Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-11-28

ocrltic 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 a signal
of their reinstatement and are alright
ed because they think all legal protec-
ton for them is gone. Few persons i'm
the north realize how completely the
chiefs Of the rebellion WELD the: power
which has triumphed in the late cleo
ton.
It Is a portentous fact that the demo-
cratic senators who come from the
states Of the late confederacy all-and
mean all without a single exception
all personally participated in the rebell-
ion against the national government. 1t
is still more significant fact that in
those states no man who was LOYAL to
the union. no matter how strong a deui-
Ocrat he may be to-day, has the slightest
chance Of political promotion. The one
great avenue to honor in that section is
a record OF jealous service in the war
againstthe government. tits certainly
an astounding fact that the section i'm
which friendship for the union in the
day Of its trial and agony, is still a polit-
ical disqualification, should be called
now TO rule over the union. All this
takes place during the life time OF the
generation that fought the war, and
elevates to practical command of the
American government the identical
men who organized for its destruction
and plunged US into the bloodiest con-
test of modern times.
MEANS 1T ALL.
have spoken. Of the south rs placed
by the late election in possession of the
government, and I mean all that my
words imply. The south furnished
nearly three-fourths Of the electoral
votes that defeated the republican party,
and they will step to the command of
democrats as unchallenged and as un-
restrained as they held the same posi-
ton for thirty years before the war.
Gentlemen, there cannot be political
inequality among the citizens of a free
republic; there cannot be minority of
white men in the sonth ruling a major
ityof white men in the north. Patriot
ism, self-respect, pride, protection for
person and safety for the country, all
cry out against It. The very thought of
1t stirs the blood OF men who inherit
equality from the pilgrims who first
stood on Plymouth rock, and from lib
erty-loving patriots who came to the
Delaware with William Penn. 1t be-
cOmes the primal question of American
manhood. 1t demands hearing and a
settlement, and that settlement will
vindicate the equality of American citi-
zens in all personal and civil rights.
1t will at least establish the equality Of
white men under the national govern
ment and will give to the northern man
who fought to preserve the union as
large a voice in its government as may
be exercised by the southern man who
fought TO destroy the union. The con-
test just closed utterly dwarfs the fate
and fortunes of candidates, whether
successful Or unsucceS .ul.
PurpOsely-I may say instinctively-I
have discussed the issues and conse-
quences of that contest without refe.
ence to my own defeat, without the
remOtest reference to the gentleman
who is elevated to the presidency.
Towards him personally, have no cause
for the slightest i'll will, and it is with cor
! diality express the wish that his Off
cial career may prove gratifying to him
self and beneficial to the country, and
that his administration may overcome
the embarrassments which the peculiar
source Of its power imposes on it from
the hour of its birth.