Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-18

voting, after very hard labor and immense peril to soul and body. Applause and laughter.
 PROTECTING THE NEGROES.
 Now, 1 think there should be little quiet about ballot box stutting when they go at the business as they have, with the power they claim over the negroes. Have they that much power over you2 Can they actually command you that you throw your votes away? They may, but they have not power enough over Gov. Tom Jones, they haven't got power enough over his militia boys-tin soldiers, as they are called, and their pop guus-they haven't got the power to keep them from standing around you addressing the col ored people in the audiencel when you are threatened with danger and your lives pre- served by lawful means. Tremendous cheers and long continued applause You may have the power, and l suppose you have, to throw away your votes at the bidding of Mir. Skaggs, but when you have done so you are no more entitled to place among American freeman than are hound dogs entitled to place in heaven. App plause and cheers. Now, you have been slaves long enough. When they took you away from us. We lost all the money we had in you Laughter among. the ne- groes. You have continued to come back to us when you have gotten into the old lady that had sat by your bed and famed you when fever was on your brow when you were little child, and who took care of you, and who knelt down on her knees and prayed to God that he would re- ceive the spirit of her departed servant. When you got into trouble you would come back to us and we always treated you with kindness. It was only when the stranger came in; it was only when the socialist got here; it was only when the anarchist came, too discreet to offer to any honest and good man in the land who had any influence or prominence; it was only then that you met an enemy that made 1t necessary for Gov ernor Jones to leave his home in Montgom- ery-his proper place in the capitol--and come here with hls troops and establish headquarters to try to take care of you and the business of the country that was wrapped up in your care. Perhaps you do not owe us any gratitude for that. don't care whether you do or do not, we are going you do not owe Reuben Kolb any gratitude for that. TCheers and applause You do not owe Bowman anything for that. [Applause.] You do not owe Skaggs anything for that. Applause. You do not owe Adams anything for that. [Long and enthusiastsc applause.l They have been boosting, might and main, ln- sidiously, perhaps, and yet rather openly, that Governor Jones, who is as good and honest a man as God ever placed in Ala bama loud and tremendous cheers and applausel, came here without necessity and without authority of law and against the constitution to take care of these peo- pie, and yet the very minute the supposed tranquility had been restored and he gives the order for the troops to disband, and the very minute they are gone there comes out of their lurking, out of their hiding, a lot of foreign born socialists and anarchists, who have no respect for this land and who cannot and will not understand and appre- ciate the institutions of this country; they came out, finding men working for an hOnpat living pOlnU hack fO their places of rest, unconscious of the presence of danger, and fired upon them to thedestructicn of their lives. Now whether they are white or whether they are black if they ha6 been Indians, Hindoos or Chi nese-it would have been the same thing in sight of tie laws and the authorities of
 RA. It would have been the same to
 1cratic party, that grand old party
 gcreed promises to support and de- .iehd d the laws, offers preservation and se- curity to life and property against all vio- lators of the law. [Applause.]
 THE OLD PRINCIPLES.
 My countrymen, there was never pe- riod in the history of this state. nor was there ever period in the history of the United States, when it was so essential that men who compose this great community, and the forty odd sister states of the Amer ican union that should they come out again and announce to the world those trlte old maxims that were used in the beginning ana nave never QeSerLeu us, hltnOuSn sometimes we have almost forgotten them that all government in this country is by the consent Of the governed; that the peo- pie are self governing; they elect their legislature and more or less drffs Tnied slates shee massffa'y and the ans tns that are enacted in the statutes are as much the laws of the people as if they had been drawn up and signed and subscribed by every human being in the country, or by majority of them. We are self-governing people; we make our own laws; we bind our own agents to execute them; we hold those agents up to responsibility to us for the perfect character of the execution .-af ttos~ .aWs. No"-,in country like this, the heart and soul and manhood of reotly or even indirectly in carrying on this wonderful instrumentality of human gov ernment is pledged in honor for the main- tenance of the law. Being law creating people, we must be law abiding people and law preserving people. Applause ments, aut ocratic or otherwise, that exist in other parts of tho world, the people might rise up against the iniquity and hardshirs of the laws that in them selves are distressing and ln- jurious, and set them at defiance without having incurred any very great moral responsibility for such conduct; but when come to a country like this, where the laws are made by the people, and where even the fundame ntal law of the constitu- tion is subject to be changed by their will in accordance with it's own provisions, if men or women usurp the right and power of seiaing tue law and its execution in their own hands, having wrested it from the hands of the lawful authority, crime be- comes inconceivably great and hideous, and it is crime against every individual in the land. Not merely crime against the great body polite and the laws of the land, but in a general sense it is a crime against every individual in the land that any hu- man being should undertake to usurp 10 himself the of adiudNing and exe-