Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1878 — Mr. Blaine’s Speech. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Blaine’s Speech.

Senator Blaine never speaks upon any momentous question without saying that which commands the attention of the Nation. His speech recently delivered was a discussion of one of the most momentous present and future issues in American politics; and what he said will not fail to command universal attention, whetherit be of agreement or of dissent. This speech is one of the most powerful ever delivered by the illustrious orator. It is all the more powerful because it is exceedingly compact and brief to contain so weighty an argument, and because it is sb free from the fiery energy which so often pervades Mr. Blaine s speeches. On the contrary, jevery sentence of this speech bears evidence of a restrained power, which makes its repressed hw diguation and its stern severity all the more effective. It will be noticed that there is in this Eh no “waving of the bloody ” and only the most bare ana necessary allusion to the shameful

wrongs inflicted upon the Southern Republicans, white and black. The key note of the argument to the great wrong done to the white voters ot the North ' by the fact that the Southern Democrats, by seizing the entire colored vote of the South, and adding it by fraud to the strength of the Democratic party there, have enabled the five and a half millions of white voters in the South to wield as much political power as to wielded by ten millions of white voters in the North—have given to every white voter in the South twice as much power in electing the President and Congress, and in settling all our financial and other National legislation, as the white voter in the North possesses. Thus, in the bull-dozed Southern States, 60,000 white people choose a Member of Congress, while it takes 182.000 white people to choose a Member of Congress in Michigan. This has enabled the Democratic party to come into power In part; this gives the solid Solid power to settle what shall be the tariff, the' currency, the navigation laws, and all the other laws affecting business, for the commercial and industrial States of the North. It to hot merely a question of the rights of the negro—it is a question of the rights of Northern white men. And Mr. Blaine very forcibly and justly warned the South that, whether the North paid, much attention to the rights or the negroes or not, the North will certainly not long patiently submit to be ruled by the South through fraud, and have a Southern white man's vote count for twice as much as the vote of a Northern white man. The speech needs to be read to obtain a full conception of its power and argument. It will be read by the whole country with that attentive consideration merited alike by the reputation of the orator aud the importance of his theme.— Detroit Post and Tribune.