Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-11-02

should we want TO cut on one.tulru Oh our
votes? Of course, we should desire to keep
them. We know that if the time has not
come, that it will come and must come, when
blacks and whites in the Southern States will
come together"
That is, all vote the Democratic ticket,
and make solid South. He continues:
1--WE would be, indeed, fools TO desire, with
100000 colored votes and 100000 white
votes, to cut off one-third Of our strength.
The North saw it, and hence the Mortons and
Andrews opposed the move to allow the col.
ored people votes. was the first man in the
South who advocated that measure, and l
have never gone back on it. You will all
have to come together, and I have been wait
ing for the time, and it is not far distant now,
when all the cclored people will be ready to
Zine the cavalry" Applause and laugh
ter. ..,r. 4 e4..sg.,-, -.
Do you see the pointi He has certainly
made it very plain. " ,-i.'
Speaking Of the fact that he was the very
first white man in South Carolina to advocate
negro suffrage, he says: q. .-
81 made the proposition at several public
meetings in Columbia, and I took the ground
that they had been made citizens, and that
they should not be excluded from the right to
vote. And recommended then, (and at that
time none but whites had the right to vote,) I
whom your leaders tell you am rebel, that |
am an unreconstructed fre-eatern they will
tell you the Lord only knows what about me,
and yet repeat that was the first man in
South Carolina who recommended that the
right TO vote should be given to the coiored
people. [Applause. Go to Nash, Edwards
and others, and ask them if what have told
you is not true. When I was taking that
ground in South Carolina, Governor Morton,
your choice for the Presidency, the man who.
waving the bloody shirt and digging into the
very graves of our dead, made speeches at
the North, in which he said your people we're
not fit to vote, and recommended that the
franchise should not be granted them for
twenty years. Ihave tho speech Of Governor
Morton, and any Of you can see it if you wish.
My speeches were also published, and you can
see them if you desire. Governor Andrew,
also another of your Republican friends, took
the same ground, as Morton, and ] have his
speech also. These are facts that cannot be
disputed. They are printed documents and
are now among the archives of Massachusetts
and of Congress. These are the men who
profess now to be your warmest friends-these
men who would have put their feet upon your
liberties for all time" @g -
He was in favor of black suffrage, because
it would give the South preponderating
weight in National affairs. s.;. 4. ,lgl, .rini
At the same time, Morton, in Indiana,
made very clear and argumentative speech
against negro suffrage, copies of which Hamp-
ton reads to his black auditors, and distributes
among them for their edi6cation. g -
It is now in order for some reformer, who
thinks the South is occupying too much space
in affairs, to start a party having for its car
dinal principle the graceful taking Of the ne
gro out Of politics by way Of ounter-acting
constitutional amendment. But you may be
sure no Tilden reformer will start such party.
They have got too good a thing of il. .9oH the
Democracy capture the Nation, it will be
through the ,preponderating weight which ne:
gro suffrage hasgiven thsIsofid South. They
virtually have gift Of the representation aris,
ing from eight hundred thousand votes to be-:
gin with. This, ofitself, is fair start toward
Washington. aD"oa 80. - rf'I1