Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-08-18
what the Administration has
Done for the White Man and
the Niger.

l. tDc NlBBcE.
The Boston Liberator, an intense Aboli-
ton sheet, edited by the notorious William
Lord Garrison, essays TO prove what Lin
coln administration has done for the Mig
ger. 1t gives the following catalogue of
cases and edicts made for his benefit
! !. Emancipation in Western Virginia.
Q Emancipation in Missouri.
3. Emancipation in the District of Col
umbia
T. Emancipation in Maryland.
s. Slavery abolished and forever prohib-
tied in all Territories
9. Kansas admitted as free State.
u Provisions made to admit Colorado,
Nebraska and Nevada as free States
8. Organization Of Idaho, Montana, Da-
cotah and Arizona as FREQ Territories.
%. Recognition of the independence of
Hayti and Liberia.
10. Three millions of slaves declared
free by Proclamation of the President, Jan
uary l. 1868,
IL, All Fugitive Slave laws repealed.
II. Inter-stote trade abolished.
l3, Niggers admitted to equal rights in
United States Courts as parties to suits
and as witnesses
IA. Equality of the Niger recognized
in the public conveyanccs OF the District of
| Columbia.
10. All rebel States prohibited from re
turning to the Union with slavery.
lt. Free labor established on numerous
plantations in South Carolina, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas.
H. Schools for the education Of freed
slaves in South Carolina, Tennessee, Louis.
llama, and in Eastern Nirginia-where, till
within three years, to educate the Niger
was punishable with death
Is. The wives and children of all slave:
employed as freeman in military and othcl
service Of the United States made free.
o 10. All niggers, bond and free, enrolled
. as part Of the military force of the nation
n 90. The loyal people of Arkansas, Ten
v nesscc, Louisiana and Florida, seeking Il re
= turn to the Union on the basis Of freedom
4 to all and of the abolition and prohibition 0
slavery
= 81. The abolition and prohibition o
- slavery by an amendment Of the Constitu
IS ton passed in the Senate by two-thirds ma
- lority, and by nearly the same III the House
Lost by lack Of three or four votes through
z the influence Of Democratic members.
1t %. The nation, through its Representa-
IS tivcs in Baltimore, June s, made the aboli
ton and prohibition Of slavery the basis o
its governmental administration policy 70
i the future.
is %. The Federal Government forbidden
e to employ any man as a slave in any capaci
10 ty.
" "a One hundred and fifty thousand mig
IS gers, mostly freed slaves in the pay and uni
o form Of the Government as soldiers.
That shows that the Administration ha
been faithful indeed to the interest Of tn
niger, and employed all its powers in hi
behalf
Mr. GARRISON makes out his case: bu
= there is another point-what has LINCoL,
and his administration done for the whit,
race
2. lie has called out two million and a hal
Of able-bodied men to the war
2. He has sent full n million of white peo-
pie to their graves.
3. He has carried mourning into almost
every white household
4. He has saddlcd the country with a
National debt of at least four thousand mil
lions Of dollars, which will be an oppressive
burden and incubus upon the labor and cap.
itals Of the country.
c s. lie has destroyed the Union and sub
g vcrtcd our republican form Of Government
- 6. He has carried want poverty AM
= destitution into the homes of the poor b.
is advancing the price of living to point al
,e most beyond their reach.
W 7. He has fatally derangcd and destroy
s. ed the currency Of the country.
le 8. He has degraded the nation in tn
it eyes Of foreign nations.
,f o. lie has destroyed the freedom Of tn
e Press and of the ballot, and fatally impair
:. ed personal liberty.
This is what LINCOLN has done for tn
white race Is not the comparison an in
structve one ? If LINCOLN is entitled t
e the gratitude of the black, ought he not
= receive the eternal curses and malcdiction
i of the white race ?