San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-12-04
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the laboring mon of the North. With
the Southern Democracy triumphant
in their States, and in the Nation,
the negro will be compelled to work
for just such wages as the white may
decres-wages which will amount as
did the supplies Of the slaves, TO
bare subsistence, equal in cash per-
haps thirty-fve cents per day, IL aver
aged over the entire South. The
white laborer in the North will soon
feel the distinctive effect OF this upon
his own wages,
The Republicans have clearly soen
from the earliest days Of reconstruc-
ton that wages in the South must be
raised to just recompense OF the
laborer, or wages in the North ruin
ously lowered, and the party steadily
worked for the former result. The
reverse influence will now be set in
motion, and that condition OF affairs
produced which, years ago, Mr.. Lin
coin warned the free lagoring men OF
the North will prove hostile to their
Independence, and will inevitably lead
to ruinous reduction OF wages. A
mere difference in the color Of the
skin will not suffice to maintain an
entirely different standard Of wages
in contiguous and adjacent States,
and the voluntary will be compelled
to yield to the involuntary. So com.
pletely have the colored men in the
South been already deprived by the
Democratic party Of their constitu.
tional and legal rights as citizens OF
the United States, that they regard
the advent Of that party to National
power as the signal Of their reen-
slavement, and are affrighted because
they think all legal protection for
them is gone Few persons in the
North realize how completely the chiefs
of the rebellion WELD the political
power which has tsiumphed in the
late election.
"It is o portentous fact that the
Democratic Senators who came from
the States Of the late Confederacy,
all--and I mean all without single
exception-all personally participa-
ted in the rebellion against the Ma.
tional Government. It is still more
significant fact that in those States
no man who was loyafto the Union,
no matter how strong Democrat be
may be to-day, has the chance OF
political promotion.
The one great avenue to honor in
that section is the record Of jealous
service in the war against the Govern
ment. 1t is certainly an astounding
fact that the section in which friend
ship for the Union in the day Of its
trial and agony is still a political dis
qualification, should be called now to
rule over the Union. All this takes
place during the lifetime of the
generation that fought the war, and
elevates to the practical command Of
the American Government the identi-
cal men who organizedfor it's destruc-
ton and plunged us into the bloodi-
est contest OF modern times.
I have spoken Of the South as
placed by the late election in posses
sion 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 the Democrats as
unchallenged and unrestrained as
they held the same position for thirty
years before the war.
Gentlemen, there cannot be po-
litical inequality among the citizens
of a free Republic; there cannot be
minority Of white men in the South
ruling a majority OF white men in the
North. Patriotism, self-respect, pride,
protection and safety for country all
cry out against it; the very thought
of it stirs the blood of men who in
herit equality from the pilgrims, who
first stood on Plymouth, Rock, and
from liberty loving patriots who
came to the Delaware with William
Penn. It becomes the primal ques-
ton of American manhood. 1t de
mands hearing and q settlement,
and that settlement will vindicate the
equality OF American citizens in all
personal and civil rights. 1t will at
least establish the equality OF white
men under the National Government,
and will give TO the Northern man
who fought to preserve the Union as
large q voice in its government as
may be exercised by the Southern
man who fought to destroy the Union.
The contest just closed utterly,
dwarfs the fortunes and fate of
candidates, whether successful or un-
successful
Purposely-I may ssy instinctively
Il have discussed the issues and
consequences OF that contest without
reference 10 my own defeat, without
the remotest reference 10 the gentle
man who is elevated TO the Presidency.
Toward him personally ! have no
cause for the slightest ill-will, and il
is with cOrdiality / express the wish
that his official career may prove
gratifying 10 himself and beneficial to
70 The country, and that his admin
istraton may overcome the embarrass-
nsnts which the peculiar source Of its
power imposes on It from the hour Of
IL birth
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