New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-09
A CRY FROM THE SOUTH.
ADDRESS TO THE PRESIDENT FROM THE REPUBLl-
icy TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE

CANb Of ALABAMA
fBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRTBUNIl
WASHINGTON, March 8.-The following address
was delivered by the signers to the President
to-day:
To the President:
The Republicans of Alabamaeongratulate you ana
the American people your elevation to the gnesC
Office IN their gift and thank you for the paTtoIc
sentiments expressed in your inaugural address. 1h
the interests of the people of Alabama we desire 10
present to you brief statement OF their conultion
and respectfully but earnestly ask your your
esssfSG eIeeton 0GaSs'' IaWs Of Alabama open wide
the door to fraud and render Impossible It's ueIoc
tion and punishment indorsed as it 49, by an agg.ss
were enacted to enable this dominant minority 70
commit fraud ON the ballot-box with lmpunlty, anu
therefore the elections in Alabama are oil worse
than farce, Under the baneiqk influence
OF these laws political corruption and dsmoranIzaG
tion so prevalent in the State. have e1tenueu
to the Federal elections. and they 100 nov now
Of The people We, therefore, earnestly
desire that the Federal election laws be so amended
that every legal elector in Alabama, IN GoinnVn
with the great body of the American people. may
without molestatOn at any election, II ne uesue'
cast one ballot and have that ballot nenes.y ny
counted. A free and untrammeled exercise Oh ~. one
elective franchise is the right of every legal voter
and this right the Republicans OF ALABAMA 6emanu.
Another sacred right of every American citizen ~ ~
fair trial by an Impartial Jury; we WlSs Of Ala
bama tha right is practically denied TO the coi0Ieu
citizens by their total exclusion from the Jury Dox,
though many of them possess all the QUALIFICATIONS
| required by law for jurors; In n word tuoy arc
excluded from the jury box because OF their Color
The education of the masses Is OF supreme I'M
| portance to the South" Many OF the people of oft
Alabama are poor and ignorant without lault VI
| their own. and the inadequate provisions maue Nv
the State discriminatory dlsbuTsed Dy Inc au,oL
tiles have failed to afford proper relief The kepuoii
Iicans of Alabama have observed with unfeignsd
pleasure that this important subject Is engaging inc
ATTENTION of the American Congress, and they nope
that il NAV take form in such legislation as may
provide National law for National education, tnat
will extend its benefcent influences over every por
tion of this great Republic. In order that an 'ns
people may equally enjoy the benign DlesSlngs VI
sucb law we declare 1t to be OF the mgnest LhPeTt
ance that all funds appropriated by the feueTal
Government for this purpose should In AlaD2ma De
controlled and disbursed exclusively under federai
The friends of good government in the South look
to your administration for protection ana support,
and the Republicans of Alabama. subjected As they
have been to the severest tests of political lntOer-
ance and persecution, of social aud business osIa-
csm have followed with unfaltertng hdellty tue
principles of the Republican party; ana now,
npon the accession to the Chief Executive CHAIR Oh
tbe Nation of true exponent of those principles,
confidently hone that the patronage of your admin
IstratiOn will be bestowed upon its friends In Ala-
bama who are really identified with the interests
of the State and not waste 1t in the vain endeaVOr
to conciliate its enemies.
w. T. Ewing, Joseph H. Speeu'
w s. Bird Philip Joseph,
p. j. Crenshaw, L. Z. Coulson,
c. G. Sheats, K. A. Moseey,jr
A. w. Mccullough.