The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-27
SPEECH BY MR.. BLAINE
In Response to a Serenade by
Friends in Maine.
Thanks to His Friends-Respeots to His
Political Opponents, Food For
Reflection For All
Parties,
AUGUSTA, Me, November 1s.

Heath, Esq, of the Kennebec bar. Mr..
Blaine responded as follows, his speech
being continually interrupted by applause:
MIR. BLAINE's REPLY.
'fFrends and neighbors, the National con-
test 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 confidence and of san
guine hope for the future, l thank you Tor
the public opportunity you give me to eX-
press my sense Of obligation not only to you,
| but to all the Republicans of Maine. They
responded to my nomination with genuine
enthusiasm, and ratified it by superb vote.
/ count it as one of the honors of my public
career that the party in Maine, after strug-
Cling hard for the last six years, and twice
within that period losing the State, has come
back in this campaign to it's old fashioned
Mar confjdenS.e and esteem could equal that
of the people among whom l have lived
thirty years, to whom l 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 fittingly express
my thanks for that unparalleled majority of
more than S0,000-a popular endorsements
which has deeply touched my heart and which
| has, if possible, Increased my affection for
the grand old commonwealth, an anection
which inherited from my ancestry and
which shall transmit to my children. But l
| do not limit my thanks TO the state of my
residence and to the state of my birth; owe
much to the true and Jealous friends in New
| England who worked so nObiy for the RepuD-
| lican party and its candidates, and to the
eminent scholars and divines who, stepping
| aside from their ordinary aYocatlonS, made
| my cause their cause, and who to loyalty co
| standing as my personal representatives in
! the National struggle. But the achieve
ments for the Republican cause in the East
| are even surpassed by splendid victories in
| the West. In that magnificent Gordon OF
| States that stretches from the foot hills of
/ the AIleghenies to the Golden Gate of the Pa
| citic, beginning with Ohio and ending with
| California, the Republican banner was borne
| so loftily that but single state failed to join
| in the wide triumph.
THE EMPIRE STATES VOTE.
| Nor should do Justice to my own feelings
/ If I failed q thank tire KGDUDiIcanS OF the
/ Empire State who encountered so many dis
| courasements and obstacles; , VINO Iouens s
| who waged 50 strong battle that change OF
/ one vote in every two Thousand Woui4 q I,s nave
| a change of little more than 900 votes would
| have transferred New york, Indiana, New
standard, and would have made the North as
/ solid as the South. My thanks would be still
incomplete If i should fail to recognize with
special gratitude that great body of work
| ingnnen, both native and foreign born, who
| gave me their earnest support, breaking
! from old personal and party ties and fndlng
| 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 re
/ g;rded in the future, think, as extraordi-
/ nary. The Northern States, leaving out the
cities of New York and brooklyn from the
| count, sustained the Republican cause by
| majority of more than 100000, almost halt a
/ million, indeed, of popular vote The cities
! strength and influence With the Solid South
/ and were the decisive element which gave to
tllab SeCbiOu the COnbIO4 VI tic
i ernment.
THE SOLID SOUTH.
! Speaking now, not at all as a defeated can
! American / think the transfer of the political
| power of the Government to the South is a
! great National misfortune. 1t is misfortune,
| because it Introduces an element which can
/ not insure harmony and prosperity to the
| people, because it introduces int o the Repub-
! lie the rule of minority. The first Instinct
OF the American is equality-equality of right,
equality of privilege, equality of political
| power, that equality which says to every cit
| izen: "1Our vote IS Just as good, just as po-
| teutial rs the vote of any other citizen"
T7lat can not be said to-day in the United
| States. The course of affairs in the south
more mo- q ifRG than 100000 American citizens,
and has transferred 9eI it by 1,lS violence
/ Electors are assigned to the South
/ count of the colored population, and yet the
| legal votes. have been unable to choose IA
| they have a majority of more than 100000
| they we're deprived of free suffrage and their
| rights citizens are sc0rufITli} sFCddeT an
| der foot The eleven states that comprised
| the rebel Confe- -eracy had by the census of
| 1870 100000 whttepopulat1on ana 5y5O0O3O col
ored population; me c2toTea tb ion
! publican party, but by a system of cruel in
| liquidation and by violence ana murd9T'
nc cessary, they are absolutely deprived OF
| all POLITICALLY power; If the outrage stopped
| stop there, for not only is the negro popuIa-
| ton DISTINGUISHED, but the power which
| 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 y Orth.
| AN ILLUSTRATION.
! TO illustrate just how it works to the de-
| struction of all fair elections, let me present
| to you Five States in the late Confederacy
and five loyal states In the North, possess
| ing in each secti on the same number of cleo
| toral votes. In the South the states of
| Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia
| and SOUth Carolina nave IN the aggregate
| forty eight electoral votes. They nave =
| 100000 white people and over 100000 cOlOred
| DeoDie In the North, the States of Wiscon-
| cOnsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and Cali
/ fornla have likewise in the aggregate, forty
| eight electoral votes, and they have "a pOpu-
/ latfOn of $500, 900, just double that or the
| five Southern states which / have named.
| These N0rthern States had practically no col
| Ored population. It is, therefore, evident that
| the white men in those Southern states by
| usurping and absorbing the rights of colored
| men, are exerting just double the pO-
/ liticnl nower OF the white men in the North
| ern states. / submit, my friends, that
| such a condition of affairs is extraOr-
| dInarI unjust and derogatory to the man
| hood OF the North. Even those who are vim
| SinnI- tTat II i5residentiaI electors are as
| signed to the South by reason of the negro
population, that population ought to be per
| United free suffrage in the election To deny
| Southern white man in the Gulf states is en-
| titled to double the political power of a
| white man in the Northern Lake States. 1t
| is to affirm that Confederate soldier shall
| WELD twice the influence in the Nation that
| and constantly increasing superiority shall
/ be conceded to the Southern white man in
| the government of the Union. If that he
| quietly conceded in this generation it will
| harden into custom until badge of Inferior
| ftv viii attach to the Northern white man
| odiousiy as ever Norman noble stamped it
| upon Saxon churl.
| INTERESTING TO NORTHERN LABoRERs.
This subject is OF peculiarly deep interest
/ to the labOring men of the North With the
| Southern Democracy triumphant in their
| states and the Nation. the negro will be com
/ PEELED to work for just such wages as the
| whites may decree-Wages which will
/ bareF subsistence, equal IN cash TO perhaps
| thirty five cents per day II averaged overthe
/ entire south. The white labOrer in the
North will soon feel the destitute eject OF this
| uD1n his own WAGES. The Republicans have
| clearly seen from the earliest days of recon
| stTuction that wages in the south must sDe
/ raised to just recOmpense of the labOrer or
/ wages in the North ruinOusiy lowered, and
i the party have steadily worked for the for
| mer result The reverse influence will now
| be set in motion, and that condition OF
| affairs produced which years ago
/ Mr.. Lincoln warned the free Ia
/ boring men of the North will prove
| hostile to their Independence, and Will in
! evitably lead to a ruinous reduction of wages.
| mere difference OF color of skin viii not
/ standard OF wages in contiguous and adJae
| cent states, and the voluntary will be com
/ PEELED to yield to the Involuntary. so com
/ pietely have cOlereQ men in the south been
/ already deprived by the Democratic party of
| their constitutional and legal rights as eitl-
zens of the United States that they regard
as signal OF their re -enslayement. and are
/ amrighted because they think all legal pro
/ lection for them Is gone.
/ CONFEDERATE RULE.
/ Few persons In the North realize how com
/ pletely tine chiefs of the rebellion WELD the
/ political power which has tTiur1phed in the
/ late election. It is "a portcntIons fact that
! Democratic senator's who come from states