The Russellville Democrat., 1884-11-27

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combelled to yield to the involunta.
ry. So completely have colored men
| in the South been already deprived
II by the Democratic party of their
constitutional and legal rights as
citizens of the United States that
they regard the advent of that party
TO national power as signal of their
re enslavement, and are afirighted
because they think all legal protec-
ton for them is gone.
CONFEDERATE RULE.
Few persons in the North realize
how completely the chiefs of the re-
bellion WELD the political power
which has triumphed in the late
election. 1t is poltentous fact that
Democratic Senators who come from
States Of the late Confederacy all
and / mean all without single ex-
ception--all pcrs onally participated
10 rebellion against the national
Govern ment. 1t is still more sig
nificant fact that ia those States no
man who was loyal to the Union, no
matter how strong Democrat he
may be to. day, has the slightest
chance of political promotion. The
one great avenue to honor in that
section is record of Jealous service
in the war against the Government.
1t is certainly an astoQn3ie1r sfRct
that the section, in which dehip
for the Union in the day of its trial
and agony was political disquali6-
cation, should be called now to rule
over the Union. All this takes place
during the lifetime Of the generation
that fought the war, and it elevates
to the practical command of the
American tie identical
men who organized fofdts destruc-
ton and plunged us into the blood
lest contest of modern times. i have
spoken of the South as placed by
the late election in possession Of the
Government, and / mean all that my
words imply. The South furnished
nearly three fourths of the electoral
votes that defeated the Republican
party, and they will step to the COM
mand of the Democrats as unchal-
lenged and as unrestrained as they
held the same position for thirty
years before the war.
THERE MUST DE EQUALITY OF RIGHT.
| Gentlemen, there can not be politi-
cal inequality among the citizens Of
a free public. There can not be
minority OF white men in the South
ruling majority Of white men in
the North. Patriotism, seIf-respect,
pride, protection for the person and
safety for the country all cry Out
against it. The very thought of it
stirs the blood of men who inherit
equality from the Pilgrims who first
stood ON Plymouth Rock and from
the liberty loving patriots who came
to the Delaware with William Penn.
1T becomes primal question Of
American manhood. 1t demands
hearing and settlement, and that
settlements will Yindicate the equal.
ty Of American Gitizens in all the
personal and ciyII lights. 1t Will at
least establish the equality of white
men under the National Government
ami will give to the Northern man
who fought to preserve the Union as
large voice in It's government as
may be exercised by the Southern
man who fought to destroy the
Union.
The contest just closed utterly
dwarfs the fortunes and fate of can
didates, whether successful or IN
successful. Purposcly-I may say
instictively--I have discussed the
issues and consequences of that con-
test without reference to my own de-
feat--without the remotest reference
to the gentleman who is elevated TO
the Presidency. Toward him, per-
sonally, | have no cause for the
slightest ill-will, and it is with cor
diality express the wish that his
official career may prove gratifying
TO himself and beneficial to the coun'
try, and that his administration may
overcome the embarrassments when
the peculiar source OF its power I'M
poses on 1t from the hour of its blrth'
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