Year: 1867

norant negroes upon the face of this
continent. That is the Union we now
have held together by the bayonet and
enforced by setting aside all civil gov.
ernments, and placing the heel of mill.
tary power upon more than one third Of
the Republic. y ! d4E t.- A.s


Recurring to the remedy for our ma
tional evils, Judge Thurman spoke Of
the situation of the South, as follows:


There is one thing more that has to bt
done. This Southern country Is kept
almost in a state of starvation. What
encouragement has any man down there
any farmer to cultivate the land, wher
he don't know but the very next day
this people will carry out their threat:
of contiscation. and give his land to Il
negroi Would you labor under such
circumstances, and improve the face oi
the earthi You know very well you
would not. Farms worth $50 and SlOU
an acre are sold by this impoverished
people for one-fifth or one-tenth theiI
valne. Thus a large portion of the
country that might pay its full share OF
taxation to the Government is almost
in state of starvation, and unable to
pay scarcely anything, and thus extra
burdens of taxation are thrust upon us
at the North. Now, give us Democratic
government and We will give to the
Southern PEOPLE civil government, in'
stead of military despoti5m; we will
help bind up the wounds the war has
made. We will heal the sore, although
we cannot remove the sears. We Will
make them forget the enmity existing
between us; then will come time when
once more this great country shall flour,
ish and blossom as the rose; then Will
come time when the South can pay
her full share of the burden of taxation,
and lift off our shoulders a portion OF
that mighty load that is now crushing
us to the earth.


There is, said he, another point to
which will allude-the policy of pay.
ing the bonds of the Government in
greenbacks. The main question, he
stated, was, Is it lawful? He read from
the back of legal tender bill, that il
was payable for "all debts public and
private, except the interest upon the
public debt" By the terms of the act,
he affirmed, it is legal. The exceptions
as to the interest upon the public debt
need scarcely be considered, for when
the principal is paid, no interest will
accrue.


Judge Thurman next proceeded to
the second branch Of his subject.


NEGRO SUFFRAGE.


In conclusion, what / have to say
must necessarily be very brief 1t is a
very black subject, tnis question of ne
gro suffrage. There are some things
that arc so plain that any attempt to
illustrate them by Argument only seems
to make foggy what before was perfect
ly clear, and, to my mind, this is exactly
that very thing. What is this PROPOSE.
tion of negro suffragei 1t is nothing
more or less than this, to subjugate ten
States of this Union to the absolute
control of the negro race, for, as far as
have seen, in every State in the
South, under this registration de-
vice, there have been more negroes
registered than white men. The
white men are disfranchised, and the
negroes are set to rule over them, and,
therefore, this is q proposition to sur
render one-third of this republic that Is
the work of the white mans hands and
the white mans brains, this country.
that was discovered by white men, bnilI
up by white men, whose civilization Is
the work of white men, whose holy re-
ligion has been propagated by white
men, that this white race shall at once
surrender its Inheritance for less than a
mess of pottage, and put over it 100, ,OOU
of the most ignorant of the human race.
Isn't that simply monstrous PROPOSE
tion, and tnis race that
never in recorded annals has main
tained civilized government
Civilized governments were found
on this continent when it was first dis
covered; everywhere there have been
civilized governments among men, but
never in the worlds history was there a
civilized government of the negro race
l defy any man to point me out one.
The only attempt that we have is at
Hayti, for don't sprak of this little
colonJ of Liberia, which is extremely
small; compared with the governments
of the world. What has Hayti beeni
An island filed with anarchy and des.
potism; an island in which even the
blacks and mulattoes cannot live
peaceably together, and therefore the
blacks have one end, and the mu'
lattoes the other. Look at Jamai.
ca, look at Trinidad, look at any place
where the experiment has been tried
and what has it been but a miserable
failure No advance in civilization, nc
increase in wealth: and shall We shut
our eyes to all this experienced But
the white race, that always governed, i:
asked, all at once, to lay aside its man
hood, lay down intellect, and that mis-
sion which God Almighty gave us, and
surrender it to this negro race that
never, anywhere, has proved capable
of self-government. 1t is simply the
most monstrous proposition that eveI
was made in the world, and when you
couple that with the fact than when
they seek to put the black race up they
seek 10 put Iuo WHO uONuJ IL uOb Oulg y
becomes monstrous, but the most Grim
inal proposition that ever a set of ruler:
made to any people.


My friends, l will not detain you
longer. l thank you kinnly for the at
tention you have given me, knowing
that in the future you will be found
true to your country, as You have been
in the past.


At the conclusion of Judge Thur
mans speech, long and enthusiastic
cheers rent the air, and there were
many shouts of appreciation for him
whom those present seemed determined
to make the next Governor of Ohio
After n brief interval, during which
the brass band discoursed excellent and
enlivening music, the Chairman intro
duced to the meeting Hon. Geo. H. Pen,
dleton, characterizing him as "tht
choice Of the Democratic party for next
President of the United States." The
announcement was received with great
applause which was renewed at frequent
intervals during the delivery of Mr..
Pendleton's speech. OF the speech it.