The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-11-13
Senator Blaine'S Sectional Speech.
No Change in the Programme of
the Republican Leaders.

PHILADELPHIA. November ,. - Among
the remarks made by Mr.. Blaine this even
ing at the Academy of Music, was the toll
lowing reference to the Southern question ::
We have been told for some time past by
certain class OF political thinkers and
teachers that the Southern question was
definitely settled. and that the patriotic
duty required that its agitation be stopped
and the whole people allowed to unite in
fraternal elm brace and congratulations over
the removal of all cause of discord. The
remedy of silence in the North has-I am
sure, been well tried during the years 1877
and 1878. This year we have been engaged
almost wholly in the consideration of our
finances and the most radical among us
have made but Incidental reference to any
other subject. Is the result satisfactory
Are matters in the South progressing as
patriotic, fair-dealing men must desire?
Let us see. There is in the Southern States
. colored population amounting to wei
nigh 100000 all entitled 20 suffrage on the
same terms as the whites. To these States
there are apportioned thirty-five Represen-
tatives in Congress and thirty five Presi-
dental electors by reason of their negro
population. The political strength of the
great State OF New York in the North is
Offset by the colored population in the
South. And yet this very great population
by virtue OF whose numbers this great
political strength is assigned to
the South is rigidly excluded from
all 0ucCIiF0 participation IN us Div
ileges, and the entire 5000 900 of eolored
people will probably be unable this year to
elect a single Representative in Congress,
even in the States of South of Carolina and
Mississippi, where the colored men largely
outnumber the white men. The result will
probably be a unanimous Democratic dele
CATION in Congress. By perversity of
construction and refinement of cruelty,
the colOred men are used only to give aCdi-
tional political power TO the very class and
whose practice they have most cause TO
dread. BY destroying the political power of
the negro the white men in theseStates vastly
increase their own influence, and in the two
States have named the Confederate soldier |
is to-day casting two votes in the control of
our national policy. when the Union soldier |
in Pennsylvania and New England casts |
but one. With this state of things the |
American people will not rest content. 1t |
is rankly unjust, not only to the colored |
man in the South, but to the white man in |
the North. and zoe tciU be compelled in the end |
rom self-intereSt and seIf-protecti0R to resort
10 that tchich at the outset zoe should hare re-
sorted to from principle. In all the great /
financial and economic contests of the futnre /
the North cannot and will not permit the
hostile Democratic power of the South To
De doubled by trampling under foot the
rights of colorsd citizens. suffrage was not
given as a mockery, and the people of the
United States will see that rights conferred
lrerights enjoyed, and if they 'ail TO see that
hey will in the end fad that the liberty of
me class of citizens cannot be trample6 on
Without endangering the liberties of ali
lasses.