The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-29
BLAINE AND EVARTS.

the Republican mass meeting held ut Cooper
Institute, New York. ON tho twenty first In
| stant, there liz IN attempt to make light OF
the Interference OF Federal troops In elections.
Mr.. Blaine. who Lis nothing IL not u dema-
gogue. and whose public utterances disclose
settled purpose to make political capital for
himself by deiamn9 tho South and stirring
up the bitter memories of the war grew very
merry IN proving. to his own satisfaction at
least, that there wero not enough troops
In the United States army TO brighten
anybody. and rather glorled In the fact
that they were not nearly sufficient
to properly protect the frontier which has
under Republican rule, been crmsoned
with the blood OF masaacred soldiers and
settlers much less to Interfere In elections
and Overawe voters. He showed that In
thirty-two States. containing population Of
"a ,OoO. 600 people, there were only 1872 United
States soldiors, or about one man to II county
and d half.
Just think" said he, "of tho peril of the
citizens OF New York. Kings and Westches-
ter counties when they 90 to the polls on
November next, threatened every moment
by tho appearance of such an army"
Whereat we arc told by tho photographic
reporter there was laughter" II was u
very funny observation. very. and Mr..
Blaine, us he looked out upon the
laughing multitude and listened to tho
hilarlty occasioned by his excessively humor-
GUS remark, must have felt the force OF Car
lysle's observation regarding the popula-
ton of the earth, which was. he snid. n thou
sand millions. mostly fools. AS illustrating
the peculiar influence OF climate and location
upon jokes We may remark that Blalne's wit
ticism uttered before an audience In New Or
leans, Columbia, Tallahassee. Little Rock, or
for that matter, almost anywhere In tho
South, would seem to be singuarly without
point. and might and very probably would be
greeted with laughter Of a kind that would
not be 80 grateful to the ears or the gentle
man from Maine, whoee great contempt fol
soldiers and for military life induced him to
remain at home while paid substitute
fought his battles for him. Blaine isn't q
good Judge Of soldiers, and cannot be very
familiar with their capacity for inspiring ter
ror, and n decent regard for that slain sub
stitute of his should induce him to lot the
army alone.
Seriously, however, while the memories are
fresh Of Sherldan's soldiers tramplng into the
Legislature Of Louisiana and ejecting It's MEM
bers at the point OF the bayonet, Of tho thou
sands Of United States troops surrounding the
State-llouse while the outrage on civil liberty
was being perpetrated, or the moss troopers
Of Merrill and other United States officers,
whose names will be forever Infamous, and Of
elections carried and counted by bayoncts all
over the South, the jest OF Mr. Blaine becomes
hideous sarcasm, for which he should have
been Kissed. He would have been Missed had
not his audience been composed OF people
who have been taught by Mr.. Blaine and
other demaRogues OF his complexion to care
more about the supremacy of the Radical
party than the preservation of the Republic
which that party is striving with might and
main to destroy.
The great gun OF the meeting was Evarts,
and In the labyrinthian mazes of his turgid
sentences there are some suggestive observa-
lions. There Is running through his entire
speech the Idea that the Democracy must not
be permitted to succeed in the next presi-
Dental election. 1t Is explicitly alleged that
suffrage In the South Is not free and the in
timatlon Is thrown out that the Radical party
should not regard the electoral votes OF the
South as being at all In their way. This Idea
he formulated with much care, and the follow
ing extract will give pretty accurately his
views rs elaborated Ia his speech
Another great danger is that political project
whick seeks to subJugAe he suffrage la II great
part of The country. and then by that mass Of
q. o ad suffrage. "a eongomerate Of the dos
suffrage Of the rest OF the country that 1t cannot
h,ve lts fair partieipatton IL the maintenance
elect oral vo es out Of politics and leaves 1s Re-
puhl cans TO get out of the 23l remaining votes
1875 and their allies to get only A. 1t does not take
that that IL the condition Of the Southern suf-
frage, Some very pregnant and instructive
EXAMPLES have occurred showing. as with
blaze OF light. what the condition OF the
suffrage is. ! do not alude to the martyred
Chisholm 70 stir up your fe. lings to mutlny
and rage. but ask yonr attention to Its politi-
Cal character, AZ expressed by the community
IN which y was Derpetrated. In time of war
" are willing to die tor our country. but tho
horrors OF peace with the violence OF the
dnre. {ApplHuse.l The North waited long to
see whether any movement would be mad. to
tod as having d one nothing that the community
wished to see punished. Mark how this
wicked terrorism that begins by prescribing
to pursuing and Furnishing dissenting indie
pendents IL, 10 the party itself. IA Yazoo county
a citizen that was crowned with honor for his
prescription of Republicans becomes an hide
LeDdent Democrat and is slain, because dis |
cords cannot be allowed In that party. In South
Carolina although the law provides no deprt- |
Walton OF civil rights on account OF race creed |
or color, convictions for prescription were pre-
vented and the power OF the United States set |
&C nauRht by the evidence (which was true}
that the colored people were not denied these I
rights because they were eolored men but be- I
cause they were Republicans. The suffrage is
the life of our institutions What becomes of
hat In these Southern COmmunities2 There ia
! substitution OF violence and the suffrage de-
Gays. The dearth OF free schools and the de-
,troyinR of free speech and the decay of free
suffrage 80 hand In hand; and II this people