, 1863-08-28

C)1fo9o Urtb1''1e'
FRIDAY, AUGUST Is, 1868.
4 PLEA FOE TIE CoLoREn
The spectacle presented to the world, By
the colored race Of this country, ought to. |
excite the sympathy and compel the ad~
miration Of men and angels. Doomed,
through long centuries Of barbarisn, to
all the degradat1ons Of Slavery, the indi-
vidua1s thereof hare, with singular unan-
unity, forgetting their unnumbered wrongs
and the powerful provocations 10 revenge,
come heartily to the support Of the Union
cause; and are endeavoring, by their ddel-
ity, their courage and their Christian for
:gfycncss Of all that they have suffered, to
win Bome higher and better place-sonc
recognition, however faint-in the esuma'
lion Of The superiors BY whom they have |
been oppressed. They ask only the chance
to proye their manhood Ignorant as they
assured1y are; debascd as they must logic.
allr he by what they have endured, they
still cntrcat us, BY all that's patriotic in
government and sacred in religion, to be
the witnesses Of what they Will do to estab-
hsh their claim to be recognized as men,
worthy Of chance IN this wide world to
earn their bread-worthy Of the enjoyment
Of that commonest right, the right to own
themselves. On many q bloody field, at
the head Of. many a desperate charge, in
many q hazardous venture, their regiments
hare done deeds that white men, with all
their Boosting, might envy. And almost
sublime in their forgiveness Of all that's
gone before, they hare, even IN moments
when the prosocation to excess was strong
8st, and the mercilcssness Of the enemy
most apparent, RETAINED from the bloody
rcvenees that cyen white men are not slow
to exact. Their true heroism is as much
in their mercy and forgiveness Of centuries
of intolerable outrage and injury, as in
their readiness to encounter new and
more internal slavery, the torture Of the
whip and the faggot, and lingering and
cruel death, in their defense Of the right.
With no guarantees Of the future-uncer~
tain that IN the end they may not, after
their sacrifices and losses, be again thrust
deeper down into those regions Of despair
whence they struggle to come forth into
the sunlight of liberty and hope, they still
press forward, happy If offered a chance
to establish their manhood, and to die for
the flag In which are reflected the content
ment and protection Of their future. We're
these men foreigners Of any nationality
either Germans, Irish, Scandinavians or
English-their. countymen among Us
would never be tired Of reciting their ex-
ploits and claiming for themselves higher
consideration for what the heroes had
done; and We, to the manor born, should
echo the praise and gladly admit the de-
mand.
These are tacts. How, in the f,ce Of the
story that they tell, can the American peo'
pie, who, not 8 century ago, were strug'
Cling for recognition and independence
excuse the manner in which these
colorcd men are met? How car
the hate, the bitter scorn, the falsehood and
reyihug and the general and special diabol
is1ns Of the Copperhead press be justified
before the world or made even tolcra!le II
Just Heaven: How can the tardy ant
faint applause and timid and doubtful
encouragement Of those Of our own po.id
cal faith, be made to serve the purposes o
the hearty justice and manly generosity
that should greet efforts like these TIM
the negroes have put forth for ou'
country's sskee And how shall we an
swcr for the preservation on our statute
books Of those inhuman enact.
ments by which needless and
sharp insult is added to more needless
and sharper wronge How shall VT
hope for SUCCESS in the escstablishnent oI
me Government on the eternal founda'
tons upon which the fathers built, if We
persist in denying the most ordinary oj
rights to this persecuted race? "This is
world Of compensaticns," said Mr. Lin
coin in one Of hls profound aphorisms,
"and he who would himself be free, must
own no slave" We accept and enlarge
this saying, and declare that until as M.
ton we release the negroes from thrall,
we hope in vain for disenthrallment our
selves. Hence, we beg, even at the hands
ofopponents, for this race that sympathy
and admiration that their conduct may
Justly demand. 1fthey struggle to be free,
and as free, better patriots, better Chris.
tians and better men, in Heavens name
let them win. We have no fear Of Negro
equality, nor Of dcbasement Of the North
ern blood. These are the bugbcars tina
partisanslip uses in the service OF injus
lice. < We have comprehension Of a negr'
intndaiion from the South. That is ex
cited only where duplicity plays with an'
imposes upon ignorance. ButRTe do fea
aud app1ehend the national consequences
to be reaped in season of war and q ha1
rest Of blood, of the continuation Of tha
system by which four millions Of men, in
critably and forever component part q
American nationality. whatever that il
are first debased and brutalised, and the:
denied the opportunity, to shake orpre:
sion of. Cause and effect will not ceas
10 maintain the relations that God 0,
dained, because we will not see the result
That they work out The war that til
lcst Of human atrocities, Human Slavery
has brought upon Us, ,eilt not wholly cess
u1ul Slavery is destroyed, and the wrong
(which it has been The parent are exp
atcd or forgiven. 1t is Il fearful rcspona
bility that this nation shoulders-its trca
meat OF the African race. We plead tn
ii may be 1essened and lighteued by d r
turn t<' Justice
TIE CANADIANS ON TIE Il Al
PAGE.
We print herewith m article from Il
Toronto Leader setting forth the allcgt
existence Of plot in the Canadas to d
liver those proyinces into II
hands Of the United States. The z,
nucks Of late haye been growing very III
easy. We have already chrontcled N
darcy McGee's famous discovery Of Il
invasion of Montreal by one hundre
thousand men, and the quiet manner
which 11r. Brown, Of the Globe. collapse
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