enough in his expressions to re-
lieve himself from suspicion. 1t is said now that,
if any man will come South, and spend six weeks
ANY man who is a Democratic will cure him OF
his Democracy forever. 1t may be the best thing
for to do to raise asfund, and get our Demo-
cratic friends down there for shor: trip, that
they would all come back true and firm Republi-
above all parties and party names. Whether you
are a Republican or Democrat, appeal to you as
man, as Christian, as the father Of a family,
can You afford to aid indirectly directly in this
vast stream of murder that is now broadening and
deepening throughout the Southern States 7 My
friends, let us resolve, each one to go and do what
we conscien,iously believe to be our duty in the
premises.