The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-02

| that we need Is something that WAX re-
Inspire the confidence and hopes Of our
hearts; that we can eee the better time
Immediately before us. We are ready
| 10 leap forward and avail ourselves OF II.
[Appiause.1 That is what ID going TO
settle this campaign. II is not In ONO
merely, not among our manufacturing
establishments merely, not among the
laboring men of our cities merely, u ex-
tends all over the country, and tell you
to-day the city of Boston, so renowned
| for the wealth ofits capitalists and man
ufacturers is nearer the verge OF bank
ruptcy and stands trembling on that
verge more than at any other period Of
her history. 1t is so in New York.
Governor Bieler said to me the other
day in Philadelphia that there were l4.,-
900 men of Pennsylvania will vote Tor
Tilden and Hendricks" (Great ap'
plause.) And say to you that from one
end of this Union to the other the result
of the Ohio election will be welcomed
with cheerfulness that reaches to the
heart, and will call out the vociferous APP
plause and congratulation of the people.
II ia not alone our white brother, this
reaches our olored fellow-citizen as well.
By the thousand and tens Of thousands,
having thrown of the carpet-bag rulers
that have imposed upon them and sus-
tained by the bayonet, they are uniting
with the white people in order to recov-.
er the prosperity Of their sections OF
country. .h,n,
Florida is just escaping from the thrai-
dom in which she has been held. south
Carolina approaches nearer state oil par
barism to-day thanany other State OF our
country; yolknow how it is sustained /;
of the outbreaks; of the provocalion,S
YOU know the course pursued by the
Federal authorities as well as by the
State. 1t is a Republican State. All lts
officers. courts and jurors, are RepubIl-
cans. why do they not punish the vio'
lators of law? Why is it the Hamburg
rioters were not brought to trial, and u
found guilty sentenced to be executed Z
Why is it, there is not peace and order,
and Justice executed? There is some
thing very remarkable, you have noticed,
in the pacification of the South. So long
as they had that carpet-bagger, Gov
Ames, in Mississippi, there was trouble
There was violent effort to sustain him
by the army against the wishes OF the
people, and Just so long there was diitl-
Guilty and trouble; but Just so soon
as that is withdrawn, and the whites ana
blacks are pei mitted to come together,
the old masters and the freedmen, they
come to a mutual understanding ana
there is peace. Look at Virginia. From
the date of their fl st election undert their
constitution, there has been order NO
State in the Union is more obedient to
the law than the State of Virginia; emil
igration is flowing into it, and at no dis
tsnt day it is destined to become prom
inent State in the Union. So 1t is IN
Georgia. How is it in Alabama? Take
Arkansas. 1t is but little oVor year
since President Grant, in an arbitrary
and wicked manner, undertook to de-
,stroy their new constitution, and stir up |
the elements of discord and strife, lie
failed in the attempt and what is the re-
suit? Not more peaceful and quiet |
State in New England to-day than the |
State of Arkansas. A perfectly good ltn.
derstanding between the whites and
blacks. Some of my friends are very |
much afraid of my 'being a disunlonlst
because speak well of the representa-,
tives from Virginia. do not know what
they would say of me l said | esteemed
the statesmen and men of culture in the
Republican party in Congress, honest
and upright men. The Herald to-mor-
row will call me an Abolitionist or Re-
publican, still do not feel ashamed to
avow it, but worse than that, got very
much interested in two of my colored
colleagues in the House, two men who at
the close of the war found their liberty
without any education, and by their own
exertions have acquired an experience
and education and power that COM
mends them to my credit and admira.
tion (Applause.) Now they will say l
am negro eulogist, | suppose, because
| ana not afraid to speak OF the merits OF
the colored men in Congress, because |
speak we'll of Southern men they say |
am becoming secessionist. | thought
this war was over years ago. Ihese men
they speak of as ex-rebel generals and
congressman, ETC., that | have alluded
to as associates in the House, were for
given their sin of secession. A Republl'
can Congress, by unanimous vote, am
nestled all these men and restored them
to the privilege of citizenship. Why, the
Methodist church have extended their
embraces to their Southern brethren.
They do not understand that it is very
unmanly to call back to fellowship all
those who were formerly brethren.
beg to state that where | find Christian
gentleman, a statesman, whether he be
from the South or from Massachusetts,
or from Africa, am not ashamed to ex-
press in a manly way my admiration for
him. (Applause.) .,,
think it about time that this trade
of hate had ended; think the Southern
men have been oppressed and excluded
from office long enough. Have you
thought of the fact that during this ad-
minislration of General Grant, all the
avenues of. honor and promotion have
been closed to the men of the South
Take the whole range of diplomatic ser
vice and not a representative from those
States is honored with Office. Take the
Cabinet. With the exception of Bris-
tow, who was too honorable to be per-
mitted to remain, and not representa-
tive is from the South. Until within the
last year or two even West Point and
Annapolis were closed against the young
men of the families of the south. Those
carpet-bag Colgressmen sold those ap'
pointments. applause Are we never
to welcome them back and regard them
as our equals in the UnionP Is there to
be no end to prescription and hate?
Why should they not have these oppor-
tunitie open to them as to all other citi
zens of the Republic? And because they
90 to Congress and gentlemen see fit to
associate and unite with them, in these
great measures of retrenchment and re-
form they, too, are to be denounced as
the brethren and admirers and theallies
of secessionists. "A solid South is to |
come upn Why, this Republican party |
with all the power of the government