Montgomery County sentinel., 1890-10-03

Just decision thrills all heaven; ana earth
rolls back the shout of victory victory
Mr.. Henry Watterson on the North
and South.
In an address to the Massach usstta Ite
form Club, In Boston, Friday night, Mr.
Henry Watterson, of Louisville, Ky, said
1.-TWO dangers seem to me at this time to
threaten the integrity of the Union and the
prosperity of the people. One of these is
the gospel of force and the other is the doc
trine of protection. The first is expected to
hold the country whilst its fellow skins it,
and to both the Republican party has com
mtted itself
81 wish that it were otherwise | wish
that | could see in the Republicanism Of to-
day some reflection of the spirit which ami
mated Garrison and inspired Whittier,
and brought forth in the authors OF the anti
slavery movement IA modern and Il native
race OF Paladlns for thousand years of song
and story. | wish that the men who have
succeeded Lincoln and Seward, Chase and
Sumner, Fessenden, Trumbull and Greeley,
in command, possess little of their mod
Grafton and patriotism. When | seek for
them encounter in their places another
and Il different set OF leaders; ! am chilled
by the implacabe hostility OF Sherman
and Hoar | am amazed by the vindictive
and sensational outcries of AN Ingalls, and
Chandler; stand aghast before the shame
less intrepidty of a Quay, and | find all
progress toward the light and warmth of
truth completely blocked by the adventur
Gus and unieeling obesity of Reed In
my despair | am almost tempted TO ex-
claim
90, for a Lodge in some vast wilderness,
Where rumor Of oppression and deceit
Might never reach me more"
"But here again, saddest of all, when |
look lor Independent thinking and the faith
iul discharge of early promise, see the as-
piring young man OF letters turned into the
ambitious politician, forgetting in the selfish
aims of TO day the disinterested beliefs of
yesterday.
"'lhe ground upon which these hot and
cold gospeers OF repression and pilage
plant themselves is an assault upon our na
tional character and institutions.
"They say that one-half the country is not
able TO govern ITSELF and that the other half
needs "A Chinese wall TO save il from ruin.
They say that the white people of an entire
section of the Union are little better than
savages, who love murder for murders sake,
and that, next after the duty OF subecting
these TO federal supervision, the whole power
OF the government must be bent To substas-
tiating the theory that man may be enriched
by taxation. They declare that the South
is as disloyul as ever il was-though "A gen
Grafton has come upon the scene since the
final gun was fired in the conflict, and not
Il single chief of the secession movement
survives-and, ignoring the promise which
.sl..
that it was an imposition upon the people
and should not outlast the military neceSs-
ties which called 1t into being, they tell us
that its exactions represent an original
function of government which must never
be surrendered. In short, intrenched be-
hind the ramparis ol Mr., Reeds rules and
Mr.. Quay's Doodle, they demand at all haz-
ards, and in the exclusive interest Of the Re-
publican party, II full poll and an exact
count OF the negro vote in the South and
the establishment OF McKinley's new found
theory Of protection as a fundamental prin-
ciple and IA fixed policy.
81 have not come here 10 make apologies
| stand in this great and free city OF Boston,
the shrine of American manhood and lib
erty, an American citizen, with all his fac
ulties about him and all his rights intact, TO
call halt upon fifty years OF sectional
elimination and recrlmnation born of
hideous misconceptIon and alike dis
crediLable to the South and the North,
and to proclaim and maintain that there
is not particle of difference between
the North and the South, between the
Northern people and the Southern people,
but that body and soul they are exactly
alike; that the blood which GIBBS and flows
here IN New England, warming to gener-
Gus deeds and ready 10 pour itsell freely
4 h,. al Ia n rItb nd vii 4,
noble rage and scorn against all that is
cruel and mean and base, Is the same blood
which courses through the veins of Misais
sipp, A TkansaS and Texas. am here 10
put my foot upon the ialsehood that the
people of the south are doing anything or
have done anything that you yourselves
would not have done had your places been
exchanged. / am here to remind you that
the sin Of slavery was in the beginning ii
divided sin hut that the cost and the curse
Of it have fallen solely upon us, and that we
have expiated it,
"The advocates of extreme measures for
the South make very strong and plausible
case indeed, the chief defect abOnt it is
that, as was the constitutional right Of
ownership in man, il has AS COOL case.
They set forth the fact that the negro has the
constitutional right t0 vote that by one
means or another this right is denied him,
and that it is the duty of the government 10
protect all its citizens in their rights 1t is
so easy to assert our rights; so easy to .el
our own side Of the story There is not IA
back man in Boston who has not the same
right that you and have to come and 60
at will to occupy the best rooms at the
hotels TO sit in the stage boxes Of the
theatres; to hold the choicest pews in the
churches. But what would happen If the
blacks should flock in overwhelming mum
| bers to the hotels, the theatres and :he
| churchesp And what would the white peO-
| pie of Boston think, what would they do,
| If hostile party, having a chance majority
in Congress, should pass law setting forth
| the black mans constitutional right oi civil
| equality, creating system of machinery TO
enforce it, prescribing pains and penalties
to meet acts Of violation, and appointing
supervisors, deputy marshals and consta-
| bles, backed by troops, 10 execute its pro
visions Yet the average black man in Bos
| ton measures about the distance from the
average black man in Alabama, which
would be measured, if we could make a
| diagram by the intellectual territory scpa-
rating Mr. Frederick Douglass from Mrs.
| Stoves ingenious young friend, Miss Top
| sy ST. Clair, and whilst he cuts no figure in
the population Of Boston, he is in an actual
majority in many parts Of Alabama.
"In those regions the negro has no con-
ception Of the meaning Of vote. II he can
not sell it, it possesses no value TO him.
| Left to himself he ceases To take any inter
est in politics, pursuing the even tenor OF
his way "a happy go lucky, kindly and docile
creature, for whose better condition and hap
piness unusual measures have been adopted
! by the whites, and not more from consider
tons of prudence than from sentiments OF
natural and neighborly good Will. In most
of the Southern States, il not in all, he is
greatly favored by the laws regulating taxa
| ton, labor and schools, and by the statues
relating To crimes and punishments. Dur
ing the period Of reconstruction, with It's