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have clearly seen, from the

HING ClcitIly Setii. Hoiu Tic
earliest DAYS of reconstruction, that wages
in the South must be raised to a just recon-
pense of the iaborer, or labor in the North
will be ruinously lowered, and the
party has steadily worked for the
former. result. The reverse influence will
now be set III motion, and that condition
of affairs produced, which years ago Mr..
Lincoln warned the free laboring men of
the North will prove hostile to their indie
pendenee, and will inevitably lead to
rainous reduction of wages The mere
difference of the color of the skin will not
suffice to maintain an entirely different
standard in the wages of contiguous and
adjacent States, and the voluntary will be
compelled to yield to the involuntary. So
completely have the colored men in the
South been already deprived by the Dem
ocratic party of their constitutional and
legal rights as citizens of the United States
that they regard the advent of that party to
national power as
THE SIGNAL OF THEIR ENsLAyEMENT,
And are af1rightened, because they think all
legal protection for them is gone. Few
persons in the North realize how COM
pletely the chiefs of the rebellion WELD the
political power which has triumphed in
the late election. 1t is portentous fact
that Democratic Senators, who come from
the States of the late Confederacy, all-and
| mean all, without a single exception-per-
sonally participated in the rebellion against
the National Government 1t is a still
more significant fact that in those States
no man who was loyal to the Union, no
matter how strong Democrat he may be
to-day, has the slightest chance of political
promotion. The one great avenue to
honor in that section is record of
Jealous service in the war against the Gov
eminent. 1t is certainly an astounding
fact that a section in which friendship for
the Union in the day of its 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
into practical command of the American
Government the identical men who organ
lied for its destruction, and plunged us into
the bloodiest contest of modern times.
have spoken of the South as placed by the
late election in possession of the Govern
ment, and
MEAN ALL THAT MY WORDS IMPLY.
The South furnished nearly three fourths
of the electoral votes that defeated the Re
publican party, and they will step to the
command of the Democrats as unchalenged
and unrestrained as they held the same po-
sition for thirty years before the war. Cen
tlemen, there cannot be political inequality
among citizens of a free republic. There
cannot be a minority of white men in the
South ruling the majority of white men in
the North. Patriotism, self-respect, pride,
protection for person as well as safety for
the country-all cry out against it. The
very thought of it stirs the blood of the
hn iph arit onroIit,- ha ,Dil
grims who first stood on Plymouth Rock,
and from the iberty-loving patriots who
came to the Delaware with William Penn
1t becomes
PRIMAL QUESTION OF AMERICAN MANHOOD.
1t demands hearing and settlement, and
that settlement will vindicate the equality
of American citizens in all personal and
civil rights. 1t WILL at least establish the
equality of white men under national gov
ernment, and will give to the Northern
man, who fought to preserve the Union, as
large voice in its government as may be
exercised by the Southern man, who fought
to destroy the Union. The contest Just
closed utterly dwarfs the fortunes and fate
of the candidates, whether successful or I'M
successful. Purposely, | may say instinct
lively, | have discussed the issues and conse-
quences of that contest without reference to
my own defeat-without the remotest refer
ence to the gentleman who is elevated to the
Presidency. Towards him, personally, |
have no cause for the slightest ill-will, and
it is with cordiality that | express wish
that his official career may prove gratifying
to himself and beneficial to the country,
and that his administration may overcome
| the embarraSsments which the peculiar
source of its power imposes upon it from
| the hour of its birth
At the conclusion of Blaine's speech he
invited the large crowd into bis house, and
| for nearly an hour an informal reception
was held, hundreds of people passing
| through the rooms. The greetings were
especially friendly and cordial.