The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-11-27
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- few rlgbH s.urD Go SOME 1i The people
~ Augusta who -or,nudud you, | am
IN old mtu hove read considerably
fhrougl NJ. INr seen 70 good deal u
uur country, sil have been CLOSE oh
server uf wrr md things, tut have rare
~, " over, s,nn an read la the same
pace so much 90 lament and doprocaio
unjust, untrue and ui,chieyuus In
purpose and when coming fresh from
a freshly defeated candidate for the
presidency uf the republic oi Washing
ton, NY American checks blaHrh In
sorrow, mingled with disgust. And this,
in Your casc, Z dnubly feel, from the
act that | wus born and passed my
asriN lilr at Brunswick, almost In can
non snut of your present home, and
knew we'll, and knew only 10 respect
aud esteem, tEc Stanwood family into
which you married. | knew them rs
good people. was born there on the
Sth May, lSh1, long before You were
born In Pennsylvania, and yet much
longer hy fore you located In Maine To
become know Nothing editor, n
blatant partisan utlice-scC kor, MEM
her of congress, a. ruuiiaentlHl cores
pondCut at Mc>,r~. Mulligm Il Fisher,
i conn ICut and hopper of Syudirnles,
lob crs, munupulislS and guam" in
trigu.rs, aud finally, after h"rculcan
efforts aud 10 iHir trial before a jury ui
ii,UuJ,uU American freemeu, Il con
demErb aud d"iuuct politician.
l'tt my native STATE when young ana
became a strunhuatmHn among the
southern people ON the great father
of waters aud it, beautiful
afllu"rt. the ohio. Tho noble,
wgim-hrari,d people among whom my
lot was cast, speedily won aud have
oven retained my love. Welded lie
and children became mine, an Tor
more ihun forty wears | had Tot seen
my native place, brothers, sisters, ar
other Kindred, when, in Ohcdlen ~ To
their olt-fCpouiuu nCsutchmcnls, the
summer Of ~ found myself aud wife
their guests, crubalmed ia joyous alice
tiou. enhanced by the greetings of the
surviving friends Ot my youth. Greedy
and Grant were candidates for prcsi-
dent. Fred Douglas was announced To
speak one night at Brunswick. The
time arrived, but he was not there. AT
depot near by | found him. just ar
lived and chagrned that no one met
him | pilotrd him to DR.. Lincoln and
the rear OF the stage. The doctor was
too modest, and begged me to Introduce
him, and would hear no excuse, |
therefore stepped forward and
said: "Fellow-citizens, those Of you
who know me, know that
am thorough, dycd-in-the wool
Kentucky Democrat, but at the
same time, in the absence OF any one Of
his party, | introduce to YOU the noted
tolored man. Frederick Douglas" And
am happy to say now that he made a
creditabie and con sentative speech. j
heard him. Hannibal Hamlin. John NJ.
Harlan, of Kentucky, and Nice-Pres
dent Wilson make rational and con
servative speeches together, the orly
malignont, malevolel and incendiary
addresses made on tile occasion being
Nv James G, Blaine aud his recent man
Friday, Benjamin +. Butler.
Now, passing over all that has hap
pened since, look at the same malig-
nance, malevolence and evil spirit in
your late night address. Your arrogant
assumptions are unworthy of man oi
common sense or even second-rate hon
esty. You would have it that all the
north were for you and all the
south against you, both solid,
and that therefore the government
s. was to be turned over to those you style
the rebels. WHAT do you say of that
halt of the north who voted for that
plain, straightforward, honest man,
Grover Cleve and, to beat you and re-
tire you to that privacy demanded by
the national welfare? How about New
York, Connecticut, New Jersey ana
Indiana? How about the majority in
Massachusetts against you, though you
got a plurality? How about Cleveland
beating you ll,I46 in Boston? HOW
about your narrow escape with only ,1V
plurality i'll vigorous, young Michigan?
How about Cleveland gaiuing 1900 on
Gartield's vote in Illinois, and the GER
tainty that your late. lieutenant not only
fell with you, but Cannot be even re-
turned to the senate in his own state?
Aud, generally, how about the 4,OOO,OOC
Of American ireemen in the. north who
rel ,ctud You and voted for the friend OF
reform and honest govern
meut, Grover Cleveland and that honest
Old patriot Thomas A. Hendricks!
You have the hardihond to assert, first
p that the negroes are buildoZed in the
south, and next, show your chagrin and
regret that your party force d suffrage on
them for the iil-conccaled purpose OF
ruling the white men of the south
through thsm tor your own fairness and
that of your lean, hungry friends. On
this, AS an old man and strictly private
citizen, / would remark that your as
sumption is utterly false and your dis
appointed rage and chaSrln at your par
ty's great mistake in its eutranchiSement
scheme, is lrutia,S--l very soomorang,
evoluting back whence IL -irang. Tens
of thousands Of the most en- ightened ne
groes years ago, IN near.y all the sonth-
crn states, discovered your hypocrisy,
your dc ire to mislead and use them Tor
seltih ends, and have since voted with
the Democrats. More did SO in the late
election than ever before, and by the
end of Cleveland's term the great body
of them will be OF the Democratic house
hold. The thou and lies told them as
to their ruin if Cleveland should be
elected, viii be 50 potently and oyer
Whelminglv disproved by their present
and daily future observation that in \
year or two more it will be difficult to
find one who will admit That he voted
for Blaine. They are curious people.
We understand them. You and your
fellows do not and never will. We like
them for their simple virtues and their
fidelity to our families in dark davs.
You and your fellows, in heart, never
did like them and never will. Our feel
ings spring from association. mutual
sympathy and mutual Dependence, pro-
ducing in thousands of eases warm
friendships. In families it has come
down from parents to children. 1ou
and your fellows cannot enter this, To
yOu,mySteriOus arcana OF mutual trust
IL is impossi BILE; and as men OF your age
pass away, aS your seniors have gone, q
newer generation will never hear VI
your nonsensical ejsculations; but the
sons and daughters of Maine, disabuscd
of the nightmares and superStltIons That
have so long beclouded and gangrened
your vision, and advertised OF this gooily
land and it's aliuring climate, with an
unbiased knowledge OF its people, will
come in legions to live with and be of
us. Texas and the whole south. with
outstretched arms, bids them come, now
and benceforth.
DO you realize. Mr.. Blaine, tuat a