Daily Republican., 1884-11-19
THE BLAINE SERENADE.
NATIONAL ELECFlON AND
ITS RESULTS.

n IL
I1s REsULTs.
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AUGUSTA, Me-, Nov, lS.-A large
number OF tho devoted personal and pt
litical friends Of Mr.. Blaine sersnad ed
him this evening. as an expression ol
persona good will and admiration ol
his conduct Of the National campaign.
They marched through the streets un.
der the marshalship Of Colonel FRANK
Nye. When they reached Mr.. Blaine'a
house their compliments and friendly
regards were expressed In speech BY
Herbert M. Heath, Esq.. Of the Keno
bee bar.
Mr.. Blaine responded a. follows, his
speech being continually interrupted
by applause:
Friends and neighbors-The Ma.
tional contest 10 over, and by the mar.
rowest Of margins We have lost. 1
thank you for your call, which II not
ono Of joyous oongratulation, Is one 1
am sure OF confidence and Of sanguine
hope for the future. l thank you for
the public opportunity given me to OK.
press my 8srsc Of obligation not only To
you but 70 all the republicans of Maine.
They responded TO my nomination
with genuine enthuoiasm, and ratified
1t by superb vote.
count II ~ one of the honors and
qualifications Of my public career tba,
the parry IN Maine, after struggling
hard for the last six years, and twice
within that period losing the State, has
come back in this campaign to an old.
fashioned 10000 plurality. No other
expression Of popular confidence and
esteem could equal that Of the people
among whom have lived for thirty
years, and to whom i am attached by
all the ties that ennoble human nature
aud give joy and dignity to life. After
Ma Inc, indeed, along with Maine, my
first thought always is Of Pennsyl
vania. How can ! fittingly express
my thanks for that unparalleled ma
jority OF more than $4,000 votes-a
popular endorsement which has deeply
touched my heart and which has, II
possible, increased my affection for the
grand old Common wealth, an affec.
tion which l Inherited from my nnces-
try, and which I shall transmit to my
hildren ?
But do not limit my thanks TO the
state Of my residence and the State OF
my birth. l owe much to the true and
zealous friends in New England who
worked 30 nobly for the Republican
party and its candidates, and to the
emineD scholars and diviues who, STEP
ping aside from their ordinary avoca.
tions, made my cause their eau SO, and
to loyalty to principle added the special
compliment OF standing as my personal
represen tatives in the National struggle
bat the achievements for the Republi-
Can cause in the East are even surpass-
cd by the splendid victories In the West.
In that magnificent Gordon Of States
that stretches from the foot hills Of the
Alleghenies to the Golden Gate Of the
Pacific, beginning with Ohio and ending
with California, the Republican BAN
nsr was borne ~ ioftily that but sin.
gle State failed TO join in the wide ac-
claim of triumph.
Nor should 1 do justice 10 my own
feelings IL l failed to thank the Repub-
licans of the Empire State, who en-
countered SO many discouragements
aud obstacles; who fought foes from
within and foes from without, and who
wAged 30 strong battle that . change
OF one vote la every two thousand
would have given us the victory In the
Nation. Indeed, Q change of little
more than 5000 votes would have trans
f-rrsd New York, Indiana. New Jersey
and Connecticut TO the Republican
standard, and would have made the
North as solid as the South. My thanks
would still be incomplete II l should
fail TO recognize, with special gratitude,
that great body OF wOrkingmen, both
native and foreign born, who gave me
their earnest support, breaking from
al a ApAfv,
in the principles which | represented
In the canvass the safeguard and pro.
lection of their own freside interests.
The result of the election, my friends,
Will be regarded in the future, think,
States, leav ing out the cities Of New
York and Brook lyn from the count,
sustained the Republican cause by
majority of more than AGO. .OO0-almost
a half million indeed-of the popular
vots
~he cities OF New York and Brooklyn
threw their great strength and influ.
ence with the solid South, and were
the decisive element which gave to
that section the control OF the National
Government. Speaking now, not at all
as a defeated candidate, but as loyal
and devoted American, l think the
tran sfer of the political power Of the
Government to the South is great Ma.
tional misfortune. IL Is misfortune
because 1t introduces an element that
cannot insure harmony and prosperity
to the people, because 1t introduces into
heRepublic the rule of minority. The
first instinct Of anAmerican Is equality
Of right, equality OF privi-
leges, equality of political power, that
equality which says to every citizen
Your vote is just rs good, just as po.
tential as the vote of any other citizen,
That cannot be said today in the Uni
tod States.
The course of affairs in the South has
crushed out the political power Of more
than six million American citizens, and
has transferred 1t by violence to others.
Forty two Presidential Electors are
ASST ed TO the South on account OF the
colored population, and yet the colored
population, with more than 100 600
legal votes, have been unable to choose
. single elector. Even In those States
where they have majority of more
than hundred thousand, they are de-
prived of free suffrage, and their rights
- citizens are scornfully trodden under
loot. The eleven States that comprised
the rebel confe deracy had by the census
Of 1880 seven and half millions whito
p population aud 8, 800, 600 colored popula-
lion.
The colorel population, almost to
man, desire to support the Republican
party, but by q system of cruel intimi-
dation and by violence and murder,
whenever violence and murder are
thought necessary, they are absolutely
deprived of all political power. If the
outrage stopped there 1t would be bad