Daily Republican., 1884-11-19

wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas
and California have likowise In til,
aggregate 48 electoral votes, and the,
have white population OF $500, 600, o.
Just double the fve Southern State
which have named. These Northern
States have practically no color {
population. II Ia, s,therefore, evident tha
the white men in these Southern States
BY usurping and shsorbipg the right
OF the colored men, are exevfing jus
double the political power Of the " bit,
men In the Northern States.
lsubmit, my friends, that such a
condition Of affairs is extraordinary
unjust and derOgatory to the manhoOt
OF the North. Even those who are win
dictively opposed TO negro suffrage will
not dcny that IL Presidential Elector,
are assigned TO the South by reason Of
negro population, that population
ought to be permitted free suffrage In
the election. To deny that clear propo
sition ID to affirm thai q Southern white
man In the Gulf States is entitled u
double the political power ofa Northern
white man In the Lake Statee-it IL u
affirm that Confederate soldier shall
WELD twice the influence in the Nation
that Union soldier can, and that q
perpetual and constantly increasing
superiority shall be conceded to the
Southern white man in the government
Of the Union.
IL that be quietly conceded In this
generation, IL will harden into custom,
until the badge of infer iority will at
tach to the Northern white man al
odiously ~ ever Norman noble stamp
cd It upon Saxon churl. This subjec,
10 OF deep interest TO the laboring men
Of the North. With the Southern
Democracy triumphant In their States
and In the nation, the negro will be
compelled TO work for just such wages
As the whites may decree; wages
which will amount, as did the supplies
OF the slaves, TO q bare Subsistence,
equal in cash, perhaps, to thirty fl ve
cents per day, II averaged over the
entire South. The white laborer In the
North will soon feel the distinctive
effect OF this upon his own wages.
The Republicans have clearly seen
from the first days of reconstruction
that wages In the South must be raised
To just recoinpense, to the 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 motion, and that
condition of affairs produced which
years ago Mr.. Lincoln warned the free
laboring men Of the North will prove
hostile TO the their Independence, and
will inevitably lead to o rutnous reduc-
ton of wages. A mere difference in
the color of the skin will not suffice to
maintain an entirely different standard
OF wages In contiguous and adjacent
States, and the voluntary will be
compelled to yield to the involuntary.
So completely have the colored men in
the South been already deprived by the
Democratic party of their constitution
.. and legal rights as citizens of the
United States, that they regard the ad.
vent Of that party to National power as
the signal of their reenslavement, 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 election. 1t is a
portentious fact that the Democratic
Senators who come from the States OF
the late Confederacy, sll-and mean
all without single exception-per-
sonally participated In the rebellion
against the National Government. 1t
10 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 o-day, has The
slightest chance of political promotion.
The one great avenue to honor in that
section IL the record of Jealous ser.
vice in the war against the Govern
ment. 1t Is certainly an astoundi ing
fa1t that the section in which friend
ship for the Union in the day of its
trial and agony is still q political dis
qualification, should be called now to
rule over the Union.
All this takes place during the life
time Of the generation that fought the
war, and elevates into practical com.
mand of the American Government the
Identical men who organized for its
destruction and plunged US into the
bloodiest contest Of modern times. 1
have spoken of the South "a placed by
the late election in possession of the
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 COM
mand of the Democrats as unchallenged
and as unrestrained ~ they held the
'ame position for thirty years before the
civil war.
Gentlemen, there cannot be political
among the citizens of free
'epublic there cannot be minority of
white men in the South ruling a major
Ity OF white men In the North, Pa
triotism, self respect, pride, protection
'or person and safety for country all cry
,ut against 1t. The very thought of 1t
,tirs the blood of men who inherit
,qna lity from the Pilgrims who first
stood on Plymouth Rock, and from
liberty loving patriots who came to the
Delaware with William Penn. 1t be-
primal question of American
manhood. II demands hearing
, settlement, and that settle
nent will vindicate the equality of
American ciJizs sns.. in all personal and
civil rights. 1t will, at least, establish
.he equality of white men under the
National Government and will give to
he Northern man who fought TO pre-
serve the Union as large voice in its
"a may beeIercised by the
Southern man who fought to destroy
he Union.
The contest just closed utterly dwarfs
the fortunes and fate of candidates,
whether successful or unsuccessful.
may say instinctively-I
nave discussed the issues and conse.
luences OF that contest without the
reiuotet reference to the gentleman
who Is elevated TO the Presidency.
him personally havo no cause
FOR the slightest i'll will, and it Is with
express the wish that his
official career may prove gratifying to
himself and beneficial to the country,
and that his administration may over
come the embarrassme which the
peculiar source of its power imposes
upon 1t from the hour of its birth"
At the conclusion of Mr.. Blaine's
apaarh ha nj al tho lurra croxrd sptn