Litchfield enquirer., 1879-12-11
WHOLE NO. 2792


 vote and an honest count, and the cry of sec
 tionalisn will forever cease in our Northern
 politics Deny us this, and the North will
 grow each year more and more solid, by ever
 increasing and more resolute maJOrities. We
 can ask no less. We will ask no more.
 Now, my conservative friends, what good
 have you or your beloved South ever got from
 the Democratic Party? You started in lS52
 with the Presidency, the Supreme Court, and
 both branches of Congress. You were in-
 trenched in every department of the Govern
 ment The nation was at peace. Your States
 were rich and your white people were pros-
 porous and happy. Yeu and Democracy have had your own way down South here most ot
 the time since then. You have had war,
 with all the horror and suffering and loss that
 war brings Your best and bravest are gone. Your then slaves are now your fellow citizens. Pardon my speaking very plainly, but can-
 not for my life see what good Democracy has
 intentionally done you. Whatever it has fought for has been defeated. Whatever it has opposed has triumphed at the last. | Where it has sought to build it has only torn down. Where it has tried to tear down it has only built up. Sometimes for a. little season | it has seemed to succeed. But that it's appa- | rent and temporary successes have been final | and terrible failures you and l to-day clearly see and you to-day admit. Are you satisfied with the balance sheet? Why continue the
 partnership2 If you are not content and I
 know that as intelligent men you cannot be,
 pray tell me why do you remain in the part | nership?
 What do you expect from Democracy in the l future? You say, in reply, home rule and Democratic ascendency in the Government of the nation. If you mean by that the rule of Louisiana by the votes of a minority against
 the protest of majority coerced by force or
 cheated by fraud, then you strike at the roots ] of all free government. You justify and make 1 necessary, and will inevitably accomplish, the permanent political solidlty of the North. If you IIIean that all Louisiana men who by the | Constitutional amendments are legal voters
 shall each vote once, and that all votes shall | be fairly counted and the result honestly de-
 clared, then we Republicans of the North and | the nation believe in home-rule equally with | you. Second, as to Democratic ascendancy | in the Government of the nation, you based your hopes and your Northern Democratic al- | lies based their scheme on a solid South plus New York and Indiana. The arithmetic of your problem was simple. You and they said
 there are 369 Electoral votes; 185 are needed for choice. Tue solid South gives 136 only
 AT more are needed. New York gives B and
 Indiana 15. Here are the full number and to
 spare. Then you were assured by your Dem Ocratic allies from the North that if you and
 they could repeal the Federal election laws
 they could steal the vote of New York in 1880
 as they stole it in 1878. They and you believ-
 ed they had Indiana in any event. They prom ised you New York. These were all the votes
 you and they needed. And so you were fool
 ed and seduced into the madness and folly of the extra session. We'll, what was the result? You simply made the North solid. If, then your past alliance with Democracy
 has only done you hurt, and that continually;
 if your present alliance with Democracy is
 hopeless. prof1tless, frnitess, why should you
 not cast in your lot and fortunes with us? What cowardice, what dishonor is there in any
 man amoug you acting heartily, bravely, loy-
 ally with the Republican Party, which is to-
 day the party of the Republic? Because 1
 appreciate this courage and manlincss in Judge
 Brattle, once brave soldier of the COnfedera- cy, now loyal citizen of the one and ndivisi-
 ble Republic, have come these many miles
 to plead with you for the cause and principles
 he so wortbily represents
 Again, urge your support of the Republi- can candidates here Tn Louisiana because the Republican Party is the party of honesty in finance. do not mean that all Republicans are hard-money men, nor that all Democrats are inf1ationists But do mean that the con- trolling purpose of the Republican Party has been to secure specie resumption, while the practical influence and effort of the Democracy . has been on the side of imitation. As we be- lieve in honest money, so we believe in the honest payment of debt There may be Re- publican repudiationists here and there But if they stay with us they must march toward the payment of all legal debts, State and na- tional If man believes in paying the debts of Louisiana and of the nation he ought to be with us, no matter what party name h. may have borne, or what party ticket he may have voted in the past. If any man believes in in- fiation of irredeemable paper money, or in re- pudiation of any debt, State or national, he ought to join the Democracy. He has no use for us, and we have no use for him. If I un- derstand the purposes of the Republican Party of Louisiana alright, they may be summed up in simple words They only ask the equal enjoyment of their constitutional rights of American citizenship and the privilege of pay ing the debts of the State
 Again, plead with you to cast in your vote for the Republican Party of the future, be- cause it is, and by it's conditions should re- main, the party of peace education and prog ress.
 Whatever faults you or the Democrats of any Southern State may charge on the old and now deposed Republican Administrations of any Southern State, you muft all cordiallv~ admit that these Governments, from Virginia to Texas. tried faithfully to plant and foster system ot common schools for all the common people. Popular education IS the cornerstone VI ouONOocAul pOPuldI SONcTuIucuL. HIS WlLn us IS automatic. Because the negro is by law entitled to vote therefore by force of law he should ii necessary, be allowed to vote Be- cause he can vote, some day. by force of local division in your politics, if for no niger mo- tive, he will vote. Because he ca: today legally vote, because tomorrow he W i'll cer- talnly vote, therefore you must educate him to a comprehension of the duties as we'll as the rights of suffrage. You have the negro here. ND hnfh oifi or11 locked up to three methods of dealing with him as citizen and voter. You can treat him as an animal and coward, and coerce him with shotgun and bludgeon. This will make him animal and coward. Such result will degrade you as we'll as him, and curse your State even more than it curses him. You can treat him as an 1dlot, ana cneaI hiuI Dy Une tissue ballot You will only educate his cunning and his malice, and debauch your own manhood and destroy all possible purity in your politics. You can treat him as he is by law and nature, as citizen and man. Thus you will enoble his manhood, and fit him for citize nship. This you will do prompt do at the last whether you will or mo- The shotgun must forever go out of our politics. The school-house must come in. Those among you who are wisest and bravest will lead the, way in this the path of peace, education, and progress. Free labor grows more to-day than slave labor ever grew. More cotton this year by nearly half million bales More cotton last year. More cotton the year before than slave labor ever grew. You can raise more sugar. The Central States can raise more tobacco. Let no man sit down and idly nope or weakly sigh in the shadows of the past. The present is here with great demands, with large rewards. The future waits to swing open on hinges eff justice and education it's doors that open to power, to wealth, to cul- Lure. You have fought us with great courage. With equal courage be it yours to come with us. Here are our hands They bear our hearts. Come with us, and we will do you good.
 KIDNEY COMPLAINTS of all descriptions are renewed at once, and speedily cured by Kid