The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-04-10
ADDRESS BY EN-SPEAKER BLAINE AT
NEW HAVEN.

NEW HAVEN.
The Hon. James G. Blaine addressed q
Republican meeting in New Haven, Conn
on the End inst.
lie said that Democratic papers were
finding fault because the Republicans in
the Northern States persisted in discussing
the issues which grew ont of the war and
still remained unsettled, when at the same
time it was undeniable that the Democratic
party in the Southern States, in every county
and township, were discussing these same
issues from precisely the opposite point of
view. For the Republicans to abandon
these issues, which involve the questions of
citizenship, of free suffrage, and the Supre-
macy of the Constitution with its amend
mcntS, would be to surrender and disband
their organization before the legitimate
ends of the great struggle had beeen fully
attained. II he was pointed to expressions
of Democratic acguiescence i'll these re
suits he must receive them with caution,
because the condition of the South did not
correspond TO these assurances of acquies-
cence. In this remark he was not specially
referring to personal outrages-elegantly
termed by the Democracy the 8 bloody
shirt issue but to that general condition
of Inequality and oppression under the law
which prevailed in so many of the South
ern States.
THE LOUISIANA QUESTION.
Nor has he confidence in the efforts or
intention of the Democratic party to pacfy
and harmonic the South on the basis of
submission to law and order. Look at the
course of the Democratic members of the
House of Representatives in the settlement
of the Louisiana question. The final re-
commentator of the Louisiana Commit
tee-and it was certainly very able COM
mittee, not rash, or partisan, or prejudiced
was to do two things, viz: Correct the
errors of the Republican Enrolling Board
and give the Legislature in its popular
branch to the Democrats. 2. To recog-
nize Gov. Kellogg as the de fucto Executive
of the State as President Grant had wisely
and necessarily done. This seemed to be
not only a fair adjustment, but it was really
the only adjustment practicable; any other
would have involved wrong on the one
hand and anarchy on the other. And yet
every Democrat in the House, save alone
Mr.. Stephens of Georgia, voted against per
hitting the subject to be even introduced,
voted against allowing the Committee to
report the adjustment, voted against even
giving Congress an opportunity to bring
peace to that distracted State, voted to
continue disorder, voted to invite 4 iepeti-
ton of the autlaciOuS revolution of Scp:em
Der II, voted that di>corl might hold high
carnival in that riot ridden State if only
thereby the prospect of Il Democratic vic
tory could be enhanced; and if to day law
and order have supremacy in Louisiana,
you owe the result wholly to the fact that
the Republicans were enabled to outvote
the Democrats i'll the House of Represent
atives.
PRECIPITATION OF WAR ISSUES.
Mr.. Blaine said he reposod no faith in any
special form of additional coercive legisla-
ton by Congress. nor would he advise or
consent to any Interference with an exist
ing State Government except under the
express terms of the Constitution, and I'M
der an exigency so pressing as to involve
the public safety. What is wanted is not
more law but better public opinion; and
the only way to bring that about is for the
Northern States to hold the political power
of the country tenaciously and unwaver-
ingly il the hands of those who held the
country together in its hour of extremes
peril. 1t is the belief of the South that a
small section Of the North can be detached
and this tends continually to consolidate
the South on the issue of caste and color.
and as enduring in peace as it was in war,
and the South will weary of the contest and
divide on other issues. | make this appeal
to the North, said Mr.. Blaine, not from
unkindness or prejudice toward the South.
God knows | have neither toward that peo-
pie. | would do all in my pow er to restore
kindly feeling, to recall prosperity, to build
up her waste places, and to make every
acre from the Potomac to the Rio Grande
fertile and productive and profitable
would have every man in the North feel
that the Union was formed as the Constitu-
ton declares, "to establish justice insure
domestic tranquility, provide for the com
mon defense. promote the general welfare.
and secure the blessings OF liberty to our
selves and our ro,teri;y;' and | would
have every voter realize that it is imposs-
BILE to exaggera'e the extent and import
ance of his responsibility. When the name
and authority of the Union shall be every
where respected; when the majesty of the
law is every where recognized; when the
rights of the humblest are every where con
coded; when freedom of speech is nowhere
denied; when Wendell Phillips and Gen.
Logan can speak as freely in Georgia as
Gordon and Lamar can in New Hampshire,
and when every man entitled to suffrage
shall be freely accorded the privilege of
voting, the necessity for further appeals to
the loyalty of the nation will have passed
away.
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY THE PARTY OF
PEACE.
The great mass of the people in this
country of all parties desire peace, cor
diality, and kind feeling between the North
and the South, and all wise craftsmanship
should look to that end. The Democratic