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

down there, and | tell YOU how | found
that out, for | believe these figures oil
Conkling. ! know him to be an accur.
ate man and | trust them. | know there
were Republicans down there because
the Republicans held q Convention to
nominate a President up in Chicago,
and every one of those States where
there was not a vote to be found when
election time came, all turned up with
full Republican delegations for John
Sherman,
Now, my friends, there never was
such a complete abandonment OF princi-
pie and promises, or so thorough q CIV
ing up OF all power to protect their
friends by any body on earth than was
done by the Republican party under
Rutherford B. Hayes.
And now they say we must give them
four more years i'll order to protect the
negroes. We are not going to do it.
Applause. That is a sectional issue.
Mr.. Garfield said in Congress ii any
body undertook to raise a sectional
issue he would find himself without
party and without power. Now, that is
what we say upon this question. Now,
an 10 fight another campaign OF 1876
in 1880 in order to have the Republican
party protect the negro at the South and
be cheated again? A man who cheats
me once is at fault; if he cheats me an
other time, it is my fault, and | don't
intend to be fooled in this matter.
Laughter.
Ia ,bara ~ ono mon u,bo dOas NOT
believe that the Democratic party has
the power to protect the negro? II
they will they have the power, every
body agrees. The question is, will they
do it? That noble and gallant soldier
who withstood the Confederacy at
Gettysburg has said in his pledged ward
of acceptance that the Thirteenth, Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments,
which were passed largely to protect the
COlOred men in their rights,
SHALL be CARRIED U Is LETTER AND
SPIRIT.
Applause. believe he will. Nor do
| believe that the Democrats to-day IN
the South desire to Cypress the negro,
because he has become necessary to
them in an industrial point Of view. The
negro has raised this year six million
bales OF cotton. Before the war he never
raised, except in one year,
four million bales. The aver
age was much less. What
brings wealth to the South. What
brings wealth to the whole country?
Do YOU suppose that the men who have
that great capacity TO produce are going
to be oppressed by their employers? Is
the negro, upon the whole, excepted
election time, very much oppressed?
| think not. For hat reason | find that
he has increased wonderfully. lie has
children in a most remarkable manner.
lie is profile to the last degree. Every
political economist in the world agrees
that the number of children have meas
ure the prosperity and happiness of that
people. For one hundred and fifty
years the statistics OF England show
tia, the number OF marriages there are
exactly in proportion to the price OF
sDrn. Low corn and many marriages;
high corn and few marriase s was the
RUE, because the want OF prosperity
aud few marriages produced few chill
dren.
Again the census of the Enumerators
finds a great increase OF the negro pop
uia,jOn, and as soon as ever it was un-
dcrstOod that there were a great many
negroes down there a number OF the
Republican press and statesmen said 1t
must be a fraud. But
THAT CAN NOT BE SO.
| beg your pardon, l do not believe in
the fraud. ] believe there has been a
very great increase in the population.
IL is twenty years nearly since they
were freed, and | am quite certain they
must have increased very rapidly, be-
cause | find on looking at the ensus re-
turns they have families OF seven or
eight, while the families in New Eng
land average only three, and that makes
a great difference III the census.
| said that the Democratic party will
have the power to protect the negroes
ii " gain the election in November. !
believe they will do 1t. Certainly they
can do more than Hayes has done.
That is clear. Therefore they do mo-
risk anything to try the experiment. |
am earnest in this matter, and Tor an
other reason. WOrkingmcn OF Cincin-
natl and Of Ohio, it is your fight as well
as the fight OF these men. These men
now are the free workingmen OF the
South. There is no antagonism between
YOU and them. Before 1860 the work
iAsmen OF this country could not unite,
because q portion OF them-a very large
portion OF them-were slaves. Now,
thank God, all the workingmen are
ircemcn, and | want to see the working
men Of the North and South unite
together TO protect their W interests
against all oppressors in whatever name
or form. and when workingmen do unite
they will govern this country as they
ought to govern 1t. [Applause.l