Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-11-06

pETERSBURG, Va, Oct. 30 - Senator
Sherman spoke here tonight to a crowded
audience The stage was filled with white
people while the body of the building and
the galleries were occupied by colored
people, the outskirts of the crowd being
fringed with whites. Senator Sherman
was introduced by General Malone as the
foremost statesman of the country, to
whose warm heart and love for every
State in the Union he bore cordial testi-
mony Sherman was cordially greeted
and was accorded the most respectful and
attentive hearing. The Senator spoke as
follows:
Senator sherman's Speech.
Not only your newspaper, but the dis
tnguished gentleman who is the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor of the state
of Virginia, has said to you that | was
waving the bloody shirt while he was
contending under the Union flag.
bloody shirt that I sought in
any way to renew the anilnosities of the
war, then he was greatly mistaken, for in
the speech to which he refers, and in
every speech ! made in Ohio, constantly
said that the war was over and the ami
moSiteS of the war should be buried out
of sight that | would not hold any Con
federate soldier responsible for what he
did during the war, and that all | wished
was to maintain and preserve the ac-
knowedged results of the war Among
these / claim is the right of every voter to
cast one honest vote and have it counted :;
that every citizen, rich or poor, native or
naturali2ed, white or black, should have
equal evil and political rights, and
that every man of lawful age
should be allowed to exercise his
right to vote without distinction of race or
color or previous condition. | charge
among other things that these constitu-
tional rights and privileges had been dis
regarded by the Democratic party, espe-
cally in the Southern States; that at the
last election, in The year of our Lord 1884,
wherever the votes of the colored people
would affect the result they were deprived
of their franchise by one device or other,
and thus political power appOrtloned to
the colored population was transferred to
and exercised by white Democrats of the
South, so as to make their political power
greater than other citizens, and, by these
means, Grover Cleveland became Presi-
dent of the United States instead of James
g. Blaine. 1t was upon this declaration
of NINE, made with full consideration and
With absolute certainty of its substantial
truth, that the Democratic press, and
Gen. Lee as WELL declared that was rails
ing the bloody shirt, when the events to
which | was referring occurred last year,
and not in 1851 or 1853: that they related
80 -, -. ., f,,,,l, ,,,,d ,r;,,o.
committed long since The war, which
overthrow the sancuty OK the ballot-boN
ali.' u n ~ u, ,-,,.a,n,n,.nt II ,,.n,
~ ~ , W. I,r,,, tia haIlot-hnv and NOT thr
,,lnr o e tbaf rabaIlion thni nrrnilrned
The truth OF what / said WAS rot con-
troverted by Co. Noadly nor Senator
Inui iii'n io. o. f., INA t,,hiir rarn,.lIt
pIii i-ee. ! P ~ III .,iI ..nG n.nuri.liv
Mnien tnU ,,' ro ,. I.,dIna nuhlicntinrs
III cn,,th thoir nil ,Iud uueuuiyocal
ndmissi"ms Of thr facts stated by me so far
., W. ~ L S,tns nf SSuIh Cara
as ny "invi ,'u v'i' Nii,.i..inni und 1hair
iai"' n.o' .'i ,, d.tnrsn uf their con-
dnt U'',,, ,,n ,,n..,t IN thr Union sol
~ ,t Wv III 1,i citizrns south MS
: uIe i, ~. ~ a., ~ o,il I wouI1 do if to
W W "o tlot &c g. yirriti, cen Lee ON The
tnS ptopldd r. nx1 1,nf Mistaken, has con
other ntr'u' II a'ii i, 49, a,'tirl,, an tho
uucleu s, oni,'ni 10 tL. ConfednT,tp SOL
p pass VI l." ca ne nrldh If virginia.. for the
uleIo, ~ tbav eXhIbitc in The war. and
couiaSV, 80. trunIir,., H,r. and r,,-rl
with ill'..aa'S +n IN r., nttoontio, of vonr
caue ne - mo C,,i',tin,,s of thn nrespnt
people 49, - ,,nu, ,,.teri,l devel6nment
tline' l. ,,nct We t.rifI to the memories of
rom r. which Virninians fought brayely
a, wIIo there vas a hone, and submitted
WHIT ~, tn tba orhitranent of arms
holiol" NV c,,,sn ,vas lost
wheh 'nelI NA'e ""9 w. .,.,,a,,.i.,,.
IL vas o' the present WIZ VIZ s' snt ~?
anu noe .l!c p'9., "ii, t ,,r : li,. riht
t va " tN 5,raat widerenchn" in its
inan'ncs tbot il wouid never be sub.
,nit,ad to hnt that some remeuy would be
tn,,'d ~ ~, ,ro,,ent Ire euccess did not at
ibat W dre,m1 NAT the same tactics of
n,,5 I'M ard 'ioinnca in th. Snuth of which
iatu d.,it ,,are ahont to he transferred
I'm ~, Stto Of 6bio Wei 50 il was I'm
~ eiae "a Iontinn in the CITY of Cincin
my ,,Il.o ~ Damncrntic nartv had con
naIi, Wneae .it anG snhe tpnti,Iiv Of the
orol ~ NY bp, resorted to frnnd and vio-
ei.cIlo s ', rrocs ard shameless thai even
lur ~ 81 tbs Democrats Of Ohio there is an
aIitomE .n le,inct Snch procredings | de-.
july " tham as frnonnce kindred
f nuumTo in The Sonth and invoke against
ttanus t ii 'i honest indi%uation of Viz
o,;ninns ne ! did of the people of Ohio
Fellow citizens: The great and pressing
,ssuo Of The times ia which invite the
earnest attention of every Democrat as well