The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-07-30

j. A. Arnesux Recalls the Ohio Senator's
Bitter Speech on Negro Suffrage.
To the Editor of the New York Tribune.
The fact that 1 am in Montreal, having begun
my three years tour OF the world for the pur.
pose of gaining a better knowledge of men and
things, places me beyond the scenes of Ameri-
can politics, but il doesn't prevent me from
warning the negro voters of the United States
In general, and those who contemplate leaving
the Republican party, bag and BAGGAGE. in par
ticular, to beware of Allen G. Thurman, the
candidate for Vice-president of the United States
upon the Democratic ticket, who is one OF the
bitterest negro haters Of the nineteenth century.
To prove my charge | most respectfully submit
the following words. as he uttered them In his
great speech" at Mansfield, o., Jan. 81, 1868,
opposing the right OF suffrage, which the patri-
otto lovers or human liberty of the Republican
party were about to confer upon the downtrod-
den negro race, for whose perpetual freedom,
which means the full enjoyment of every civil
right Of humanity, the sacrificed blood Of thou
sands of God-fearine and human-loving victims
Of the war was still crying to heaven. Here are
Mr.. Humans words:
OF all the decisions 1 have ever known, the idea OF
political equality between the white and black races
seems TO me the greatest. For more than four thou
sand years the history of this world has been written,
and in all that time there is not . recorded anral of a
civilized negro government; there is not one instance
of political equality between the two races that has
not proved injurious to both; and yet it is proposed to
confer upon an inferior race the dominion over one
tnlfu or the hepuOuc anu TO make IL q palance OF
power that nine times out of ten would, for that
reason, control the whole country. There can be but
one end to this scheme. If it be much longer prose.
cuted. 1t il impossible that the race TO which we be-
long can submit to negro domination; it is impossible
that so inferior a race as the negro can compete with
the with man in the business, much less the politics,
of the country. The determination of the negro or his
expulsion from this country must be the inevitable
result of the Radical policy. IL persistedin in. But before
that happens, what untold evils may await usl What
anarchy, what confusion what in poverishment. what
distressl Worse than Mexico, wores than the. South
American republics will be the condition of a large
portion of this country, If that policy prevails. And
here let me caution you. my friends, that the question
of negro furrSge was not settled by your votes last
October. It is tine that you voted it down in Ohio,
but it is equally tr1e that what you refuse to permit
here you are asking to impose upon others. 1t ia
equally true that what you have solemnly condemned
a Radical Congress may impose upon you in spite of
your upon you by an amend
ment TO the Constitution of the United States, ratified
by other States, though rejected by Ohio. If you
would guard against political equality with the negro,
you must not be satisfied with sending its opponents
TO the Legislature Of your own State. but you must
keep its advocates out of the halls of Congress.
Here WI have Mr.. Humans las. words ring
ing in our ears: 'If you will guard against po-
htical equality with the negro, you must not be
satisfied with sending its opponents TO the Leg
~islature of your own State, but you must keep
it's advocates out of the halls OF Congress-
Was there anything so subtle in the declaration
Of Thomas A. Hendricks. who was called to the
bar of the high tribunal ere he had an oppor-
tunity of putting his hatred for the black man
into ~prscticel Suppose Hendricks had been
placed "a Mr.. Arthuris position, where would
the negroes be to-day 1t is possible. if Mr..
Cleveland is re elected, that he may be called
away, and then Mr.. Thurman will take his
place. Where will the negroes be thenl He
proclaims himself q foe TO the negro, and as
such his hand is against them. HIS whole power
will be used TO crush them whenever an oppor-
tunity presents itself. Let the black voters of
the United States. ere they vote the Democratic
ticket, waigh we'll the uttersnce Of Allen G..
Thurman, the Democratic nominee for Vice
president, and, II the party triumphs, the posi-
bic President of the United States. A vote for
Cleveland is q vote for Thurman. and a vote for
Thurman is a vote for a most dangerous enemy
of the negro race. J. A. ARNEAUX.
MONTREAL. Canada. July -, lSSS.