Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-12-19
RLAYNE,S SPEECH.
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charges, and l have accordingly male !
NY resolution broad enough To include
their thorough investigation. lam not
ialr elections in the South
without demanding fair elections in tfel
North also. But venturing 10 speak k
or the New England States, Of WHOSE
laws and customs | know something, l.
.nre assert that in the late election IL
Massachusetts or any of her heighbOr-
.ng common wealths, it will be impossi
Die to find even one case where voter
vas driven from the polls, where vo-
ter did not have the fullest, fairest,
freest opportunity to cast the ballot OF
bis choice, and have it honestly and
faithfully counted in the returns. SUI
rage on this continent WAS first made
Universal in New England, and in the
administration of their affairs her
people have found no other appeal
necessary than that which is addressed
70 their honesty of conviction and to
their intelligent self-interest. If there
De anything different 10 disclose pray
gou snow it to Us that we may amend
our ways.
But whenever feeble protest is made
against such injustice as l have de-
scribed in the South the response we
get comes to US in the form of a taunt.
''What are you going to do about ii?''
and "HOw do you propose to help
Vourselves?" This is the stereOtyped
answer of defiance which intrenched
wrong always gives to inquiring JUS
ti6e; and those VINO imagine it 10 be
conclusive do not know the temper OF
the American people. For let me as
sure you that against the complicated
outrage upon the right of representa-
ton lately triumphant in the South,
there will be arrayed many phases OF
! public opinion in the North not 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, adjustments of tariff, vast
investments in manufactures, in rail-
Hays, and in mines, are under the Con-
| troi Of DemOcI attic Congress whose
msiority was obtained by depriving
the negro OF his rights under Common
constitution and common laws. Men
who have expressed disgust with the
waving of bloody shirts, and have been
offended with talk about negro equal
ity, are beginning to perceive that the
pending questions of to-day relates
more pressingly to the equality OF
white men under this Government,
and that however careless they may be
about the rights or the wrongs of the
negro, they are very jealous and
tenacious about the rights or their own
race, ant the dignity of their own
J iresldes and their own kindred.
know something of public opinion
! in the North. ! know great deal
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 de
sire peace and harmony friendship and
patriotic and fraternal union between
the North and the South. This wish
as spontaneous, instructive, universal
throughout the Northern States; and
yet, among pen of character and sense,
there is surely no need of attempting
TO deceive ourselves as to the precise
truth. First pure, then peaceable.
Gush will not remove grievance, and
40 disguise of State rights will close
the eyes of our people 10 the necessity
of correcting a great national wrong.
Nor should the South make the fatal
mistake of concluding that injustice to
the negro is not also injustice to the
white man; nor should it ever be for
gotten that for the wrong 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 established in all the
States of the Union; and now. i'm words
which are those of friends hip, however
differently they may be a. cep ed, / tell
the men of the South here On this floor
and beyond this Cham Der, that even il
they could strip the negro of his Con-
stitutional rights, they can never per-
maneully maintain the inequality OF
white men in this nation; they can
never make white mans vote in the
South dou5ly as powerful in the ad
,niniStration as white mans vote in
the North.
In memorable debate in the House
of Commons, Mr. Macaulay reminded
Daniel O'Connell, when he was NOV.
ing for Repeal, that the English Whige
mad endured cllunny, abuse, popular
Jury, loss of position, exclusion from
Parliament rather than the great agi-
tat0r himself should be less than al
British subjact;and MIR. Mac clulay warn
ed him that they would never suffer
him to be more. Let me now remind
you that the Government under whose
protecting flag we sit to-day sacrificed
myriads of lives aud expended thous-
ands of millions of treasure that our
e0untrymen of the South should re-
main citizens of the United States,
political privileges with all other
here, to worn the men of the South,
ia the exact words of Mscsulay, that
we will never suffer them TO be more!
John W. Garrett has been unani.
mousIy reelected President of the
Baltimore and OHIO Railroad Conn.,
pany.
c. W. Lane, bis wife and two child
ren perished on Thursday by the ice
breaking while in hand sleigh nearl
their home, below Sabula, Iowa.
The product of cotton per acre in the
Southern states during the past YER
averaged over one hundred and eighty
pounds.
Private dispatches annuDnca that
Bayard Taylor is dangerously ill, and
that "his condition is SO critical as to
leave little hope for his recovery"
Adams, American and United States
Express Companies have decided to
reduce the rate of heavy freight be-
tween Cincinnati and New York to
two dollars per hundred weight. in
order to better compete with the fast
freight lines.
AN Iowa member of Congress boasts
that his State will market this year
more wheat and pork than any State
in the Union. Iowa is the Republican
b inner Stste-that accounts for the
good crops.
A TENNESSEE INDIE of election and |