The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-16
TWO CIVILIZATIONS.
The Northern and the Southern.
A Striking Contrast.
The People Must Choose Between These
Civilizations, and Between the Par.
~ ties Representing Them.
Speech Of the H sn. Green B. Raum, Com
missioner Of Internal Revenue, at
Alliance, Ohio.

| Alliance, Ohio.
| FELLOW CITIZENS: The continuance of the
Republican party in the control of the National
Governme MT is essential to the prosperity, re-
pose, and progress of the country. The Re-
| publicans Of Ohio are alive to the importance
of gaining signal victory oyer their old an
tagonists this fall, as forerunner of thatgrand
triumph ia 1880 which await. me advocates OF
honest money, an honest payment of debts,
and protection of all men in tie rights of hber-
ty and equality before the law. And in this
great contest the Republican party invites an
investigation of its principles and of it's record
and relies with unabated confidence on the in
telllgence and integrity OF the voters of the
State.
TWO OPPOSING CIVILIZATIONS. 6
desire to call your attention to the fact that
We have had two distinct civilizations growing
up in this country-one in the free North, and
the other in the slaveholding South.
IN OHIO, and the Northern States generally,
the doctrines of the Declaration of Independ-
ence were embraced; and the principles that
all men are created equal, that the just powers
OF the Government are derived from the con-
sent OF the governed, and that equal laws
should afford equal protection to all citizens,
became the foundation upon which society and
our system of government were built And
just as these principles have grown and taken
root, so have intelligence, morality. education.
enterprise and thrift prevailed. In the country
stretching from Aroostook to the Golden Gate
is found the highest type of civilization that
has ever appeared On the tide Of time: a more
universal recognition of the rights of man: a
public opinion better disposed to the observ-
ance and enforcement of law; better system
OF schools and colleges; a more general diffu-
sion OF education and knowledge; better food,
ralment and shelter; broader intelligence: a
more enlarged inventive genius; and with
greater evidences of prosperity, enterprise and
thrift than occur in any other portion of
the world. These are the outgrowth of the
principles of liberty, equality and justice. In
the States composing this great territory a
large majority of the people have embraced
the political doctrines OF the Republican party
CIVILIZATION OF THE SOUTH
Turning to the, Southern States, it will be OBJ
served that, whenever man Of Southern birth
sincerely embraces the doctrines of the Decla-
ration of independence, he unites with the Re-
publican party.
In respect to the civilization of those States
the leading fact to be recognized was slavery
Upon this great crime was built society. re-
Ggion, politics, and the State. This institution
became the embodimentof a denial of the great
truths of the Declaration of Independence
Freedom OF speech and of the press was I'M
known. No one was permitted to question the
divine right of slavery. The shareholders were
q privileged class, governing the South, and
claiming perfect control of the nation The
slaves were denied education by law, and the
poor whites were deprived of it by the exlusive-
ness of the schools. The human degradation
and oppression inseparable from sla very sapped
tina IF liz
the intellectual inertia resulting from a system
of seryile labor forbade all development of in
genuity, enterprise, or thrift. IS -
This was the condition Of things before the
war, and the war came as conflict between
these two great Ideas and systems Slavery
was destroyed; but the opinions and habits of
the people, deep-rooted by a growth of 200
years unuer the baleful influence of slavery,
remain the same. AS slave, the negro was
deprived of his rights was held in subsection,
and compelled by force to perform the tasks
imposed upon him by his master. The bowie
knife, the revolver, the bloodhound were ready
to reinforce the lash at q suggestion of resist
ance. AS freedman, the negro is despoiled IF
his wages, denied the protection of the laws
and deprived of the rights of free assemblage
free speech, and a free ballot, by the same
means by which he was eoWed into subsection
as a slave
The civilization of the South was built upon
the doctrine that the negro race was slave
race; that he was not part of the body polite
otherwise than as his enumeration might serve
to increase the political power of the whites,
and that he had no proper voice in making
or enforcing the laws by which he was to be
governed The Democrats of the South en-
terrain the same opinion to-day, and they be-
heve, further, that the emancipation and en-
Reimbursement Of the negroes was great
n1fy~, 4lon+ Il Of +l,A H.
birthright of the Southern whites that the
Democratic party is the representative of or
der and is the true agency for the government
of the South, and that opposition to the Demo-
cratic party is an attack upon order and socie-
ty, and may rightfully be overthrown, although
it consists Of majority. This is the logic by
which their public men reason themselves into
the opinion that to carry elections by fraud,
intimidation and murder is the exercise of the
God-given right of f-defense.
And, in addition to all this. the Democracy
of the South believe in the doctrine of State
rights IN its most enlarged sense. They deny
that this fatal doctrine was settled by the war.
They have again thrust it upon the attention
OF the country in both houses of Congress,
md by the puolic speeches and letters OF ali
the leading men in the Democratic party in
clucmg Jefferson Davis. And [ call the atten-
ton OF the people of Ohio to- the fact that all
the Democratic leaders of the North, including
Gems. Ewing and Rice, are the sturdy allies OF
the Democracy OF the South in their attacks
upon the public peace and the settlements of
the war.
WHICH SHALL RULEs
We must understand that the Democratic
party, North and South, are deeply in earnest.
and that they have forced this conflict Of ideas
upon the country again, and the great question
is, whether the civilization of the North or of
the South shall prevail. The question is,
whether we shall have peaceful, we'll ordered
Government, founded upon the will of the
people, AS expressed by a majority of the elect
ors of the country, after free discussion, and
by 8 free ballot and an honest count: or
whether the Democratic party of the South,
calling itself s'the people," by the denial of the
rights of free speech and free assembage, BY
the prostitution OF the ballot, and by the
introductionof fraud, intimidation, and murder
political factors in the affairs of this CO iutry,
shall, with their allies Of the North, leap into
the seat OF power from the neck of down
trodden freedom, and maintain undisputed
sway
Questions of finance, of gold, silver and cur
rency "pale their Intellectual fires" in the pres
ence of this great and all-pervading question.
Willmen stand idly by discussing the merits
Of a greanback dollar, while they are being
robbed of their birthright as freedmen?