Daily Republican., 1886-10-18

Q eJeoucation, experience, training, and v
viii readmit you into the nation an
leave that question for you to determir
yourselves And IN that spirit aud I
/, sbAt end we submitted to the States tb
fonrteenth amendment to the Constitr
t.ton and said in effect: If You wi
Iagree TO that amendment you shsl
have instant representation in Con
gress.' Tenn essee agreed to It. Tn
'intelligencs Of her agreement was tele
graphed TO Washington, and I think
am correct 10 saying We voted to brinI
Tennessee into the Union on telegraph
ed information.
u Now, that Fourteenth amendmep
4 was great step in the history Of tn,
United States, and 1t contained proyi
sions which every wise man who ap
Iproached the question of reconstruction
considered essential TO the future safety
Icf The government OF the country. ii
the first place-and it interests every
one within my hearing-it said here
after, instead OF being citizsns OF tn,
states, because we were citizens Of 1
State In which we resided, we sboul(
os citizens OF the United States, and b,
virtue OF that We shall be citizens O.
whatever State we live in. Formerly
we were oitizens of only one State, liabi,
TO be excluded from the benefits Of oul
Icttizsnship by any barrier which .miRh
De raised Dy any OF the other States In 3.
which we might move. Then we saii
We have debt and we must pay 1t, ant
the sacredness Of that debt and our liza
oiiity 10 pay 1t was incorporated In tn,
amendment.
\ Then we said there are the tens O.
II q n m a Inn I'D Al.
field of battle In defence of their couptr,
and the tens of thousands who wen
Idown TO death fighting for the Union
whose widows and orphans remained tt
be provided for, and the obligation to pa,
pensions and take care of the widows and
Iorphans was incorporated in the amend
ment, and then 1t was inserted that any
lone who had been engaged In rebellion
against Ithe government who had pre-
viously sworn to uphold 1t, should be in
eligible to seat in Congress until hi
disabilities were removed. Then WI
said to the south: Agree to these pro
visions and you can take your seats, anG
Iyour Representatives and Senators be put
in. Then you can regulate your own
suffrage upon this condition, that If yor
Iexclude any number of men from the
fright to vote you shall cut down youl
Representatives in Congress to the same
proportions We only claimed represen
tation for the colored vote, and we said
to the south: you can come in on these
terms.' We would not submit to the
old rule that made chattels of men
Il (cheers.)
i And now these rebels, with theil
hands red with blood, said: sWe will no
be content with three fifths representa-
l tion: we want to exclude the colore(
man, and we want five fifths of the repre-
lsent ation.' Laughter.
Il "The south contemptuously, excep
lTennessee-I say contemptuously becaus,
they could not get five votes in any Legis
lature for this roposition-voted it down
They threw 1t back to Congress, and ther,
!, the question presented itself as to whether
the unreconstructed rebels or the Con
gress of the United States was the strong
Ter, and we convinced ourselves we were
the stronger. (Applause.) Well, W,
Isettled it, and the colored man in tn,
south was made better citizen than tht
J Iunreconstructed rebel who would no
consent to our form of government. Ther
!. they thought better OF 1t, and eventually
! agreed to the conditions and came in
:. (Cheers
II ''From that to this they have hat
} thirty-fve Representatives ia Cungron
whom they never elected. First the,
( said after they had got control of thi
south that they would not have colored
men in Congress-lo, they did not say
colored men, they said niggers; nobody
ever heard a southerner SPEAK of a negro
as colored man; they call them niggers
Then they said We will not have any
white man who comss from the north
!, and SO The copperheads had to leave, ant
Inow feeling additional strength In having
I the Democratic party at the head of tht
D national government, they take another
!, step, and in a colored district in Mississippi
where the colored vote is four to one whit,
Ivote, and where soldier who Tough
in the Union army offers himself as tn,
4 Republican candidate for Congress, tn,
newly appointed Democratic Postma ste
In Vicksburg, who edicts paper inform
IJudge Summerill that the Democratic
party does not propose to permit any on,
+. to run against its candidates. When yol
take these eleven States and calculat,
t the colored vote and white votes IN thre,
of the states the majority is on the sid
of the colored vote, and in the whole o
:, them the population of the whites is no
!, more than million greater than th'
blacks, yet the whites have eighty fiv,
/ Representatives, and in the majority O
! the districts the colored vo ers outvot,
: them, and yet, with the exception Of tn,
hill district OF Tennessee, they send fre'
! traders to Congress and may decide thu
lvote of the territory.
"The men who are making pig iron II
; Pennsylvania are now thrown into com
Ipetition with those that make pig iron il
A ALBANIA. They meet In the same mar
ket, and it is TO the loss of the men il
!, Pennsy lvania. The Democratic party il
answerable for it. They want to breal
f down the tariff and throw the laborinl
3 men of the north into competition will
I foreign labor and with the two million
J of southern laborers who are undeipaid
| was speaking recently with souther
iner. and asked him the average cost o
the house In which the field laborers o
! the south were sheltered, and he gave th'
, assurance then that it was not more thai
[ | average size of decent pig-pen on {
, Pennsylvania farm. (Applause.)
"Well, we meet finally with this IL
, Isuch papers as the New York Times, tn
| | Evening Post and others of thst ilk
4. What are you going to do about it? How
. are you going to help yourselvesP Well
J II'll tell you what we're going to do abou
it. We are going to arouse infuentia
-Ipublic opinion in this country, a publ,
Eopinion as broad and as strong and a
D Ideep as that which has forced the British
, Parliament to consider the condition o.
Ireland. [Cheers.
"We will raise as strong public opinion
!: as that which forced Russia to liberat,
t the serfs. (Cheers.) We will raise a
. Istrong public opinion as that which bu
) last week wrung from the Spanish Queer
e Ian edict which liberated the last slave II
t Cuba (Cheers.) We will arouse pub
I'll lie opinion which, in the language of Mr.