The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-10-06

ored people. One of the most intimate
compansSn. OF my ehiidho9d ill l,.o ,,s and one one
sadt ook 9a i Mho
to me by my grandfather, not as q slave.
but as q playmate and companion to take
care Of me- being older nysG ever ,n one .Sd e1i'
tears shed than shed over him.
BSs we cannot s1PSc Ssx sssn e
- an onemy Of the colored race. deny
nothing that il true, but this chage is un.
true. Ne man can point TO to .n;~,. law tnss ns ~
to decision of mine while on the bench,
that was moro
UNJUST no THE coLoRED PEOPLE
than to tho white, or unjust In any descrip-
so1 e. :oa asy is sus 70
ado adopted. whom the question was in Ohio.
should be struck from the Constitution, I,
together with large majority, voted
against strikisg 1t out. The reasons were
plainly stated ond dhia ye sne seton
| when nearly all the other States were otlcr-
wise. That reason urged against such
ment to tho Federal Constitution was
adopted which gave suffrage to the colored
people, from that moment they became
citizens, and no man can say ever treated
them otherwise than as citizens. Zap
HNo man can say with truth that have
denied the equality Sso5e snS eM Us ns
stands-on the platform Of the Democratic
party, which pronOunces for equal rights
Tor all, without regard TO. TO race .e or color.
whether by birth, naturalizatioD,. or by
amendments to the Constitution Citizen
| rAppiause.1 White and black stand on the
same foundation, and all are equal before
the law.
one hundred and twelve years ago the
Declaration was made. Then. oyer all
Christendom slavery prevailed. Even IN
TWAS EvERYwHERE,
| in name and in fact. Now, there is no
slavery in Christendom, unless it is in Bra
zil, and there it has lately been also abol-
ished. slavery is at an end. Well from
many, from the men who were practically
| slaves In France, what was it broke the
shackles, next to religion It was the
asi that s.aii men % are created free and equal )"
that is what did it,. 1t Is ideas, 1t Is
| thoughts, that govern the world. No more
will We have poor laws while we have good
Now you have studied the platform Of
the Democratic party. You have seen the
pledges made. No President % has ever done
than Grover Cleveland, and If reelected he
| viii continue to do justice to them. know
him well.- In his intellect. IN his heart, IN
when he says anything he means 1t, and
when he has said it he stands to 1t:
I am greatly pleased to see that the Co. col,
ored vote is no longer unit. haye said
repeatedly in public and in private, have
said everywhere, that since suffrage was
conferred on the colored people the Repub;
bOndsmen Of the colored race. When they
ceased to be labor bondsmen the Republican
leaders intended they should become
POLITICAL BoNDsMEN,
and they knew that was impossible in hu-
man nature without bitterness among the
whites, 1t was an impossibility in human
nature without a miracle. Therefore, l
have said the way to nn aegaare your u1 rights IS
cast votes as the white men cast theirs, ac-
cording to the measure before you. II you
. will look into the matter you will find that
, be traced to the declaration in which Jeffer-
. son, the father of Democracy, wrote the
. words, "free and equal" All since has come
pendence.
Although slavery in the South was to be
found in Whig as we'll as In Demo cratic
states, aud it has been called a Democratic
: institution, yet the truth is, the principle oi
/ Jefferson was understanding 1t, and 1t was
brought to the grave. Now say whatever
there is liberty for all. If any people more
than another have reason to be thankful for
this declaration, 1t is those who have been
? lately set free. don't underrate the men
, who helped. know we'll the unjust claims
. that have been made. I know we'll that it
, was said it was not to be fight for nboli-
Z tion; know it was said that II the Union
3 could not be preserved without freein the
I slaves they would preserve it on that con.
I dition. 1 knew MI. Lincoln, great and
, GOOD man, said. so, but also know that
l when the idea entered the brain OF the Rad
ical leaders that by emancipating the slave
and giving him the suffrage, the Soutt
might be made
SOLID RADICAL SOUTH;
D then there was a sudden and wonderful
n growth of philanthropy. and the men wh'
= f,ut lately had been willing to see slayer.
q indefinitely prolonged became ths earn
!. eat advocates of abolition. In a word part
n interests governed political action. and IL
had not been supposed by the Radical lead
= ers that the political bondage of the negr
- could be made to take the place OF tho ar
h.. cient bondage, you would have heard notf
:. ing Of the Republican party having free
50 the slave.
ne 1 did not intend to mako a long speec
a. and thank You for your courtesy and a
:. tention. IF you will vote as your iudgmeI
ea dictates, show that you think and for
correct Judgments by your deeds, by yo'