Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-14
The Difference Between Statesman and Dema
gogue.

The Difference Between Statesman and q Dcma-
gogue.
At largo meeting at gainesville, O., last
Saturday night, Gov Hoadey again paid
his respects to Mr.. Sherman. He said that
the difference between q statesman and a
dcmagogue was that the former addressed
himself to some wise and patriotic measure
for the people, while in these times the lat
tar devoted himself TO appealing to the
baser and meaner passions OF the people, of
hate and enmity, blowing the embers of an
old dispute into blaze without any definite
proposition of change. Even though he has
been three or four times elected Senator,
Senator Sherman on this occasion and this
field was playing the part of demagogue.
The speaker declared that Mr. Sherman,
knowing that his re election to the Senate,
and possibly his candidacy for the Presi-
dency, depended upon the vote of Ohio this
fall, and knowing that the people of Ohio
were, during the war, loyal and patriotic,
and opposed to the southern Confederacy,
and were satisfied with the results of war,
he sought to renew the battle fever that he
might reap the reward in emoluments and
salary.
The speaker reminded the Senator that
his party had been in power twenty. five
years, and if there were wrongs at the South
why had not the party righted them +? More
than ten years had elapsed since the maj or
ity of the Southern States threw the shack
les off which the republican party tried to
put on them and became democratic. mine
years have elapsed" said The speaker, "snce
your dc Jacto President, Il. B. Hayes, con-
trived the scheme of sending q commission
to Louisiana to settle The disputed question
as to who was elected Governor of that
State, the result Of which was submission
10 Governor Nichols, who received fewer
votes than Tilden and Hendricks, while
his antagonist (Packard) had more votes
than Hayes. Nine years have elapsed
since the last Southern State became free
from the tyranny Of Moses, Of Warmoth, of
Packard, of Bullock, of Brownlow, of Peasc
of Texas, Powell Clayton, ct id omne genus"
Z You had the Senate and you had
the House, and if there was any injustice
to be remeded, why was it not done?" n
: 1.-THE answer is easy. There is no
such wrong. There are no such facts. Eight
million bales Of cotton, produced by work
ingmcn in the South, both black and white,
is fact which outweighs your pretense. If
Southern labor were disorganiZed and
Southern laborers under tyranny this mag
nilicent result would not have been achiev.
ed. Your whole argument is based upon
the claim that when the black men of the
South ceased TO be chattel slaves they at
once became the slaves of the republican
party, and must thereafter vote at its dcta-
ton to the day ofjudgment."
The speaker said some of the colored men
did not vote the republican ticket, and per-
force they were prevented by force and
fraud. This presumption was unsustained
by proof, and was utterly untrue. The truth
has been foreseen by Governor Andrew, one
of the truest friends the slaves of America
ever had, when he declared that the colored
race recognized the whites as their best
friends, and would vote with them unless
excited by external force. The speaker said
three years ago the republicans tried to
make issue with Copiah and Danvile; but
Hamburg and Eliza Pinkston, Danvile and
Copiah, have fzzled and petered out, leav.
ing only the want of enough ballot.boxes in
Savannah as the sole remaining grist of the
once noisy Outrage mill.
Governor Hoadly said Senator Sherman
had threatened to reduce the representa-
tion on the colored vote of the South. This
could not be done, as the Fifteenth Amend
ment had made the Fourteenth Amendment
"The Congressional power
may extend to Republican Rhode Island"
said he, (which maintains knownothing
against the rights of free.
born citizens to vote, but does not apply to
the South, where the coored mans right to
vote is as free as the air."