Democratic Violence, Proscription, and Intolerance, Spirit of the White-Line Democracy, Duty of the Republican Party to Maintain the Rights of Colored Men, Startling Democratic Defalcations, Unparalleled Corruption and Maladministration

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Excerpt from Democratic Violence, Proscription, and Intolerance, Spirit of the White-Line Democracy, Duty of the Republican Party to Maintain the Rights of Colored Men, Startling Democratic Defalcations, Unparalleled Corruption and Maladministration: Speech of Hon. O. P. Morton, Delivered in the United States Senate, January 19th, 1876, on the Mississippi ElectionWhile it is the duty of all men to maintain the equal rights of the colored people, that duty rests with peculiar force upon the mem bers of the Republican party. It was the Re publican party that abolished slavery, made five millions of people free, and this alone is the grandest achievement in the history of any political organization. It was the Republican party that elevated the colored people to equal civil and political rights and gave them a share in the administration of Government, and thus placed them in a position to be assaulted by those who believed in the rightfulness of slavery and that colored men should not, under any circumstances, enjoy civil and politi cal rights.If after having thus placed the colored peo ple in this position of trial and assault and exposed them to the dangers to result from disbelief in their natural rights, their mental and moral capacity, and the hatred of their race, the Republican party should become tired and so act that their enemies can say that they admit that the brief experiment of negro freedom and suffrage is a failure, it would deserve the execration of men, and, I doubt not, receive the punishment of'heaven. It seems that there are political dandies who have nominally professed in the equal rights of men, who now think it is the genteel thing to abandon the colored people to join in the crusade against them by professing a high re gard for a good government in the South, and that the further consideration of their rights and remonstrance against their wrongs should be eliminated from political discussions, which should be confined exclusively to questions of currency, tariff, civil-service reform, and other economic subjects.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.