The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-11-27

it by violence to others. Forty-two
Presidential Electors are assigned to
the South on account of the colored
population, and yet the colored popu-
lation, with more than 1. 100000 legal
votes, have been unable to choose a
single Elector; even in those States
where they have majority Of more
than hundred thousand they were
deprived of free suffrage, and their
rights as citizens are scornfully trod-
den, under foot.
The eleven States that comprised
the rebel confederacy had, by the CEN
sus of 1880, 100000 white popula-
tion and 100000 colored population.
The colored population, almost to a
man, desire to support the Republican
idation, and by violence and murder,
whenever violence and murder are
thought necessary, they are absolutely
deprived Of all political power.
If the outrage stopped there, it
would be bad enough, but it does not
stop there, for, not only is the negro
population disfranchised, but the pow
er which rightfully and constitution
ally belongs to them is transferred to
the white population, enabling 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 Confeder-
ary and five loyal States of the North,
possessing in each section the same
number of Electoral votes. In the
South the States Of Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, Alabama, Georgia and South
Carolina have an aggregate Of forty
eight electoral votes. They have two
million eight hundred thousand white
people, and over three million colored
people. In. the North the States Of
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas
and California have likewise, in the
aggregate, forty-eight Electoral votes,
and they have white population of
five million six hundred thousand, or
just double the five Southern States
which | have named.
These Northern States have practi-
cally no colored population. It is
therefore evident that the white men
in those Southern States, by usurping
and absorbing the rights Of the col
ored men, are exerting just double the
political power of the white men in
the Northern States.
| submit, my friends, that such a
condition of affairs is extraordinary,
unjust, and derogatory to the manhood
of the North. Even those who are
| vindictively opposed to negro suffrage
will not deny that if Presidential
Electors are assigned to the South by
reason Of the negro population, that
population ought to be permitted free
suffrage in the election. To deny that
clear proposition is to affirm that a
Southern white man, in the Gulf
States, is entitled to double the politi-
cal power Of a white man in the Nor
thern Lake States. It is to affirm that
Confederate soldier shall WELD twice
the influence in the Nation that a
Union soldier can, and that a perpet-
ual and constantly increasing superb
ority shall be conceded to the South
ern white man in the government of
the Union. lie that be quietly con-
ceded in this generation, it will harden
into custom until the badge Of inferi-
ority will attach to the Northern
white man as odiouslX as ever Norman
noble stamped it upon Saxon churl.
This subject is of deep interest to
the laboring men Of the North. With
the Southern Democracy triumphant
in their States, and in the Nation, the
negro will be compelled to work fol
just such wages as the whites may de-
cree-wages which will amount, as
did the supplies Of the slaves, to a
bare subsistence, equal in cash to per-
haps thirty-fve cents per day, if av-
eraged over the entire South. The
white laborer in the North will soon
feel the distinctive effect Of this upon
his own wages.
The Republicans have clearly seen
from the earliest days of reconstruc-
tion that wages in the South must be
raised to just recompense of the la
borer, or wages in the North ruin
ously lowered, and the party have
steadily worked for the former result.
The reverse influence will now be set
in motion, and that condition Of affairs
produced which, years ago, Mr.. Lin
coin warned the free laboring men of
the North will prove hostile to their
independence, and will inevitably lead
to ruinous reduction Of wages. A
mere difference in the color of the
skin will not suffice to maintain
an entirely different standard of wages
in contiguous and adjacent States, and
the voluntary will be compelled to
yield to the involuntary: So COM
pletely have the colored men in the
South been already deprived by the
Democratic party Of their constitu-
tional 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 reenslave-
ment, and are affri GIFTED because they
think all legal protection for them is
gone. Few persons in the North
realize how completely the chiefs Of
the rebellion WELD the political power
which has triumphed in the late cleo
ton.
It is a portentous fact that the
Democratic Senators who come from
the States of the late Confederacy, all
and 1 mean all without single ex-
ception-all personally participated
in the rebellion against the National
Government. It is still more sig
nifcant fact that in those States no
man who was loyal to the Union, no
matter how strong a Democrat he
may be to-day, has the slightest
chance Of political promotion
The one great avenue to honor in
that section is the record Of jealous
service in the war against the Govern
mont IT, is cartainlv an astonnd;rr