Year: 1868

Ilons upon the virtues that come down
from heaven, instead of the passions that
come up from the caverns of hell. If yon
base society upon love, generosity and for
glveness, you will have it firmly and last
1ngly established; but if you build upon
hatred, anger and revenge, it will fall, be-
cause upon those evil passions there can be
no permanent and beautiful edifice erected.
[Applause.] 1usfhrs Toi .sfn7l lJaiaR z
I THE EFFECTS ON COMMERCE. OF RADICAL
q ( b DsfEJ POLICY IN THE SOUTH G5iag-.
. But how does it affect you Didn't. You
want the Southern States to be brought into
the Union as soou as the war closed and COM
mercial relations restored at once In COM
ing up from Evansville saw your beautiful
farms and fields of grain waving in the sun
light, and i thought here must be q happy
people, here must be a prosperous people,
because God has blest them as much as he
. can bless any people. 1T is beautiful eli
mate down here in n2Southern Indiana with
the reliable showers to enrich the earth and
I make 1T fructify, and rich land as beautiful
and fruitful as that which was given to the
. Jews in the olden time. What do this peo-
pie wantl In the first place they want
good government, wholesome, mild laws hon.
estly and gently administered. In the next
place they want reliable market for all
they have to sell. That is the next business
of society to provide. Where is your mar
y
wheat and send it over the railroad to an
Eastern market, and how much profit comes
back to you to pay you for your LAHORE Do
you think that you can rely upon the East
ern market 1t wou't do. Our products
are too heavy and too bulky to bear railroad
transportation. But here is this beautiful
Ohio River, connecting with the tributaries
of the Mississippi, with the Missouri, and
the Northern Mississippi and the Red River.
But what do you want there ? Why you
want prosperous country to command the
Mississippi River all along the Gulf of Mex
leo, so that Whatever you produce that you
can spare from yourselves you may sell to
that country. Is not that sensel Is not that
statesmanship that will furnish YOU with
the best market in the world sW ?.
p But the Radical is satisfied if we can only
q keep the Southern States disturbed, dis
traeted and impoverished. The Democrat
says let us have harmony, let MS have stor-
alton, a prosperous South and a prosperous
North, that we may stand together as the
B greatest people upon earth. = q arHsu"z
GOVERNOR MORTON ON NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
T Let me read you what Governor Morton
said upon this question in the fall of 1868,
when he was, as Governor of the State,
speaking to the people upon their real in
terest. He was speaking of negro suffrage.
He said They (the negroes) will have
colored Governors and colored members of
Congress, and Senators and Judges of the
Supreme Court a 5.4 80 -,.-, =.


Very well, and 1 suppose that when they
send colored Senators and Representatives
to Congress, there will, no doubt. be white
men in the North who will be willing to sit
beside them, and will not think themselves
degraded by so doing. / have nothing to
say against this; / am simply discussing
the political effect of it -. .-...t d, .


Governor Morton continued: &c In every
State where there is a colored State Govern
ment, and they elect negroes for Congress


men and Supreme Judges, white emigration
will cease. There iUill be no more acktte emf
grants to any such State! You cannot find
the most ardent anti-slavery man in Wayne
county where his speech was delivered |
who will go and locate in any State that
has colored government" .s r.-.-. i -,
1 wonder if there is any man here who
would be willing to take his young wife and
his little children down to live in State that
is under negro government 9r,,,, -..


Governor Morton proceeded to say: % You
will absolutely shut off at once, and effect
nally, all emigration from the Northern
# States, and from Europe, too, whenever that
event shall happen, Thus they will remain
permanently colored governments, colored
States in the South. The white men who
are now there would remove from them, and
would not remain under such dominion" r.
That is what the Governor says is to be
the effect of the policy that they have now
carried out. Emigration is cut off, and the
white men that are now there, if the Demo
Gratis and conservative men allow this wick
ed thing to be established forever and per-
manently, must leave the land. They will
leave it, says Governor Morton, and then
what will be the consequence? Why the


intelligence of the white race will no longer
control the rich fields of the South. And do
g you, men OF Gibson county, expect to find a
market for your products in a country man.
aged by stupid negroes am talking now
to yonr selfshness. Radical, though you
may be, you want a good price for your pro-
ducts when you shall sell them. You want
a good price for your wheat, your hay, your
corn. But when you establish negro gov
ernments in the South and negro control
over Southern lands, then you cut yourself
off from that market. ~ .---- .--,- sl,.-... .
Have you stopped to reflect New Eng
land is manufacturing country with a
sterile soil, but with the streams leaping
out from the hills and the mountain sides
everywhere, furnishing facilities for man
ufacturing purposes The Southern State


produce rice, cotton and tobacco; and
here i'll the North we come in competition
with neither. We produce all that men
want to eat; and we want to sell this wher-
ever there is mouth to feed. Let the ne
groes have the Southern country, and there
will be no great cotton crops and sugar
crops. They will let the plant and orange
ripen with their spontaneous growth, but
as for them or their children forever, they
don't propose to work.


AFRICAN HOME INSTITUTIONS. .-


I am not speaking upon my own judg-
ment; L am speaking from history, the
teachings of history. Will you tell me when
and where it was that negro ever did work
when left to himself2 Will you tell me
when and where it was that the negro ever
established tirm stable and free govern
ments Never since the sun commenced his
circuit in the heavens has it been known,
If you go to Africa, into the palace of their
king, what do you find? Do you find the
evidence of greatness come down from for
mer ages9 Do you find paintings represent
ing the great deeds of their fathers? Do
yon find works of art celebrating and pre-
serving what had been done in that land in
former times 2 You go into the Capitol at
Washington, and there you see the picture
that represents Washington crossing the
Delaware the night before the fight at Tren-
ton; there you see the pilgrims as they
landed upon Plymouth Rock; the battle Of
Yorktown; and the Spaniards landing upon
the coast of America. In the palace of the
African king you find his walls ornamented
with the skulls of the people that he slew
in battle, and whom he ate up in the feast.
That is the kind of government the negro
has established for himself.


Go to the West India Islands, where, thir-
ty years ago, there was prosperous trade
where there was much to buy and much to
sell. Then those rich lands were under the
control of the white man. The negroes
massa.red the white men; some escaped
but the lands were left under the control of
negroes, and from that day to this the West
India Islands have had nothing to sell, and


of course, nothing to buy. The white sails
of commerce have not tapped against her
shores since the white race ceased to con-
troll the land.- YTsH b.


Do you want that state of things in the
Southern States? No: you want II prosper
GUS, happy, rich people, who will be able to
buy all that you have got to sell. i..


Then, ger tlemen, if you want the Union