Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-28

in the name OF heaven, did they cut of
the crops in Europe, and make a mar.
ket for our surplus? Applause and
laughter. We are prosperous now in
spite OF the Republican party that
brought bankruptcy three and 2 hall
years ago by Republican finance and
Republican rule.
WHAT Is II CONSEQUENCE?
All over this country there We're labor.
ing men looking alter employment, 90
ing about from place TO place seeking il
on foot, for they could not pay fare on
the cars, and sometimes getting
free rides on the cars. They were called
tramps. Some OF them no doubt were
bad men, because bad men will take AL
vantage OF this condition III things 10
rob and plumber. But two years ago
there were Republican Legislatures all
owe this country devising laws TO take
care oi traups; and there was a law en-
acted in New Hampshire that any poor
man tramping about, looking for en-
plOyment, might be arrested and put in
prison. Voices: shame. and "That
is liberty ~ Aud that law in many
other States VAS offered, aud in some
passed. Have you ever reflected, work
ingmen Of Ohio, where are the trdmps
now They have all disappeared. They
have gone to work wherever they could
get employment, and the name OF tramp
is Amos unknown in this country.
Why? Because We have good times
now. Were speaking after the Repub-
licln manner, woUii say that the
country was in banErupcy three and a
hall years ago, and since the Democratic
party has com" into power, We have
brought is about. Ii | told you that |
would deceive You That came from
Col; bankruptcy came from legislation.
The Republican party makes another
claim, and that touches me very nearly,
perhaps
morn THAN y OTHER 4 ~ THE C0UN-
TRY.
They say, ii YOU put the Democratic
party in power it will be impossible to
give the cOlored man OF the South any
protection. He will be turned over to
the Democrats of the South. The Re
publiCans come forward and say they
must have the power four years longer
in order that may protect the cOlOred
man. This is what they call waving tine
| bloOdv.shirt. That Is the cry they put
forward. III they must have four years
more OF power for that purpose, then
he has not been protected. BE that so.
| agree 10 the fact that lie has not been
protected. say that this touches me
more than any body else, because it was
my fortune, good or i'll, 10 raise the first
two CDlOrej regiments 20 fight
Tor the Union that ever We're raised in
| this country. Again, ! had the raising
Of twenty-five thousand more OF these
men. | saw these mel fighting gallant
is by nv side. | saw them do their
| duty to their c~ountry-that country
whose fla. To them had nothing OF glory;
Its stripes only represented the marks
of the aCcurScj whip. ami lis stars shOne
in no light to them, and yet they freely
gave up their lives TO that country. And
as SAW their brOGzed faces on the
banks Ol the James river epturned to
heaven, | swOre, as ! stood among them
those dead soldiers SwOre, may my
right hand forget its cunning and my
tongue Clcave 20 the roof OF my mouth
whenever, ii ever, | deserted their race,
or
DO THAT WHICH SHALL Do THEN HARM.
That pledge | renew now, and | say
TO YOU, my fellow citizens, and TO you,
my Republican friends, il there any here
tonight. did | not in my heart, and
! Judgment, and conscience, believe | was
doing the best | could Tor that down.
trodden race, but now enfranchlsed
body OF men, | would not be Standing
here tonight asking yuuto vote Tor Cen
eral Hancock. LApplause. | don't
ask YOU to take my Judgment in this
matter. | will give you the facts and
then YOU can Judge for yourselves.
The Republican party has hHd the
| power now sixteen wears, AMI they nave
! had it by a twO-thirds majority ul both
Houses OF Congress most o. the tlme,|ni
have always had the Executive, and
they have for the last four Presidential
years put the issue upon The ground
that they ought to have the power to
/ protect the negro at the South. II they
won't do It in sixteen years, how much
longer am | to Val iOr them 10 do IT.
Laughter.l foughtthe last campaign,
| Of 1876. on that issue, upon 4 promise
in their platform that they would do It,
We yavesuch votes as we had for Hayes,
| but. when he made a bargain with the
! Democrats Of the South, To let HIM be
crowded in through an Electoral Com
mission OF eight TO seven, lie agreed TO
give w the Southern States to Demo
Gratis. He turned the government OF
Louisiana-where Governor Packard,
the Republican Governor, mad
EIGHT THOUSAND MORE VOTES THAN HI
HAD,
| and when, ii Packard was not elected,
| HAYES certainly was nOt-he turned
that State over 10 Nichols and Il Demo
! cratic legislature. lie turned South
Carolina over TO Wade Hampton and
the Democrats there, when the Republl-
! can candidate for Governor had more
votes than Hampton had, and more
votes than Hayes had; and If he was not
elected, Hayes was not, and he Withdrew
| the troops. He paid the South, TO use
the Commercials language oil this nom
ing, and they say that the South was
unrratciul, and, having done that, from
that day to this there has not been a
| thing done, a single law passed, a
| single movement made To protect tie
colorpd men OF the South or the
Republicans of the South in any way
or form by the Republican Government.
In 1876 the Republican party sent no.
| body down there 10 make speeches To
these poor and ignorant men, to show
them how to vote OF tell them what TO
do. They left them to vote as they
pleased. but when there was Il fear that
HAYES was not elected without the vote
of the Southern States, they sent down
delegations called visiting statesmen to
each one of the States To tell the negroes
how to count, not to vote, and thcy did
count so well that they counted Hayes
i'm. and they seem not only to have lone
that, but that they taught the Demo-
Gratis so well that they have counted
them out ever since down there. APP
plause and laughter.
BUT l DO O STOP THERE.
The action OF HAYES has O0!iteratcd the
Republican party OF the South, and
made RepublicaniSm impossible. No
body cares about the Republican patty
in the South. They have all stepped
ont OF it-white aud black. There are
-, n.b;ta RanubIicanS in the South.