Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-12-31


Dreted this canvass As he thought II ought to be
Interpreted, and ii he though, circumstances and
his party would enable him to keep the promises
Of the canvass he (the speaker would have
nothing TO say tonight But there was where
bis dstrust lodged. and il was not lessened by
the imperious anxiety of the President To force
upon us the assumed State Of Louisiana The
speaker believed that the meaning Of the recent
canvass, broadly stated was this The North
decided 20 save its nationality at every cost, and
TO demand all that is essential to the pernanence
Of that nationality. Once we had a naturally
strong and prosperous. but not just govern.
ment We bad il in form ill 1860. but in es-
sence only until 1910
GOOD RESOLVE
Now. said Mr. Phillips. my object in the life
that remains to me is 70 turn every effort to-
ward the securing Of nationality strong. pros
porous and just, able to defy It's opponents, and
needing no apology but its existence APP
plause
1T MUST BR ONE IDEA NATION
There are two principles which are perhaps in
Gispensable TO the existence Of a great nation
One Is that il must represent one idea As long
as il is divided between two il is a second rate
power. Mr. Phillips mentioned the instances of
many nations TO prove this theory. jefferson
Davis must sit at sshington. welding the ener-
ges OF forty States s'!h slavery, or Lincoln must
WELD them in the service Of justice.
1T EUsr PRACTICE xIscE0ENArioN.
Another element of nationality is mixture OF
races There never greaa nation the
strain OF single blood DO not care where
you trace il: it matters not A still small voice
"Miscegenation," whispers among the audience
Horror stricken faces and bated breathing The
scIsvonic is the noblsst race. judged BY some
tests in the world, but nobody can trace it, sbid
ing place Unmixed. il falls behind All great
nations have been Mosaic OF race Austria
boards her blood. and every CONFUSION of Eu-
rope threatens 10 rend her asunder France is
a nation nelte,l from half dozen races. ard the
earthquake OF centuries might as we'll try 10 rend
the granite that holds her IA 10 divide France in
pieces. The same principle attended US when We
wo would make our prairies the graneres of the
world; we summoned the Dane aud German
When we would map the continent with 80, DOC
miles OF railroad We buried FIVE millions Of Irish.
men under the sleepers The same model At.
tends us in our social crisis You may not like
il; You may say Saxondum stauds No All
the elements are necessary To the grand result
You know where | am coming-the blacks
Applause They must he one OF the elements
oil our nationality You cannot help il. You
may not like il. but unfortunately God did not
to be strong prosperous and just we are 20 be in
spired by one ides and welcome 70 our bosom
all the races that have taken refuge on the con
tincnt..
A voice-wnl YOU allow me one question:
Are you in favor. sir. plumply and squarely. OF
amagamaton? Kisses
Mr. Phillips-Oh. no, gentlemen don't hiss
him What have come here tonight for9 Ger
tainly not 20 conceal any sentiments | entertain
IL
say that he had endeavored to show that in the
history Of all nations there had been an absorp
ton of the interior element Two thousand
years ago Cicero said OF our race that we were
not ct even 10 be made slaves Of. But now its
blood, Incorporated with the great European
races. holds the helm for the future.
The speaker looked upon the German. with its
branches of Saxon. and the various races repre-
scented in these Northern States; the Latin OF
the southwest aud the negroes OF the Southern
States as the great elements out of which God is
TO build up nation.
TnE LOUISIANA QUESTION.
MIR. Phillips then proceeded to refer to Gen
Banks project for reconstruction in Louisiana
He said: II seems TO me that any system that
makes the white race alone the governing power
is wrong.
South Carolina has been fighting this govern
ninety one thousand white men in her borders,
We know no loyalst: Of the four hundred thou
sand black men. we know no disloyaists. The
proposition il To put four hundred thousand ne
groes under the feet of these disoyalists
do not speak TO night merely an abolitionist,
think the negro il not especially interested in
this controversy Ii effects our own condition
for years to come. God has taken the cause of
the negro from the feeble and trembling hands
Of men into His own keeping The greatest
craftsmanship TO dsy is To work for The welfare
Of the negro. believe government which
puts it, basis upon the white race is not properly
based, and the best government cannot be pu,
upon that basis. IL IS proposed 10 admit Lousi-
ana she stands. Ii is a State based or white
men. They are ,he elected and the electors
The white race is endowed with the power, and
the negro must depend for his rights on the sense
Of justice Of the whites.
Nh. PHILLIPS PITCHES INTO oESkRAL BANKS
General Banks. in his speech at Boston. repre-
sents the slaves being held by white men with
emancipated slaves. There are no emancipaisd
slaves there, in the fullest sense of the word
The negro enjoys no mark of liberty. except that
he is NOT TO be chattel. He has no ballot hs
cannot enter into contracts he cannot change
bis residence he cannot 20 into court govern
ment fixes rate of wages. Freedom failing Il
perform its contract IN the NOrtn goes 10 the
court and receives justice, but the negro canuol
DO this He is not at liberty 10 contract in any
case whatsoever General Banks says il is sys
TEN 10 prepare the negro for freedom, aud yel
the testimony Of every army officer is that the
whites there are ignorant as the blacks. Nc
aboltionist can indorse this system Our claim
j. that the negro Is fit for I'm mediate uncouditiOu
al emancipation. applause General Banks
defends his course behind the precedent OF APP
premiership in every nation, and TINS shows hi.
ignorance Of the subject on which he speaks lie
says OF bic system that IL is not new Toussaint
L'Ouverture Instituted TIE same system only
more severe IN 81 Domingo. True, be did II
Is the only blot on the history Of the great Do
miugo chief Aud IL WAS an utter failure il
everything except sugar Ii put back the island
fifty years. fact that General Banks does no
know General Banks SAYS 4" am irving IN,
system which England tried in 1894" Yes. bu
by $50 she found Il Was mistake and establishe,
universal emancipation lou can make goo,
argument for apprenticeship and grsdualism
lt seems very plausible that an enslaved race
coming suddenly into freedom, should need guar
dams. but the difficulty Is that there is no whit,
man in a slsveholding country At 10 be negro
guardian The reason apprenticeship has failed
| Is not because the blacks were not Submissive
but because the whites were tyrants. as they Al
ways have been. General Banks problem fall
20 the ground for the reason that there are NJ
materials 10 carry IL on. IL might be a good er
pertinent TO try. if YOU hal anything to try Z
With. You might veil have tried 10 hay,
turned the course Of the water in the Red river
as 10 attempt 10 convert an old white slaveh0lde