Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-10-15

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little towns through the North, as a rule, you
can pick out the Democrats just as easy as
you can thebulldogs, and i'm the same way, by
their surly visages, LaughterI Now and
then you find one that is a right good fellow,
the people say to you he is n first.rate fellow
he ought to be Republican, and the excep-
tion proves the rule The Republican party
has shown itself from first to last one OF the
most wonderful forbearance, and here again
must say that IL seems to me that You peo-
pie of the.N North have forgotten what il is that
the Solid South means. II means those pIin-
ctples, and those measures, and those ideas
which have made the South what IL is in OPP
position to those which have made the North
what IL ts. The product of one has been igno.
rance-you do not stop to think how great.
One voter OutOf every fourof the white voters
OF the South cannot read his ballot to day.
Forty Ave out of every hundred of the voters
of the South all put together cannot write
their names to day And this is the fruit of
southern ideas. do not mean slavery alone.
We made that mistake when the war was
over. We said that all the difference between
the North and the South was the mere effect
OF slavery, and that was dead and gone.
THAT WAS LIE,
because You can not kill the institutions of n
century, or two or three centuries, with "a line
upon the statute book But even that If IL had
been true was not oil the truth. | will tell
you, fellow citizens, something that lay back
of that, something that was equally potent.
What is IL that makes Chicago what she is to.
night? Answer me that question, sir. Where
ANtN''
ing townships And what is the township a
little republic, republic that nurses men in
to freemen, thnt makes men strong and free
a republic where the youngest man comes
forward upon some petty question and says;
" Here, have Il thought for you, my neigh
bors Let us have this or this, or this" and
by tnat lie learns his strength and his man
hood, and it is the absence of that system or
any co relative of that system which has made
the South what it is. There is no more reason
why slavery should have been abolished at
the North than Mt the SOntl The idea flint H.
was profitable is an absurdity, because slav q.
cry is not profitable anywhere; but it was as
apparently profitable in one place as anoth
er; but the Tree ideas that made the township
North made slavery impossible. At the South
we are not troubled with any such thing.
man asked me the other day, and was glad
that he did, how twas possible that we count
ed men in at the South so easily. Wen, now, /
Will tell you; it is one of the easiest things in
the world, and there is nothingmean about it,
either-not a bit. We do not have any thing
like townships there that elect Justices of the
Peace, that elect Township Trustees, that
elect Constabes, or any of those local officers.
They are all appointed either by the Gov
einors or the predominant party in the Leg
lslatures. Take North Carolina for instance.
The Democratic party in that Legislature ap-
points 5000 mHgistTates-Justices of the
Peace-throughout the State; and in every
county those Justices of the Peace meet to-
gether, and they elect the County Commission
ers, and they appoint the Inspectors of Elec.
1oni and they appoint the School Committee
men, and they appoint the Road masters, and
they appoint every thing that any body else
appoints almost. Now you see that makes
peace In the family. Every man with a ballot
Is the appointee of a Democratic board. Well,
i keeps trouble out. II makes the thing easy.
o but you say: "DOn't you ever have any
Republicans on the Board there?' WHY
bless God yes, lots of them, and almost always
one that can't read. He sits and looks wise
and the others do the counting. 1t is because
the South is centralized Government, be-
cause it lacks all the features which have
made the North free and intelligent, that she
s what she is. tell you, people of Chicago,
Il the south had been settled by men who
brought that old idea of self government that
came over in the Mayhower, if it had been
settled by such men, half the Northwest
would have been wilderness to day. You
owe your existence as a city such as you are q
,ity that outgIows its own Dragging Laugh
.er. say you owe that to the fact that the
south never had free government in her Dor.
Ter. With the finest climate, with the most
magnificent opportunities, she goes on grow
ng old as you grow young, and the fungus of
Intolerance fastens on her heart Just as the
gray moss fastens on her oaks. There is no
gettlng out OF it, The South is the South be-
'ause she lacks the institutions of the North.
Vow,
WHAT DOES THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PROPOSE?
Coming back to this question, say am al
most ashamed to tell You how proud / am of
)ur position. You remember what Cicero
SAID were the two greatest OtfenseS of that
nan whom he prosecuted before the Roman
senate He said that he had oppressed the
lilies of Rome, and in sight of the Roman
'oast had scourged Roman citizen. The Re
publican party has seen the allies of the Ma
ion murdered by the thousand, and scourged
lpOn our own soil by the ten thousand.
Wy friends, am not talking what somebody
old me. l have seen hundreds of bleeding
blacks; have seen many mangled form,
wing its torture to the ku-kluX. Ihave seen
hat Ku KluX in their midnight array and
iner body of cavalry l never saw upon the
)attle- held. know what l speak of. l do
lot insult your intelligence, however, by call
attention N "a "a fans la
Whole is before you. / say to you merely that
iu- KluXism, the Rifle Club, the tissue ballot,
md all that we have seen at the South, are
he logical outgrowth of lack of self govern
nent, and OF the presence of slavery
ignorance, poverty, intolerance-a Chi
lese wall set up against the stranger.
propose? You were proud of it when it s0iG
o the slave, GO free;' we were all proud
when 1t said, peace is restored, and even the
Rebel may come home" We were never so
as Mr. Lyman TIumbun when
he said: "Could impudence go farther than
hat the eN-Rebel should ask to rule the Ma
tonF We We're always willing he should
'ule the Nation if he would do it fairly. We
we're always willing he should have the power
he could get it by the ballot and not by the
lullet. But the Republican party says and
means that there Is no use of putting the bal
ot against the revolver and the bulldozers'
whip in the other scale. That is what we
complain of. Now, what remedy does the
Republican party offer? Ah that is the beau.
lere in Chicago, and, catching the very spirit
md essence OF the Nazarene's religion, il says,
We pledge gifts, we pledge the revenues of
he Nation, we pledge our own prosperity"
Ior what? ITO give to the ignorant of the
south education" Applause. Never was
here nobler utterance since man
ieClarod tor freedom. And now, fellow citi-
ems, let me say to you that that
EDUCATION MEANS DEATH TO KU-KLuxIsM,
leath to intolerance. 1t kills the rifle club /,
{ spOils the tissue ballot; it simply means
md that is the significance of the Republican
larty to-day-that we mean to make the
south MS free, ms prosperous as intelligent as
We are mt the North. Is that hate? If it be-
3od grant that il may forever more abound
IS that sectionalism? If it be, God grant that
We may he sectional forever 1t is giving not
lnly peace, but it is giving prosperity ana
reedom TO n Nation bound in the chains of
and intolerance. l tell you, Mr.
chairman, there is no such thing as avoiding
{. IL may not come to-day it may not be
hat tho American people are yet enough
awake; but IL is rs certain to come as God is
o be the God of right Loud applause. We
nave waited long, the colored man has waited
Ong, the white man has waited long; but
leep down below I'LL this runs the river of hu.
nan liberty and free thought, and that is
what the Republican party means shall pre-
,ail. And so It has put two self made men at
he head of its ticket. thank God that they
lre there. l hope that the North will never
'ote for "A man for President who has not at
ome time of his life
EARNED HIS DAILY BREAD.
Loud applause. want that his hands
'hould have blistered or his brains shOnld
laYe sweat before he is counted worthy to
itand at the head of our column. Applause I
We have two men of that stamp, and we have
more. They cast their roots into
he rich soil of free thought. 1 will not refer
% our leader; he has been most elOquently
pictured here to night; but 1 want to call
rour attention to that man whom 1 suppose
he General, being his townsman, was too
modest to refer to; that man, whom l am al
most az proud to greet as our leader as Gen.
iaT1ield himself, Chester A. Arthur. Loud
lpplause.l / say am glad Of il, not because
ne Is man OF the most equable temper; not
because he is a man of the most refined and
cultivated character, but because he is a man
who has faced violence for principle. DO
you remember the first act OF his public life,
when he came a STRIPPING To the Bar OF
New York City, and went into the prison and
look by the hand "A colored man condemned
% be rendered back into slavery. and led him
nto the temple OF justice, and after one of tho
most gallant fights in our legal annals, sent
lim forth, a soul redeemed from bondageY
Loud applause.l am glad that the Repub
lean party has remembered to put one there
whose life is linked with liberty in that first
struggle. am glad that we put these men,
10Th of them representing this great idea,
lpon that magnificent platform, and say TO
he solid South we mean that the North shall
le as solid as the South until every free boy
'long the Appalachian range may come up TO
lonor, may come up TO preterment, may come
up TO knowledge, may come up TO excellence
's easily as have these men-the product of