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flights ffie
unites of the North With
is Eloquence. .
MSS OF BOSTOS ES-
royally their c-best
SOOTH ASH EAST.
U oin Return Charmed by EU
ofnce and Truth—President
M c ; f velttud Speaks-Mr. Gra
vy’s Address In Full.
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.. un'-iius s ored Willi c'xha'istl
ui »; ioreiL—vast and prim.-vat;
rs find, tumbling or lo ter.ua, r
<> lac sv . Of tile three t-ssen
ii roiiustrus— cotton,
vv;.o — !i »l t. gitu fans easy c>»utr..i. It {< d slavery.’
a fixed monopoly—in iron, ptoxcu^ hindered in
-I'p.eUi Cj --'tt» tui.tii r, I1k* re.crve ssjppb'"
of h« n public Froai ibis sssnred am
H
Mies
anti
Cleveland’s
s. Mass., Dec. 1*2.—[Special.]—
t magnificent banquet that ever
_roBoston took place to-night
auspices of the Merchant’s
of tics city. The dinner was ten-
_ t lie business men of Boston
liiiicntarv to a number of guests
lhe South ami East; and in its
ntuieuts was the most elegaHt in
L or yof this city. Covers were
700 guests, and every seat wa
,i n l ;,v some one prominent in his
of life, lhe banquet began nt
S o'clock ami at this late hour the
jr, ore 'till entertaining the as-
nosts with their eloquence
xiU three speakers, Ex-President
Cleveland, Mr. Henry W.
Andrew Carnegie,
address was
t l, 0 subject of ,‘Poiticn .
and its Antidote;’’
uriicgh* spoke on ‘‘The Worl’sd
and Mr. Grady’s address
n Pace Problem.” Mr*
■. roeepiion was the most hearty
0,1,1 amounted to an ovation.
1 after round o f applause followed
|of the flight.- of eloquence to which
led; and as he depicted the in-
( .f ihe rare problem and the
koa winch must be given it, it
W os if the vast audience could
Utain itself, and cheer after cheer
Lied from the throats of the ad ini r-
fcmlred-. Borides Mr. Grady, the
ring Georgia gentlemen occupied
|r, me banquet: Messrs. Evan P.
il,.s, M. Inman, John A. Fittcn,
[Meador, Geo. Ilillyer, W. B
,\V A. Hemphill, R. D.Spalding
.l!:mkin ami J. li. Holliday. Mr
stoke as follows:
pci mamiit udv.intagi', against wide*
aniric.iil conditi -ns can m»l g prevail,
uas grown »n aui.amj: aystem of tudm-
tries. Not maintained by nun an comri-
vauee o£ ini :8 or capital, a nr off from thi
fullest aud cU- apes source «>f supply. Inti
testing in divine asmranc-, wili.in touch
of field and ru.ne and funs —uo ! , set amid
blm.a bills and costly farms irom which
cimipeiftion liiit. or vcii Inc laron-r ;u de
spair, bu: amid ch ap and sunny lands,
rich with agriculture, p> winch n« ithei
season nor s al has set a limit—:he system
ot industries is the mounting to aspLodtr
that shall dozzle and diamine the wolld.
That, sir, is lhe picture and the pionv.se ot
my luune—a land belter and lairer Ilian I
have tciid yon, and y«-t but tit selfing, in
its m&ieii&l excellence, for the loyal and
gentle quality of .ts c.»iz*‘’irinp. Against
I that, SIT, wc b .Ve Jicw England r. Ciuitii g
lhe 'republic frmn its sturdy loins, shaking
from its overcrowded hives new swnms ot
wo: l.t in
od mai itai: -
though tb. Ji fei-t are
undergrowth, and their
nofeu cumin-ied witli its broil.. s, thev
lave !«»t liel'ber the pntier ce from which
conies cii-atness, uor the faith from which
come*. co -.r.-.c*-. Nor, sir, whin in pas-
-toniUe !iiom£ois is disclosed t» them iLint
vagu: a<ul awful 'shadow, with its 1 irid
abyss*s. anil its crimson stains into which
I pray God they muy nevi r go. are they
-iruck with utqre of apprehension than
is ittqitnl to complete Ui-lr consecratioi.l
Such is the t< lujn r of my puiph-. But
what of the problem Well? Mr, President
we need not go one step further tinh-ss
you concede right here that the people I
speak for are as honest, as sensible, and as
just, as your eople the seeking as earnestly
as you would in their place, to rightly solve
ti_ problem tuat touch's them at every’
vital point. If yon insist that titey are
ruffians, blindly striving wui» bludgeon
and shotgun t» plunder and oppress a
race, then I shall tax your patience in vain.
But admit that t)i*y are men of Common
sense and common honesty—wist ly modi
fying an environment they cannot wholly
w orkers, and touching this laud all over disregard—guiding and controlling as beet
with its energy aud tU courage. And yet/they can the vicious and hiesponsiole ot
I 1 . .■! tiltd Gentlemen:—The
■"mi.Ml* ui 'be Ctiiiicl). they any, la,
iiur>,it,ui the tnUtiocary, wm-r-
tuniciU Ins flag, wbl never find
jlii il ejitr need of unction and »d-
(v.a 1.1'id.h-n to-night t«. plant the
a soul tarn democrat in Bo;-
|'.ui|ii<t ball, and to discuss the
taoi tin- incea in the bune of Phil-
Suiaut-r. Bui, Mi. Presid< nt. it a
.nqn-uU in perfect frankness and
htjdf isruest understanding ot the
Jitii-tig involved; »f a consecrating
M»Ut tiisHsnr that must follow
mleistanding and estrange-
: may be counted to steady
si t-.-ch ami to strengthen an
-linn, sir, 1 shad find the
i Cecil.
I that this mission has brought
M, to press New E' gland's
u.0 my eyis ro the knowledge
at it l.er thrill. Here within
ii'.uth Buck, and Bunker ;Hill
js.er thundered aud Longfe!-
i.eison thought, and Ghai -
hi—lure tn tie ctftdle ot
it-is and almost of American
i n n> make the obeisance
unreal) owe* New England
ie stands uncovered iu her
n.ee. Stnuue npparntiot l
'! umqu figme—carved f iom
a the wilderness—its majesty
growing amid the >fotms oi
I wats—until at last the gloom
its beamy disclosed iu the
litn-, an.i thj; heroic workers
li.su—wlvle startled kings nr.d
'■ d and marveled that from
h of this handful; cast on a
ii'ki.ewii shore, should have
'■' 'di'tl genius of human gov
litu perfected mod. 1 of bu-
Gud bless the nn-morv o:
fIo-;.
—while,in the Eldorado ot which 1 have
told you, but 15 per cent of lands are cul
tivated, its miuta scarcely touched, and
its population so scant that, w\-re it set
«quuihtaiit, the sound of the human voice
Could not be hi-ard from Vugiuia to Texas
—while on the threshold of nearly every
house iu New England stands a son, seek
ing with troubled eyes, some new laud in
which to cany his modest patrimony, and
the homely training that is better than
gold—the tlrange tact re mains that in 1880
the south had fewer northern born citizens
than sire hid in 1870—fewer in ’70 than in
00 Why is this? Why is it, str, though
the motional line be now but a mi9t that
flit breath may dispel, fewer meu of the
north have ctoss d it over to the S >a'.h,
titan when it was crimson with the best
blood o' the republic, or even when the
s ave-hol Aer stood guard eveiy inch of its
w-n?
There cm bo but one answer. It is the
very problem we are now to consider.
The key that opens that problem will
uul<<ck to tlie world the fairest hilt of this
republic, and free tue halt' d feet of ihoa-
?.an ts whose eyes are atre-.dy kintiling
with its beauty. Better than this, it will
open the hearts of brolhets for thirty years
esl ft-iued, aud clasp in lasting comrade
ship a m tiioQ hands now wilhhe.d in
doub'. Nothing -ir, but this problem and
the suspicion V. breeds, hinders a clear uu-
deretunding. and a petted union. Noth
ing else stands between us, sud such love
as b-.iunu Georgia and Massachusetts at
Valley Forge aud Yorktown, chastened by
the suer fives ot Manassas and G Uysburg,
aid iltuturned with the c aning of better
Work nad'a nobler de>tiny than was ever
wrought wi h the sword or sought at the
cannon’s month.
It this does not invite your patient h-ar-
ing to-".igbt—hear one loitig ffioie. My
people, your brottiers in the south—brotii-
e*s in blood, in il« siiny, in all that is b< s:
in our past and fntnrt—«re so beset with
this problem that ilu ir very existence d«-
iit-ints on i?s r*glit solution Nor ate they
wholly to Ulan e for is presence. The
»lavi snips of tue republic sailed from your
pints—the slaves work in our fields. You
will not defend the traffic, nor I the insti-
Ui lion. Bull do heie declare that in its
wise and humane administration, in lift
ing the slave to hi ights of which he had
i.oi urea rued iq his savage bum*, and R’v-
inu him a happln -ss he has not yet found
in freedom—our fathers 1. ft tbeii sons a
saviiig and exctl'ent heritage. In the
storm of W4tr, this institution waB lost. I
ihipk God as heartily as you do, that hu
man slavery is gone torever from Ameri
can soil. But the freedom rema rs.—
With him a problem without prece-
d’.nt or pamllel. Note its appa ling con
ditions. Two utterly dissimilar races on
the same soil—with equal political and
civil rights—almost equal in numbers, but
terribly unequal in i .t.-lhgenc-: and rts-
pons bility—e;.cb pledged against fusion—
one for a century iu servitude to the other,
and freed at last by a d- solatiag war—the
experiment sought by neither, but ap
proached by both w th doubt—these are
the conditions. Under these, adverse at
every point, wo are require.! to Carry these
two taces in peace and honor to the end.
Nev. r s’r, has such a task been giveu to
inor nl stewardship Never befere in this
republic has the white race divided on the
rights ot an alien race. The red man
was cut down us a weed, b. cause lie hin
dered the way of the American ciiizen.—
The yellow man was shut out of. the re
public because he is nn alien and inferior.
The.red man was owner of the land—the
yellow man highly civilized and assimi a-
ble—but they hindered both sections and
are goui! But »be black man, clmh-d with
every privilege of government, affecting
but one section, is pinned to the soil, and
my people commanded to make good at
a..y hazard, and at any cost, his lull and
equal heirship or American privilege and
prosperity. It matters not, that every other
Ili
ik
wnikeis—ami prosper the r ;Ct* has been routed or excluded, without
1: ’ ■ rhyme or reason. It matters not that
wefever tke whites and blacks have touch
ed, In any era or in any clime, there has
Iteen irreconcilable violence. It matters
not that no two races however familar have
7ver lived anywhere at any time, on the
same soil with equal rights' in p' RCi! In
spite of these things «-e are commanded to
makegood this change of American policy
which has not perhaps changed American
prejudice—to.mi.ke certain here, what has
elsewhere been impossible between whites
and blacks—and to reverse, under the
very worst conditions, the universal ver
dict of racial history. And driven, sir, to
this superhuman task with an impatience
that brooks no delay—a Jigor tbat accepts
no excuse—and a suspicion that discoura
ges frankness and sincerity. We do not
shink from this trial. It is so interwoven
with our industrial fabric that we caunot
disentanbleit if wc would—so bound up
in our honorable obligation to the world,
that we would not if we could. Can we
solve it? The God who gave it into our
bands, He alone can know. But this,
the weakest and wisest of us do know; we
can solve it with less than your tolerant
and patient sympathy—with less than the
knowledge tbat the blood that runs in your
Veins is our blood—and that, when we
have done our best, whether the issue be
lost or won, we 6lmll feel your strong arms
about us and bear the beating of your ap
proving heartr !
The resolute, clear-headed, broad-minded
men of the South—the men whose genius
made glorious every page of the first sev
enty years of American history—whose
courage and fortitude you tested in' five
years of the fiercest war—whose energy
has made bricks without straw and spread
splendor amid the ashes of their war-
wasted homes—these men wear this prob
lem in their hearts aud their brains, by day
living sans—aud (Mirpetu-
a>n of iheir handiwotkl
•'o Mr, I i-poke some wards
Imt emiglr attention of the
ml here to reiterate and
** I have done everywhere,
I then uttered--'to declare t’ >t
n,s I then vowed were univci-
in the south—I realize that
l ' w begotten by that speech is
PoriMbie for my presence here
Ultould dishonor myself it I be-
ll t"i.tiiience by uttering one in
or by withholding’ one es-
t of truth. Apropos of this
■nfes.5, Mr. President—before
England has died on ray
!, ve the best product of her
die procession of 17,000 Ver-
r&ts that for twenty-two years,
II by death, unrecruited by
[y^ 8 ' 0 "' have marched over
i ’ Cn6 ' their democratic bal-
r e lm< k home to pray for Iheir
[,^'fhbors, and awake to read
j '-’.bOu republican majority.—
P 1 die. helpless and the heroic
r t * ®ay their sturdy tribe in-
^ ri «tli, Mr.President, separs-
; H ( n ; , n by u line—once de-
bk* difference, once traced
and now, thank God,
ki - shadow—lies the fairest
.'“ in of this emth. It is the
Cel1 w< [, ^Phahle people.—
n«.,i ”, Cut! pleas* or
“bind. A perfect climate
: 6«>h, yields to the husband-
u 01 the temperate zone.
I wi j cotton whitens beneath
!inn <1 l y th ®the wheat locks
« >»« bearded sheaf. In the
L IB c I°. v , er ««da the fragrance
h JJ l *? e tobacco catches the
* Ute rains. ‘ There art
either race—compensating error with
fiankncss, and retrieving in patience what
they lose in passion—aud conscious ail the
time tbat wrung means ruin
—admit this, ami we may reach an undei-
standing to-night.
The president «»f the United States, in
his late message to congress, discussing the
plea tbat.the south should be left to solve
this problem, asks: ‘'Are they at work
upon it? What solution do they offer?
When will the black man cast a free bal
lot? Wbtn will he have the civil rights
that are his?” I shall not here pro est
against a partisanry that for the first time
in our history, in time of peace, hass’amp-
ed with the great seal of our government,
a stigma upon the. people of a great loyal
section; thotu-li I gratefully remember that
the greet dead soldier who ijeid at the
helm of the state for the ei«ht stormiest
years of rt construe:ion, never found need
for such a step—and though l can tLink of
u<» personal s .critic.-1 wouldn’t make to r -
move this cruel and unjust imputation on
my pen phi from the archives of my coun
try I But, sir, hacked by a record, sir, on
every page of which is progress, I venture
to make earnest aud nspi-cltul answer to
the questions that are asked. I b • peek
your patience, while with rigorous p .i: -
ness of speech, seeking jour judgment
rasher than your applause. 1 proceed
st< p liy step. We give to the wotld tins
year 7 500 000 bales of co ton, Worth $450,-
000,000, .nd its cash equivalent in grain,
grasses and fruit. Tuis enormous crop
could not have come from the hands of
Milieu and discontented labor. It Comes
from the peaceful fields, iu which laughter
and gos ip rise above the bum of industry,
and contentment run9 with the singing,
plow. It is cla med that this ignorant
labor it detrauoi d of i:s just hire. 1 pie-
sent the t ,x books oi G*or^ia, which, show
.that the : egro, twenty-five vents ago a
slave, has in Georgia alone $10 000,000 of
assessed property, worth tw.ee that much.
D .es no: that r> c»rd honor him, and vii -
.dicate his neighbors? What people, peni
le-*, illiti'rair, lias done so w.l? For
every Afto-Anu ricau agitator, stirring the
Mriie in wiiich alone he prospers, l c n
s ox you a huniired negto -s,happy iu their
cabin i.omes, idling their own land by day
and at night taking from the lips of theii
cifiulren liie helpful message their state
sends *•»«•*» from, the schoolltouse door.
And the schoolhouse itself bears testimo
ny. In Georgia, we added last year $-50,-
000 to the school fund, making a total ol
more than $1,000,000—and this in the face
of piejudice not yet conquered—of the
fact that the whites are assessed for $308,-
000,000, lhe blacks for $10,000,000 and yet
49 pet cent of the beneficiaries are black
children—and in the d*>ubl of many wise
men if education helps or can help, our
problem. Charleston, with lier taxable
values cut half in two since 1860, pays
more in proportion for public schools than
Boston. Although it is ea-ier to give
much out of much than little out of little,
he south with orn-sevmth of the taxable
propet ty of the country, with relatively
larger debt, having teceived only oue-
twclftb as much of public lauds, mid hav
ing back of its tax bm ks none of the half
billion of bonds that enrich the north, yet
gives nearly onc-sixth of th public school
fund- Tile south, si: Ce 1805, ha3 spent
$220,000,000 in educa'inn, and this year is
pledged to $?7,OOO.OCO more for state aud
city school.-—altouugn the blacks paying
ona-lhiriielh ot the tax< s, get nearly one-
halt of the fund. Go into our fields and
see whiles and blacks working side by
side, on our buildings in the same squad,
on our shops at the same forge. Often the
black crowd the whites for. work, or lower
Wftg*s by Iheir greater need or simpler
habits, and yet are peiruined, bt cause we
want to bar them f rorn no avenues in
which their feet are fitted to trend. They
cmdd not there be eheted orators of white
Universities a3 they have been here, but
they do enter there, a hundred useful trades
that are closed against them here. We
hold it belter and wiser to tend the weeds
in the gaiden than to water the exotic
iu the window. In the Smith there are
negro lawyers, teachers, editors, dentists,
doctois, preachers, working in peace and
multiplying the increasing ability of their
race to support them. Iu villages and
in towns they have their militaiy com
panies equipped from the armories of the
state, iheir churches and societies
built and supported largely by their
neighbors. What is the testimony of the
couits? In penal legislation we-have
steadily redueed felonies to misdemeanors,
and have led the world in mitigating pun
ishment for crime, that we might save, as
far aa possible, this dependent race from
its own weakness. In our penitentiary re
cord 60 per cent of the prosecutors are ne
groes, aud in every court the negro crimi
nal strikes the colored juror, that white
men may judge bis case. In the north, one
negrd in every 185 is in jail—in the south,"
only one in 446. In the north the percent
age of negro prisoners is 6 times as great as
that of native whites—in the south onlj’ 4
times as groat. If pn-judice wrongs him
in southern courts, the record shows It to
be deeper in northern courts. I assert
here, and a bar as intelligent and upright
as the bar of Massachusetts will solemnly
indorse my assertion, that in the souiheru
courts, from highest to lowest, pleading fer
either liberty or property, the negro has
distinct advantages because he is a negro,
apt to be over-reached, - oppressed—and
that this advantage reaches from the juror
in making his verdict, to the judge in mea
suring bis sentence. Now, Mr. President,
can it be seriously maintained, that we are
terrorizing the people from whose willing
handscomee every year $1,000,000,000 of
farm crops. . Or have robbed a people, who
twenty-five years from unrewarded slave
ry have amassed in one state $20,000,000
of property t Or that we intend to oppress
them, when v.v are educ ting them guard
to the utmost limit of nnr ability? Or ‘
out aw them w hen we work side by sjd«-
with them ? Or re-en»lave them umh r 1 -
gal forms, when for th.-ir benefit we hav.
even 5 imprudently na^rowi d the limit of
-feloniis anil mitigated the seventy of law?
My fellow countrymen, as you yourself
may sometimes have to’ sppi a!,at the bat
of human judgment for jus'ic- aud fot
right, giv«-to my people tc-n ght the fait
and utia"8w*'rable conclusion of tln-se in-
contestihle tacts!
But it is ciaitntd that under tiiis fair
seeming there is disorder and violence.
This, I admit. And th.-r*; will be until
th*-r is one ideal Community on earth af
ter wh ch we'may pa't; rn. Bui h<*w witti
ly is it misjudged. It !<> hard to measure
with exactness whatever touches the negro.
His inlplessoess, his isolation, his centuiy
of servitude, these dispose us’ t«T emphasize
aud magnify bis wrongs. This disposition,
ii.fi uied by prijudiceand panisauiy until
it has led to ir.ju-tice aud delusion.. Law
less men may tavage a county in Iowa and
it is accepted as an incident—in the south
a drunken row is declared to be tbe • fixed
habit ol the community. R gul-tors may
whip vagabonds in Indiana by platoons.
and it sc&rceiy arr-sts attend- n—a cuance
collision in the south among relatively the
same clas*e*,is gravely-accepted as evidence
that one race is destroying the other. We
might us well claim, that the union was
ungrateful to the colored solders who fol
lowed its flag, because a Grand At my
post in Connecticut closed its doors to a ne
gro veteran, as for you to give ra ittl signif
icance to every incident in tht south, or to
accept exceptional grounds as tbe rule ot
our society. 1 am not those who becloud
American honor with the parade of the
outrages of either sections, and belie
American character byd-caring them to
be significant and representative. I prefer
to maintain that they are Dbither, and
stand for nothing but the passion and sin
of our fallen humanity. If society, like a
machine, were no stronger than its weakest
pail, I should despa'r of both sections.—
But, knowing that society, sentiment aud
responsible in every fiber, can men'd anil
repair until the whole lias the strength ot
the best, I despair of neither. These gen
tlemen who come w tli me here, knit into
Georgia’s busy life as they are, never saw,
I dare assert, an outrage committed on a
negro. And if they d:d, no one of you
would be sw ifter to prevent or punish.—
li is through them, and the men who think
with tiurn—making nine-'tntha of ever
south’ rn common ty—iliat th se two laces
have been carried thus far with less of
vioie ce than would have b ee» possible
anywhere else on earth. And in their
fairness and couraae and steadfastness-
more than in all the laws that cm be pass
ed, or all the bayonets that can be muster
ed—is the hope of our future.
But admitting tbe light of the whites
to unite against this tremendous menace,
we are challenged with the smallness of
our vote. This has long been flippantly
cuarged to be evidence, and has now been
solemnly and officially diciared to be
proof, of political turpitude and baseness
on < ur part. Let us see. Virginia—a
state now under fierce assault for this al
leged crime—cast in 18*8 75 per cent ot
her note. Massachusetts, the state iu
which 1 speak, 60 per ceut of her vote.
Was it suppression in Virginia nml natural
causes in Massachusetts? L-ist month,
Virginia cast 69 per cent of her vote, aud
Massachusetts, fighting iu every district,
cast only 49 per c ut of hers. If Virginia
is condemned because 31 per c-nt of het
vole was dlent, how shall tLis state escape
in which 51 net cent was dumb? Let us
enlarge this'compariSon." Tiio sixteen
southern states in '88 cast 67 per ceut of
their total vole—the six New England
states but 63 per ctDt of theirs. By what
fair rule shall the stigma be put upon one
sectipu, while the other escape? A coa-
gresjiionHl election iii New Yoik last week,
with tbe. pollii g place in touch of eveiy
voter, brought cut only 6,000 votes ol
28.0(0—and the tack of opposition is as
signed as the natural cause. Ina district
in my stale in which an^opposition speech
has not been beard in ten years, aud the
polling places are miles apart—under the
untair reasoning of which my section has
been a constant victim, tbe small vote is
charged to lie proof of forcible suppres
sum. Iu Virginia an average majority of
10,000, undi-r hopeless division of the
minority, v as raised to 42,000; in Iowa in
the same eltction a majority of 32,GOO was
wiped out and an opposition majority of
8,000 was established. The change of 42,-
000 voti-s in Iowa is accepted as political
revolution—iD Virginia an increase of
30,000 on a safe majority is decl -red to be
proof of political fraud. I charge these
facts and figures home, sir, to the heait
and conscience of the American people
who will not ussuredly see oi e section
condemned for what another section is ex
cused!
If I can drive them through tbe preju
dice of the partisan, and have them lead
' and pondered al the fin side of the citizen,I
will rest on tbe judgment there formed and
the verdict there rendered ! J
It is deplorable, sir, that in both sections
a larger percentage of the vote is not reg-
ulnrij’ cast. But more inexplicable that
this should be so in New England, than in
the south. What invites the negro to the
ballot box? Be knows that of all men, it
has promised him more, and yield d him
least. His first appsnl to suffrage was tbe
promise of “forty acres and a mule.” His
second, the threat tbat democratic success
meant his re-euslavement. Both have
been proved false in his experience. H«
locked for a home, and he got the Freed
man’s bank. He fought under promise of
the loaf, and in victory was denied the
crumbs. Discouraged and diceived, he
has realized at last tbat his best friends
are his neighbors with whom his lot is
cast, and whose prosperity is bound up in
bis—ana that he has gained nothing in
politics to compensate the loss of their
confidence and sympathy that is at last
his best and bis enduring hope. And so
without leaders or organization—end lack
ing the resolute heroism of my party
friends in Vermont that makes their hope
less march over the hills a high and in
spiring pilgrimage—he shrewdly measures
the uccaional agitator, balances his lit'le
account with politics, touches up bis mule,
and jogs down the furrow, letting the mad
world wag as it will I
The negro vote can never control in the
south, and it would be well if partisans at
the north would understand this. I have
seen the white people of a state set about
by black hosts until their fate, seemed
sealed. But, sir, some brave man, band
ing them together, would rise, as Elisha
rose in beleaguered Samaria, and, touch
ing their eyes with faith, bid them look
abroad to see the very air “filled with the
chariots pf Israel and the horsemen there
of.” If there is any human force that
cannot be withstood, it is the power of the
banded intelligence and responsibility of a
free communify. Against it, numbers and
corruption cannot prevail. It cannot be
forbidden in the law, or dVore.*d in force
It is the inalterable right of every free
iorant r.-r corrupt suf-
ftftiie. It ft on this, sir, that we roly in
the south. Not the cowardly menace of
the shotgun; but tbe peaceful m»j-sty I Hamilcar 1
of ii.t-lHgeiiC’ aid responsibility, massed | young H-mnib
and un tied lor the protection of its
homes and the preservation of its liberty.
That sir, is our itltai ce and our hope, and
against it al) the powers of eaiib shall not
prevail. It was jtiit as Certain that Vir
go in would c me Jim k to the unchaHene-
<-d control of her white rac--—that berate
the moral and material power of her pco-
i 1* once more unified, opposition would
ci umhle uu ii its last desperate leader w:is
ief; ah ne.vainly striving to tally hs dfc-
•mbred kosts— as that night should fade
in ihe kindt:n« glory of the sun. Yon may
pass Totce bills, but they wul not .avmi.
You may surrender your owu liberties to
ftd-ral electiou law—this old state which
bolds in its character tbe boast that it “is a
tree and independent common wealth”—
it may deliver its election machinery info
the hands of the government it helped to
create—but never, sir, will a single state
of Uiis union, north or south, he delivered
again to the control of an ignorant
race. We . wrestled our state
government from the negro
supremacy when tbe Federal drumbeat
rull'ed closer to the ballot box, and Federa
bayonets hedged it deeper about than wil
ever again be permitted in this free Gov
eminent. But, sir, though the cannon of
this Rcpubl'c thundered in every votinc
district of the South, we still should find,
in the ,mercy of God, the means and tbe
courage to prevent its n-establishment!
I regret, sir, that my section,hindered with
this problem, camiol albgaitself,and stands
in sieming estrangement to the North.
If, sir, any man will point out to me a path
down which the white people of the South
dividi d, may walk in peace and honor, I
would 1’ke that path, though I took it alo> e
—for at its end, and nowhere el*e, I fear,
is to be found the full prosperity oi my
section, and tbe full restoration of this
Union. But, sir, if the negro had not be en
enfranchis' d, the S-'Uth w-ttld have b-en
divided and the Republic united. His en
franchisement—against which I enter no
protest—holds the S >uth united and com
pact. Wbat solution can we offer for the
f tobblt m? Time alone can disclose i lo us^
simply report progress, and usk your pa
tience. If th<. problem be solved, at all—
and I fianly believe it will, tiioiieh no
where else ha3 it been—it will be solved
by the people most deeply bound in inter
est, most deeply pledged in honor !o its
solution. I had rattier see my people ren
der Pack iliis question lightly solved, than
to see them gather all the spoils over which
faction has contend-d since C .taline coi -
spired and Cse-ar sought. Meantime, we
treat the negro fail ly, measuring to him
justice ia tbe tunes?, the strongsivould
give to the weak, and leading him in the
steadiasi wayu of cicz-uship; that he may
no longer be the prey of the unscrupulous
and the sport of tue I hough Hess. We open
to him every pursuit in which he can pros
per, and seek to broaden his training and
capacity. We seek to hold his confidence
and friendship—and to pm bun to tbe 8"i!
wish ownership, that he may catch iu tl.e
fire of his own hearthstone, tbai sense of
lesponsibllity the shiftless can never k”ow
As we gather him into that alliance of
property and knowledge that, thongh it
runs cl"S« to racial lines, welcomes the re
sponsible aud intelligent of any race. By
this comae, confirmed in our judgment
and justified in the progress air- ady made,
we hope to progress slowly but surely to
the eud.
The love we feel for that race, you cau-
it here, the spirit ot my old black mammy,
from her home up there, Ibofes down on
me to bless, and through the tumuli of this
night, steals the sweet music of her crooi -
ings, as, thirty years ago, she held me in
her black arms and led me smiling into
sleep. This scene vanishes as I speak, and
1 catch a vision of an old Southern home
with its lotty pillars, aud its white pigeons
fluttering down through the golden air. I
see women with strained aud anxious
faces, and children alert, yet lulplees. I
see night come down with its dangers and
its apprehensions, and in a big and homely
room, I feel on my tired bead the touch ot
loving hands—now worn and wrinkled,
but fairer to me yet than tbe hands of
mortal woman, and stronger yet to lead
me than the hands of mortal man—as they
lay a mother’s bhssings there, while at her
knees—the trmst altar I yet have found—
I Umr-k God that sliv is safe in h> r snncui-
a:y, because her slaves, sentinel in the s-
lent cabin, or guard at her chamber dm-r,
put a Mack man’s loyally beiwieu hei
and danger.
I catch another vision. The crisis of
battle—a soldier struck, staggering, fallen.
I see a slave, scuffling through the snroke,
winding his black arms about the lallen
form, ri ckiess *if burin,g deoth—bending
his trusty face to catch the words that
tremble on the stricken lips, so wrestling
meantime with agony that lie would la;
down bis li'e in bis master’s stead. 1 set
him by the v.eary bedside, ministering v.irh
in complaining patience, praying with all
lua humble heart that God will lift his
master up, until death comes in mercy and
iu honor to still the soldier’s agony and
sml the solditr’s life. I re? li nt by tbe
open grave, mute, mot inn****, ur coveted,
stiff, i rag for the death of him who in life
fought against his freedom. I see him,
when the mound is heaped and the great
drama of his life is closed, turn away and
with downcast eyes and uuccitaiu step
start cut into new and strange fi Ids, fal
tering, struggling, but moving" on, until his
shambling figure is lost in the liaht of a
better and a brighter day. And from tbe
grave comes a voice saying, “Follow’him 1
JPut your arms about him in his need, even
us he put his about me. Be his friend as
he was mine.” And out into this new
world—stnrage to me as to him, dazzling,
bewildering both—I follow 1 And may
God forget my people—when they forget
thee!
innest man *r-
that day to tt.-s
owlh re in U.e8"iith sw-nn
to hatred am! vengeance—
but everywhere to loyalty aud to .«»*..
Witness the vit. rnn riacdiiu! a! the L..i :
ofa;Cou.edtiate monument above t he i_r, \ v s
of nis comrades, his empty s'ecve tossing
in the April wi. d, adjuring the young n. n
about him, to set ve ns < arm si and Iro d
citizens, the government auains: which
their fathers icught. This message; ■*--
livered from that sacr- d presence, has gnno
: Ome to the heurts of my (tllow- I Aim,
sir, I d clsi" lrore, if physical courage ur
always equal to human aspiiaiioa, that im./
wrouUI di.-, sir, if heed be, to je.tore ibis re
public their fethers fought to dissolve!
Such, Mr Presidi nt, ie this problem as
we see i«, such the temper in which we »p-
proach it, si.eh the progress made. Whan
do we ash of yt u ? Fi*st, patience : cut of
this alone can come peibct worh. Second,
confidenc*; in this alone can you juu«,u
fairly. Third, sunpathj; in this jou
help us best. Fourth, loyalty to the i -
pab ;t c—for there is sectionalism In loyal*y
as in estrangem fit. This hour little fi e ’3
the loyalty that loyal to one stCrionandjr*
holds the other is enduring suspicion find
estrangement. Give us tlie broad anti p-r.
feet loyalty that loves abd trusts Georgia
alike with Massachusetts—that knows Vu
south, no north, no vast, no west; but fcc-
deats with equal love every fool of our
soil, every State of our Union;
A mighty duty, sir, nod a mighty insp’-
ratr n impels every one nf ur tonight to
lose’ in patriotic consecration whatever es
tranges, whatever divide#. W , air, are
Americans—and fight for human liberty !
The uplifting force of the Am* riean idea is
under every throne on t aril). Frar.ee,
Brazil—these are our victories. To redeem
the earth from Kingcraft and oppression—
this is our mission 1 And we shall not fail.
God has sown iD our soil the seed of His
millennial harvest, find He will not lay the
sickle to the ripening crop until His full
and perfect day Las cme. Our bi*t >ry
sir, has been a constant and expanding
miracle from Fh mouth Rock and Janiu' ; -
town all the way—aye, even from tbe hour
when, from the vo celess ami trackless
ocean, a new w; rlu, r. se to ilic sight of tit©
inspired sailor. As we approach the fourth
centennial of Iliat stupendous day—when
the old world will come to marvel and io
tain, amid oui ^alheied tr atuiee—1ft us
resolve to clown ilie oroide* of our past
with the sp> ctacle of a republic compact
united, indissoluble in the bonds of love,—
loving from the Lak-s to it.e Gut:—mo
wounds ot warlie&Ud in every heart a? {on
every hill—S'-ieue and resplendent at me
-ummit of human achievement and caithly
glory—blczina out the rath, ai d making
clear the way, up w hich ail the nations
must come iu Gi ll’s appointed tiiuel
Holiday Goods.—A most complete
assortment of Christmas goods, consist
ing of dolls, tea sets, doll furniture,
bells, cradles, carriages and iu fact ev
erything in the way of toys can bo found
at Miss Rosa Von der Leith’s.
; "t profits per ironth twill pv ve it
pay fo lei jn w portraits jus. out
53 00 Sample scut fju:k to all.
W. H,<.7iidester&.5on,2S Bond St N.Y
What Occurred l.imt l-lli tVorcinber.
Ticket No. 93 drew the first capital
prize of $300,000 in tlie 234th grand
monthly drawing of November 12,1889,
in the Louisiana State Lottery. It was
sold in fractional parts of twentieths at
cochfi'a»?niJia phhr, JfiT row—
Orleans, La. Two to II. C. Clarke, 721
North C’ampton Avenue, St Louis, Mo;
two to Max Levin, 293 E Third street,
N Y, collected by the Bowery bank,
through the Adams Express Company;
two to a correspondent through Wells,
Fargo & Co’s bank, San Francisco,Cal;
one to Joseph Karas, 424 North Castle
street, Baltimore, Md; one to the Mer
chant’s bank, Topeka Kas; cne to Geo.
Feick, 1,109 West Baltimore street,Bal
timore, Md; one to Mrs Margaret,Viel-
lepigue, Topeka, Kas, etc. Ticket No
58,441 drew the second capital prize of
$100,000. Ticket No. 7,752 drew the
third capital prize of $50,00°, and was
sold in fractional parts of
twentieths at $1 each. Two
to Galion National bank. Gallon, Ohio;
one to John Rvrnc -.z.:.! Ilaroline street,
Baltimore, Md ; one to .la?' Mixon, osy-
ka, Miss; one to a depositor, Louisiana
National bank, New Orleans, La; one
to a depositor, Mctropol tan bank. New
Orleans, Lit; one to K Haines,437 Dum-
maine street j and L Warn ick,224 Tretno
street, New Orleans. La; one to P S
Deragisch, Stillwater, Minn; one to
John Collins, St Paul Minn, etc, etc.
The 23Gth grand monthly drawing will
take place on Tuesday, January 34,
1890. of which all information will be
furnished on application to M. A. Dau
phin, New Orleans, La.
Stkooi Notlic.
I will be at the courthouse on Thurs
day, January 2, 1890 r at 8 o’clock a. m.
for the purpose of examining applicants
for teachers’ places in jfche public schools
in Clarke .county. Parties interested
will be governed accordingly.
H. R. Beknard,
wkly td Commissioner.
Whaevter the future ma hold for them—
whether they plod along in the servitude
from which they have Dever been lifted
since the Cyreniau was laid hold upon by
the Romau soldiers and made to bear the
cross of the fainting Christ—whether they
find homes again in Africa, and thus has
ten the nrophicy of the psalmist who sa ; d,
“And suddenly Ethiopia shall hold out her
hands unto God”—whether foiever dislo
cated and separate, they remain a weak
people, beset by stronger,’ and exist, as the
Turk, who lives in the jealousy, rath>-r than
iu the conscience of Europe, or whether in
thismiraculousrepublic they break through
the cast of twenty centuries and belying
universal history, reach the full stature of
citizenship and in peace maintain it—we
shall give them utteimost justice and abid
ing friendship. And whatever we do, into
whatever seeming estrangement we may be
driven, nothing shall disturb the love we
bear this republic, or mitigate our con
secration to its service. I stand here, Mr.
President, to profess no new loyalty.
When Gen. Lee, whose heart was the tem
ple of our hopes, and whose arm was cloth
ed with our strength, renewed his allegi-
Lnntl* (Pouted.
In view’ of the fact that our lands have
been set on fire at different times by hun
ters, anil isi likely to be again, we here
by give notice to the public that we,
or either ol us, will prosecute any per-
sou or persons caught hunting, fishing
or otherwise trespassing on our lands.
Respectfully, •
Marion Williams,
’ F. M. Chandler,
W. H. H. Walton,
J. E. Bradderky, Jr.
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