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Show THURMAN TALKS IN TOLEDO. John Sherman and Ilia Bloody Shirt Appeal Shown Up in Their True Light An Earnest . of Success for Ohio " Democracy. Toledo, Ohio, October 6. Ex-Senator Allen Al-len G. Thurman was listened to at Wheeler s Opera House to-night with the greatest attention. at-tention. Judge Thurman, on being introduced, intro-duced, began his speech by reference to the Mt. GUead speech of Mr. Sherman at the opening of the campaign, which, he said, was anlndictment of the Southland a revival re-vival of the charges of crime and outrage made in years gone by. He quoted tne words of Garfield in opposition to the revival re-vival of sectional hatred, and said the late presidential campaign was opened by tne Republican candidate with the tariff as the chief issue, but before the campaign closed this was dropped and the bloody shirt was raised ns the banner' of certain Republican viotory; but when the votes were counted the banner was found trailing in the dust. " Particular Par-ticular stress was laid on the sentiments of Grant, that , . THE PASSIONS OF THE WAH WERE AT AN END, And amazement was expressed that a man speaking over his tomb should be so audacious auda-cious as to say that there is no reconciliation; reconcilia-tion; that the only way to . suppress it is to again send the boys in blue to the South. Quoting from Senator Sherman's speech, the spea.'-er in replying thereto, said: "How impossible it is, as it seems to me, to misunderstand mis-understand these utterances. They are either vane or empty declamation or disgusting bravado, such as no -man Of the ability of Senator Sherman, or in his high station, could indulge in without disgrace, or they are his real sentiments, and mean,' when thoroughly analyzed, that if the Republican jnrty cannot obtain power in any other way, it Bhall obtain and hold it by the' rrword. rl know, that aoch anr idea, if-yon .do not reflect re-flect upon it, is calculated to excite your derision;., de-rision;., bat stop and 'reflect. ' If . the great State of Ohio can-be carried by : ... r SUCH APPEALS TO ASSI0&.U?D PBIJUDICE JlS ; r." SHRflKAM W MATOfO, ' .- If his weapons . shall be sufficient to thrust from office men" whom two years- ago you elected, if they shaUJiew the way to a fifth term in the Senate" for their author, they will become 'the creed, of the , Republican party in 1888, and the doctrine of hate will be strongly, if not permanently established in the land." v - . Judge Thurman said the issue raised by Mr. Sherman is a dangerous one to business and to the prosperity of the American people, peo-ple, and the effort to blow into a flame the dying embers of the civil strife, should be frowned down by all loyal people. The speaker next proceeded to answer the arguments of Mr. Sherman concerning the grievous condition of the colored race in the South, claiming that they were now in the enjoyment of greater prosperity and greater civil rights than were ever enjoyed on this globe by an equal number of their race. He dated the prosperity of that section from 1875, when the Democrats came into control con-trol and carpet-bag government ceased. At the end of ten years, it can be safely affirmed af-firmed that there is not an industry in the South but is MOBE PBOSPEBOUS THAN IT EVEB WAS In that region before until now. They, have in many lines of manufacture become rivals of the mills of the Eastern, States. The speaker sketched briefly the numerous enterprises en-terprises and developments of the Southern free schools for colored youth;' the content ment which exists among the colored people, peo-ple, and the fact that they have not migrated to any of the old free States. All this was argued to prove that they were not discontented, discon-tented, murdered and deprived of their rights as depicted by Sherman and other Republican Re-publican orators. The colored man seemed to prefer living with the white .man in the South, although they be Democrats,' to dwelling in the tents of the Radicals, even though they be saints. It was argued that all these things could not be so if the negroes of the South were in a state of wretchedness, which has been so often asserted. After disposing of the wilderness of -figures in regard to the condition of South Carolina, the speaker summed up by saying: "In short, everything that feeds or clothes the negro in that State is within his reach to a degree that he never knew before now. Once more I put it to von, could this be the case if South Carolina is in the lawless condition con-dition that the Radical speakers represent it? No, my fellow citizens, this continued stream of prosperity under Democratic rule proves that it is beneficent, and the quiet that prevails in that State proves that all classes there are contented under their government." gov-ernment." Judge Thurman denied the assumption of Senator Sherman that all the colored voters in the South are Republicans and would vote that ticket if not terrorized. He said: "If it were true it would be a serious question ques-tion as to whether a people so servile and cowardly are fit to exercise the elective franchise, but for one, I do not think they are so utterly debased. I believe that having hav-ing a good reason for not voting the Republican Repub-lican ticket, they abstain from doing so in a great number or vote the Democratic ticket. I know very well that under the manipulation of the Freedmen's Bureau agents soon after the war, the colored people peo-ple of the South were to a great extent drawn into Republican so-called Union Leagues, and were taught to believe that if the Democratic party succeeded they would be once more reduoed to slavery. I do not deny that ., . A GBEAT EFFECT WAS PRODUCED UPON THEEB MINDS By these false pretences, but we have good reason to believe that year by year these false impressions have grown weaker and weaker and they have to a great degree learned the truth." Judge Thurman then turned his attention to Mississippi, and read from the Amerioan Encyclopedia for 1875 the proceedings of the Taxpayers' Convention of that State held at Jaokson on January 4th, 1875, when it was shown that the tax levy which in 18G9 was ten cents on the hundred dollars of the assessed value of lands, was four times as great in 1871, eight and a half times as great in 1872, twelve and a half times as great in 1873, and fourteen times as great in 1874. At the same time the assessment of property greatly exceeded the market value and the public debt had been increased over $664,000 annually. The same extravagance was shown in the management of county affairs. He stated that when the Democrats carried Mississippi in 1875 it was said it had been done through terrorism and fraud. This was false, and he read a letter from United States Senator Revels to the President in support of his assertion. He premised its reading by stating that Revels was a colored minister and a Republican. He had served in the Senate with him and had found him to be a man of education and respectability. He was "a Republican, -but his strongest wishes were for the prosperity and happiness of the colored race. He then read the letter; which after stating that the blacks were naturally Republican, said they had been IMPOSED .UPON AND BOBBED BY' A SET' OF ' SCOUNDRELS '. ' '" And unprincipled adventurers until they had risen in their might and overthrown their oppressors. The letter concludes as follows: "The bitterness and hate created by the late civil strife have, in my opinion, been oblit erated in this State-, except, perhaps, in some localities, and would long since nave been entirely effaced were it not for some un- Erincipled men who would keep alive the itterness of the past and inculcate hatred between the races in order that they may aggrandize themselves by office and its emoluments to control the people the effect of which is to degrade them. I give you my opinion that had our State administration adhered to Republican principles, and stood by the platform upon which it was elected, the State to-day would have been on the highway of prosperity. If the State administration admin-istration had advanced patriotic measures, appointed only honest and competent men to office, and sought to restore confidence between the races, blood would have been rmVnmrn. Tvap.fi would have prevailed. Fed eral interference would have been unthought of, and harmony, friendship and mutual confidence would have taken the place of bayonets." The speaker then read . GB ANT'S LAST MESSAGE . As read to his companions in arms in Neoga, Illinois, by Colonel Fred Grant, and closed his speech bv saying: "I have not time to speakof State politics, except to say that I believed a good license law would be the best solution of the. liquor question. In 1851 1 voted against the provision in the Constitution forbidding a license and I have not changed my opinion since. You have a State ticket composed of competent men, and as that was fairly nominated,I earnestly appeal to you to give it your warm support, and I think it your duty to show by your vote that you have confidence in the existing administration of the Federal Government. In a word, do your duty and your whole duty and never despair of Buccess." . , ' ' ... |