The banner-enterprise., 1884-01-26

maintaining, however, adverse pc
sition from the stand taken b,
Hillyer. Mr.. Deas desiring t
stand up for the land of his nativi
ty, and to remove Impressions
unfavorable as they were untruth
full, Immediately expressed himsel
in behalf of the South. His many
friends desire to read his speech
and / think I am able to obligt
the reading public this week
through the columns of your wide.
ly circulated journal. This is my
report Of the gentleman's i'm
promptu speech:
Mr.. PRESIDENT AND LADIES AMI
GENTLEMEN:
Some of you say that "the
South is not the place for the col.
ored man." Then where is his
place? You say the North !
maintain that the North is not the
place for the colored man. Has it
ever occurred to your minds that if
colored men i~mmigrate North en-
nsasse, and to the same extent that
they are in the South, ally them
selves with the Republican party,
or with any other party, and fur
thermorc, if they should be able
to elect a local government totally
independent of the whites, that
the same "hue and cry would be
raised against them that they en-
danger white supremacy. [Great
applause. find the white man
the same any where. Laughter.
I opine that the colored man en-
joys these peculiar rights (of which
you so eloquently speak, in the
North on account of his smallness
in number, and because he does
not comprise the bulk of the Re-
party as he does in the
South. [Applause. Reverse the
and let the negroes be as
numerous IN the North as they
are in the South and the situation
will be the same as in the South
to-day. Applause. The negroes
are tolerated in the North, because
they are unable to control the
point of numbers as they can in
the South. Applause. My ex-
.perience is-and history bears me
out in the assertion-that all i'm
portant acquisitions that the white
race have achieved they were CON-
to seal it with their blood,
and the negroes must do the same.
Applause. We cannot expect
other men to fight our own bat
ties Applause. We will have
to make sacrifices as other races
have done in the march of time,
[applause] and you will have to
encounter these oppositions any
where you 60, and | am for meet.
ing them where We have already
met them. Immense Applause.
What if we do have a little kill
ing now and then /; we must expect
this the blood of the martyr is
the seal of the church. Applause.
Another aspect Of the question,
the colored man is peculiarly fitted
for the the South. Its warm cline
invigorates him. As a laborer he
cannot be surpassed. Applause.
If he goes North and supplants the
laborers, they will become
indignant, will raise objection in
cident to the South, and leave the
party, and ~stigmatise
it as the Negro Party. Thunder
Gus applause.
Let the cOlored man remain IN
the South, and there carve out his
Race prejudice can be
more easily removed from there
than anywhere else. 1t started
there and there let it end. Ap-
plause. We are on our own
and can the better meet
the enemy "New fields are not
the best fighting grounds ZAP
plause. Another thing, we we're
and raised with the white men
of the South they understand us
better, can better tolerate us. We
have laid down together, played
upon the same matted grass,
danced and sang together, and
many q white Southerner has suck
ed the breast of Negro nurses, the
faithful blacks. [Great applause.
Outside of politics we get along
harmoniously. Politics is the on
ly disturbing element. Applause. ]
If that could be thrown aside our
difficulty would be lessened. This
I am not willing to give up. [Long
and continued applause We
must live political moderation