Daily Republican., 1878-12-13

nan utiEtohb WV1S WhitC anu III
= lions colored. On this aggregate popu
lation 73 Representatives In Congrss
were apportionsd 10 those States--forty
y two or three Of which we're by rsaso
u Of the white population, and thirty 0
: thirty-one by reason Of the colored por
ulation. At the recent election tn
!. white Democracy of the South ssizs
d seventy Of the ssvsnty- three districts
and thus secured Democratic majOrit
: In the next House of Representatives.
Thus 1t appears that throughout th'
s States that formed the late Confsderat
Government ssventy-6ve thousan'
whites, the very people that rabellet
against the Union, are enabled tn elec
3 a Representative In Congress while II
the loyal States II requires one hun
dred and thirty.two thousand whit,
people that fought for the Union TO cleo
Representative. In levying every
, tax, therefore, in making every appro
priation Of money, in fixing every line
Of public policy, in decrseing wha,
shall be the fate and fortune Of the Re
public, the Confederate soldier South i,
) enabled to cast vote that Is twice o.
powerful and twice as influential az the
vote Of the Union soldier North.
The political power thus appropria-
ted by the Southern Democrats by rea
son Of the negro population amounts to
thirty-Ave Representatives in Congress.
1t Is massed almost solidly and offsets
the great State Of New York or Penn.
sylvania and New Jersey together; or
the whole of New Rngland or Ohio
and Indiana united ; or the combined
strength Of Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas,
California, Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado
and Oregon. The seizure of this power
is wanton usurpation; it is fagrant
outrage II Is violent perversion of the
whole theory of Republican Govern.
ment. 1t inures solely to the present
advantage, and yet, believe, to the
permanent dishonor Of the Democratic
party. 1t Is by reason Of this trampling
down Of human rights, this ruthless
seizure of unlawful power that the
Democratic party holds the popular
branch Of Congress to day, and will in
less than ninety days have control of
this body also, thus grasping the en-
tire legislative department of the Gov
ernment through the unlawful capture
of the Southern States.
II the prescribed vote Of the South
were cast as its lawful owners desire,
the Democratic party could not gain
power. Nay, if it were not cornted on
the other side against the instincts and
the interests, against the principles
and the pref ejudices of its lawful owners,
Democratic success would be hopeless.
1t is not enough, then, for modern Dem
ocratic tactics that the negro vote shall
be silenced; the demand goes farther
and insists that it shall be counted on
their side, that all the Representatives
in Congress aud all the Presidential
electors appOrtioned by reason of the
negro vote shall be so cast and so gov.
erned as to insure Democratic success
regardless of justice, in defiance of law.
| 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 bequoted, that does not do.
sire peace and harmony and friendship,
and a patriotic and fraternal union be.
tween the North and the South. This
wish is spontaneous, instructive, uni
versal throughout the Northern States:
and yet, among men of character and
sense, there is surely no need of at
to deceive ourselves as to the
precise truth. First pure, then peacsa-
bic. Gush will not remove grievance
and no disguise Of Estate rights will close
he eyes of our people to the necessity
'f correcting a great national wrong. 4,
Nor should the South make the fatal
mistake of concluding that injustice to
he negro is not also inj ustice to the ,
White man; nor should it ever BE- for. ;
often that, for the wrongs of both, n
emedy will assuredly be found. :
The war, with all its costly sacrifices, q
vas fought in vain unless equal rights
or all classes be established In all the I
tates of the Union and now in words Il
ihich are those of friendship, n
owever differently South here on this +
oor and beyond this Chamber, that,
ven if they could strip theinegre of his |
rights, they can never .
maintain the inequality of a
'hite men inthis nation; they can |,
ever make white mans vote fl
the South doubly as power a
Il In the administration of the il
overnment as a white mans vote in Il
10 North. h
In a memorable debate in the House Il
Commons, Mr.. Macaulay reminded IN
aniel O'Connell, when he was moving al
r Repeal, that the English Wings had m
,dured calumny, abuse, popular fury, II
80 OF position, exclusion from Parlia- 6'
ent, rather than the great agitator III
lmself should be less than British al
Inject; and Mr.. Macaulay warned Sc
i'm that they would never suffer him sy
be more. Let me now remind you Tn
at the Government under whose nro ell
citing flag We sit today sacrificed myr- it
ds OF lives and expended thousands
millions 0ftreasure that our country 10
EN- Ofthe South should remain citizens be
the United States, having equal per- wi
nal rights and equal political privi- an
yes with all other citizens. And | do
nture, now and here, to warn the an
IN of the South, in the exact words of du
caulay, that we will never suffer off
m to be more! wa
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