The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-11-20
address from Blaine,

gOO1 Will anu dQm1faLI0n OF MS con-
duct In the national campaign. They
marshalship of Col. Frank Nye When
they reached Blaine's house their CON-
pliments and friendly regards were ex-
pressed in 8 speech by Herbert II.
Heath, esq :, of the Kennebec bar. Mr..
Blaine responded as tollows-the speech
being continually interrupted be ap-
plause:
Friends and neIghbors: The national
contest is over, and by the narrowest OF
margins we have lost, thank YOU for
your call, which If not one OF joyous
congratulations, IS one am sure of con-
fldence and OF sanguine hope for the fu-
ture. thank you tor the public oppor-
tunity to express my sense of obligation,
not only to you, but to all the Republi-
cans of Name. They responded to
my nomiLa alton with genuine enthusi-
asm and ratified il by q superb vote.
count II as one of the honofs
and qualifications of my public career
that the party in Maine after struggling
hard for the last six years, and twice
within that period losing the state, has
come back in this campaign; has come
back to the old-fashioned 10000 plural
ity. No other expression OF popular
confidence and esteem would equal that
of the people among whom have lived
thirty years, and to whom am attached
by all the ties that ennoble human nature
and give joy and dignity 20 HE After
Maine, indeed along with Maine, my
first thought is always of Pennsylvania.
How Can l tittingly express my thanks
for that unparalleled majority OF more
than $1,000 votes, q popular endorsement
which has deeply touched my heart and
which has. if possible. increased my af-
lection for the grand old commonwealth,
an affection which 1 inherit from my
my children. But do not limit my
thanks to the state of my residence and
| the state of my birth. | owe
much to the true and Jealous
! friends in New England who worked so
| nobly for the Republican party
and its candidate, and TO the eminent
scholars and divines who, stepping aside
from their ordinary avocations, made
their cause my cause, and to the loyalty
under SO many discouragements and OBJ
stacles, VINO fought foes from within end
foes from without, who waged so strong
a battle that q change of one vote IN
every 1000 would have given US the vic
tory in the nation. Indeed. q change OF
little more than 5000 votes would
have transferred New York, Indiana
New Jersey and Connecticut to the Re-
publican standard, aud would have made
the north as solid as the south. My
thanks would still be incomplete If
should fail to recognize with special
gratitude that great body of working
men, both native and foreign born, who
gave me their earnest support, breaking
from old personal and party affiliations
and finding in the principles which
represented in the canvass the safeguard
and protection of their own firesides and
interests. The result of the election, my
friends, will be regarded in the future,
think, as extraordinary. The northern
states, leaving out the cities of New
York and Brooklyn from the count, sus
tanned the Republican cause by q ma
jority of more than 80.000-almost hall
million, indeed, of the popular vote
The cities of New York and Brooklyn
threw their great strength and influences
with the solid south, and were
the decisive element which gave tC
that section the control of the national
government. Speaking now, not as q
defeated candidate but simply as Loyal
and devoted American, / think the trans.
fer of the political power of the govern
ment to the south Is a great national
misfortune. 1t is misfortune, because
il introduces an element which cannot
insure harmony and prosperity to the
people. because it introduces into the
republic a rule OF minority. The frs
instinct of an American is equality
Equality of right, equality of privilege
equality of political power. That equal
ity which says to every citizen, our voti
is just as good, just as potential as the
vote of any other citizen. It can be
said to-day in the United States that the
course OF affairs in the south has crushed
out the political power of more than
100000 American citizens, and has
transferred it by violence to others
Forty-two presidential electors are as
signed to the south on account of the
colored population, and yet the colored
population, with more than I, 100, 600 lie
gal votes, have been unable to choose g
single elector. Even In those states
where they have maj ority of more than
100000 they were deprived of free suf
frage, and their rights as citizens are
scornfully trodden under foot. The
eleven states that comprise the rebel
confe6eracy had by the census of 1880
seven and a half millions of white pop.
ulatIon. The colored population is al
most to a man desire to support the Re-
publican party, but by a system of cruel
intimidation and by violence and muir
der, whenever violence and murder are
thought necessary, they are absolutely
deprived of all political power. II the
outrage stopped there ii would be
enough, but 1t does not stop there, tor
not only is the negro population disfran-
chIsed but the power which rightfully
and constitutionally belongs to them is
transferred to the white population, en-
abling the white population of the
south to exert an electoral influence
far beyond that eXerted by the same
number of white people in 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 con-
federacy and FIVE loyal states of the
north, possessing IN each section the
| same number OF electoral votes. In the
south the states of Louisiana, Mississip-
pI, Alabama, Georgia and South CARROLL
"a have an aggregate of 48 electoral
votes. They have $500, 900 white peo-
pie and over 100000 colored people.
| In the north the states of Wisconsin,
| Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and California
have likewise an aggregate of 4S cleo
toral votes. and they have q white popu-
lation of 100000, or just double the
five southern states which haYe named.
These northern states have practically
no colored population, 1t is, therefore,
southern states, by nsurping aud alb
sorbiDg the rights of the
colored men are exertlng
just double the political power of the
white men in the northern states / sub
nit; my friends, that such 8 condition oil
affairs is extraordinary. unjust and de-
rogatory to the manhood of the north
Even those who are vlndIctIvely opposed
to negro suffrage will not deny that ii
presidential electors are assigned to tbs
south by reason of the negro population
that popu1stlon ought TO be permitted
free suffrage in the election. To deny
that clear proposition is to affirm that 8
southern white man IN the gulf states II
entitled TO double the political power oil
white man in the northern lake states
Il is to affirm that confederate eoldiel
shall WELD twice the influence in thu
nation that a union soldier can, and tina
q perpetual and constantly increasing
superiority shall be conceded to the
southern white man in the government
of the union. II that be quietly con
coded In this generation it will harder
into custom until the badge o
inferiority will attach TO tht
northern white man as odiously as eve
Norman noble stamped it upon Saxol
churl. This subject is of deep iDteres
to the laboring men Of the north. Whll,
the southern Democracy is triumphan
in their own states and In the nation, thu
negro will be compelled to work for Jus
such wages az the whites may decree
wages which will amount, as did tn
2 supplies Of the slaves, 70 bare subsist
ence, equal in cash 70 perhaps thirty nv
cents per day, if averaged over the entir
! south. The white Iaborer in the mort
) will soon feel the effect of this upon hi
own wages. The Republicans hav
clearly seen from the earliest day of n
: construction that wages in the sout
, must be raised to just recompense c
) the labOrer or wages in the north ruiz
. ] ouslY lowered, and the party have stea(
5 | lily worked for the former results tn
I reverse influence will now be set in mr.
8 ton, and the condition of affairs pr
d duced which years ago Mr.. Lincol
e warned the free labortng man of Il
|, north will prove hostile to the indepens
ence and will inevitably lead To ruinor