The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-19

can people. For let me assure Won that aoains
the complicated outrage upon the right of rep.
resentation lately triumphant in the South
there Will be arrayed many phases of nublit
opinion in the North not often hitherto IN bar
mony. Men who have cared little. and affected
to care less, for the rights or the wronos of thu
negro suddenly find that vast monetary anC
commercial interests, great questions of rev
enue, adjustments of tariff, vast investments j,
manufactures, in railways, in mines, are unde,
the control of Democratic Congress whose ma
Jorlty was obtained by depriving the negro O.
his rights under a common constitution anf
common laws. Men who have expressed dis
gust with the waving of bloody shirts and have
been offended with talk about negro EQUALITY
are beginning to perceive that the pending
question of to-day relates more pressinglv Il
the equality of white men under this Govern
ment, and that, however careless they may b,
about the rights or the wrongs of the negro
tney are very Jealous and tenacious about tn,
rights of their own race and the dignity of thei
| own tiresides and their own kindred
I Il know something of pubic opinion in tn
North know great deal about the view
| and purposes of the Republican party of tn
nation. Within that entire great Organization
there is not one man, whose opinion is entitle
to be quoted, that does not desire peace an
harmony, and friendship, and patriotic an
fraternal union between the North and til
South. This wish is spontaneous, instructive
universal throughout the Northern States: an
| yet, among men of character and sense. thel
Is surely no need of attempting to deceive on
selves as to the precise truth First pure, the
peaceable. Gush will not remove grievance
andn disguise of State rights will close the eve
! OF our people to the necessity of correctiT
great national wrong Nor should IL
South make the fatal mistake of concludi1
that injustice to the negro is not also iniustii
TO the White man; nor should it ever be forge
ten that for the wrongs of both remedy "
assuredly be found.
The war, with all its costly sacrifices, W
fought IN vain unless equal rights for all class
be established in all of the States of the Unio
and now, IN words which are those of frien
snip, however differently they may be accepte
tell the men of the South, here on this tic
and beyond this chamber that. even if til
could strip the negro of his constitution
rights, they can never permanently maintt
the inequality OF white men in this nation; Il
can never make a white mans vote in
South doubly as powerful in the administrat
of the Government as white mans vote in
North.
/ II a memorable debate in the House of Co
mons, Mr.. Macaulay reminded Daniel O'Cc
nell, when he was moving for repeal, that
English Wings had endured calUmny, abu
popular fury, loss of position, exclusion fr
Parliament, rather than the great agitator hi
self should be less than British subject,
Mr.. Macaulay warned him that they wo
never suffer him to be more. Let me now
mind you that the Government under VIII
protecting flag we sit to-day sacrificed myri,
of lives and expended thousands of millions
treasure that our countrymen of the So
should remain citizens of the United Stat
having equal personal rights and equal politi
privileges with all other citizens And [ We
ure, now and here, to warn the men of
South, in the exact words of Macaulay, that
will never suffer them to be more!