Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-19
BLAINE TRIES TO BITE.
THE BITTERNESS OF HIS DE-
FEAT DRIVES HIM MAD.

He Snaps and SnarIs at the South Like
Rabid Canine-The Muzzle Which
the People Put on Him at the Ballot
Box Sufficiently Effective to Prevent
Him from Doing Any Harm.
AUGUSTA, Me-, Nov. 1S.-A large num-
Der of devoted personal and political
| friends of Mr.. Blaine serenaded him this
evening as an expression Ofpersonal good
will and admiration of his manner of con-
Quoting the national campaign. They
marched through the streets under the
marshalship of Col. Frank Nye. When
they reached Mr.. Blaine's house their
compliments and friendly regards were
expressed in a speech by Herbert NJ.
Heath, of the Kennebec bar. Mr.. Blaine
| responded as follows:
FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORs: The national
| contest IL over. and by the narrOwest Of mar
gins we have lost. l thank you for your call,
which, if not one of joyous congratulations,
is one, | am sure, of confidence and Of san
guine hope for he future. / thank you for the
public opportunity you give me to express
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 II by superb vote. count it
of the berr-.-- - l. - W..
public career that the party in Maine, after
struggling hard Tor the last six years, and
twice within that period losing the State has
come back in this campaign to an old-fash-
Toned 10000 plurality. No other expression of
popular confidence and esteem could equal
that Of the people among whom l have lived
for 30 years, and to whom | am attached by all
the ties that ennOble human nature and give
JOY and dignity to life.
PENNSYLvANIA's BIG VOTE.
After Maine-indeed, along with Maine, my
first thought is always of Pennsylvania. How
can | tittingly express my thanks for that un-
paralleled majority of more than so, OOO votes
Rrh hos ha1 y,ovr hoo,r 4
which has. If possible. increased my affection
for the grand old commonwealth: an a1rec-
ton which | inherited from my ancestry, aud
which shall transmit to my children. But |
do not limit my thanks to the State of my res
idence and the State of my BIRTH / owe
much to true and Jealous friends in New
England who worked so nObly for the Repub-
ican party and its candidate, and to
the eminent scholars and divines who,
stepping aside from their ordinary avOca-
tiOns, made my cause their cause, and to
loyalty To principle added the special cOmpli-
ment Cf standing as my personal representa-
tiyes in the national struggle. But the
achievements for the Republican cause in the
East are even surpassed by the splendid vic
tories il the " est. In that magnificent Gordon
of states that stretches from the foothills of
the Alleghanle5 TO the Golden cate OF the Pa
cific, beginning with Ohio and ending with
California, the Republican banner was borne
so lofty that but a single State failed to john
the wide acc aim OF triumph. nor should do
justice to my own feelings if | failed to thank
the Republicans Of the Empire State, who
ulScDufdgemenLS
obstacles, who fought foes from within and
foes from without, and who waged so strong
a battle that a changeof one vote in every 700
would have given us victory in the nation.
A GREAT BIG IF.
Indeed. a change of a little more than 5000
votes would have transferred New York In
diana, New jersey and Connecticut to the
Republican standard and would have made
the North as solid as the South. My thanks
would stll be incomplete if l should fail to
recognize with special gratitude that great
body of wOrkingmen, both native and foreign
born. who gave me their earnest support.
| breaking from old personal and party ties
nd finding in the principles which repre-
seHted in the canvass a safeguard a prOtec-
tIOu of their own hreside and interests.
| The result of the election, my
f lends, will be regarded in the future,
/ think, as extraordinary. The Northern
States. leaving out the cities of New York and
| brooklyn from the count, sustained the Re-
publican cause by a majority of more than
| 100000, almost half a million. indeed, of the
popular vote. The cities of New York and
Brooklyn threw their great strength and IN
fuence with the solid South, and were the
decisive element which gave to that section
the control of the national government.
Speaking now, not at all as defeated candi-
date, but as loyal and devoted American, |
think that 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 1t introduces into the republic
the rule of the minority. The first
instinct of an American is equality
equality of right, equality of
that equality which says to every citizen,
Your vote is just as good, just as potential
the vote OF any other citizen" That can
not be said to-day in the United States.
ARRAIGNING THE SOUTH.
The course of affairs in the South has
crushed out the political power Of more than
ST. million American citizens, and has trans
fcrred 1t by violence to others. F0rty-twO
Presidential electors are assigned 10 the
south on account of the cOlored population,
who, with more than 1,l0000) legal votes,
have been unable to chose single elector,
even in those States where they have ma
| jOritv of more than 100000. They are deprived
| Of free suffrage, and their rights as citizens
| are trOdden under foot. The eleven States
| had. by the census Of 1880, 100000
| white population ara 5,3OO.Oo0 cOlOred
population. The cOlored population almost
| to man desire to support the Repub-
| llcan party, but by system OF cruel intimI-
| dation and by violence and murder, whenever
violence ana murder are thought necessary
| they are absolutely deprived of all political
power. IL the outrage stopped there it would
| be bad enough, but it does not stop there, for
not only is the negro population dlstranchsed,
/ but the power which rightfully and constItu-
| tiOnally belongs to them. Is transferred to the
white population, enabling the white pOpula-
! ton of the South to exert on the electoral col
| lege an influence far beyond that eXerted by
| the same number of white people in the
North. To illustrate just how it works to
the destruction of all fair election let me
present to you nVe states IN the
| late Confederacy and five loyal States
/ OF the North, possessing IN each section the
same number OF electoral votes.
HOW HE FIGURES IT OUT.
In the South the States of louisiana Mis-
sissippl, Alabama, Georgia and South Caroli-
/ ma have an aggregate of As electoral votes.
They have 2,SO0,O00 white people and over
| 100000 colored people. In the North the
states OF Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kan
/ sas and California have likewise an aggregate
/ OF IS electoral votes, and these have a white
population of O,O0O, or just double the five
Southern States which have named. These
| Northern states have practically no cOlOred
/ pOpulatiOn. 1t is therefore, evident that the
| white men in these Southern States by usurp-
| ing and absorbing the rights of the colored
men are eXerting just double the political
| power Of the white men in the Northern
States, / submit, my friends, that sucl ii con-
ditiOn of affairs Is extraordinarily unjust and
| derOgatOry to the manhood of the North.
| Even those who are vindicuvely opposed to
| negro suffrage will not deny that If Presiden-
| tial electors are assigned to the South by rea-
| son of negro population, that population
| ought to be permitted free suffrage in the
| election. To denv that clear proposition is to
| affirm that the Southern white man IN the
| Gulf States is entitled TO double the political
power Of the Northern white man in the Lake
| states. 1t is to affirm that Confederate SOL
/ diers shall WELD twice the influence in the
| nation that Union soldier can, and that per-
petual and constantly increasing superiority
| shall be conceded to the Southern white man
! in the government of the Union.
! TRYING TO BULLDOZE LABORERs.
! IL that be quietly conceded in this genera
| tion. il will harden into custom till badge of
| inferiOrity will attach to a Northern white as
/ OdiOusly as ever Norman noble STAMPED it
/ uDOn a Saxon churl. This subject is of deep
| interest to the labOrlng men of the North.
| With the Southern Democracy triumphant in
| their states and in the nation, the negro Will
| he compelled to work for just such wages as
/ the whites NAV deCree-wages which will
| amount. as did the supplies of the slaves, to a
| bare subsistence, equal in cash. perhaps, to 35
| cents per day, if averaged over the entire
soon feel the distinctive effect of this upon his
| own wages.
| Republicans have clearly seen from the ear
| lest days of reconstruction that wages in the
| south must be raised to just recOmpense of
| labOrer or wages in the North rulnOusly low
| cred and the party has steadily worked for
| the former result. The revers einfuence will
! affairs be produced which years ago MIR. LIN
| coin warned the free laborlng men of the
| North would prove hostile to their independ-
| epce and would inevitably lead to a ruinOus
| reduction of wages. The mere differ ence in
! color of skin will not suffice to maintain an
| entirely different standard of wages in con-
| tiguous and adjacent States. and the
| voluntary will be compelled to
| yield to the involuntary. So completely
| have the cOlOred men in the South been
I already deprived by the Democratic party of
| their constitutional and legal rights as citi-
| zens of the United States that they regard the
| advent of that party to the national power
as a signal of their reinstatement, and are
| affrighted because they think all legal pro-
lection for them is gone.
THE OLD BRIGADIERs ON TRIAL.