Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-12-11

gestion is stronger than theirs; tor mo
we have had an enormous immigration
they have not changed US much. AS the
elephant with bis great trunk tears of
the branches and browses, he does not
change to the tree, the tree changes TO
elephant. (Laugh,er.) And SO this great
American people is not Irishized, or
Germanized or Frenchized; they be-
come Americans, not we foreigners. II
is inconvenient OF first; while we have
the fathers and mothers on our hands ii
is hard, but when we come TO children
they are all American children. Once
put them through our common schools,
bring them up so that they can see the
vote the moment they are born, and feel
the dignity and responsibility of the cleo
tive franchise in connection with the
common school and the church, and they
will be thoroughly American. Now our
American doctrine is this, that all men
are born to liberty, and that republican
government is competent to take all men
and administer liberty to them, and that
it is safe TO do it. And we simply say
this: We do not propose to make the
black man any better or any worse; he
is the recipient Of just those advantages
which we give to every other creature on
the globe that is all. (Cheers.) We
mean to say to you then, behave as good
citizens, and TO give them the chance ;
we mean to say TO them, industry is open
to them we mean to say 10 them, pro-
lection is yours we mean tosay to them,
if God gave you the attributes OF man
hood we will see that you have a chance
to open them up and to develop them.
They say that we preach doctrine OF
social equality; we do not for Irishmen,
nor for southerners, nor for Africans, nor
anybody else.
We say to everybody, God gave you
an endowment and we will lgive you
chance to use it, and then one man will
be higher than another; there is no
machine by which we can elongate or
shorten man to bring him to a standard
length. Justice is the same to every
man as a judge. There is this poltica
the same ballot, the same chance
in society, but personal differences God
made, and God keeps up, and meant to
have exist in society, and therefore we
will give the black man chance to show
what he is by culture and moral stimu-
US, and then we say to him: If you are
ow down, that is your look out. We
propose to give him chance TO show
What God wrote in the character of his
eing when he made him that is all.
Cheers.) And if any man is afraid Of
hat, he ought to be afraid Of it. am
lot afraid to run a race with him (; am
Tot afraid but will hold my own, and
f anybody is, let him play coward. But
IS long as | live, this l will say, that il
my black man beats me, he deserves to
20 higher than |. (Applause.) But he
5 god, and goes to God again. He is
immortal, lie is of the number for whom
here was a Calvary and Gethsemane,
he is dear there it not here, and for the
sake of Him, and for the sake of that
humanity or him that shall yet be white
as an angelic robe, and for the sake Of
our own truths and principles deep laid
as this national life, for all that | will de.
lend his life; will give him education
| will give him an industrial chance and
say to him, as to every other human be
ing, Be 40 much as God made you, no
more. do not bolster him; | say sim
ply this, BE what you are, and | will let
you. applause -Beoeher's Nev York
Speech.