The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-12-25
VAR. BLA1NE.s KEx note.

i as the Key note OF tue hepuDIIcan paTty
! in the next Presidential canvass now less
/ than two years of. TO be informed of
the designs of the party of which he is
one of the most influential leaders, it is
only necessary to stud this carefully
prepared deliverancc. Ii is a terrific
Arrangement of the white people, who
have become the governing power OF the
| South, at the same time it is a decIara-
/ ton of the i'm beciiity and weakness OF
the blacks, who are represented to be as
clay TO the potter, in the hands Of the
former. His plan Of attack had been out
lined in his Philadel phia aud other speech
es delivered in the CANVASS which had re
| Gently closed in the Northern States.
The same idea had been presented in the
Presidents Message, and in the report of
his Attorney General, and they were but
familiar ecnoes of the Northern Repub-
lican press.
To reproduce the speech as a formal
notification to our Southern readers #
the purposes of their political toes, is the
only motive we can have in printing it.
What we would say in reply would not
reach the Northern voters whose opinions
it is designed to mould. Our Southern
readers do not need proof that his ac-
cusations are untrue. They only need
to be forewarned Of the approaches of
the foe bent upon their destruction.
The premises of Mr.. Blaine are all
false His conclusions are a super
structure upon a foundation Of error.
The charge is that the white people have
carried and are controlling the elections
for the Democratic party by fraudulently
and violently depriving the negroes Of
the free exercise of suffrage. Although
the charge is sweeping, but two States
are specified in which the offences com
planned of, are alleged to- have been
ommitted--South Carolina and Louis
iana-only these two of the entire mum
Der. From this assumption the conclu
sion is drawn that one white man by
duplicating his vote with the negro,
has the same power that two white voters
have in the North. The evidence ad
duced in support of the conclusions is
that out of one hundred and six Repre-
sentatives in Congress all are Democratic
except five. 1t is violent sumption
that the majority Of the negroes having
been Republican once under the train
ing of the Freedman's Bureau, and the
deceptive promises of the adventures
who came South to rule and rob after
the war, are always Republican. They
have had ample time TO see the error OF
their way and to be assured that their
civil and political rights are perfectly
secure in the keeping of the Democratic
party. In some of the Northern States,
il has long been the invAriAble custom to
elect Republicans to Congress. Some
of them send solid Republican delegations. !
Does it follow that the Democrats in |
prived of representation : MIR. Blaine I
would not assume the facts, and there |
fore he would not follow his own argu-
ment to its logical result. There would |
be plausibility if not actual force in his |
accusations against the present governing
party in the South if he could point to a
single Democratic Representative from
the entire one hundred and one members, |
who is not fully pledged to protect the |
colored man in the possession of every |
right, st the ballot-box aud before the |
law, enjoyed by the whites. Let him
disprove this fact, and then bring for
ward his Indictment and marshall, if he |
can, solid North to execute his signif
cant threat of correcting great IA
tional wrong" and finding "a remedy"
for an imaginary grievance. The
trouble with Mr.. Blaine and the Repub-
ican leaders IS that they are disappointed
in the results of negro enfranchisement.
They fondiy hoped that it would give
their party permanent control of the
South and of the federal administration.
But alas, they have discovered that the
negro, while adding thirty FIVE represen
tatives to the South, has in the same
swelled the numbers of the
party opposed to Republican rule. The
cunning schemers are caught in their
own trap and held fast in the chains
which they themselves had forged. They
low propose to revolutionize the govern
nent for the purpose of undoing what
hey themselves had done, and thus
while robbing the Southern people of
heir just representation in the govern
nent, prolong their lease of power. To
his end, the sectional issue has been
and the dogs of war turned
Dose.
A Boston correspondent of the Chca-
70 Journal (RspubIican) answering
he charge that MASSACHUSETTS voters
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