The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-09-14

triot of Columbia as to whether he is well
or i'll governed. [Applause. Invent
DOWN TO MISSISSIPPI
IN June, 1879, as the minority member of
. committee of investigation. The major
ity of that committee was composed of
Mr.. Boutwell,, of Massachusetts,, Mr.. Cam
eron, 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 elections
and about their rights, and had some
conversation with these people, and i
wish to call your attention to the fact
that there is not to-day in the State Of
Massachusetts single colored man hold
ing any Office, nor in Wisconsin, nor in
Minnesota, and therefore, when they are
down here, expressing solicitude that the
black man should have Office, they are de-
ceitfnl, because in their own homes they
take care that nothing of the kind shall
shall happen. Cheers. So that think
we have right on the score of common
sense and Justice to arraign this party for
its gross insincerity in those very things
of which they proclaim themselves the
especial champions. said just now that
this party was insincere about money,
about the public credit. To-day the Sec
retary of the Treasury is making speeches
through the North declaring that the
Democratic party is not to be trusted by
people of property, by the men of sub
stance of the land. Now, to put this
question of public credit in short form:
Public credit is nothing but an aggregate
of individual credit The public credit
of South Carolina is the private credit of
every individual in South Carolina, and if
he does not see the immediate and in
slant result of stab against
THE CREDIT OF THE STATE,
he will find 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 tenn
Porized with, and believe that State lost
more money by temporizing with it's pub
lie credit than the whole principal and in
terest of its public debt would amount to,
and being friend of Virginia and loving
the people, do deplore the unwisdom Of
their course In this matter. But who has
been to blame for it? Do you mean to tell
me that General Malone, who has been
the most prominent among her citizens
who advocated this course, is to blame
for who is General Malone, what is he,
compared with the Federal administra-
ton, at the head of whose finances we find
John Sherman 1t twas the action of the
administration at Washington that is to
blame for this state Of affairs in Virginia
for there is not one endowed with Federal
power in that State, high or low, that did
not lend the aid of his power, official and
personal, to fasten
THE FANGs OF THE REPUDIATIoNIsTs
upon the vitals of that old Commonwealth
[Cheers. Talk aboutthi Republican party
being the friend of honest government,
and we see Virginia, that old State, the
State of Jefferson and Washington, ,lbrand-
cd with the attempt to escape from her
honest obligations. turn to the city of
Washington, and there see John Sher-
man, the immaculate protector of the pub
lie credit, and Rutherford B. Hayes, the
fraudulent President, Icheersl |; / see them
lending their aid to elect Malone, and
then claiming that they are the party par
excellence of public faith. / say that this
is the party of insincerity. 1t is not to be
trusted. No man, whose objects are those
of the good citizen, no matter what may
be his condition, has any claim to support
this party. Whether our hands be har-
dened by daily labor, or our brows be
wrinkled by toll at the midnight desk, we
have the same interest in having govern
ment that will make us respect ourselves
and secure our liberties to us and our
children.
But there is another danger, my friends.
The Republican party is
A SECTIONAL PARTY.
1t would create that division of the house
against itself which is sure to cause its
downfall. To-day, washed by the waters
of the st. Lawrence on the north and the
Gulf of Mexico on the south, two oceans
pouring their tribute on both shores, the
United States presents most magnificent
example of free trade. There is no custom 1
house between the States. Any man who 1
wants anything produced by nature or
born of mans labor or ingenuity, can get
it simply by adding the cost of freight and
transportation, and that is very cheap at
the present day. saw the other day
most interesting statement Of that-that
1t required but one days labor of an ope-
Tative in q mandatory on the Atlantic
coast to transfer all the meat and -four
that she can use in single day from the
granaries and meat depots of the West.
For one dollar and quarter mechanic
In New York or Boston can have barrel
Of -four or meat transported from Chicago.
Then, now, this benefcent rule prevails
that Whatever can be produced on our
soil and in our climate is open to the peo
pie of that soil and climate to make fa-
yorable exchange. This is the benefcence,
the Z, aH liif
CHRISTIANITY OF HUMAN INTERcOURsK,
that it gives to each man the superhuities
Of and the result of other mems labor in
exchange for the superfiuities of his own
labor. What sin, and what crime is
it, then, that those who have the power
in their hands should set up barrier be-
tween themselves and their fellow-coun-
trymeu. How can men in one Christian
church that know kneel in prayer to
their Father in Heaven and then maintain
their hate and animosity towards their
fellow-ccuntrymenP False money is bad
thing, hypocrisy and deceit are bad things,
but surely this spirit of hate that comes
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