Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-24
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practically no colored population 1t
IL, therefore, evident that the white
men In these Southern states, by
usurpinE and absorbing the rights of
the colored men. are exerting Just
double the political power of the white
men In the Northern states.
submit, my friends, that such
condition OF affairs Is extraordinary,
unjust aud derogatory TO the manhood
OF the North Even those who are
vindictively opposed to negro suffrage
will not deny that IL presidential
electors are assigned TO the South by |
! reason of negro population that ropula-
/ ton ought to be permitted free suffrage
In the election. To deny that clear |
proposition Is to affirm that South |
ern white man in the Gulf states is en-
titled TO double the political power a
| Northern white man in the Lake
states; II IL TO affirm that Conied-
crate soldier shall WELD twice the In.
| fluence i'm the nation that a UuiOn
soldier can, and that a perpetual and
constantly Embarrassing superiority shall
be- conceded To the Southern white
man in the government Of the Union.
III that be quietly conceded In this
generation IL will harden into custom,
until the badge OF inferiority will
attach To the Northern white man a.
odiously us ever Norman noble stamped
II upon Saxon churl
This sud- ct In OF deep intereat 10 the
laboring men Of the North With
thu Southern Democracy triumphant
in their states and In the nation, the
negro will be comp, lied to work for
lust such wages as the whites may de.
cree, wages which will amount, az did
the supplies OF the slaves, 10 a mere
subsistence, equal In cash, perhaps, to
thirty five cents per day, II averaged
over the entire South. The white la
bnrer IN the North will soon feel the
distinctive ,if CT Of this upon his own
wages
The Republicans have clearly seen
from the tirrt days Of reconstruction
that wages In the South must be raised
To "A lust recnmpense To the laborer, or
wages in the North ruinously lowered,
} and the party has steadily worked for
that result The reverse II fluence will
now be- set in motion, aud th-t condi-
/ tion Of aflairs produced which ears ago
Mr.. Lincoln warned the free laboring
: men Of the North will prove hostile To
, their Independence ana will inevitably
. lead To a fuiDous reduction of wages.
A mere diffrrenre In the color of the
|
, entirely different standard Of wages In
. contiguous and adjacent states, and
| the volun AIRY will be compelled to
= Weld 10 the involuntary.
SO completely have the cOlored men
4 OF the S nth b, en- already deprived by
i the Democratic party of their constitu'
/ tioual and legal rights as citi2ens OF
: the United Sares that they regard the
: advent If that party to national power
:, ,.s the siguAl Of their Reimbursement
( and are Aflright,d because they
+ think that all legal protection for them
i IA gone, Few persons in the North
L realize how completely the chief
r of the rebellion WELD thu
d political power which has til
h umphed In the late electiou II is a
!. porlentou4 fact that the Democratic
h .enators who come ffom the sGates OF
q the late Confederacy, all and mean
all. without single eXcep ion-per
, sonalI participated In the repetition
= against the national government. II
n IA a still more significant fact that iu
a those states no man who was loyal u
n the Union, no matter how strong q
4 Democrat he may be to-day, has the
y sliphIest chance OF political promotion
~ The one rr-at avenue To honor In that
10 seetiou ia the record of Jealous service
~ i'm the war against the government
n II h certainly an astounding facl
v that the section in which friend
Ia shin for the Uuion in the day
IL of is trial and agony ia still politica
Ne disoualifi alton should be called now
H. 10 rule over the Union. All this thke'
4 Mace during the lifetime OF the gener
Al a ion that fought the war, and elevale'
ra into nr4ctical command of the Amerl
M csn Government the iden zeal men whC
q ory.nized for its destruction, anC
%. nlnnopd us into the blDodiest contes
"a ~ modern times Ihave spoken Of thu
II south M placed by the late election II
90 nos-rssinIi of the government and
"a mean all that my words imply
The Snuth furnished nearly three
av foirtha of the electoral votes that de
al f.att.d the Republican party, and the,
al svill sten To he command Of the Dem
ocrats M ehplleuged and as unre
he strained AZ they held tie same position
Vel for Try years before the ciVll war
IN Gpntlrmen, there cannot be polltlea
d inequality among the cl'izels OF IRE
ID republic; there cannot be minority
10 white men in the south ruling uiu
by iority Of white men IN tne Noltu
nd Patriotism, self-Tesprct pr,ue' plo'e'
In. lion for prison and safety for countr
w. an orr out against IL. The yer
NJ thoug6t of It stirs the blood OF me
VIII inherit equality from the pilsrlu
I'd who first stood on Plymouth ROCK AZ
90 from liberty loving patriots Wh" eau
~ ~ The delaware with William Penn
m becomes the primal quFu9
llv ~ American manhood IL OF
he mands hearing aud sediment, An
ne mat aettlem, Mt will vindicate u
~ aouality OF American citizens 10 q
az a." n.rsonal and civil rights II will,
~ 800 esiabli-h the equality OF VIII
~, ,nsn under the national gnvernmel
III and will give TO the Northern ma
~ ~ SSho fought 70 preserve III. Union,
"a "a large voice IN lie government as ms
~, 49, he a exercised by the southern ma
~, hsr wbo fought 10 destroy the Union.
Dsi THE contest jusi closed utterly dwa l
- 10 fortupes aud fate OF capnluhts