The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-11-26

III lne outrage stopped lueEet IL MONlA
be bad enough, but it does not stop there
for not only is the negro population dis
frauchised, but the power which rightfully
and constitulionally belongs to them is trans
ferred to the white population, enabling
the white population of the South to exert
an Electoral influence far beyond that ex-
erted by the same number of white people
i'm the North. To illustrate Just how it
works to the destruction of all fair elections
let me present to you five States in the late
Confederacy and five loyal States of the
North, possessing in each section the same
number Of Electoral votes. In the South
the States of Louisiana, Mississippi Ala
bama, Georgia and South Carolina have an
aggregate of fortv-eight Electoral votes.
They have two million eight hundred thou
sand white people, and over three million
cOlOred people In the North the States Of
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and
California have likewise, i'm the aggregate
forty-eight Electoral votes, and they have a
white population Of five million six hun
dred thousand, or just double the five
Southern st tes which I have named
"These Northern States have practically
no colored population. 1t is therefore evi-
dent that the white men in those Southern
States, by usurping and absorbing the
rights of the cOlored men, are exerting just
double the political power Of the white men
in the Northern States.
81 submit, my friends, that such q con-
ditiOn of affairs is extraordinary, unjust
and derogatory to the manhood of the
North. Even those who are vindictively
opposed to negro suffrage will not deny that
if Presidential Electors are assigned to the
South by reason of the negro population,
Ia
suffrage in the election. To deny that clear
proposition is to affirm that Southern
white man, in the Gulf States, is entitled to
double the political power of a white man
in the Northern Lake States tits to affirm
that a Confederate soldier shall WELD twice
the influence in the Nation that a Union
soldier can, and that q perpetual and con-
stantly increasing superiority shall be con-
ceded to the Southern white man in the
government of the Union. Ifthat be quiet
| ly conceded in this generation, it will har-
den into custom until the badge of inferior
! ity will be attached to Northern white men
as odiouslv as ever Norman noble stamped
| it upon Saxon churI.
"This subject is of deep interest to the
| labOring men of the North. With the
Southern Democracy triumphant in their
| States, and in the Nation, the negro will be
compelled to work for just such wages as
/ the whites may decree-wages which will
amount, as did the supplies of the slaves,
| to a bare subsistence, equal in cash perhaps
| thirty-fve cents per day, if averaged over
the entire South. The white laborer in the
| North will soon feel the distinctive effect Of
this upon his own wages.
THE Republicans have clearly seen from
the earliest days Of reconstruction that
wages in the South must be raised to Just
recompense of the laborer, or wages in the
North ruinously lowered, aud the party has
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 la,
boring men of the North will prove hostile
to their independence, and will inevitably
lead to q ruiuOus reduction of wages A
mere difference in the color of the skin will
not suffice to maintain an entirely different
standard of wages in contiguous and ada.
cent States, and the voluntary will be com
PEELED to yield to theinvoLuutary, Socom
pletelv have the COlOred men in the SoutL
been already deprived by the Democratic
party of their constitutional and legal right
as citizens Of the United States that they
regard the advent of that party to NatiOna
power as the signal of their reinstatement
and are affrighted because they think al
legal protection for them is gone. Few
persons in the North realize how completed
the chiefs of the rebellion WELD the pOliti
, cal power which has triumphed in the lat
, election.
''It is portentous fact that the Demo
j cratic Senators who come from the State
of the late confederacy, all-and 1 mean al
} without a single exception personally pal
P ticipated in the rebellion against the Ma
q tional Government. 1t is a still more sig
@ nifcant fact that in those States no ma
= who was loyal to the Union, no matter hO'
. strong a Democrat he may be to-day, h0
S the slightest chance of political promotion
The one great avenue to honor in thl
f section is the record of Jealous service
;. the war against the Government. It isce
b tainly an astounding fact that the section
T which friendship for the Union in the da
4 of its trial and agony is still political di
IS qualification, should be called now to ru
,- over the Union. All this takes place duriu
@ the lifetime of the generation that fougl
the war, and elevates to the practical con
3, mand of the American Government IL
IS identical men who organized for its destru
.- tion, and plunged us into the blOodiest COZ
n test of modern times.
L. the late election in possession of the Go
If ernment and I mean all that my words il
k ply The South furnished nearly thre
h fourths Of the Electoral votes that defeatt
d the Republican party, and they will step
10 the command of the Democrats as unchl
al lenged and unrestrained as they held Il
same position for thirty years before q
ID war
g. uGeptlemen. there can not be polite
ne inequality among the citizens Of a free r
ne public; there can not be a minority
is white men in the South ruling a MAORI
e. Of white men in the North. PatriOusl
I'd self-respect pride, protection for pers
o. and safety for country all cry out agaiI
.i- it the very thought Of it stirs the blood
m men who inherit equality from the p
of grims, who first stood on Plymouth Roc
ty and from iberty-loviug patriots who car
is to the Delaware with William Penn.
of becomes the primal question of Americ
manhood. 1t demands a hearing and a s.
ed tlement, and that settlement will viudicl
th the equality of American citizens in
re personal and civil rights. 1t will at lei
as establish the equality of white men unC
y the National Government, and will give
to the Northern man who fought to presel
u- the Union as large q voice in its COVE
tb ment as may be exercised by the SOutht
en- man who fought to destroy the Union. j
in contest Just closed utterly dwarf5 the f
of tunes and fate of candidates, whether s
le- Cessful or unsuccessful,
as ''Purposely-I may instinctively-I hi
discussed the issues and consequences
he that contest without reference to my o
of defeat without the remOtest reference