The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-05-05


appearance upon the streets and side
walks that you would suppose that the
exodus from North Carolina ef last year
had been thrown in that morning upon
our borders but by ten o'clock the sun
has come up, and the black cloud tas
been dispersed the negros having voted,
and we return to our normal condition.
We have had ballot box stuffing; we
have had criminal judges of election;
they are to be found everywhere. We
know how to distinguish between these
exceptional wrongs and organized sys
TEN of intrusion upon the freedom OF
the ballot. We expect the one thing to
be found at the South and at the North
as it is with us in Ohio; but we do not
expect to find either in the North or in
the South, either in South Carolina or in
Massachusetts, systematic violation of
the law which gives to the negro the
right to vote in Mississippi as it gives to
the laboring population the right to vote
in the North. l tell you Mr.. President,
and l tell you gladly, that while the peo'
pie of Ohio are not less sensitive to-day
than they ever haYe been to the outrag
es upon a free ballot and fair count,
they are to-day less credulous than they
have teen. They do not fail to see tha'
this wonderful crop of stories increased
just before every election at the North,
or when we have debate of political
character in Congress- They do not fail
to notice with pain the fact that he sen.
ior Senator from Massachusetts the other
day came into the Senate with a pitiful
tale of an old man who had carried his
fortunes and his family and his Ii fe to
Mississippi and had there invested his
money, and after years of habitation his
facto / as had been burned, his employees
murdered, and he himself drived to re
turn to Massachusetts, whence he went;
and they will note with astonishment
added to that pain, permit me to say,
that when a Senator from Mississippi
rose in bis place and asked the name Of
that man already in Massachusetts, ask
ed locality in which all this had happen.
ed asked it, as he said, that he mightin.
vestigate the truth, the Senator from
Massachusetts declined to give the name,
declined to give the locality, declined to
satisfy him in any respect 30 that he
might investigate the story, and when,
forsooth, he was pressed to the point,
with very sCant courtesy he only admit.
ted that he had stated a factory was
burned when in fact it was a Cottor-giD.
See note.
Sir, the people of the Northwest will
moth this thing; they will note the stories
that are told which have no name and
no locality in whic to track them. They
will note another thing, and that is that
Senators upon this floor, more than one
of them, the Senator from Massachusetts
who sits before me, Mr.. Hoar] the Sen.
ator from Connecticut, now in his place,
[Mr. Hawley] my colleague from Ohio,
T Mr.. Sherman have all repeated in div
ers shapes and forms that it is not the
South that they hated; not the South
that they we're combating; not the South
against which they leveled the anathe-
ma of their rhetoric; bat that it was
against the Bourbon Democratic party
that they would be found forever making
war Ay, Mr.. President, tits the Demo
cratic party, and not the outrages at the
South, against which they made war; the
people are beginning to understand and
it will not be the fault of this debate if
they do not make great progress in un.
derstanding, that it is not the rebellion,
that it is not the confederate brigadiers,
that it is not the outrages upon the ne
groes of the South, but that it is hatred
for this Democratic party of ours, North
as well as South, which inspires the fer
vor of your philanthropy and the great
ness of your efJrts. They are fast COM
ing to understand that if the white pop
ulation of any State in this Union should
send members of Congress belonging to
the Republican party to the Senate and
House of Representatives, if it should
elect members of the electoral college of
the Republican party, then the white
population may do what it pleases with.
in the borders of the State as to confer.
ring and securing the right of suffrage
there.
Mr.. President, we have heard some.
thing of the solid South in this debate
At the last election, from Maine to New
Jersey we had a solid New England;
from New Jersey we had a solid
central belt; from Missouri to
the lakes we had a solid Northwest;
and not one of these solid sections of the
country had the justification or the apol.
ogy which "the solid South is confronted
with a great domestic problem, truly
said by the Senator from Connecticut to
be one of the painful problems of gov
ernment. Four millions of people, with
out act of the white people Of the South,
lifted at once into the rights of citizen
ship and suffrage; four millions of peo-
ple without fault of theirs, the most ig-
norant unfit to exercise the right of suf.
frage; and you gentlemen, you who are
responsible for this state of affairs, you
gentlemen seeing this grave question
presented in all its painful and all it's
mournful and all its difficult and intri.
cate aspects to the people of the South,
you gentlemen insist, because the exi.
genCies Of political warfare in Northern
States have seemed to require it at your
hands, you insist upon flooding the ears
of the peop of the North with tales of
horror and outrage, and by the refec-
tion of these stories and by the agency
of your minions you teach these enfran-
Chised negroes that the white men
among whom they live and who were
their former masters are ready to en-.
slave them again and deny to them ev.
cry right, and refuse to them the right
Of suffrage aud treat them with hard.
ship and wrong doing; and thus you sep
arate the two races at the South, whilst
you know and avow you know that the
only solution of this great question is
that the two races shall live in harmony
and peace, with confidence in each other,
and divide, as between the controlling
and striving parties Of the country
Peace between the races is essential
confidence and kindness between them.
This is the only solution of this great
question, and against this solution, am
bound here, and sadly, to say it, the Re-
publican party has steadily and always
set its face.
listened with Infinite satisfaction to
the speech which was made yesterday
nv the i1nior Sanator from Alahuma