Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-16

States Government by the vote of the
Northern Republican party. 1 have seen
much OF this thing l have been in Wash
ington for twelve years, and have been
taxpayer, aud know whereof l speak.
In 1870 they began to apply to the
Republican Congress and to make
the District of Columbia what they said
was black mans paradise, a place
whore the negro would have to work very
little or not at all and could support him
self by voting the Republican ticket.
Laughter. Well, it brought great
many there, but things went on so that
they confess themselves they began to re-
coil from the work they had begun. They
began by destroying the House of Dele.
gates, in which coloied men sat, and they
destroyed the Goyernorship aud the Board
of Public Works. and they had not spent
less than Sl00,000 on the streets of that
town, and that was done by the action of
the Republican Congress under law
signed by Republican President, being
no less man than General Grant himself,
and to-day aud for the last six or seven
years no black man has been allowed to
cast a vote in the District of Columbia
and no white man either. Here this
guardian of the public liberties, this party
that sets itself up az a great example and
apostle of all that is correct and right in
republican government, has stricken down
that right which lies at the very basis of
our institutions. | mean the right of
suffrage. No man for five or six years
past, white or black, could go to the
polls and express his opinion in
the District of Columbia as to
whether he is well or i'll governed.
| Applause. went down to Mississippi
In June, 1876, as the minority member of
committee of investigation. The
majority of that committee was composed
of Mr.. Boutwell,, of Massachusetts. Mr..
Cameron, of Wisconsin, and Mr.. Mcmillan.
of Minnesota. They called up the colored
people to ask them whether they had
been deprived of the right to hold office
and what had been done to them in cleo.
tions and about all their rights and / had
some conversation with these people
and | wish to call your attention 10 the
fact that there is not to-day in the State
of Massachusetts single colored man
holding any office, nor ia Wisconsin nor
in Minnesota, and therefore when they
are down here expressing solioitude that
that the black man should have Office they
are deceitful because in their own homes
they take care that nothing of the kind
shall happen. Cheers. So that think
We have right ON tho score of common
sense and justice to arraign this party for
its gross insincerity in those very things
of which Its members proclaim themselves
the especial champions.
said just now thet this party wes
insincere about money; about the public
credit. To-day the Secretary of the
Treasury is making speeches through the
North declaring that the Democratic party
is not to be trusted by the people of prop
erty, by the men of substance of the land
Now, to put this question of public credit
in short form-publo credit is nothing
but an aggregate of. individual credit.
The public credit of South Carolina is the
private credit of every individual South
Oarolinian, and if he does not see the
immediate and instant result of O stab at
the credit of the State he will feel it in his
individual fortune shortly. In Virginia
there has been much distress and trouble.
Frankly do not think their affairs were
so wisely managed as they might have
been. They temporized with affairs they
ought not to have temporized with, and |
believe that that State lost more money
by temporizing with its public credit than
the whole principalan interest of its public
debt would amount to; and being friend
of Virginia and loving the people, l do de-
plore the unwisdom OF their course in this.
Who has been to blame for it? Do you
mean to tell me that General Malone, whc
has been the most prominent among hel
citizens who advocated this course, is tc
blame for it Who ia General Mahone
What is he compared with the Fedora
administration at the head of whose
finances We find John Sherman? Il wa:
the action of the Administration at Wash
ipgton that is to blame for the state oi
affairs in Virginia, for there is not one
man endowed with Federal power in tha
State, high or low, that did not lend the
aid of his power official and personal tt
fasten the fangs of the repudiationist
upon the yitals of that old commonwealth
[Oheers. Talk about this Republican
party being the friend Of honest govern
ment, and we see Virginia, that old State
the State of jackson and Washington
branded with the attempt TO escape from
her honest obligations. ! turn 10 the city
of Washington and there | see JOIN
Sherman, the immaculate protector of th,
public credit, and rutherford B. HAYES
the fraudulent President. Cheers,
see them lending their aid TO elect hlahon,
to the Senate and then claiming that the,
are the party of public faith.
The Republican, party, my friends, il
sectional party. 1t would create that divi
sion Of house against itself which i
sure to causeits downfall. To-day, washe,
by the water of the ST. Lawrence on thi
north and the Gulf of Mexico on th
SOUTH with two oceans pouring thei
tribute on both sides, the United State
present a most magnificent example o
free trade, There is no custom hous
between the states. Any man who want
anything produced by nature or born o
man's labor and ingenuity Can get
simply by adding the cost of freight an,
transportation, and that is very cheap n
the present day. | saw the other dav
most interesting statement of that-tha
it required but one days labor of al
operative in mandatory on the Atlan,i
coast to transport all the meat and -four tina
he can use in IL year from the grauarie
aud meat depots of the West, For 81. %
mechanic in New York or Boston can hav
Chicago. Then, now, this benefcent rul
prevails that whatever can be produced oi
our soil and in our climate is open to tn
people of that soil and climate to make
favorable exchange. This is the benef
course, that 1t gives to each man tn
supertluities of and the results of othe
mems labor in exchange for the supei
| ~ a.. L.. I,l nlat .,,..
what crime it is, then, that those who hav
the power in their hands should set up
barrier between themselves and thei
fellow w-countrymen. How can men in on
Christian church that know of kneel j
prayer to their Father in heaven and the
maintain their hate and animosity toward
their fellow-countrymen9 False none
is bad thing, hypooracy aud deceit is
bad thing, but surely this spirit of hat
, that comes into country like ours an
seeks to array brothers against their ow
kin is worse. l confess that all I'll
| thoughts of argument and illustration fad
} away before this broad sense Of humanlt!
, | am making the appeal here to you, Ii
, same appeal l make to the people in ii
, little State wnsre [ was born-tne sam
, that / would make to vaster audiences
) New York or elsewhere. But comm
, back to what is the result of this sectionu
1 ism. l to day arraign the Republica
Q organization as the great obstructor
: American prosperity. l say that tney a
indulging their animosity at the cost
8 the personal welfare of every individu
8 of the land. 1 will not say every inc
{ vidual, perhaps, because l know that
2 the rear of every army there are cam
/ followers and carrion crows that feed /
e the public distresses and make merry ov
= the suffering of mankind, but they are n