Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-27

uututjou. l tDlnk an COrfCCt III saying tnab We
tsted 70 bring Tennessee in upon telegraEfre
tpfor nation, That reconstruction bill said
That hereafter, instead Of being citizens Of the
Tinted STATES because % xs are citizens Of soms me
United States, 6fid III viftue Of that fact be
citizens Of any state id which We tn6y chooee
70 reside. In the next place We tafd Here ss
ought mol to iAaye that DEBT subject to the al,
verse majority IA Congress and therefore its
sacredness and its obligation tb pay it wAs m
corporated in the amendment. ~,
Aud beyond that we said Here are ltsou.
snnds and tens Of thousands OF mon who have
been bruiset and hlesding, and tens of thou,
sand; sands Of others Sns Zen. aoxR e death and
Of. and the, obligations TO pay pensions wsS$
afso shibedied, that the active men in the
pate oficiallv In siie sSveyhtnent Of che United
States until their disabilities we're removed py
q two-thirds vote. ye,t:
soiif 0ws suffrage, but this condition. that il
S6u exclude sff tnn,bsr Of men from ths right,
Is vote s6u,s shah cut deah yenr representation
in Consiess IN Che same prcpoitlon e yce carry
shall come in undsi these terms. We NO lohses
submit to the old rule, which, htst made
thattels Of men and then said three h1ths
sssss be res. sns their n hamas s
dipping, IN the blood q Union men. said:
.We shsii tiot bs eohteRs with the Ola three
01y01 eIDBXDUD0E0NOH. W. M0ut 70 64EIuOD tHD
coiored fnsn aisoeethcr from fafticipasisn III
suffrage and we want to count them In OUT rep,
tsssnta.ion End thus get the whole -tiiths Of
south II you will 60 With As to reconstruct the
union, gil VIII be welle Iiyod teiset those tsrns
We viii can upon the whole body Sf PEOPLE r.
uS1nent @ Of the Ell sei;rb err iiean Consress WAS bet
ter voter than any, reconstructed rpbel who
would not consent to any form Of goyarnmsnt,
We forced that issue under that seconstrutt :
ton act they came in but as soon as they got
po session they trainpled on everything ts
which they had agreed, and said, you can en-
dow th' se then with suffrage, but we will show
time to this they havd pitt thirty five ftaudu-
l Mt Representativ, S in almost every C5psfes
sit1ee they. got control. At first they said, we
M not hs t Ady n ea2sa that "t ihey
said, I'VE wort ave no higgers hero. They
cut That but. Then tLey said, We won't have
any white met that come from the North -
that the cafpF- Iaggers all had to leave
In three Of the Southern States the rstaiority
of the population is on the part OF the colored
vote. and in many districts of the rest tins col
o,ed nian largely outvotes Them If allowed to
VOTE.
/ was rash enough few weeks ago in a
pubic speech in Maine 10 point ont that the
Northern workineman was already~-Si.d -oulf
be still more, day after day and year after yea.
til owo Into cpml etiton and flooded with a
million AID Z half Of southern workers with
dark skin. and that with the rate OF wages paid
to that million and hulf OF eo,ored Ten In the
South the competition against whit6 lsro. VISA
gong to be ruinous.
rereat here that while YOU pay 81. rs to men
Who are making pig iron IN Pennsylvania and
Qhis they IRE making pig iron i'll Alabama and
paving sey.pty1hve cents day and those two
products must meet in TIE same market The
Democratic party is a3.sweftbio for 10, Ihev
wish on the one side, to break down tire tariff
and throw the Northern laboring mni into com
petition with foreign ill-paid labor, and ut the
same time, by maintaining the dominance OF
the Southern Democracy to bring up the 900.
600 and soon to-ie 20o0,tO) workers upon not
more than half the wages that Northern men
get, In many cases not one third of it.
was talking with distinguished SontherneI
from Narth Carolina mi long since, and speak
ing of the co cditi5n of the Southern laborer, he
asked me what thought was the average cost
of the house. il YOU can dignity II with that
name, i'll which the great majority of the field
lalofers of the South were sheltered, and he
gave me the assurance that it was not more
tnnn -; that the house that covers these labor
er5 who, by this nefarious political proceeding
are threwn into direct conflict and direct com.
petition with Northern laborers, are sheltered
in houses that do not cost for their construction
more than SO not more than the average price
of decent pig pen of n Pennsylvania farmer.
Well. Se are met finally in the columns OF
such papers the New York Times the Epea
ing Fot and Others Of that liz with What are
you going TO do about it2' They say; 1t IL
true, and now how are YOU going 10 help your
seIves2" My fellow citizens, there never was
IN arrogant wrong yet whose defenders did not
reply with that insolent taunt. ! will tell yor
What we are going to do about it. We are
going to arolise n6t merely the opinion Of
this country, but a public opinion Us broad
strong. as deep and as burning as that which
has forced the British Parliament to Consider
the condition of Ireland. We will arouse as
strong public opinion as that which forced
Russia to liberate the serf, o, popular sentiment
Cs irresistible as that which last week wrung
ftom the spanish Queen an edict that liberated
ihr last slave In Cuba. We will arouse public
op,non which in the language Of Mr., Webster
O Il celebrated occasion, will make the public
atmosphere SO hot that the offender cannot
breathe it and live.