The Morning herald., 1876-10-19
WILMINGTON. DEL, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1876.

-, 1910.
party that Is bent upon the preservation Of
public liberty Of tho country. We are the
party that stands broadly upon the consti-
tuition and say that We are determined; no
mstter what may be the consequences, to
bring violators Of the law to account. One
Of the pestilent heresies of the houa-is
that the Federal government, is the guar
dian of our rights-Shatne to preach such q
doctrine It is the State, which protects
us in their enjoyment, alike protect our
rights: when we walk about in
the full glare of the sunlight or when we
sleep In our beds under the twinkling stars
of heaven. (Great Applsuse.)
There ID persistant appeal made to the
emotional sense of men by the Republican
Leaders. If you take up Republican
paper or If you read the speech of q Repub-
iican orator, the whole burden Of the dis
course Is about the wrongs Of the "wards
of the nation" But noticed, that, when
ever the Republican party had the keeping
of the money of wards OF the nation" they
always stole 1t. (Laughter.) You have
all heard of the "Freedmsn's Bank" and
of it's various branches throughout the
United States. That institution was found
ed in the highest and loftiest Republican
philanthropy /; every official from the
manager down to the porter was required to
produce q certificate of his character for
honesty and integrity from his minister, and
that moral christian soldier, Gen. Howard.
was put at the head of 1t. (Laughter.)
The Republicans had then the sole control
of the black mans money. They stole it
broke the bank-and are now paying about
20 per cent.
will show you that they are no more
careful of the "political liberties" of the
blac4 man than they are of his cash. In
what States do these outrages as they term
them, take place! Did any man ever hear
of political oppression in the State of Della
ware7 II anybody interferes with the rights
of q black man, he demands and obtains the
same justice under the Democratic laws OF
| Delaware a. the white man. (VOice-that's
so y Go into MarylaDd-is it not the
same9 Have you ever heard of outrages
and wrongs perpetrated on the colored men
of MARYLAND! Does not the same law pro
rect them there, that protects the whtc
mani Cross over into Democratic Virginie
YOU find It the same. The black man il
protected by the same laws as the white
that is, since the Democrats have obtained
possession and control of that old State OF
Virginia. Turn to North Carolina. The
only outrsges we have heard of In North
Carolina, were committed on set of swamp
f1ends, half white and half black, they
were all exterminated and richly deserved
their fate. Cross the border into
Republican State of South Carolina-aDd
anarchy prevails! No white mans life Is
safe If be votes for the men pledged to the
prosperity of South Carolina.
Turn to Georgia, said now to be one ot
the most rapidly advancing States in the
Union, not whimper of outrage from one
corner of the land to the other; popula-
ton filling up the waste places of the land
the colored people quietly and contentedly
working, and no man complaining. Why
is 1t that these people are industrious and
happy under Democratic rule, and ravenino
and bloodthirsty when ruled by the Repub-
lican partyg Go to Louisiana, and what q
condition of things Internecine war, con-
tempt of law, violation of every constitu
tional guarantee, soldiers sent there by the
Federal Government sent not for the purpose
of promoting and preserving peace but tc
sustain the factions ofparty. five 90 q
little further-in Mississippi as in South Car
olina, and In every one of the southern
States, and more especially In Louisiana, we
find united and linked together for the pur.
pose of overthrowing the constitutions
puars otees, and trampllng under foot the
rights of the people of these States. The
very first lesson young man learns should
be, that the civil law is supreme and abso
lutte, above the soldiers sword; that the er-
mined Judge wields an authority immeasur-
ably superior to the epauletted soldier
(Applause There is no American citizer
who will dispute the truth Of that position
| If such be the unive1 sally accepted doctrine
in American politics, 10 not the man guilty
of wrong doing who departs from and de
rides this msxim3
Some time ago, in New Orleans, there wal
Republican convention. A dispute aros'
between two factions of the Republican par.
ty. It was determined by the Grant wing tt
hold convention in the Custom House a
New Orleans, and fearing some o
the balance Of the party might come
in and create disruption, . detachment o
the United States army marched into tn
Custom House and refused admittance t,
any except those in the interests of Packard
and Casey thus subjecting the civil and max
!. ing dominant the military power. 1t Will b.
answered by the Republicans that Genera
Grant was not in New Orleans and was NO
party to this wrong. One may be parti
cipant to O wrong by counsel command, ,pro
.. vocation, and in many other ways. Whe1
complaint was made to the President, tina
this gross outrage against the dignity OF IN
free people of this nation had been perpetra
ted, did he dismiss those guilty Of wrong
No! When complaint was made he refuses
to remove the woong doers, and In refusing
: of course condoned their acts and mad
himself q party to their crimes. Sup
pose that the two factions of the Republics
> party in this city, who are animated, an
, aware, BY the most brotherly love (laugh
, ter), decided to hold convention at Dover
Suppose that one faction possessed suficien
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