The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1863-01-03

Inc administrators and the Negro.
SPEECH OF VIM. A. RICHARDSON. or liz
sols, IN THE U, 5 H"usE OF RrrREsrl
TArivEs. DECEMBER 8. 1862.
The House being ia Committee Of III
Whole on the State Of the Union, Mr.. .RicI
ardson said:
4, Mr.. CHAIRMAN The snnus, messap
} recently sent to this House by the Presieer
OF the United States, 10 the most remarksbl
oi any that has ever been delivered 10 Con
(. gress Il remarkable for what Il says, an
It 70 still more remarkable for what il omi,
70 Ray. One half Of the twenty-one page
which i cove" is devoted to negroes. N
page, no sentence. no line, no word. is give
10 tud or even to mention, the bravery, the
ga'lantry. or even the good conduct OF ou
so'dIe" IN the various bloody battles which
have been fought. No sorrow 10 expresses
for the amen,ed dead. No sllusion is made
TO the maimed and wounded. No sympathy
is rendered 10 The sorrowing widow and to
the helpless orphan made during the progress
Of this war. which could have been avoided
oy honorable compromise, if the President
and his friends had chosen 30 10 do.
Sir, il 10 a remarkable document. nisan
ex'raordiD cry message, when we come 10
'h'nk Of iis sum and substance. To feed,
ciothe, buy and colonize the negro we are 10
tax and mortgage the white man and his
The white race is 10 be burdened
10 the earth for the benefit Of the black
race.
A blend Of mine from New England the
other day made mathematical analysis or
The message. He said. one from one and
'sugh' remains. Naught from naught and
he message s the result. (Lsugh,er)
SO far a. Il relates 10 the white race that
d calculation is right. So far ss
I relates to the negro, or in the Court Ian
yuage Of the President, the "free American
u African decent rivers Of blood and
countless millions oftressure are not enough
Or bis benefit and advantage.
Now, sir. when our people have anxio usly
ooxed to the message from tho Preaiden,
4 the United States 10 learn what they have
hope Of . restored Union, and . return Of
he blessings Of peace once more 10 their
resides, BY inference We learn il no,
irec,ly, that. u we will carry out oil the
residents Plans; II we will carry oui hs
chemes, thirsy.seven years from now The
eoPle may sgaiu behold the restoration Of
le Union and The return Of peace. True, Il
le message states al the end of those thirty.
wen years but few Of US will then be living ID
, enjoy the blessings We once enjoyed in ,
'is now distracted and divided country. II
Bot, Mr.. Chairman. there are few pas. Ir
'ges in the message 90 extraordinary, SO .
onderful, that they require at lesst pas. '
NC notice. There has been, and still is {
reat anxiety felt and expressed BY our II
sople that this negro population sholl not
ierfere with them. that il shall not j,stle U
em In the occupations they have hereto .
re pursued in the various industrial pursuits I
life 10 the great fertile regions Of the a
Vest. The President, on that head, uses d
e following languages:
"And yet wish 10 say there is IN obiec.
on urged against FREQ colored persons 70. Z
aiming in the country, which 10 largely y
'aginary, IL not sometimes malicious lila
insisted that their presence would injure Il
ID displace white labor and white laborers. \,
there ever could be proper time for mere =
Itch arguments, that time surely 10 notd
Nv. In times like the present, men should Il
ter nothing for which they would not viii. &
ngly be responsible through time and In n
ernity. IL 1t true. then, that colored Il
'oPle can displace any moro white labor, q
being free. than BY remaining slavesi-
they stay in their old places, they jos,le o
} white laborers; II they leave their old y
sces, they leave them open to white labor. tc
:. Logically there 10 neither more nor s
80 OF IL" =
Now, cir, will not do logic the violence a,
say TIM, tha, s an Argument He tells ID
4 people, those who supported him be. .,
use they believed be and his party intend s
to keep trs nonslaveholding States and D,
the Territories Of the Union for tie sole 81