The Portland daily press., 1884-11-19

the aggregate 48 electoral votes and they hav9
.. white population of Ave million six hundred
thousand or just the double OF the I've Souths
efn States which / have named These North
ern States have practically no colored popula-
tlon. 1t is therefore evident that the whits
men in these Southern States by usurpiDg aud
absorbing the right Of tbs colored men are ex-
erting just double the political power Of the
white men In the Northern States.
L submit, my friends that such condition
OF afairs Is extraordinary, unjust and de-
rogatory to the manhood of the North Even
those who are vindictlvely opposed to negro
suffrage will not deny that If presidential elec
tors are assigned to ths South by reason Of the
negro population that population ought to bs
perm tted free suffrage in the election. To
deny that clear proposition is to sffirm that =
southern white man inEthe Gulf States IL en-
tilted to double the political power OF a
Northern white man In the Lake Stases. II is
to affirm that Confederate soldier shall WELD
Twice the influence 10 the nation that Union
soldier can and that perpetual and constant.
y increasing superiority shall bs conceded to
tne Sputhern white men in the government OF
the Unicn II that be quietly conceded in this
generation 1t will harden into custom until
the badge OF inferority will attach to the
Northern white man as odiouslY as ever q
Norman noble stamped it upon the Saxsn
churl.
The subject is OF deep interest to the labor
ing men OF the North. With the Southern
Democracy triumphant in their States and in
the Nation the negro will be compelled 10
WORK Tor Just snch wages as the white m&y &C.
cree, wages which will amount, as did the sop
plies OF the slave, to bare subsistence equsled
In cash perhaps at 80 cents per DAY. II av-
eraged over the entre South the whits laborer
IN the North will soon fsel the destructive ef-
feet Of this upon his own wages.
The Republican party has clearly seen from
tho earliest days OF reconstruction that wsges
In the South must be raised TO just rscon-
penhe OF the laborer, or wages in the North
ruinously lowered, and it has steadily worked
for the former result. The reverse influence
VIII nov be set iu melton, and that coudition
OF affairs reproduced whcn years ago MIR. Lins
coln warned The free laDoriDg men OF the
North against, and will prove hostile to their
Independence, and will inevitably lead to d
ruinous reduction of wages.
msre difference in the color OF the oh ia
will not suffice to maintsin an entirely differ
ent standard of wages in contiguous
and gigantic States, aud the volun-
tary will be compelled to yield
co the invoinntlry. SO completely have the
colured men IN the South been already depSiv-
ed BY the Democratic patty of their copstitG-
ency and legal rights as oitizsEs of the United
States that they regard tie advert OF that
party to national power as the signal of their
re-enslavemept,asd are affrighted because they
tnlnk all legal protection for them is gone.
Few persons in the North realize how con-
pletely the chiefs of the rebellion WELD the po-
liiical power which has triumphed in the late
election. 1t Is portentous fsCt that the DEM
ocrattc senators who come from the States of
the late Confederacy, all, and / mean all,with-
ont single exception, personally participated
IN the rebellion against the national govern
ment. IL ia q still more significant tact, that
In those States no man who was loyal to the
Union, no matter how strong Damocrst he
nay be today, has ths sightest chancs Of pc
ntical promotion. The one great avenue Of
Eonor in that section is the record OF Jealous
service in the war against tue government. 1t
is certainly an astounding fact that the section
in which friendship for the Union iH the day
OF ite trial and agony is still political disqual-
ifcstion, should be- called now to rale over
the Union. All this takes place during the
life-time OF the generations thai fought the
war and elevates into practical commsnd of
the American government the identical men
who organized for its destruction and plunged
us into the bloodiaEt contest of modern times.
have spoken of the South as placed by the
late election in possession of the government,
and mean ell taat my words imply. The
South furnished nearly three-fourths of the
electoral Votes that defeated the Republican
party, and they will step TO the command OF
the Democratic party as nnchallenged and as
nnresirained as they held the sarae position
for thirty years before tbs civil var.
Gentlemen, there cannot be political In
equality among the citizsns of free republic.
TheTe cannot be minority Of white men in
the South ruling majority Of white men in
ths North. Patriotism, selfrespect, pride,
protection for the person and safety for the
country all cry out against il. The very
thought OF II stirs he blood of men who il-
herit equality from the Pilgrims who first
stood on Plymouth Rock, and from liberty
loving patriots who came to the Delaware
with William Penn; it becomes tho primal
question of American manhood it demands q
hsaring and settlement aud that settlement
Will vlEdicate the equality of American citi-
Gems in all their Derscnal and civil right; it
will at least establish the equality OF Waite
men undsr The national government and will
serve the Uaion as larse voice 10 its govern
ment as may bs exercised by the Southern
man who Tough 10 destroy the i UAion
The contest Just closed utterly warts the
fortunes and fats of candidates, whether sue
cessful or unsuccessful Pnrposely, may say
iastinetivsly, / have discussed the issues and
consequences OF that contest without reference
TO my own defeat and without the remotest
refer nee to the gentleman who is elevated tn
the Presidency. Towards him personally I
have no Cause for the slightest i'll.
will, snd il is with cordality /
express the wish that his otfia.al Career may
prove gratifying to himself and beneficial to
the country, aud that his administration may
overcome the embarfassments @hich the pscR-
liar source of It's power imposes upon it from
the hour of its birth.
Invited the large crowd into his house, and for
nearly an hour an informal reception was held
as hundreds after hundreds passed through the
rooms, the entire lower floor being thrown
open. The greetings were especially friendly
and cordial, and the compliments upon the
speech were unoounded. 1t evidently accorded
with the judgment and conviction Of tue aud