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

lends serenaded him at his home in |
ugusta on the evening of the 18th. |
heir compliments and regards were
Ipressed by HERBERT N. HEATH Of |
= Kenntec bar. Dir. BLAISE respond
as follows, his speech being eontin-
ly interrupted by applause:
FRIENDS AND NEIGHBoRs-T ma
nal contest is over and by the
rrowist Of margins We have lost. l
ink you for your call, which, if not
of joyous congratulations, IS one, |
sure. of confidence, of sanguine hope
the future. | thank you for the
bile opportunity you give me to ex-
ess my sense of obligation, not only to
but to all Republicans of Maine,
20 responded to my nomination with
husiasm and ratified it by a superb
Re. | count it as one of the honors
qualifications of my public career
BIT the party in Maine, after struggling
I'd for the last six years, and twice
thin that period losing the State, has
ne back in this campaign to the old
hioned 10000 plurality. No other
preston of popular confidence and
eem could equal that of the people
long whom / have lived thirty
hrs, and to whom | am attached by
the ties that ennoble human nature
4 give Joy and dignity to life. After
line, indeed along with Maine, my first
bught is always of Pennsylvania. How
: fttingly express my thanks for
at unparalleled majority of more than So
Il, votes-a popular endorsement which
IS deeply touched my heart, and
hich has, impossible, increased my af-
elton for the grand old commonwealth,
affection which / inherited from my
Acestors and which | shall transmit to
children. But / do not limit my
tanks to the State of my residence and
my birth. owe much to the true
Id jealous friends in New England,
40 worked so nobly for the Republi-
In party and its candidates and to the
hinent scholars and divines, who, step
Ing aside from their ordinary avOca
bns, made my cause their cause, and to
yalty to principle added the special
mpliment of standing as my personal
representatives. in
THE NATIONAL STRUGGLE.
ut the achievements for the Repub,
can cause i'll the East are even surpass
h by tbs splendid victories in the West
that magnificent Gordon of States that
Lretches from the foothills of the
llleghenies to the golden gate of the
tactic, beginning with Ohio and ending
nth California, the Republican banner
as borne so loftily that but single
Itate failed to join in the wild acclaim
Il triumph Nor should | do justice tC
hy feelings if | failed to thank the
Republicans of the Empire State
Tho encountered so many discourage
hents and so many obstacles, who
bought foes from within and foes from
Without, and who waged so strong &
,attle that change of one vote in every
1000 would have given us the victory il
The nation. Indeed a change of a little
snore that 5000 votes would have
Transferred New York, Indiana, New
Jersey and Connecticut to the Republi
Ian standard and would have made the
NORTH AS SOLID AS THE SOUTH.
Nv thanks would still be incomplete
Il should fail to recognize with specia
gratitude that great body of working
hen, both native and foreign-born, wht
save me their support, breaking from OLE
9ersonal and party ties, finding in thu
principles which l represented in tn,
Ianvass, the safeguard and protection O
heir own fresides and interests. Thu
esult of the election, my friends, will b.
egarded in the future, | think as ex
raordinary. The Northern States, leaving
BUT the cities of New York and Brooklyn
rom the count, sustained the Republican
lause by majority of more than 400, 600
The cities of New York and Brooklyn
threw their great strength and infuenc,
Eith the sold South, and were tn
decisive element which gave to tina
lection the control of the nationa
government. Speaking now, not at al
S defeated candidate, but simply as
byal and devoted American, l thinl
he transfer of the political power of tn
Government to the South is a grea
RATIONAL misfortune. 1t il misfortun,
because it introduces an element whicl
Eannot insure harmony and prosperity t.
The people, because it introduces int
he republicthe ru leof minority. The
iIst instinct of an American is
EQUALITY
eqality of right, equality of privilege
Equality of political power, that equal
ty which says to every citizen your
vote is just as good, just as potential a:
the vote of any other citizen. Thai
cannot be said to-day in the United
States. The course of affairs in the South
has crushed out the political power OF
more than 10000 American citizens and
has transferred it by violence to others
Forty-two Presidential electors are
to the South on account of the
coIored population, and yet the col
ored population with more than
1 100, 900 legal voters have, been unable
to choose a single elector. Even in
those State where they have majority
of more than 100, 900 they were. deprived
of free suffrage, and their rights as
citizens are scornfully trodden under
foot. The eleven States that comprised
the rebel Confederacy had by the census
of 1880, 1900, 900 white population and
!. 300, 600 colored. The co1ored popula-
ton, almost to a man, desire to support
the Republican party, but by system
of cruel intimidation, and by violence
and murder, whenever violence and
murder are thought necessary. they are
deprived of all political power.
If the outrage stopped there it would be
bad enough, but it does not stop there,
for not only is the
NEGRO POPULATION DIsFRANCHIsED.
but the power which rightfully and
belongs to them is
transferred to the white population,
the white population of the
south to exert an electoral influence far
beyond that exerted by the same num-
,er of white people in the North. To
Illustrate Just how it works to the de-
truction of all fair elections, let me
present to you FIVE States in the late
Jonfederaey, and Eve loyal States of the
North, possessing in each section the
anne number of electoral votes. In the
south the States of Louisiana, Missis-
ippi, Alabama, Georgia and South
saroIina have in the aggregate forty
light electoral votes. They have $780,
90 white people and over 5000, 900
olored people. In the North the States
{ Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas
nd California have likewise in the
ggregate forty-eight electoral votes,
nd they have a white population of s.
00, 900, or Just double the five Southern /
tates which / have named. These
Torthern States have practically no
1lored population. Il is therefore
Eident That the white men in those
outhern States, BY usurping and abb /
,rbing the rights of the coIored men,
e exerting Just double the political |
0wer Of the white men in the Northern /
sates. submit, my friends, that such /
condition Of affairs is
EXTRAORDINARY, UNJUST AND DERoGA-
TORY
the manhood of the North. Even
Iose who are yindictively Opposd to ne
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