The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-01
want ofa very moderate degree of ex-
ertion.
THE COUNTRY SAFE UNDER CLEVE-
LAND.

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LAND.
Now beg to call your attention fol
a moment, and only a moment, to
what was said on the eve Of the last
Presidential election, that if a Demo
cratic Presidentshould be elected the
negroes of the South would be remand
ed to slavery, which many of them, in
the innocence of their hearts and souls,
honestly believed. They trumpeted on
every stump in the country that the
business interests of the Union would
be destroyed; that our finances would
be thrown into inextricable confusion,
and that the Rebel brigadier, that poor,
forlorn individual, would mount his
horse, ride into Washington and cap
ture the Government. Four years of
Democratic administration have shown
that not only the negro has not been
put back into slavery, but, as my dis
tinguished colleague has said, has re-
ceived from the President ofthe United
States more recognition than had ever
been been bestowed upon him by all
the Republican Presidents. I have not
seen, and especially in this beautiful
Southland ofours, stride of progress
and prosperity unknown in any previ-
Gus four years of her history. ] have
seen that much berated brigadier stand
in his place in Congress and vote mil
lions upon millions of money in pen
| sions to Union soldiers. Money raised
by the hard efforts of the one-armed
Confederatesoldier, the one-legged SOL
dier stumping his way along to raise
that money to pay the pension of the
Union soldier. We have asked no
pensions for our disabled comrades of
the South; we abide the arbitrament of
war, but we have the right to demand
and the Rebel brigadiers have done no
more than to demand, not to ask or to
solicit, but to demand, I say, for their
disabled comrades, fair and impartial
justice. [Cheering and applause.]
RoBB1NG THE SOUTH TO ENRICH THE
NORTH.
What we protest against, and what
we will continue to protest against un-
til some remedy for it shall be found, is
the imposition upon the people of the
South of burdens to maintain the
privileged classes of the North, who
have sprung up and are the natural
product of the policy of Republican
administration. lam not prepared to
say that remedy will be found, but I
venture to predict that unless one be
found, unless the laws shall be admin
istered for the benefit of the whole
ppffdGtt6erary 6r Wh1cHGx aHle'siselx FLY for that
spoken, the days of constitutional
government, as we have been taught to
understand, are numbered in this
country.
1 trust that that day will never
come, or if it should come that it will
not be in our generation, and the only
way to prevent it is that every citizen
of every county, of every township, of
every prec' lct in the United States,
shall do his whole duty, and it cannot
be done more effectively than by voting
for Cleveland and Thurman. ZAP
plause.l
CLEVELAND AND THURMAN.
President Cleveland-a giant in in
tellect, giant in courage, a giant in
! stature, who has thrown his form and
his intellect and the great power of the
Government across the path of those
| who were subverting the Government
and undermining and corrupting its
very foundations-has drawn upon his
devoted head much of the nalignity,
hatred, abuse, slander and misrepre-
sentation which the Republicans hold
for us. But he has in measure sue
ceeded in obliterating sectionalism from
the discussions of public affairs, and
comes into the arena with the voice OF
the statesman. The consideration oi
ideas deeply affecting the interests Of
all the people has under him been sub
stituted for that narrow sectionalisn]
was the chief stock in trade of the Re
publicans. If he shall be elected, and
with him that son of Ohio who, as, ]
have said on former occasions, is the
ablest statesman with whom it was my
good fortune to be associated-if Presi
dent. Cleveland, I SAY, be reinforced by
Judge Thurman I shall take courage
for the future, and I trust when mex
we meet I shall be able to congratulate
you upon the consummation of tha
important and glorious event. Grea
applause.]