Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-11-10
Speech OF Vice -PresIdent-EIeet Hen
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INDIANAPOLIS. November 9.-The most in
tense excitement prevailed here all day. The
streets in front OF the Democratic and Repub-
ican headquarters have been literally packed.
Governor Hendricks was Serenaded tonight
by an immense crowd with a band of music
The governor addressed the crowd as follows:
Fellow-citizens, | am not well enough to-
night to make speech. The work of the
campaign, in which have taken quite part,
has fatigued me- and | have not
been able to be out to-day, but | guess
| shall get well now. [Cheers. | believe
that the results will justify you in the ex-
pectations which have brought you together
this evening The dispatches are not uni
form, but it will appear that the Democratic
ticket is elected. The result in this State is
very gratifying. have not carefully exam
ined the returns but the news IN this city Of
to-day places the Democratic majority at
1900 to $1,000 Icheers. which is a very
great gain. suppose that in the country
over Governor Tilden has received the largest
popular vote ever given to a candidate.
fCheers. This great popular expression
is in favor of the principles which
we supported and the purposes that
we declared. We have contended for a better
government, for cheaper government, andfo
universal fraternity among the people of the
United States, believe that this emphatic
expression of public opinion and of the public
will must be heard and needed by congress.
and by the executive of whatever party. |
think ! may say that it will be needed If our
expectations are realized III the election of
Mr. 1ilden, the claim of the Republicans to
an ownership of the vote Of the soldiers has
come to an end That was settled at the
An ,f N snl
in this city on the fifth of October IApplauseI,
III which more soldiers participated than in
any other political meeting ever held in the
State. They then gave all men to know that
they would vote as they had fought, for re-
stored Union and the rights of the sections.
BY this contest another proposition Is eStab-
ished. The Republican party Is not the only
friend and protector of the colOred people of
the south. If we have carried South Caro-
lima it is by the aid Of the cOlOred vote, and
it was the case in Mississippi one year
ago. The success of the Democratic
party will soon inspire such conf
dence in that vote that it viii be divided
between the parties on Judgment and con-
science, Ike the other vote of the country. To
Illustrate the political condition of the south
he read Rev. w. H. Revels's letter to President
Grant. dated November, 1873. And, my fell
low-citizens, what Mr.. Revels savs of Missis-
sippi, is applicable to the other southern
States. When the rule Of The cla3s
which he aptly dominates denlagOgues
shall end the troubles between the races will
cease In the States of the south where the
Democratic party is dominant there is no strife
nor hlOOdshed between the races no more than
III the city of indianapolis. If in this elec.
ton the Democrats have carried South Caro-
Lima and louisiana ! believe the trouble
between the races will wholly disappear from
the land. Cheering. The constitution of
the United States has made the colOred man
voter, and he owes his vote to the country,
and not to a party. ICeHthued cheering,
TQ shp~ that the tolOred man Is safe under
the Democratic party of tue south, | viii refer
to the fact that Alabama, in amending
her constitution went further than the COnsti-
tuition Of the United States required, in this,
that she provided that no qualification of the
voter should ever be made to rest on prcaerig
or grade Of intelligence, otherwise it
might hGlC excluded alarge portion of our
col0red people from the ballot by one or both
of these. qualifications. In that State as
understand also in GeOrgiG shry have provi-
ded law II 81, or Of the labOrer for his wages
on all property Of the employer,
subject only to a IaFmGGupt lien
of taxes, p theSe States the
greater hodY ot Tie labor Is eolored people.
This provision is for their especial benefit. |
am not aware that labor Is thus protected in
any northern State. 1t Is the mission of the
Democratic party tot enact equal, just laws to
protect labor and the rights Of all classes. IN
the election Of Governor Iiiden | hope for
hHtttr hrHetttcr days | look for the supremacy of the
law everywhere, when peace shall <, prevail
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