Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-19

AUGUSTA (Maine), November 1Sth.-A
large number of devoted personal and po-
litical friends of Blaine serenaded him this
evening, as an expression of personal good
will and admiration of his conduct in the
national campaign. They marched through
the streets under the marshalship of Colonel
Frank Nye When they reached Blaine's
house, their compliments and friendly re-
CARDS were expressed in speech by Her
bert NJ Heath, of the Kennebec Bar.
Blaine responded as follows, his speech
being continually interrupted by applause:
BLAINE's RESPONSE.
Friends and Neighbors: The national
contest is over, and by the narrowest of
margins we have lost. | thank you for your
call, which, if not one of joyous congratu-
lations, is one, l am sure, of confidence
and of sanguine hope for the future.
thank you for the public opportunity you
give me TO express my sense of obligation,
not only to you, but to all the Republicans
! of Maine. They responded to my nomina-
ton with genuine enthusiasm, and ratified
| it by superb vote. l count it as one of
| the honors and qualifications of my public
| career, that the party in Maine, after strug
Cling hard for the last six years, and twice
| within that period losing the State, has
| come back in his campaign to the old
| fashioned 10000 plurality. No other eX-
preston of popular confidence and esteem
could equal that of the people among whom
| l have lived for thirty years, and to whom l
am attached by all the ties that ennoble
life After Maine, indeed, along with
Maine,
MY FIRST THOUGHT
Is always of Pennsylvania. How can l
| fittingly express my thanks for that unpar-
alleled majority of more than $4,000 votes,
a popular Endorsement which has deeply
touched my heart, and which has, if posi-
| BILE, increased my affection for the grand
| old commonwealth affection which l
| inherited from my ancestry, and which |
| shall transmit to my children. But / do
| not limit my thanks to the State of my
residence and the State of my birth. | owe
much to the true and Jealous friends in
| New England who worked so nobly for the
| Republican party and its candidates, and
to the eminent scholars and divines, who,
| stepping aside from their ordinary avoca-
tons, made my cause their cause, and to
| loyalty to principle added the special COM
| pllment OF standing as my personal repre-
| SentativeS in the national struggle. But
the achievements for the Republican cause
in the East are even surpassed by the splen-
| did victories in the West. In that magnif-
cent Gordon of States that stretches from
| the foothills Of the Alleghanies to the
Golden Gate of the Pacific, beginning with
Ohio and ending with California, the Re
| publican banner was borne so loftily that
| But 4 SINGLE STATE
Failed to Join in the wide acclaim Of tri-
umph Nor should do Justice to my own
feelings if | failed to thank the Republicans
| of the Empire State, who encountered so
many discouragements and obstacles, who
| fought foes from within and foes from
without, and who waged so strong battle
| that the change OF one vote in every two
| thousand would have given us victory in
| the nation. Indeed, 1.-The change of q little
more than five thousand votes would have
transferred New York, Indiana, New Jer-
| sey and Connecticut to the Republican
standard and would have made the North as
solid as the South. My thanks would still
be incomplete if | should fail to recognize
with special gratitude that great body of
| workingmen, both native and foreign-born,
who gave me their earnest support, break
ing from their old personal and party ties,
and finding in the principles which | rep
resented in the canvass the safeguard and
|
THE RESULT OF THE ELECTION,
My friends will be regarded in the future,
think, as extraordinary. The Northern
States, leaving out the cities of New York
and Brooklyn from the count, sustained the
Republican cause by majority of more
: than 400 000-almOst half million, indeed
of the popular vote. The cities of New
York and Brooklyn threw their great
strength and influence 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 defeated candidate, but sim
ply as loyal and devoted American,
think the transfer of the political power of
the Government to the South is great ma
tional misfortune. 1t is misfortune, be-
cause it introduces an element which can
not insure harmony and prosperity to the
people; because it introduces into the
republic the Iule of a minority. The first
instinct of an American is equality
of right, equality of privilege, equality of
political power-that equality which says to
every citizen, Your vote is just as good,
just as potential, as the vote of any other
citizen" That 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 100000 American citizens.
| =.
Forty-two Presidential Electors are assigned
to the South on account of the colored
population, and yet the colored population,
with more than 100000 legal voters, have
been unable to choose a single clector
Eyenin those States where they have a ma
jOrity of more than 100000, they are de-
prived of free suffrage, and their rights as
citizens are scornfully trodden under foot
The eleven States that comprised the rebel
conrederacy had by the census of 1880
100000 white population and 100000
colored population.
| THE CoLoRED POPULATION,
Almost to man, desire to support the Re-
publican party; but by system of cruel
intimidation, 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, it would be bad enough; but it does
not stop there; for not only is the negro
population DISTINGUISHED, but the power
which rightfully and constitutionally be-
longs to them is transferred to the white
population enabling the white population
of the South to exert an electoral influence
for beyond that exerted by the same mum
Der of white people in the North. TO illus
trate Just how it works TO the destruction of
all fair elections, let me present to you five
| cNdtCS III lIle ldlS COllIcuGIdCN anu I'VE lDyal
States of the North, possessing in each sec
ton the same number of electoral votes :
In the South, the States of Louisiana.
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South
Carolina have in the aggregate As electoral
votes. They have 100000 white people,
and over 5000, 900 colored people In the
North. the States of Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa, Kansas and California have likewise
in the aggregate As electoral votes, and they
have white population of 100000, or
just double the five Southern States which
1 have named. The Northern States have
practically no colored population 1t is
therefore evident that the white men in
those Southern States, by usurping and alb
sorbing 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 a
condition of affairs is extraordinary.
unjust and derogatory to the manhood of
the North. Even those who are vindict-
lively opposed TO negro suffrage will not
deny that if Presidential Electors are as
signed to the South by reason of the negro
population, that population ought to be
permitted free suffrage in the election. To
deny that clear proposition is to affirm
that the Southern white man in the gulf
States is entitled to double the political
| ,,Ovvar of tho Nnrfbe ubita mon -, IL .