Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-11-20
THs DsrEArAD 0ANDIDArE.

suRat cnshBe nso-bssfy 10 place every
northern state Ia toe Republican column,
and then said:
Speaking now, not AT all as q defeated
candidate, but as 10y al and devoted
American, think the transfer Of the
government 10 TIE south Ia a great
nBttonal n,isi y upe Il ~ ANTS or,ure
uec4ust II in:foda IS an tisIDeut shiloh
osuLNt iusufs harn,9nY Hnd prosperity 10
the people; bsoaues Il iLirJ1 uoes itto
repuDic tho rule Of minority TIE
Act igltinot OF su AInerlo IN 10 sqlaiity--
tq1s!i'y OF right, equality OF privilege,
equality Of political power that equality
whion says 10 every citzsn: "YOpr vote
ia j1st Ss COED, just as potentiSl as the
vO.e ~ pDy other citiz ~" That cannot
bs SAID tU.ds, In tbs United S,Atss The
courss Of affairs In tue south has crushed
out the political power Of more than
100000 American oitizaDs, and has
transferred It by violence to others Forty
two Presidential electors are assigned to
the south on account Of the oolored pop.
ulstion, and yet the oolorsd population,
with more than 100000 legal votes,
have been unable TO choose q single
elector.
Rven In those states where they have
majority OF nors than 100000 they are
deprived OF free suffrage, aud their rights
40 citis ns are soornfully trodden under
foot. The IL states that comprised the
rebel ConfederRoy had by the census Of
1880 1000, 900 white population aud
100000 colored population. The
eolored population, almost to man, desire
to support the Republican party, but, by
system o. cruel intimidation and
violence and murder, whenever violence
aud murder are thought ne cessary, they
are absolutely deprived OF all political
power.
II the outrage stopped there 1t would
be bad enough; but II does not stop
there, for not only is the negro popula
ton disirAnohissd, but the power which
rlghtfully and constitutioually belongs to
them Ia transferred 10 the white popula.
ton, enabling the white population Of
the south to exert an electoral influence
far beyond that exsrted by the same
number Of white people in the north.
To illustrate lust how it works to the
destruction Of all fair elections, let me
present to you FIVE states in the late Con.
iederacy aud Eve loyal states OF the
north, possessing 10 each section the
same number Of electoral votes.
In the south the STATES of Louisiann,
Mississippi, AlabAma, Georgia and South
Carolina have in the aggregate 4S cleo
toral votes. They have 2,800,0 900 white
psople and over 5000, GOO oolored people.
Ia the north the states Of Wisconsin,
minnesota, Iowa, KAnaas aud California
have likewise in the sgsregGte 4S cleo.
tcrsl votes, and they have q white popu-
lAtion Of $500, 900, or Just double the
five southtru states which have named.
The nOrther statss have practically no
oolcred population. II lie, therefore, evi
dent that the white mae in these southern
states. by ueurniog and absorbing the
rights Of ths oolOrei men, are exerting
just double the political power OF the
white men In the northern states.
AN EXTRAORDINARY SITUATION.
submit, my friends, th6tsuch a con.
dition OF affairs Ia extraordinary, upi1st
and derogatory to the manhood OF the
north Even those who are vindictively
opposed to negro suffrage will rot deny
that II Presidential electors are assigned
TO the south by reason of negro popula.
tion that population ought to be per.
mitted free suffrage in the election. To
deny that clear proposition is to affirm
that southern white man In the gu
states is entitled 10 double the political
power Of northern white man in the
lax states, II Ia to affirm that Copfed-
crate soldier shall WELD twice the irflu
enoe 10 the nation that UUion soldie
can, and that perpetual a'd constantly
increasing superiority shall BIS conceded
to the southern white inen Ia the govern
ment Of the Union. II that be quietly
conceded in this generation 1t will
harden into onstom, until the badge OF
infer,ority will attach to the northern
white man as odiously as ever Norman
noble stamped II upon Saxon churl,
This subject is OF deep interest to the
lsboring men 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 %
the whites may decree, wages which will
amount, as did the supplies of the alsves,
to mere subsistence, equal in each, per
hsps, to 80 cents per day, II averaged
over the entire south. The white lab0rer
In the north will soon feel the distinctive
effect OF this upon his own wages.
QUESTION OF WAGES.
The Republicans have clearly seen from
the first days of reconstruction that wspes
In the south must be raised to iu,t re-
oompense to the iaborer, or wages In the
Forth ruinously lowered, aud the party
have steadily worked for the former re-.
suit. The reverse Influence will now be
act In motion, and that condition OF affairs
produced viii years sgO Mr.. Lincoln
warned the free laboring men Of the
north will prove hostile to their linda
pepdeDce and will inevitably lead to a
ruinous reduction of wages. A mere dif
ference In the color OF the skin will NOT
sutiios to msintaip an entirely different
standard OF wagon in contiguous AID nd.
jscen: states, aud the voluntary will he
compelled to yield to the involuntary.
30 completely have the oolored men in
me south been already deprived by the
Demooraho party of their constitutional
aud legal rights as citizens Of the United
States that they regard the advent Of
that party to national power as the signal
OF their re enslsvement and are sffriQhtvd
baoause they think sill legal protection
Tor them is gone. Few persons In the
north realize how completely the chiefs OF
The rebellion WELD the political power
which has triumphsd In the late election.
IL 10 portentous fact that the Demo.
cratic senators who come from the states
OF the late Confederaoy, all-apd NEAR
al, without a single exoeption-perio on.
ally participated IA the rebellion aaaina,
the national government.
is still more significant fact that in
nose siates 10 man who was loysl to the
Ualon, no matter how strong Democrat
10 may be to day ,hss the slightest chance
Oh political promotion. The one great
avenue to honor In that section ia lie
ztAlous service 10 the war ARaiust III. |
gOvernm- mt. II IL certainly an nstT ma
ing fact that the section in which iriend.
ship for the Uuion 10 the dsy OF Ia trjl
aud agony is still political disonAlifos
ioh thonld be called now 10 rule over
me union; All this TAKES place
during the lifetime Of the generation that
lo9sht tue war, an slevates into prActi-
cal command Of the American govern
ment the identical men who organised for
iss destruction, and plunge ed us into the
bioodiest contest Of modern times,
have spoken Of the sOu,h as placed nv
the late election in possession Of M,
government and mean all that nv
words imply.
The south furnished nearly three.
iourths Of the electoral vetes that de-
fsated the Republican party, and the,
Will step to the command OF the Demo.
,rats as unohAllenged and as unrestrsiped
,s they held the same position f5r an
years before the civil war.