Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-20
BLAINE'S BITTER SPEECH.
The Country Congratulated on Having
Escaped from Such a Man.

| WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-All the New
York newspapers this morning publish
Mr.. Blaine's speech at Augusta last night.
| The Tribune and Sun make no mention of
| it in their editorial columns. The same
is fact with regard to the National Re
| publican of Washington. The New York
| Herald says:
we believe that no patriotic citizen. be he
| RepuDllcan, Democrat. Peoples party man or
| PrOhlbltlonlst, will read the speech Mr. BIaine
/ mace at Augusta last night without thanking
| God most tervently for the deliverance of the
| people Of the United States from the danger.
! ana disgrace of having such demagogue and
! incendlary for their President. 1t is the first
| instance In which a Presidential candidate
| maddened by defeat has tried TO inOculate his
| country with sectional passions IN revenge for
| It's choice of another man. Unless we under
! estimate the patriotism of the people of the
| North and South, they will greet it with such
! scOrnful anger everywhere that il will he the
last instance as well as the first. and no future
disappointed mlscreant will dare defy the
warning.
In the civil war one great crime was at
! tempted which honorable belligerents on
either side regarded with unanimous horror.
| We mean the attem pit to inOculate the cOun-
| try with yellow fever. But it pales in wicked
ness beside Blalne's attempt to inOculate the
country with sectional passions; to tear open
the healed wounds of the rebellion; to per-
meate the North with a sense of humiliation
Presidency; to infect freedom with a fear of
reinstatement; to inspire white wOrkmen
with the dread of the freedmen's cOmpeti-
tlOn in their fields of labor, and to impeacb the
sincerity of the allegiance of all Southern
white men. No rebuke is too severe for this
vIllainOus speech, and the tone of it is ag-
gravated by the fact that it was as deliberate
as IL Is dastardly. Blalne'S words are not the
unprecedented harangue of hot temper. They
are the studied utterance of cold -blOoded
malignlty. Since he cannot rule he would
~Hr1ns lav a Rra
Ousy and discOrd and misery, because he him
self Is jealous, discOrdant and miserable.
But we believe that there is small danger OF
harm from such words as his at this day We
have faith that the evil he would wreak upon
his country will be visited on his own head.
If the Republican party does not unload itself
OF Blaine after this speech it will add damna-
tiOn to defeat.
WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.
The World, under the caption ''Vale
Blaine" writes as follows:
Blaine organized a serenade for himself at
Augusta last night, and in response to the
music of the band delivered a carefully pre-
pared speech, which may be regarded as his
solemn valedlctOry. 1t was a speech full Of
cunning malignancy, and it was the doctrine
Of hate intensified as preached by Blaine be-
fore the idea occurred to him that he might
as candidate for President, obtain few votes
in the Southern States. In his hour of defeat
and humiliation, Blaine resumes his warfare
upon the people of the section despiset by the
helOts of the Republican party. There is lit
tie that Is new in his voice from the valley of
humiliation. The American people have
heard recently about all that he has to say Of
the danger of admitting the South to full
partic patton in the affairs OF the government,
and about all that he is able % say on the
subject of protecting our industries. The
verdict pronounced against him has been en-
phatlc. He has been told that he is not
wanted. He has been told that his stories
about Southern people are ISLANDERS, ana if
he had more sensibllity and just shade of
personal PRIDE he would have quickly sub
sided when the fiat was pronounced against
him. Blaine seems determined, however. to
leave nothing undOne to prove that he is en-
titled to the contempt of all true friends of
the republic. His implacable speech NAV
disturb and disquiet the poor negroes of the
South, but the country Will see in it only the
cowar,tly rancor of defeated candidate and
relegatc 1t to the limbo of tin helmets, shriV-
eled piumes and other discarded campaign
properties.
The Times says:
Mr.. Blaine took the occasion of a serenade
at Augusta last evening, intended as a per-
s0nal compliment by his tOwnsmen, to
deliver the most bitter and mschievous sec
tlOnal speech that has been heard In the North
for many day. An honest defeat seems to
have eNtlngulshed all the generous sentiment
which he pIOfessed to have when he penned
his letter of acceptance, or rather it shows
that the letter was paraded in the hope of
winning Southern votes, and having
failed IN that, he shows his
real temper. He beies the Northern
influence that contributed to his defeat, and
treats the result as a transfer of the control
of the government to the South, which he pro
fesses to believe is fraught with misfortune to
the country. He shows no conception of the
principle that the government belongs to the
people of the whole country, and no party or
section, and endeavors to revive old antag-
Onisms and hatreds and to inflame the fears
OF Southern negroes. A more unpatriOtic, mis-
chievOus and bitterly sectional and narrow
spirit than Blaine exhibits in defeat is incon-
Ceivable, and adds another to the many causes
for COngratulatiOn that the country has been
saved from an administration dominated by
such spirit.
DENUNCIATIONs AT WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-There was
much comment here to-day in political
and official circles regarding Mr.. Blaine's
last act of ringing the alarm bell in the
night. Even his followers are puzzled
to account for his lurid Augusta dis
course. The more intelligent cOl0red peO-
pie OF the District of Columbia sneer at
his theatrical posing as the friend of the
negroes of the South. They have never
looked upon Blaine with favor. Hen V G.
g. Atwood, United States Consul at San
Domingo, who has been a prominent
cOlOred leader in Louisiana, is in the city.
Referring to Blaine's speech, he said:
It's all bosh. The statement that the colored
people in the South were not allowed to vote
is not true. There is some intimidation in the
country districts in the South. but very little
in the cities. Certainly Blame has no cause
to complain. In the Third Louisiana District
he got 5000 majority, while Kellogg was de-
feated for Congress. The cOlOred people vote
as they please. Look at Bisbee's district in
Florida, for instance. Bisbee IS a Republican,
but he was defeated by colorcd votes. No.
The South was not made solid by the Demo-
Gratis this time. Blaine lost every Southern
State because the cOlored people are stalwarts
and friends of COnkling, Grant and Arthur
The slaughter of Folger hurt Blaine much
in the South as it did in New York.
Congressman Mitchell, of Connecticut,
who is in town, says that Blaine should
turn his guns on some of the manufac-
turers Of New England who forced their
employees to vote the Republican ticket
at the last election, even compelling them
to show their tickets to the bosses Just be-
fore depOsiting them. He says this sort
OF coercion was boldly resorted to in his
district