The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-02

were elected by the same vote by which
Mr.. b. held seat In congress, which he
was not man enough 10 resign.
He then launched out In TRADE against
the south In general, against whose record
that of every loyal man Of the north would
shine rs high as the angel Of High shone
above the angel Of darkness" The con.
federates, however, had been In brief con
troll Of tue house, but he thanked God that
that had passed away, and he believed for
ever
Kennedy WAS frequently called TO order
but thOJgh he was clearly outside the rules,
speaker Carlisle generously allowed him
to - on. Mr.. Crisp replied to him with
the utmost GOODNESS, showing that In his
own district he was elected without oppD-
sitlon, and that IN regard 10 every other
district In Georgia there had not before to
day been "A whisper Of the suppression Of
single negro vote or any other unfairness
in the election. As to the contested cleo
ton case Of John G.. Carlisle, the committee
had given the contestant, Thobe, full ana
fair hearing and then unanimously, in
Guiding the four republican members, re~
ported that ThuLe had no Case. But In
regard TO Kennedy's claim 10 superior
honesty Mr. Crisp brought down the
house" by referring 10 the case where
Kennedy, as Lieutenant Governor Of Ohio,
had UNANIMOUSLY thrust honestly elected
democratic members Of the Ohio senate
from their seats by deciding that II con,
stituted quorum, or majority, in a body Of
30 members!
Mr. Breckenridge, of Arkansas so far rs
the Kennedy TRADE applied to him, re-
piled with equal GOODNESS with Mr. Crisp,
that the four members of the legislature
referred to rs resigning their seats, had
been elected in September and In another
congressional district, while the congress
slUnal election took place In November,
AS to whether Mr. b. himself had been
honestly elected that question was under
going n judicial investigation in Arkansas
now, and would also come up for discuss
sion before republican house, and with
that decision, whatever 1t might be, he
should cheerfully abide.
We have sKirmished over this notable
debate to give point TO the questions with
which we started out. Now that the re.
publicans have got possession of congress
ana the President, is this sort of aggression
against the south to continue? Are We
to remain one people or not? What makes
the south 50 hateful and infamous in the
eyes of the boGy of the republican party
is that in few southern congressional dis
tricts-one in South Carolina ard one or
two in TeXas-the negro vote has been for
chilly deferred from being cast for the re-
publicans, and throughout the south gen
orally, the negroes by democratic cajolery,
persuasion, or otherwise, are prevented
from voting the republican ticket In a solid
block Doesn't the entire negro vote nstur-
ally belong to the republican party? Very
we'll, then; the south shall have no peace
until that vote Is again solidly republican, as
1t was In the blessed days of carpet Dagger
rule.
Mr.. Blaine, less than two weeks ago.
assured Col Allen of n G., that there was
no purpose of renewing federal interfer.
ence ia the south, and that the people there
must work out the solution Of the race
problem for themselves. Nobody but fools
and fanatics, like this Kennedy of Ohio,
thinks of any other course as desirable or
possible. The days of federal troupes TO
coerce voters and disperse Legislatures in
the south are over. Yet congress and the
country is full of Kennedys and bla,her-
sixties of his ilk, who are constantly trying |
to alarm the south with threats of return
to the restoration" infamy, and with the
only purpose of such threats to keep the
south solid, the schemers knowing full |
we'll that so long as there is solid south
there will be solid north.
But will these baleful and scOundrelly |
tactics be allowed to succeed much longer
We believe that any attempt at aggressive
Legislation against the south, in the Ken~
needy sense, will as signally fail now as il
did under Garfield and Arthur; that the
south will see through the trick which the
threat OF it involves, and that trick once
unmasked the bugbelr of the solid south |
will "vanish like a summer cloud and |
with it the equally seuseless and injurious
solid north God speed the day when the
wicked delusiun that keeps up both shall
have an end!
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