The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-31
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Clously anu DO0Stlngly that the foundation
ofthe Southern republic is on that corner
newed cheers.] l beg leave, when
next Lord Wharnclife speaks for the
edifcation of this delighted English
People-[laughter]-I beg leave to submit
that this speech of Mr.. Stephens requires a
! little securing. [Applause.l And then, if
all the other allegations and evidences that
the South are upholding Slavery are to be
the peculiar work of the Southern INDIE
pendence Association, not Hercules in his
palmy days had such work and wages be-
fore him as they have got, loud cheers.)
We shant be troubled with them. They
will be knee deep and elbow deep in their
3 business of scrubbing and securing, and
Lord Wharncliffe may bid farewell to the
sweets of domestic leisure and to the pur-
suits of the interests of State, and all its
amusements hereafter will be scrubbing
and securing. cloud ceeers,) But there is
another precious paragraph that VIII
read:
'sHe believed that the strongest support
ers of Slavery were the merchants OF New
York and Boston. He always understood
and had never seen the statement contra
dicted, that the whole of the ships fitted
out for the transport of slaves from Africa
to Cuba were owned by Northerners. y
Loud laughter.
His lordship, if he will do me the honor
to read my speech, shall hear it contradict
ed in the most explicit terms. There have
been enough Northern ships engaged, but
not by any means all, nor the most. Bal
timore has a prominence in the matter;
Charleston, and New Orleans, and Mo-
bile, all of them. And those ships fitted
out in New York were just as much de-
spised. and loathed, and Kissed by the
honorable merchants Of that great me-
tropols, as if they had put up the black
flag of piracy, Loud cheers.l Does it
conduce to good feeling between two ma
tions to make such atrocious ISLANDERS as
these? His lordship goes on to say:
"That in the Northern States the slave
was placed in even worse position than
he was in the South. He spoke from ex-
perience, having visited the country
twice."
l am most surprised, and yet gratified,
to learn that Lord Wharnclitie speaks OF
the suffering of the slave from experience.
I Laughter and cheers.] Inever was aware
that he had been put in that unhappy stu
, alton. Has he toiled on the sugar planta-
ton? Has he taken the night for his
friend, avoiding the day? Has he sped
through cane breaks, hunted by hounds,
suffering hunger and heat, and cold, by
turns, until he has made his way to the far
Northern States? Has he had this expe-
rience2 The grammar is good. 1t is the
word experience / call attention to. II his
lordship says that it is his observation, 1
will accept the correction. l continue:
SIN railway carriages and hotels, the ne
groes were treated as pariahs and Outcasts,
and never looked upon as men and
brothers, but rather as dogs. [Cheers.l
In all railway cars where Southerners
travel, in all hotels where Southerners'
money was the chief support, this is true.
But allow me to say frankly that there has
been some occasion for such statement,
hoe a int no Nprth
against the negro. speak this the more
because it has been part of my duty any
time these last sixteen years to protest
against it, and well dressed and well be-
haved colored man has never had molesta-
ton or question on entering my church,
and taking any seat he pleaseS in the
whole house, not because had influence
with my people to prevent it, but because
God gave me a people whose own good
sense and consciences led them to do it o.
their own accord. But from this vantage
ground it has been my duty to mark ou
the unrighteous prejudice Of which the col
lOred people have suffered in the North, anC
it is part of that great moral revolution
which is going on, that the prejudices have
been in great measure vanquished, and
are now well nigh trodden down, In the
City of New York there is one street rail-
road where colored people cannot ride, but
in the others they may, and in all the rail
roads of New England there is not one
railroad in which a colored man would be
questioned if he rides there. l believe that
the colored man may start from the line OF
the British dominions from the North, and
traverse all New England and New York
till he touches the waters Of the Western
lakes and never be molested or questioned,
passing on as any decent white man would
pass, But let me ask you how came there
to be these prejudices? They did not exist
before the War of Independence. How did
1t grow up? 1t grew up as one of the ac-
cursed offshoots Of Slavery. Where you
belong to that race will participate in that
odium, whether they be free or slave, And
the South have maintained that institution
which has made the African prejudiced
man even III the North.
How next did that prejudice come to ex-
ist? 1t was on account Of the multitude of
Irishmen that came to the States. [Cheers
and interruption.] l declare my admira-
ton for many of these people who have
illustrated the page of history in every de-
partment. 1t is part Of the fruit of ignor-
ance, and, as they allege, the oppression
that they have suffered-that it has made
them oppressors l bear witness that there
is no class of people in America who are
so bitter against the colored people, and so
eager for Slavery, as the ignorant, the
poor, uninstructed Irishmen. ["Oh,'' and
Hear" and 'Three cheers for old Ire
land."1 But although there have been
wrongs done to them in the North, the con-
dition of the free colored people in the
North is unspeakably better than in the
South. They own their wives and child
rem. Hear hear.l They have the right to
select their place and their kind of labor;
their rights of property are protected just
as ours are. The right of education accor-
ded to them. Hear, hear There is in
the city Of New York more than ten mil
lion dollars of property owned by free co
lored people. tHear.l They have their
own schools; they have their own churches
their own orators, and there is no more
gifted man, and no man whose superb elo-
quence more deserves to be listened to
than Frederick Douglass-[loud cheers j.
and if you think he has too much white |
blood, then there is Samuel Ward, who is |
black as black can be; and if you can find |
man i'm the South who is superior to him |
in sense, in logic, and in eloGuence, you
will tiud Liam who has never yet appear !
ed in any of their councils. Isay still fur
Their than that, that since the breaking out
of this war, the good conduct of the slaves
nj bo South op6 tho rooi conduct of tho