Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-11-28
MIR. BLAlNESPEAKS.
He Fiercely Attacks the South and
Waves Once More the Bloody Shirt.

waves Once more the BiOOuy Snlft.
! a large number of devoted personal and po-
litica friends of Mr.. Blaine serenaded him on
Tuesday evening an expression Of personal
good-w and admiration of his conduct of the
national campaign. Mr.. Blaine appeared and
made a speech in which, after expressing his
graft ide for the support he bad received, he
said "A change OF little more than FIVE thou
sand votes would have transferred New York,
Indiana, New Jersey and Connecticut to the
Republican standard and would have made the
North as solid AS the South
THE result of the election, my friends, will
be regarded in the future, | think, as extraor-
binary. The Northern States, leaving out the
cities OF New York and Brooklyn from the count,
sustained the Republican cause by majority
of more than 400, O0O-.most half million,
indeed of the popular vote. The cities o. New
York and Brooklyn threw their great strength
and influence with the solid South and were
the decisive element which gave to that section
the control of the national government Speak
ing now not at all as defeated candidate but
as loyal and devoted American, | think the
! transfer of political power of the government
/ TO the South is great national misfortune Ii
/ is misfortune because IL Introduces an element
which cannot insure harmony and prosperity
TO the people, because it introduces into re-
public the rule of minority.
/
ed ont the political power of more than six mil
/ lion American citizens and has tr nsferred it
/ by violence 10 others. Fortv-two presidential
electors are assigned TO the South on account
OF he colored population, and vet the colored
population, which with |, 100, 900 legal votes
have been unable TO choose a single elec,or.
Even in those States where they have m jor-
ity of more than hLnired thousand they arc
deprived of free outrage, and their rights as cit
NIL AsD he
eleven States that comprise the rebel confed.
eracv had by III. census Of 1880 seven and A.
I half millions " bite population and five million
three hundred thousand colored population.
The color-d population. almost 10 man, desire
/ to support the Republican party, hut hv sys
/ TEN OF cruel intimidation and hy violence and
murder, Whenever violence and marder are
thought necessary, they are absolutely .prived
Of all political power.
ITO illustrate jus, how it works 10 the de
strucion Of all fair elections let re pres ut TO
YOU FIVE States in the late coutederaCy aud f We
Loyal States i the North possessing in each Sec
ton the same number of electoral woes In
/ the South the States of Louisiana Mississippi,
Alabama, Georgia and South C,ro in, h ave in
the aggregate 4S electoral votes Thev have
? 500 600 white people AMI over 2 900, 600 col.
ored peope In the North the States Of Wis
consn. Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and C,lfor-
MA have likewise in the aggregate ~ electoral
votes and they have white population Of B
500, coo. or just double the f.e Southern States
which | have named These Northern States
have practically no coored population. II is
therefore evident that the white men in III nse
Sou hern States hv usarpi n. nHd thsorhln. the
: righs Of The colored tS-riiny Just
double the political power of The white mnn in
( the Northern States submit n Al such a CON
dIipn OF afHrs is extraordinary. Tnjasr and
teroEstorv 10 the manhood of The Nr-th Even
thes" who are yinfi,tIvrly opposed Ia negro
suffrage viii not DENY th.t If Presidential -l"c
tors assigned 10 the south Nv reason uf The
negro population. that popul tiIDu on .ht So lie
permitted fee suffrage. To deny that clear
propo itiun il to sfFi-u hat Sruth white
man in the Cuff Sl-'es IL entitled To double the
political power OF Northern '-hiie man in the
Lake States {: il Is to affirm that C.7frirr,'e
soldier shall Weld twice the infa nae in the
nation lhtta Union soldier can. and that par
Isiuh and constantly Increasing superiority
sha H. once led 80 the Southern hIte MIN ia
the government % the Mon
: IF that be quietly CONCEDED IN This gNnsrs-
lion it vii harden into custom. until III badge
OF in'rl tnri'y will attach 30 IN. Nnr'h"Ea white
man rs 81 oHsly "a sver Norman mob st.mpe.
it upon Saxon churl Thi. suhj~c' - Of deep
in'er"s' 10 the lahoriae usa of tie North With
ths southern Democracy triumphant ~ their
States and in the nation the negro will be com
Pc led 10 work FOR lust such wages as tho whites
may decree wage, which will amosnr. ~ did
Tbs Supplies % the slaves, TO = bare subsistence,
equal in cash perhaps to IS cents PcT day, If
averag~d over the entire South
: Mr.. Blaine argued that this would reduce
I wages in he Nor b "F-~ persons in the
North, - be conriug-f. ''rs.liE~ ho~ completely
f the chiefs Of the rel ellion Wild the politic.
power which has just ,riamphed in the late
election IL ~ a I=ortentous fact that the Dem
ocraiic Senator's who came from the States Of
/ the late Confri rsev sll--sni mean all. sith
out single exception personally parties ps,ed
In The REBELLION against she national govern
'nent- IL Is sIIil more significant fact ;hat in
+, those States no man who sas loSal 10 he a
ion, no matter how strong Drnocrs, he mar
he to-day. has the slightest chance " political
! promotion. The one great avenue TO honor 10
that section i the record OF Jealous service in
/ the VAR against thu government. II is cert.IL!v
an aston nding fact that the se-tion in which
friendship for the nion ia The dass Of IL. trial
aud scony IS still political dIsqa LITIGATION
should he called nov 10 rule over the Unou.
/ "Ail this takes place during the lifetime OF
the generation that fought the var. aud eiey ties
into practical coamsnd OF the American gov
ernm-nt the dsniical men who organized for
+ its destruction aud plunged US into the hiood-
lest contest Of modern times. have spoken of
/ tie South placed hy the late election in pos
session OF the government and ! mean all that
nv words imply. The South furnishes nesrly
three foarihs Of the electoral votes that defeated
the Republican party. and they will step to The
command Of the Democratic party as uncha-
lenged and as unrestraineh as they held the
same position Cor thirty years before the civil
war
''Gentlemen, there cannot be political inc
quality among the citizens of a free republic ;
there cannot be a minority of white mrn Ia the
South ruling maj1rity Of white men in The
North. Patriotism se.f-rsspect. pride, prot
ton for persons and safety for country, all cry
out against il. The very thought Of it siirs the
blood of men no inherit equality from he Pill
grims who first stood on Plymouth Rock, and
from liberty loving patriots who came 10 The
Delaware with William Penn. II hecoBes the
primal question of nericsn manhood. II de-
maads hrariag and a settlement will vindicate
the equality of American eiiizens 10 all personal
and civil rights
''Purposelr-I may say instinctirely-I have
discussed the issues and consequences Of that
contest with out reference 10 mr. own defeat
without the renoles, reference 10 the gentleman
who is elevated to the presidency. Towards
him personally have no cause for the s!ig hiest
ill-wiil, and il is with cordiality express the
wish that his ffi'.isl career may prove grstif,
ing TO himself and beneficial TO the country, and
that his administration may overcome the EN-
barrassments which the peculiar source Of its