The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-29

as positively as public memorials. You would
no more look for q tomb of Napoleon in Trafal-
gar square than for a pillar to Nelson overhang-
ing the lnyalides. A soldier in bronze. mounted,S
booted. sworded, and in martial regalia, ID an
everlasting teacher; the generations are DIS
scholars.
In localities the South is materially recovering
from the effects Of the war; it's natural resources
are undergoing development; it 10 beginning to
feel the good effects OF varied industries and
free labor; withal, however, l do not hesitate to
say, that II Northern capitalists were TO ABANDON
the enterprises begun by them in those LOCALE
ties. the whole broad section would within tnree
years return to its wrecked condition OF
1865. Every Southerner must kuow that; upon
what theory. then, consistent with friendly IN
tention, car you. my Democratic friend, explain
the fact that every representative Southern pol
itician 10 a free-trader2 One would think MEM
bers of Congress from districts in which furnaces
and factories have been established would %
keenly alive to protecting them by duties upon
foreign competitors; but it is not so. To ma
the true reason for this amazing circumstance,
you will have to look under the surface. ana
when found it will be identical with the reason
OF the prohibition OF duties In the confederate
Constitution. The meu who adopted that Con
e%titution, and the men who represent the solid
South in Congress, were born and brought up
on Slave Labor; in their eyes a slave is a wortnier
object OF respect than . mechanic; with ther
three great p-roducts-sugar, rice and cotton
they could buy any manufactured article OF
which they had need, consequently they looked
the world over with but one demand-who Will
furnish Go goods at the cheapest ratesf Do you
fartsr yourself they care moro for the condition
Of factory operatives than they they did in the
old plantation daysl They have the negro yet;
his average dailv wages does not excesd 80
cents; and, most significant of all, they still have
the exclusive production of sugar. cotton and
rice. OF which, under the Mills bill, sugar IS
dutiable at the rate of 68 cents and rice leg
cents. 0 purblind friend. not to see That their
agriculture does not interfere with yours; that
when they have destroyed your industries, by
opening the gates to Foreigners, they will ethe
lords they used to be, aud you tho DO
ted mudsills they used TO think you! Slavery
plays no part in The motive. The condition OF
the negro now is better for their purposes than
when he was q chattsl-he must maintain him.
self-he costs them nothing. In short, the Free
Trade of the South Is aimed st the Free Labor o.
the North; giving them the government is giving
the great American market to England, ana
you-when the transfer Is completely erected;
in the bottom of a beggar's purse you will find
the price paid you for helping them in thas part
OF their conspiracy
care now to consider but one other question
in the connection-How nearly has the solid
South come to mastering the governments Ana
what manifestations of good will has 1T left on
the wayi
We calculate the performance OF ship by
knots, of a locomotive by miles. OF a horse by
minutes and seconds. Unfortunately, the in
quiry am putting cannot be gagged by such
measurements; il can only be reached oy deduc-
ton from circumstances, and it Is only as the
circumstances are known and determine able
facts that We car assure ourselves OF certainty
The Territory of Dakota covers an area in
square miles four times that of Indiana; its pop
ulation is over 700. 600; OF whites. it has over %
per cent. more than Mississippi, 50 per cent
more than Louisiana, and nearly double that OF
South Carolina The ten Democratic Representa-
tives OF Georgia received q total OF 0,4S2 votes.
Dakota has more than six times that number;
yet she cannot get q place in the Union or States.
Who keeps her outsidel What is the motivef
Her people have been knocking At the gates for
years. They are intelligent, Industrious, able.
The majority OF them went forth from these
upper-Mississippi States, taking with them our
habits, modes, and ideas. My Democratic friend,
they are of your likeness bodily and spiritually,
and guilty OF no offense. Had they raised their
! hands against the Union, could they be counted
upon as faithful allies of those who did attempt
to destry It, they would have been admitted long
ago. As a State Dakota would seat ia Congress
two Republican Senators. There you have their
offending. No deep-sea sounding here; you have
only to look over the shady side of the ship, and
see the motive black in the shadows below. The
presidency belongs 10 the solid South; the
House belongs to 1t; give it two Senators more,
and American right will become OF no conse-
auence, though it have the sanction OF an hun
dred years. with countless precedeuts. It il
easier to keep 300, BOO loyal men voiceiess than
1t Is to kill them. Who knows that better
than the solid South2 II a word, lie is
near enough to absolute mastery of the
government TO dare disfranchise the 700, 900 peo-
pie of DAKOTA.
The lesson in history which has always made
has never been q republic that did not die
before the people knew it was in danger.
We in America have been accustomed to believe
that IS long as the Constitution is observed our
government is safe. Tell me, my Democratic
friend, is not that sol Well. as calmly as l can
state q circumstance Of such import, and that
you may never plead ignorance or want of notice,
/ tell you that the Constitution is now a nullity
in the Soath, and has been for years. Do not
consider me as threatening O cslamity to como.
l speak OF what is. ASouthron, though stepped
in treason from head TO heel, though he have led
armies in rebellion. can come into any Northern
State. live there long enough to attain citizen.
ship, and vote without challenge. How is it uu-
der the domination of the solid South with re.
spect to,us of the Northl There are States
observe that / speak in the piural-in which the
majority, 80 far as expression of political opin-
ion ia concerned, 60 about with gags In their
mouths; as to expression at the poils, they might
as well be worms under foot Ia rotted cofina.
Negroes" you say. Not entirely; there are
thousands OF white men among them; but grant
the negroes are citizens,
ard in their residences voters exactly as you
are voters here. Shall l stop now 20 lecture you
about the origin of the right OF suffrage, and
what al, under our form OF government, de-
ponds upon its FREQ and uninterrupted exercised
God forbid! If you have yet to be TAUGHT in
that department., you will not believe, though
an angel Of grace came to tell IT TO you, that
We are already far advanced on the road TO an
other rebellion. In the first place, it ia not true
thas color has to do with the suppression OF the
majority in those States; for if negroes will vote
the ticket their masters give them. called by
courtesy the Democratic ticket, they are wei
come at the polls, and their ballots are faith
fully counted. But they will not. They krow
instinctivsly that to DO so is to reinforce the
iron plates already on the doors OF their exelus-
ion. 10 the next place, in learning the alphabet,
they carry off with them the lesson that as there
is a irst letter and a last one, so there 10 q
highest position and one the lowest
in society; in teaching them to read,
you quicken the senslbility of their
souls TO the pleasures and delights Of liberty;
to keep organized against them, is to reveal to
them a~ftsrwhile. the power there 10 in organiza-
ton. Killing them is but instruciipg them how
to kill. Events travel fast in these days. The
avengers Of wropged peoples do not always
hear the name of Moses. In one age, We had
Washington; in another, Lincoln; and | do not
think 1t straining the Imagination to believe that
in q public school somewhere in the land there
Is . black man bending over his desk, taking on
mind aud soul TO lead his race ND to perfected
freedom. A few days ago a United States Ssns-
tor from the solid South boldly defended the
policy of forcible exclusion. My reply to him is
simply. 'Sir, IL would be safer for you to kill
your colored constituents while you have the
power" What 10 the ofenye OF the disfran-
ckjsed majority in those Statssi Exactly the
sEsnse of the disfranchissd people of Dakota
they are Republicans. In q word. the solid
South is SO nearly master OF the governments