The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-11-21
Blaina,S Snt,ecll.

1t is unfortunate in every view CT the casi
hat Mr. Blaine in bis disappointment over the
election, has let loose such an unjust and pal
pably lnsincerc lot Of demagogy ,as his speech
at Augu sta Tuesday night was. His argu
ment, when stripped of its plausible rhetoric
was simply this, that the south bad been made
| solid by fraud and terrorism, that 5000 900 of
colored people there are stripped of their rights
because not single Republican eector is chos-
en-, that the Democratic victory is q victory of
| sou thern treason, and that the result will be
| desolation to every good interest of the coun-
| try, compelling the white laborer of the north
| to work for 30 cents a.day, in competition with
the negl laborer of the south. Ali this comes
from the man who in his letter of acceptance
only months ago said:
The ele ments which separatd them (north
and south) are fast disappearing. Prejudices
lave yielded and are yielding, while 70 owing
cordIality warns the southern and northern
he 'rts alike. Can any one doubt between the
sectons confidence and esteem are to-day more
marked than ut any time in the sixty years
preceding the election OF President Lincoln !?
II there be occasional and
violent outbreaks in the south against this
peaceful progress, the public opinion of the
country records item as exceptional, and hope
fully trusts that each will prove the last.
There has been nothing except the fact he did
not get the electoral votes he hoped for from
the south, to warrant his abandonment of his
own words and this new onslaught upon the
cordial relations of the sections.
1t is unfortunate and an abnormal condition
of things that the south is "sold" 1t was just
the same when it was "soll" for the Republic
Can party l6 years ago, and almost so IL years
ago. 1t has been made "solid" the other way
by the rascalities of carpet-bag government, 1.-THE
worst civilized states ever saw, upheld by
federal bayonets. Mr. Blaine knows this,
and lie knows that there never has been SO
quiet and peaceful an election In the southern
states as that OF this year.
He knows that there were one million votes
cast for him in the l6 southern states he talks
about. He knows that this is very large vote
considering the fact that 70 per cent of the Re-
publican voters in that section cannot read or
write, SO as to have lively interest in politics.
To talk about their being "disfranchsed"
because "they are not represented" by single
elector, is just as ridiculous as it would be for
the Democrats to claim that they are disfran-
chised in the l6 states of California, Colorado,
Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Mlchi-
gan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire,
Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
Vermont and Wisconsin, where they have cast
1862, goo votes without being represented by a
single elector. Blaine isn't fool and he knows
that.
He talks Of the south controlling the Demo
cratic party, when he knows that 3 100000 of
the 100000 votes which have been cast for
Cleveland came from the north
The whole speech is a patchwork of distor-
ton, Misrepresentation and undgniied passion. |
The country has every day reason to be more |
thankful that SO reckless aud inconsistent q |
man has been defeated for the presidency. |