The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-12-31

we get comes to us in the form OF a
taunt, "What are you going to do
about it?" and "How do you propose
TO help yourselves?" This is the ster-
eotyped answer Of defiance which in
trenched wrong always gives 10 inquir-
ing justice; and those who imagine it
To be conclusive do not know the tenn
per OF the American people. FOR let
me assure you that against the compli-
Gated outrage upon the right of repre-
sentation lately triumphant in the
south, there will be arrayed many
phases of public opinion in the north
often hitherto in harmony. Men who
have cared little, and Affected to care
less, for the rights or the wrongs of
the negro, suddenly find that vast
monetary and commercial interests,
great questions of revenue, adjust.
ments Of tariff, in railways, and in
mines, are under the control of demo
cratic congress whose majority was OBJ
tanned by depriving the negro OF his
rights under a common constitution
aud common laws. Men who have ex-
pressed disgust with the waving OF
bloody shirts and have been offended
with talk about negro equality are be-
giuning 10 perceive that the pending
question of to-day relates more press
ingly TO the equality of white men un-
der this government, aud that however
careless they may be about the rights
or tue wrongs Of the negro, they are
very jealous aud tenacious about the
rights of their own race nd the digni-
ty Of their own firesides and kindred.
PUBLIC OPINION IN THE NORTH.
/ know something OF public opinion
about the views, wishes, and purposes
Of the republican party of the nation.
Within that entire great organization
there is not one man, whose opinion is
entitled TO be quoted. that does not
desire peace and harmony and friend
ship aud patriotic and fraternal union
between the north and the south. This
wish is spontaneous, instructive. uni
yersal throughout the northern states;
aud yet, among men OF character aud
sense, there is surely no need of at
tempting TO deceive ourselves as to the
precise truth. First pure, then peace
hDAt. oA1u Will ltA4ONG
ance. and no disguise OF state rights
will close the eyes OF our people to the
necessity Of correcting great national
wrong. Nor should the south make
the fatal mistake Of concluding that in-
justice to the negro is not also iDius-
tice TO the white man; nor should il
ever be forgotten that for the wrongs
OF both a remedy will assuredly be
found. The war, with all its costly
sacrifices. was fought in vain unless
equal rights for all classes be estab-
lished in all the states of the union;
aud now, in words which are those OF
friendship, however differently they
may be accepted, | tell the men OF the
south here on this floor and beyond
this chamber that even il they could
strip the negro of his constitutional
rights, they can never permanently
maintain the inequality Of white men
in this nation; they can never make a
white mans vote in the south doubly
as powerful in the administration OF
the government as white mans vote
in the north.
In a memorable debate in the house
of commons Mr.. Macaulay reminded
Daniel O'Connell, when he was moving
for repeal, that the English wings had
endured calumny, abuse. popular fury,
loss OF position. exclusion from parlia-
ment, rather than the great sgitator
himself should be less than q British
subject; and Mr.. Macaulay warned
him that they would never suffer HIM
to be more. Let me now remind you
that the government under whose pro-
tecting flag we sit to-day sacrificed
myriads Of lives and expended thou
sands of millions OF treasure that our
countrymen Of the south should re-
main citizens of the United States,
having equal personal riffhts and equal
political privileges with all other citi-
gems. Aud / venture, now aud here, to
warn the men Of the south, in the ex-
act words OF Macaulay, that we will
necer suffer them 10 be morel