Los Angeles daily herald., 1884-11-19
BLAINE.
He Shakes His Cory Locks
at the South.
A GREAT VOLUME OF ABUSE.
He Sees the Reinstatement of the
Negro and Wages Reduced to
Tnirty-five Cents Per Day.
Poor Blaine.

of Blaine serenaded him this evening as ~
expression Of personal good will ana ao
miration of his conduct in the hhti"ha
campaign. When the party reached Blame
house their compliments and friendly re
CARDS were expressed In speech by Hei
bert NJ. Heath. Esq, of the kehheoec pai
Blaine responded as follows, MS speech DC
ing continually Interrupted by applause;
"Friends and Nefghtors:-The Nationa
contest is over and by the narrowest of mar
gins we have lost. | thank you for you
call. which II not one OF joyous congratula
lions. Is one, am sure. OF confidence and Of
sapeuine hope for the future. | thank you
for the public opportunity you give me Ia
express my sense Of obligation, not only to
Won, but TO all the Republicans Of Maine
They responded to my nomination with
genuine enthusiasm and ratified II by a
superb vote. count 1t as one OF the honors
and qualifications OF my public career that
the party in Maine, after strugg ling
hard for the last six years and
twice within that period losing
the State, has come back In this
campaign to the old fashioned 10000 plural
ity. No other expression OF popular conf
dence and esteem could equal that OF the
people among whom have lived for thirty
years, and to whom am attached by all the
ties that ennoble human nature and give Joy
and dignity TO life. After Maine, indeed
along with Maine, my first thought Is always
of Pennsylvania. How can flttingly ex-
press my thanks for that unparalleled
majority OF more than sO,0O0 votes, a popu,.
my heart and which has, possible, in
creased my affection for the grand old com
monwealth, an affection which inherited
from my ancestry and whichI shall trans
s..lxt Aa saaflf frxtff
thanks to the State Of my residence and the
State OF my birth. owe much to true and
jealous friends IN New England. who
worked so nobly for the Republican party
ars and divines. who. stepping aside from
their ordinary ayocation. made my cause
their cause, and to loyalty and to
principle added the special compll.
representatives in the national struggle.
But the achievements for the Republican
cause In the East are even surpassed by the
splendid victories In the West. In that mag
the foothills of the Alleghanies to the
Golden Gate of the Pacific, beginning with
Ohio and ending with California, the Re
publican banner was borne so lonily That
acclaim Of triumph. Nor should do justice
10 my own feelings II failed To thank the
Republicans OF the Empire State, who en-
cointered 50 many discouragements and OBJ
ffNpleS, VINO IDutnt IDt lTblu Nltnlu unu Zoe
from without, and who waged so strong
battle that a change of one vote In every two
Thousand would have given us the victory In
the nation. Indeed, the change OF little
more than five thousand votes would have
transferred New York. Indiana, New Jersey
and Connecticut to the Republican standard
aud would have made the North as solid as
the South. Ny thanks would be still incom-
plete II should fail TO recognize with spe
eial gratitude that great body of work
jngmep, both native and foreign born,
who gave me their earnest support
breaking from old personal and party ties
and finding IN the principles which repre-
protection Of their own freside interests.
,rhe result Of the election, my friends, will
be regarded In the future. ! think. as extra
ordinary. The Northern states, leaving out
the cities Of New York and Brook
Republican cause by majority OF more
than four hundred thousand, almost half a
million, indeed. Of the popular vote. The
cities Of New York and Brooklyn threw
their gssst strength and Influence with the
solid South and were the decisive element
which gave 70 that section control of the
National government. Speaking not at all
as defeated candidate, but simply as a
loyal aud devoted American, ! think the
transfer Of The political power of govern
ment to the South Is great national misfor-
tune. II is misfortune because II intro
duees an element which cannot Insure har-
II introduces into the republic the rule OF
minority, The first instinct OF an American
Is equality; equality OF right, equality Of
privilege equality Of political power, that
vote Is just as good, just as potential
as the vote of any other citizen .
That cannot be said today In the United
States. The course OF affairs In the South
than six millions OF American citizens, and
has transferred Il by violence to others.
Forty Two Presidential electors are assigned
60 the south. on account OF the colored pop
alation and yet the colored population, with
more than i.ioo.ooo legal voters, have been
unable to choose a single elector. Even
those States where they have majority OF
more than hundred thousand majority,
they are deprived OF frss suffrage, and
ibeIr rights as citizens are seornfplly trod
den under foot. Eleven States that oom-
prised the rebel confederacy had, by the
census sf 1850. seven and q half millions OF
ulafion. The eolored population, almost to
man. desire to support the Republican
party, but BY a system Of cruel Intimidation,
and by violence. and murder whenever vio-
lence and murder are thought necessary,
they are absolutely deprived Of all political
power. II the, Outrage stopped there 1t
you'd be bad enough but II does
pot stop there, isr not only
y the negro population disfranchised. but
the power which rightfnlly and constitu-
fiopally belongs to them is transferred to the
white populstIop, enabling the white popu-
lation Of the South to exert an electoral in
auence far beyond that sterted by the same
number Of white people IN the North. TO
illustrate just how II works TO the destruc
tion OF all fair elections, let me present To
you five States In the late Confederaey and
i've loyal States OF the North. possessing In
each section the same number Of electoral
votes. In the South the States OF Louisians.
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South
Carolina have IN the aggregate forty-s eight
electoral votes. They have 10000 white
The North the States OF Wisconsin, Mime.
sots, Iowa, Kansas and California have like
wise IN the aggregate forty eight electoral
votes, and they have white population OF
States have named These Northern States
have practically no colored population, II
Is, therefore, evident that the whites In those
southern states, by usurping and absorbing
the rights of the colored men, are exerting
lust double the political power Of the white
men In ths northern states. ] submit. my
friends, that sunh condition OF affairs Il
extraordinary, unjust and derogatory Ia
the manhood Of the North. Even those
susfsss, viii not deny that Il the pres
idential electors are assigned TO the soutl
by resson OF the negro population, that pop
ulati0n ought tobe permitted free suffrage u
elections To deny that clear proposition u
20 affirm that the southern white man in thu
Gulf States is entitled to double the politica
power OF the northern white man In The
Lake States IL N to affirm that a Confederals
soldier shall WELD twice the influence u
the nation that Union soldier can. and I
perpetual and constantly increasing supe
riority shall be conceded 10 tho southern
white man In the government OF the Union
II that be quietly conceded In this generation
II will harden into a som, until the badge
Of iDferiorlty will attach 90 northern white
tsaD as odfously as ever Norman noble
stamped u upon Saxon churl.
IL Ia s.f f..fx 49, Ia
boring men of the North. With the South
ern Democracy triumphant In their State
and In the nation, the pagro will be com
PEELED TO work for Just sush wages, as u,
emount, as did the supplies OF slaves, 10
bare subsistence equal In cash perhaps /,
fhinyhve cents per day OF average over th'
entire South The white laborer In III,
upon his own wages. The Republican,
have clearly seap from the earliest days o
reconstruction that wages In the South must
be raised 70 jusl reeosspepse OF the laborel
aud the party have steadily worked for tn,
former result. Reverse influence will nov
be set ip notion and that condition OF af
fairs produced which years ago Mr.; Lincoln
pendebss PEN ss and VIII syeniualIy "'i lead inae 10
ruinous reduction Of wages. Mere difference
OF color Of skin viii MOI ssii,ee 70 maintain
Of contiguous and adjacent states, and the
voluntary will be compelled to yield to the
Involuntary. so completely have the COL
ored men In the South been already de
priyed BY the Democratic party OF their con
stitutIonal and legal rights as citizens OF the
United States, that they regard the advent o.
that party 10 rational power as a signal o
their enslaveplent. and are affFighfened be
them Is gone. Pew persons In the north re-
allie how. completely the chiefs Of the rebel
lion WELD the political power which has tri
umphed In the late election. II Is porten
tious fact thai the Democratic Senator'S who
come from the States OF the late oniederacy
ALL and mean all, without a single excep
fion, personally participated In the rebellion
against the National GoyeEnmept IL Is .
ffili more significant fact that 10 those States
no man who was loyal to tho Union, no mat
ter how strong Democrat he may bt
to-day, has the slightest chance o
political promotion. One great avenue
10 honor in that section Is q record o
jealous service In the war against the gov
ernmeDt. II Is certainly an astounding fac
that the section Up which friendship for ths
Union In the day o. It's trial and agony Il
still q political disqualification should b.
al laflll ~. rtll. Ata ha A hi