The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-10-23

: i believe from my experience in Maine
ana my khowledye of what has tIanspired
in this State, believe it is the deliberate
Intent and obvious purpose of the leaders
of the third party movement to secure
by moral treason the triumph of the
Democratic party.
DEATH BLOW TO TEMPERANCE.
believe the people of Pennsylvania
who above all other people in any State,
have given to the people of the country
thr Unreasonable blessings of a doctrine
of protection, will not be diverted by a
movement of this kind, and | say here
for am repeating what | have often said
IN my own State-that if they should
succeed in breaking down the protective
tariff of this country and introducing
free trade they would give more deadly
blow to the cause of temperance than any
other fact that could happen to the conn-
try Why is far less liquor consumed
among the laboring men of the United
States than of Great Britain? Why, if
you grind man down with low wages
until lie sees no hope the first suggestion
10 large number of minds is "Well, |
might Just as well get DRUNK and if
man sees no hope beyond he can't earn
enough to put good roof above his fam
| lily. When the tide of fate has so turned
against him that he sees no way out and
has no hope he is fitted for any desperate
deed, and it may be lucky for society
that he does no greater crime than simply
get drunk. So that any man in Pennsyl-
vania today who risks a free-trade crisis
in vague clutch for the third party is
most unwise, if he doesn't deserve a
more significant epithes.
REVIEWING RECONSTRUCTION.
One of the honorable speakers who
preceded me referred to the question
which in many of our preceding years
has been debated as the Southern ques-
ton, and which, l grieve to say, from the
discussion of which the Republican party
has been somewhat shamed by unworthy
influences. beg to present one or two
IDEAS upon that question. | do it the
more readily because l am here as the
guest of the Young Republicans, and g.!
Want to speak of some facts facts that
antedate their experience One of the
most common accusations is that the Re-
publican party got no more than it de-
fnr
South. Now stand here to deny that,
and Call all men beyond 80 years of age
to attest what | say. Aud | specially Call
upon my friend, with whom | served
years in Congress Judge K.lley), to at
test the accuracy of my narrative. When
the Republican party approached the
question of reconstruction there was hot
one man in 10000 that thought o: fore
| ing suffrage upou the colDred men OF the
South. Tney practically said: You have
very large number of men without edu-
cation suddenly made free; they need
education: they need experience. They
need training, and We will readmit you
into the Union and leave that question
for you to solve yourself" And in that
spirit and to that end we submitted to
the states the Fourteenth Amendment to
the Constitution. think | am correct in
saying that We voted to bring Tennessee
in upon telegraphic information. That
reconstruction bill said that hereafter,
instead of being citizens of the United
States because we are citizens of some
| individual State, we shall be citizens of
the United States, and in virtue of that
fact be citizens of any State in which we
may choose to reside. In the next place
We said: Here is great debt incurred
in saving the Union, and we ought not
to leave that debl subject to the adverse
majority in Congress" and, therefore, its
sacredness and it's obligation to pay it
was incorporated in the amendment.
SOUTHERN REPRESENTATION
And beyond that we said: "Here are
| thousands and tens of thousands of men
who have been bruised and bleeding, and
tens of thousands of others who went
| down to death, and their widows and
orphans must be taken care of, " and the
obligation to pay pensions was embodied
in that amendment. And this was also
embodied, that the active men in the re-
bellion should not be permitted to parti
cipate officially in the Government of the
United States until their disabilities were
removed by a two-thirds vote.
A provision was put i'll, "You sbal!
regulate your own suffrage, but on this
condition that. if you exclude any num-
Der of men from the right to vote you
shall cut down your representation in
Congress in the same proportion as you
carry on that exclusion" We said to
the South: ''Iuu shall come i'll uLder
these terms. We no longer submit to
the old rule, which first made chattels of
men and then said three-tfths of these
chattels shall be represented i'll Con-
gress." The rebels, their hands still
dripping in the blood of Union men,
said: I'VE shall not be content with the
old three-tifths representation. We want
to exclude the colored men altogether
from participation in suffrage, and We
| want to count them in our represe ntauion
and thus get the whole five -fifths of our
representation" 1t was then that the
Republican party said to the white mer
of the South IF YOU will lin with us
to reconstruct the Union all will! be we'll
If you reject those terms We will call
upon the whole body of peopl, in the
South and the loyal colored man, who IN
the Judgment of the Republican Congress
was better voter than any reconstructed
rebel who would not consent to any form
OF government
We forced that issue; under that re-
construction act they came in, but as
soon as they got possession they trampled
on everything to which they had agreed
and said: "Iou Can endow these men
with suffrage, but We will show you that
they can't exercise" and from that time
to this they have put thirty five fraudu-
lent representatives in almost every Con
gress since they got control. At inst
they said I'VE will not have any colored
representatives here" No, they didn't
| say that at all; they said said I'VE won't
have no niggers here" They cut that
out. Then they said 1--WE won't have
| any whitp man that ,nnS frn,n tho