Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-11-27

a Single elector Even in those States
where they have majority Of more
than hundred thousand they are de-
prived of free suffrage, and their rights
as citizens are scornfully trodd un-
der foot.
The eleven States that comprised
the rebel Confederacy had, by the
census of 1880, 100000 white popu-
lation. The colored population, almost
to man, desire to support the lie.
publican party, but by system OF
cruel intimidation, and by violence
and murder, whenever violence and
murder are thought necessary, they
are absolutely deprived Of all politl-
cal power. If the outrage stopped
there it would be bad enough; but it
does not stop there, for not only is the
negro population disfranchised but the
power which rightfuIly and constltu-
| tionally belongs to them is transferred
to the white population, enabling 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
! lust how it works to the destruction OF all
fair elections, let me present to you five
A
States of the North possessing in each sect
ion the same number of ELECTORAL votes. In
| the South the States Of Louisiana, Miss
| issippi, Alabama Georgia and South Caro-
lima have i'll the aggregate As ELECTORAL votes.
They have :, $780, 900 white people and over |
| 5000 900 coIored veople, In the North the |
States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa. Kan
s;s, and California have likewise IN the aG-
grepate As electoral votes, and they have Il
white population of ) 500, 900, or just dou-
be the five Southern States which L have
named These Northern States have pratt-
icalIy colored population. 1t is there
| fore evident that the white men IN those
Southern States, by unsurping and absorb
ing the rights OF the colored men are exert
Ing Just double the political power of the
white men in the Northern States. sub
nit, my friends, that such condition OF al
fairs is extraordinary, unjust and derogatory
to the manhood OF the North.
GREAT BIG BUGABoo.
E Even those who are vindicitively opposed
to negro suffrage will not deny that II Ires-
idential electors assigned to the South
by reason ol the negro population, that pei
uiation ought to be permitted free suffrage
in the election. So IL Southern white man
| / in the Gulf States is entitled to double til
political power of Il Northern white man in
| the lake States it Is to afDrm that Con-
federate soldier shall wiel1 twice the in
7 fuencc in the nation that a Union soldier
. can, and that perpetual and constantly
Y increasing superiority shall be conceded to
= the Southern white nan in he
: government of the Union. If that be quiet
" conceded in this generation it will hard
V en- into custom, until the badge of inferior
Q itv will attach to the Northern white man
: as oiiously as ever Norman noble stamped
J. 1t upon Saxon Churl.
This subject is of deep interest to the lab
oring men of the North. With the South
e ern Democracy triumphant in their States
e AMI in the nation the negro will be compell-
l. ed to work for just such wages which will
~ amount as did the supplies of the slaves, to
bare substance, equal in cash perhaps TO
So cents per day, if averaged over the entire
2 South The white laborer in the North
n will soon feel the distinctive effect of this
n upon his own wages. The Republicans have
n clearly seen from the earliest days of recon
strIltion that wages i'll the South must be
= rIisd to 4 lust recompenss of the l;tberer OF
n wages in the North ruinouSly lowered, and
IN the party have steady worked for the for
le mer result. The reverse influence will now
i be set in motion and that condition of affair
n produced which, years ago, Mr.. Lincolr
III warned the free labortng men of the Norti
OF will prove hostile to their independence
IS and will inevitably lead to runious reCluct
of ion of wages. mere difference in the col
en- or of the skin will not suffice to maintain
an entirely different standard of wages il
- contiguous and ad jacent States, and the vol
es untary will be compelled to yield to the IL
lg Voluntary. So completely have the colorc
in men in the South been already deprived b
bo the Democratic party OF their constitutions
and legal right citizens that they regar
the advent of that party to national powe
,eS rs the signal of their reinstatement, an
k, affrighteI because they think all legal pre-
ut lection for them is gone Few persons
Id the North realize how completely the chic
~, 4 of the rebellion WELD the political powe
NC which has triumphed i'll the late election
IN 1t is pertentouS fact that the Democrat
IZe Senators who came from the States OF II
DIV late Confederacy all-and | mean all, will
,r out sing.e exception personally partlt
81 pated in the rebellion against the Natlon
O'II Government. 1t is a still more significaI
lai fact that in those States no man who w
IN loyal to the ni"n, no matter how strong
an Democrat he may be to-day, has the Sigh
of est chance OF political promotion. The OF
great avenue to honor in that section is Il
record of Jealous services In the war again
the Government. 1t is certainly astoun
Ids ing fact that the section in which frien
Dk ship for the Union in the day of its trl
arr, and agony is still political disqGalitcatI
80 should be called now to rule over the UnlO
CIV All this takes place during the lifetime
INT, the generation that fought the war anl el
Y Il Yates into practical command of the Amer
al can Government the identical men who c
the ganized for It's destruction ana Plungei
~ into the bloodiest contest of modern tim
" | have spoken of the South as placed by t
eat late election in possession of the Cover
Did ment and mean all that my words imp
ent Tho South furnishes nearly three-fourths
troll the electoral votes that defeated the Repr
81, lican party, and they will step to the co
On mand of the Democrats as unchallenged ID a
'an- unrestrained they held the same pc
de- tion for thirty years before the Civil w
sfer Gentlemen there cannot be political inequ
,rn. ity among the citizens af a free repub
80 there cannot be minority of white men
'iifii the South ruling majority of white N
iuse in the North. Patriotism, self-respect pr
mot protection for person and salty for countl
the all cry out against it. The very thought
70 it stirs the blood of men who inherit eqIl
~ ity from the pilgrims who first stood on p
ne month Rock, and from liberty-loving i
ual- riots who came to the Deleware with v
of liam Penn. 1t becomes the primal gu,
,er . ion Of American manhood. 1t demand
-. hearing and a setslement and that set
" ment will vindicatc the equality of Am
81 AS can citizens in all personal and civil rig
cit It WILL at least, establish the equality
Y in white men under the National Governn
t af- and will give to the Northern man,
tho f ugat to preserve the Union, as larg
Ill voice in its government may be exerci
MI by the Southern man, who fought to lest
ans the Union.