The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-26

IGe1 the destructive e1ScE OF NuAS U pom
his own wages. The Republicans have
clearly seen from the earliest days of
reconstruction that wages in the South
must be raised to a just reeompense at
the laborer, or wages in the North ruin
ously lowered, and the party have
steadily worked for the former result.
The reverse influence will now be set in
motion, and that condition of affairs
produced which years ago Mr.. Lincoln
warned the free laboring men OF the
North would prove hostile to their indie
pendence, and viii inevitably lead to
ruinous reduction of wages. A mere
difference in the color of the skin will
not suffice to maintain an entirely differ
ent standard Of wages IN contiguous and
adjacent States, and the voluntary will
be compelled to yield to the involuntary.
So completely have the colored men in
the South been already deprived 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 the
SIGNAL OF THEIR REINSTATEMENT,
aud are affrighted because they think
all legal protection for them is gone.
Few persons in the North realize how
completely the chiefs of the rebellion
WELD the political power which has
triumphed in the late election. 1t Is a
portentous fact that the Democratic
Senators who come from the States OF
the late Confederacy, all, and mean all
without a single exception, all person
ally participated in the rebellion agalns
the national government. 1t is a still
more significant fact that in those States
no man who was loyal to the Union, nc
matter how strong a Democrat he may
be to-day, has the slightest chance OF
political promotion. The one great
avenue to honor in that respect is the
record of jealous service in the wal
against the government 1t is certainly
an astounding fact that the section IL
which friendship for the Union In TIT
day of its trial and agony is still a Pc
Iitical disqualification, should be callet
now to rule over the Union. All thi
takes place during the lifetime of tn
generation that fought the war, anC
Ielevates to the practical command o
the American government the
IDENTICAL MEN WHO ORGANIZED Fol
ITS DESTRUCTION
and plunged us into the bloodiest con
test of modern times l have spoken o
the South as placed by the late election
in possession of the government, and
mean all that my words imply. Tn
South furnished nearly three-quarter
of the electoral votes that defeated tn
Republican party, and they will step t
the command of the Democrats as III
challenged and as unrestrained as the
held the same position for thirty year
, before the war. Gentlemen, there car
not be political inequality among tn
, citizens of free republic. There car
. not be minority of white men in tn
South ruling a majority of white me
in the North Patriotism, self-respec
pride, protection for person and safet
for country all cry out against 1t. Ih
very thought of it stirs the blood of tn
men who inherit equality from the ri
grims who first stood on Plymouth rocl
and from the Iiberty-loving patriot
who came to the Delaware with WllliaI
Penn. 1t becomes the
PRIMAL QUESTION OF AMERICAN MAJ
HOOD.
: 1t demands a hearing and a settlt
: ment, and that settlement will vindicat
: the equality of American citizens in a
personal and civil rights. 1t will 8
least establish the equality of whit
. men under the National government, an
i will give to the Northern man VIII
!. fought to preserve the Union as large
!, voice in its government as may be exc
I cised by the Southern man who fougE
! to destroy the Union. The contest jul
. closed utterly dwarfs the fortunes an
f fates of the candidates, whethe
. successful or unsuccessful. Purpos,
E ly q may say instinctively),
: have discussed the issues and col
sequences of that contest without refe
/ ence to my own defeat, without III
! remotest reference to the gentlema
who is elevated to the Presidency. i,
\ ward him personally l have no cau'
E for the slightest ill-will, and it is wit
2 cordiality | express the wish that h
t official career may prove gratifying
/ himself and beneficial to the coul
/ try, and that his administration ma
a overcome the embarrassment whic
| the peculiar source of its power impos,
e on 1t from the hour of its birth.
/ At the conclusion of Mr.. Blaine
p speech he invited the large crowd into h
! house, and for nearly an hour an info
} NAL reception was held, the hundred
) of people passing through the room
3 The greetings were especially friendl
and cordial.