The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-23
THOSE WHO BLED AND DIED.

others, VINO went down to death. and |
their widows and orphans must he
taken care Of and the obligation to
pay pensions was embodied in that
amendment. And this was also en-
boiled, that the active men in the re-
belIion should not be permitted to
participate officially in the Govern
ment of the United States until their
disabilities were removed by two
thirds vote.
"a provision was put in. you
shall regulate your own suffrage, but
on this condition, that if you exclude
any number of men from the right
to vote, you shall cut down your rep
resentati0n in Congress in the same
proportion as you carry on that ex-
clusiOn.' We said to the South, You
shall come in under these terms. We
no longer submit to the old rule,
which first made chalteIs of men,
and then said three hfths of these
chattels shall be represented in Con.
gress.' The rebels, their hands still
dripping with the blood of Union
men, said: I'VE shall not be content
with the old three-ffths representa-
ton. We want to exclude the color
ed men altogether from participation
in suffrage, and we want to count
them in our representation, and thus
get the whole five-fifthS of our repre-
sentation.' 1t was then that the Re-
publican party said to the white men
of the South: IF you will 60 with
us to reconstruct the Union all will
be well. If you reject those terms
we will call upon the whole body of
people in the South and the loyal
coloren man, who, in the Judgment
of the Republican Congress, WAS a
better voter than any reconstructed
rebel, who would not consent to any
form of government. Applause.
"We forced that issue under that
reconstruction act they came in, but
as soon as they got possession they
!rampled on everything to which
they had agreed, and said, You can
endow these men with suffrage, but
we will show you that they can't ex-
ercise it; and from that time to this
they have put thirty-fve fraudulent
representatives in almost every Con-
gress since they got control. At first
they said, we will not have any
cOlored representatives here.' No,
they didn't say that at all they said,
I'VE won't have no niggers here.'
They cut that out. Then they said,
I'VE won't have any white men that
come from the North so that the
carpet baggers all had to leave.
A LABOR PROBLEM.
''In three of the Southern states
the majority of the opulation is on
the part of the colored vote, and in
many districts of the rest the colored
man largely outvotes them, if allow
ed to vote. L was rash enough few
weeks ago in public speech in Maine
to point out that the Northern work.
ingman was aIready-and would be
still more day after day and year
after year--thrOwn into competition
and flooded with a million and a half
of Southern workers with dark skin;
and that, with the rate of wages paid
to that million and a-half of coored
men in the South, the competition
against white labor was going to he
runiuuS.
II repeat here, that while you pay
S1.75 to men who are making iron
in Pennsylvania and Ohio, they are
making pig iron in Alabama and pay
ing seventy-tiye cents a day, and
those two products must meet in the
same market. The Democratic party
is answerable for it. They wish, on
the one side, to break down the tariff
and throw the Northern labOring
man into competition with foreign
i'll paid labor, and at the same time,
by maintain ing the dominance Of the
Southern Democracy, to bring up the
100000, and soOn-to-be 100000
workers upon not M ore than half the
wages that Northern men get-in
many cases not one-third of it.
II was talking with distinguish
Ell Southerner from North Carolina
not long since, and. speaking of the
condition of the Southern laborer. he
asked me what l thought was the
average cost of the house, if you can
dignity it with that name, in which
the great majority of the field labor
ers of the South were sheltered, and
he gave me the assurance that it was
not more than 50. Laughter. That
the house covers these labOrers who
by this nefarious political proceeding
are thrown in direct conflict and
direct competition with Northern
lahornre are Shalfnrpd i'm hi nSoS that