Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-11-29


ever violence and murder are thought
necessary, they are absolutely deprived
of all political power. If the ontrs0e
stopped there 1t would be bad enough
but 1t does not stop there, for not onIV is +
the negro population disfranchised. but
the power which rightfully and e0nstitu
tiOnally belongs to them is transferred
to the white population. ENABLING the
white population Of the South to exert
an electoral influence far bevOnd that
eXeFted by the same NUMBER of white
people In the North. To illustrate lust
how 1t works TO the destruction of al
fair elections, let me present to Won five
States In the late COnfederacv and five
loyal States Of the North, possessing in
each section the same number of eIectOr-
al votes. In the South the States of
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia
and South Carolina have in the aggre-
gate forty-eight electoral votes. They
have 2,6OO,OOO white people and over
5000, 600 cOlOred people. In the North the
States Of Wisconsin, Minnesota. Iowa
Kansas and California have likewise in
the aggregate 48 electoral votes. and thew
have white population of 100000, or
just double the five Southern States 1
have named. These Northern States
have practically no colOred population;
1t lis therefore evident that the white
men in these Southern States. by usurp-
ing and abusing the rights of the colOred
men are eXertlng just double the pOliti-
cal power OF the white men in the North
ern States. L submit, my friends, that
such a condition of affairs is extraOrdi-
nary, unjust and derOgatory to the man
hood Of the North. Even those who are
vindictiVely opposed to negro suffrage
viii not say that if Presidential electors
are assigned to the South by reason of
I n Narrr0 Ahnf Lot Tor
ought to be permitted free suffrage
in the election. To deny that
| clear proposition is to affirm that a South
ern white man in the Gulf States is en-
titled to double the political power of a
white man in the Northern Lake States:
it is to affirm that a confederate soldier
shall WELD twice the influence in the
Nation that Union soldier can and that
a perpetual and constantly increasing
superiority shall be conceded to the
Southern white man, in the Govern
ment of the Union. If that be quietly
conceded in this generation, it will hard
en- into custom until the badge Of inferi-
Ority will attach to the Northern white
man as OdiOusly as never a Norman
noble stamped 1t upon a Saxon churl.
This subject is of deep interest to the
labOring men Of the North. With the
Southern Democracy triumphant in their
D
! be compelled to work for Just such wages
as the whites may decree, wages which
will amount to a bare subsistence, equal
in cash to perhaps 50 cents per day, if
averaged over the entire South. The
white labOrer of the North will soon feel
the dinstinctive effect of this upon his
own wages. The Republicans have
clearly seen, from the earliest days of
reconstruction, that wages in the South
I To of
/ the labOreT, or wages in the North ruin
/ ously lowered, and the party has steadily
/ worked for the former results. The re-
verse influence will now beset in motion,
and that condition of affairs produced
which, years ago Mr.. Lincoln
warned the free labo1ing men of
the North, will prove hostile to
their independence and Will inevitably
| lead to a ruinous reduction of wages, and
a mere difference in the ColOrs of the
stain will not suffice to maintain an en-
tirely different standard Of wages in
! contiguous and adjacent States, and the
/ voluntary will be compelled to yield to
| the involuntary. So completely have the
| cOIOred men in the South been already
deprived by the Democratic party o
their constitutional and legal rights as
citizens of the United States that they
regard the advent of that party to Ma
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| 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 triumphed in the late cleo
ton. 1t is q pOrtentiOus fact that
/ Democratic Senators who come from
/ the States OF the late Confeder-
acy, and I mean ALL without q
. gfv7osla cvranv,Ef0vr oil TlnrsnV uIIW
ticipated in the rebellion against the
National Government. 1t is a still more
significant fact that in those States no
man who was loyal to the Union, no
matter how strong a Democrat he may
be to-day, has the slightest chance Of
political promotion. The one great ave
nue. to power IN that section Is the rec
ord Of Jealous service in the war against
/ the Government. 1t Is certainly an as
founding fact that the section in which
friendship for the Union in the day of
trial and agony is still 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 practical
command of the American Government
the identical men who organized for its
| destruction. and plunged US into the
| blOOdiest contest of modern times.
have spoken Of the South as placed by
the late election in possession of the
/ Government, and 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 as
unrestrained, as they held the same
position Tor thirty years before the war.
! Gentlemen, there cannot be political
inequality among the citizens Of a free
| Republic. There cannot be a minority
\ Of white men in the South ruling a ma
iority Of white men In the North,
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