The effect of the crimes I have mentioned is to confer upon the
white people of the south, not only the number of votes to which
they are entitled for the white population, but also the thirty-
eight votes based upon the colored population, and, in this way,
in some of the southern states, every white voter possesses the
political power of two white voters in the northern states. The
colored people have, practically, no voice in Congress and no voice
in the electoral college. Mr. Cleveland is now President of the
United States, instead of James G. Blaine, by reason of these
crimes. I claim that this should be corrected. An injustice so
gross and palpable will not be submitted to by the colored people
of the south, nor by fair-minded white men in the south who hate
wrong and injustice; nor by the great northern people, by whose
sacrifices in the Union cause the war was brought to a successful
termination. It will not be submitted to, and Governor Hoadley,
from his former position, ought to be one of the first to demand
and insist upon a remedy, and not seek to avoid or belittle it by
cant phrases."

After I had spoken in the opera house at Lebanon I was told that
the stage I occupied was within a few feet of the place where my
father died. The room in the old hotel in which he was taken sick,
and in which he died within twenty-four hours, covered the ground
now occupied by the east end of the opera house. As already stated,
he died while a member of the supreme court holding court at
Lebanon.

This debate at long range continued through the canvass. Governor
Hoadley is an able man with many excellent traits, but in his
political life he did not add to his reputation, and wisely chose
a better occupation, the practice of his profession in the city of
New York.

It is not worth while to enter into details as to the many speeches
made by me in this canvass. I spoke nearly every day until the
election on the 13th of October. While Foraker and Hoadley continued
their debate I filled such appointments as were made for me by Mr.
Bushnell. At Toledo, when conversing with a gentleman about the
condition of affairs in the south, I was asked "What are you going
to do about it?" In reply to this inquiry I said in my speech, at
that place: "I do not know exactly how we are going to do it, but
with the help of God we are going to arrange that the vote of the
man who followed Lee shall no longer have, in national af