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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. — .. 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. dec 12 dly 3t wkly 2t Physicians Use It. One great argument in favor of Dr. Wesrtmoreland’s Calisaya Tonic is that physicisns never hesitate, to uso it their practice. The formula is furnished to physicians asking for it. The follow ing is proof positive as to it merits Colnmbia, S. C- Gentieman.—I have very thoroughly tested your Calisaya Tonic and do not hesitate to pronounce it a remedial agent. 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