The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-11-20

! lust how IL WORKS 10 the destructlOn Ol
nll fair elections. lot me present "a
you fivo states of the north, possess
Ing each section the same number oi
electoral votes. In the south the states
OF Lou 'slana, Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia aud south Carolina have an az
gregate of fort, eight electoral votes,
They have 2,s0D,0O0 white people and
over 3,0o0,OOO colored people. In the
north tho states Of Wisconsin, Mime
sofa, Iowa, Kansas and California have
likewise In the aggregate forty eight
white population Of 100000, or
Just double the five southern
state which | have named; these north.
| ern states nave practically no colored
population. IL is therefore evident that
the white men in these southern states,
by absorbing and abusing the rights OF
the colored men, are exertlng just
men In the northern states. l submit,
my friends, that such condition OF at
fairs In extraordinary, unjust and derog-
atsry To the manhood of the north.
Even those who are vindictively OPP
posed to negro suffrage will not
deny that II presidential electors are as
signed Ia the south by reason OF the ne
gro population, that population ought to
he permitted free suffrage in the elec-
ton, To deny that clear proposition IL
| q affirm that n southern white man IN
entitled 10 double the political power of
white man IN northern. lake states II
il 10 affirm that 10 confederate soldier
shall wiold twice tho influence in tho
nation that union soldier can,
and that perpetual ana ,,
constantly increasing superiority shall
be conceded to the southern white man
in tho government OF the Union. If
that be quietly conceded by this gener
alton, IL will harden into custom, until
tho
BADGE OF ISFEpioRITY,
we'll attach To the northern whito man
as odiously Ms ever, Mormon noble
STAMPED IL upon Saxon churl. This sub
lect is OF deep interest 10 tho laboring
men of the north. WIN the southern
Democracy triumphant in their statos
and in tho nation, tho negro
viii be compelled 10 work for just
such wages as the whites may
desire, wages which will amount as did
the supplies of slaves, tea bare subsist-
euce, equal in cash To perhaps 81 cents
per dag. if averaged over the entire
south, The white laborer in the north
will soon feel the destructive effect of
thus upon his own wages. The Repub-
Leans have clearly seen from tho earli-
est
DAYS OF RECONSTRUCTION,
that wages in the south must no raised
to just recompense of the labor, or
wages in the north ruinously lower
ed, and the party have steadily
worked for the former result.
The reverse influence will now be set In
IN tion and that condition of affairs pro-
duced which years ago Mr.. Lincoln
warned the free laboring men of the
north will prove hostile to their inde-
pendence, and will inevitably lead
10 ruinous reduction of wages. A
mere difference in the color of the skin
different standard of wages OF contigu-
GUS and adjacent states, and the volun-
tary will be compelled to yield
10 the involuntary. So completely
have the colored men in the onth
been already deprived by the Demo
cratic party of their constitutional and
legal rights as citizens Of the United
states, that they regard the advert of
that party to national pc YER ~ the sig
nal of their re-enslavtnlent, and are
affrightened, because they think all
the legal protection fOr them Is gone.
Few people in the north realize how COM
pletely
THE CHIEFS OF THB RRBRLLloN
WELD the political power which has
triumphed in the late election; n:
Democratic senators who come from
states of the late Confedera " all, and
mean all, without q single exception,
have perso, ally participated in rebellion
with the national government. 1t Is
still more significant fact that
in those states no man who was loyal
to union, no matter how strong Demo-
crst no may be to-day, has the slightest
great avenue to honor in that section IL
the record Of Jealous service in the war
against the government. 1t is certainly
AN ASTOUNDING FACT
that the section in which friendship for
the Union in the day of It's trial and
agony is still a political disqualification
should be called now to rule over the
Union. All this takes place during the
Lifetime of the generation that fought
the war and elevates to the practical
command of the American government,
the indrntical men who organized for
it's destrution and plunged us into the
bloodest contest of modern times. l
have spoken of the south as placed by
the late election in possession.
words imply. The south furnished
nearly tnree-fourths Of the cleo
toral votes that defeated the Repub-
lican party, and they will step
to the command OF the Democrats as UNI
challenged and as nnrestrained, as they
held the same position for thirty years
before the war.
oRlAT aUsH.
Gentlemen, there can not be politca,.
inequality among the citizens of
free republic. There cannot be
minority Of white men in
the north. Patriotism, self-respeet,
pride, protection for person and safety
for country all cry out against 1t. The
very Thought of it. stirs the blood
Of men ne, ,, who h ihheri. It,. s,aoa equaa'ity y,
Plymouth Rock, and from the lib
erty-loving patriots who came to the
Delaware with William Penn. 1t
becomes primal questiol OF American
manhood. 1t demands hearing and q
settlement, and that settlement will
yindicate the equality, of Amer;
ican citizens in all personal
lish the equality Of white men under
the national government, and will give
to the northern men who fought to
preserve the union as large voice
in its government as may be exercised
by the southern man who fOu ght to de-
stroy the Union. The contest just
closed utterly dwarfs the fortunes and
tate of candidates, whether success
posely, l may say distinctly,
have discussed the issue and the
consequence OF that contest without
reference to my own defeat,and without
the remotest reference to the gentleman
who is elevated to the presidency.
THIS Is INs:NCERITY.
Towards him, personally, l have
no cause for the slightest ill-will,
and 1t is with cordiality that 1 express
the wish that his official career may
prove gratifying to himself and benefi-
cial to the country, aud that his
may overcome the
endorsements which the peculiar
service of its power imposes on it from
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