Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27
The Plumed Knight to His Friends
and Neighbors.
A Grand Grafton in which the south's
Menacing Position and tho Oppression
OF the Negro are Wildly Depleted
Colored People Greatly Alarmed.

| gins we have lost thank you for your call.
| which, IL not one OF joyous congratulations,
| Is one, am sure of confidence and of san
! guine hopo for the future. thank you for
| tho public opportunity you give me TO ex-
| press my sense of obligation, not only 10 YOU
| but TO all the Republicans of Maine. They re-
! sponded to my nomination with genuine en-
| thusinsm and ratified IL by superb vote.
! count IL as one of the honors and quallhca-
| tons OF my INublc career that the party in
| Maine, after Smuggling hard for the last six
| years, and twice within that period losing the
state, has come back In this campaign to the
oldfashioned 10000 plurality. No other ex-
! preston OF
POPULAR CONFIDENCE AND ESTEEM
/ could equal that of the people among whom
dI have LIVED for thirty years, and 70 whom
nature and give Joy and dignity to life. After
! Maine-indeed, along with Maine-my first
thought is always of Pennsylvania. How can
fittingly express my thanks for that unpar-
alleled majority of more than $1,000 votes-a
popular Endorsement which has deeply
increased my, affection for the grand old
| commonwealth, an affection which inherited
| from my ancestry, and which shall transmit
, 70 my On children tS s Bnt 90 not limit my
and the State of my birth. / owe
| much 70 the true and jealous friends in New
England who worked so nobly for the Repub-
| lican party and its candidates, and to the emi-
| nent scholars and divlncs who. stepping aside
| from their ordinary avocations, made my
cause thoir cause, and to loyalty and principle
| added the special compliment of standing as
my personal representatives in the National
struggle. But the achievements for the Re-
publican cause In the East are even surpassed
| by the splendid victories in tho West. In that
magnificent Gordon of States that stretches
from tho foothills of the Alleghanles to the
GOLDEN GATE OF THE PACIFIC
| beginning with Ohio and ending with Cali
| fornia, the Republican banner was borne so
loftlly that but single State failed to Join in
the wide acclaim of triumpA. Nor should
DO justice 70 my own feelings if failed to
thank the Republicans of the Empire State
who encountered so many dscouragements
and 2pstaflesi wh9 if0Rgait. fQea sEf haB
strong battle that change of one vote in
every two thousand would have given us the
| victory in the Nation. Indeed, q change
or little more than five thousand votes
would havo transferred Now York, Indiana,
New Jersey and Connecticut to the Repub.
can standard, and would have made the
North as solid as the South. Ny thanks
would still be incomplete If should fail
to recognize with special gratitude that
great body of workingmen, both native and
foreign-born, who gave me their earnest sup
port breaking from old personal and party
ties, and finding in the principles which rep
resented in the canvass the safeguard and
protection of their own fireside interests The
result of the election, my friends, will be re-
nary. The Northern States, leaving out the
cities of New York ard Brooklyn from the
count,
SUSTAINED TIE REPUBLICAN CAUSE
by a majority of more than 400O00-almost
half million indeed-of the popular vote.
The cities of New York and Brooklyn threw
their great strength and influence with the
solid South, aud were the decisive element
which gave to that section the control OF the
| National Government. Speaking now not as
defeated candidate, but simply as loyal
and devoted American, / think the transfer
of the political power of the Government TO
fse So %c H grsa u Mat9na a r
perity to the people, because It Introduces
into Republic the rule of a minority. The
first instinct of an American is equality
right N
ity of political power-that equality whsch
says to every citizen: "Your vote is just as
other citizen" That can not he said today N
the United States. The course of affairs In
the Southah as crushed out the political power
of more than 100000 American citizens and
has transferred il by violence to others.
| Forty-two Presidential Electors arc assigned
| 10 the South on account OF the colored popu-
| lation, and yet tho colored population, with
more than 100000 legal votes, have been
UNABLE 10 CHOOSE SINGLE ELECroR.
| Even In those States where they have a ma
| jority of more than hundred thousand they
| are deprived of free suffrage, and their rights
| as citizens arc scornfully trodden under foot.
| Tho eleven States that comprised the rebel
| Confederacy had by the census of 1880 $780,
| 900 white population and 100000 colored pop
| man, desire to support the Republican party,
| but by a system of cruel intimidation and by
| violence and murder-whenever violence and
murder are thought necessary-they are alb
solutcly deprived of all political power. If
the outrage stopped there, it would DO bad
enough; but II does not stop .there, for
sa2nllX W. ta the negro population dis
| fully and constitutionally belongs to them
| is transferred to the white population, en-
abling the white population of the South to
| exert an electoral influence far beyond that
| exerted by the Same number of white people
| in the North. To illustrate just how IL works
| to the destruction of all fair elections, let me
present to you five States in the late Confed-
| eracy and five loyal States of the North, pos
| sessing In each section the same number of
| electoral votes. In the South the States Of
| Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and
| South Carolina have I'm tire aggregate forty
| eight electoral votes. They have 2,SO00 900 peo-
| pie, and over 100000 colored people.
IN THE NORTH
| the States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kan
| sas and California have likewise In the aggre-
| gate forty-eight electoral votes, and they
have. white population of 100000, or
| just double the FIVE Southern States which
| have named. These Northern States have
| practically no colored population. It is there
| fore evident that the white men in those
| Southern states by usurping and absorbing
| the rights of the colored mon are exerting just
| double the political power of the white men in
the Northern States. submit. my friends,
| that such condition of affairs is extraord-
| nary, unjust and derogatory to the manhood of
| the North. Even those who are vindictively
opposed TO negro suffrage will not deny that
| South by reason of the negro population, that
| population ought to be permitted free suf-
| frage in the election. To deny that clear
proposition Is TO affirm that a Southern white
man in tho gulf States is entitled to double the
l.olitical power of a Northern white man in
the lake States. 1t is to affirm that a Confed-
| crate soldier shall WELD
| TWICE THE INFLUENCE
| I'm the Nation that a Union soldier can, and
that perpetual and constantly-increaslng SUI
periority shall be conceded to the Southern
| white man in the government of the Union.
| IL that be quietly conceded I'm this generation
/ it will harden into custom, until the badge of
inferiority will attach to the Northern white
| OOiOu9lV Norman
| stamped IL upon tho Saxon churl. This sub
! iect Is of deep interest to the laboring men of
the North. With the Southern Democracy tri-
| umphant in their States and I'm the Nation the
negro will DC compelled to work for Just such
wages as the whites may decree-wages which
will amount, as did the supplies of the slaves,
to bare subsistence equal in cash, perhaps
| to thirty-hve cents per day, II averaged
over the entire South. The white la.
the destructive effects of this upon
| his own wages. The Republicans have clearly
seen from the earliest days of reconstruction
| that wages in the South must be raised To a
| just recompense of tho laborer, or wages in
the North ruinously lowered, and the party
have steadily worked for the former result
| The reverse influence will now be set in mo
| ton, and that condition of affairs produced
! which, years ago, Mr. Lincoln warned the free
5eS OF sss North anS hGs
| lead TO ruinous reduction OF wages. Amers
difference OF the
COLOR OF THE SKIN
win not sufnce 70 maintain an entirely differ
ent standard In wages of contiguous and ad
| jacent States, and the voluntary will bf
| compelled 10 yield to the involuntary. Sc
| completely have the colored men in the
South been already deprived by the Demo
! CRITIC party of their constitutional and lega
/ rights as citizens of the United States thai
they regard the advent of that party TO Ma
tional power as the signal of their enslave
| ment, and are affrlghted because they think
| all legal protection for them Is gone. Few
| persons In tho North realize how completely
| the chla rs of the rchellOn Mlnld the nnllllcn