Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-02-25
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
THE DRIFT OF RADICAL OPINION.

election on the quahty OF TUG uniaS0 ~ "S
those States shall be g rehabitated" We say
rehabtated, for, in borrowing the political and
legal institutes of European monarchies and feuda-
tories in the middle ages, we have very properly
revived and domesticated among US this term OF
the old civil and canon law. Already the attempt
has been made in Louisiana to place the colored
person" Of New Orleans ON terms of political
equality with the white voters Of the State, and
we are free to admit that this policy is the only
logical policy on the part Of those who hold that
all the blacks of the South are Prd Jdcie " loyal
blacks" and that all the whites of the South have
forfeited their civil and political rights by rebellion,
whether held under the Constitution OF the United
States or of the respective States This theory ne
cessariy leads to negro suffrage as the condition and
basis Of reconstruction" Hence it is that we find
the more towering and ascendant minds among It's ad
herents, men who, !" like mountains catch the iirst
beams of the rising sun before it enghtens or warns
the vale below" are fully committed to these prac
tcal results Of their doctrines To this effect Mr..
Wendell Phillips, in his speech delivered in New
York on Monday evening last, held the following
language:
Now there never will be set of men in Tennessee fit
to ait down and egslate the interest pecunary and
honorable of the Empire State until Andy johnson sees
John Hancock under black skin Applause That is
nv idea of reconstruction. You may not like It, The
reasos you have not yet seen John Hancock under
black skin. Laughter. You have that same prejudice
against color and more oil IL than the SouneIher mas IN
certain cases and the consequence yeu don't yet reco
MISE tn four millions Of and women that you are will
in to use as champions and working peopeyou are
not wiling TO recognise that thereby they have the
:4i1an hin IN a ballot, education
And until the nation does recognise 1t North and
south the epoch Of civil distinction ID not ended APP
plause ~. -, r.
drawn betwlxt Washington aud Carolina. mean that
Robert Small and Governor Aiken shall stand SIDE by SIDE
each on bis acre school house pehiha ihe ana
ballot in each right hand Applause And we are the
eapest people the face Of the earth IT, after hOber
Small bavest of the navy brought US an angered Aiken
we let the land of Carolina sovereignty close around MN
80 that Akens child may whip Sm1s child to labor th
"a light on the fathers part to interfere. Loud ap
nauss Now therefore, reconstruction Is 10 plant these
two races 1t all events TO have these two men SIDE by
s;as utb The 1ity produce future that sha be The
sIsct conntsrpart II New England. When it Is done-l
spek in moment of how is be doue-then the e9och
10 ended-not till then That Is the staemSut u Tue PROV
lem, Now, let me say esteem ~ ',a
problem 10 its utter extent its radcasm should be stated
thought upon digested and formed into national pur
pose, for this reason. >, |
:" Such deeds are God of making you will
ing that the negro should occupy this place IN the
nations history with the powers OF the white man. ed
to the elective franchise, which protects him and nsures
us Break up the land into farms; put two hundred
thousand negroes, with rifle in each right hand ana
an officer Of their choosing at their head put
three hundred thousand white and black farmers oy the
side and the South will ripen itself into democracy
That ia natural law out there. Then would have cVh
law here mature the same thing. .... -.
| would therefore have . amendment: No State
.bsl make any distinction on account Of color lhen
MI seward those Mississippi chairs may be filled as soon
as you please. This is my plan. Why should trouble
you with it2 Why should l. when the vice heads hold,
ing the inside track hold their own views OF ny WI tell
YOU do yot dstrust the President think that ne Is
all tina; God made him. Great cheering. think he
has grown wonderfully in three years. [Cheers -.
Butter and lincoln drowning in The Attain
tic Butler sezed hq by the hair Of his head hnd never
let him 90 until he landed hm on Plymouth Rock. LIN
coin landed him the low l1e, md said, stay mere
ak hours and you will fnd yourself IN the mud but Ion
won't drown. Laughter His rigI must be Teook-
nised--the word il RIGHT When that neg-0 regiment
charged at Port Hudson the nation not rich en3Rn
10 it's gsnered wealth to give the negro his due The
word want is the rights Of the negro-the whole oi
them. God made them the essence Of the nature and
foundation of Government Hitherto trespassed upon
and ignored bearing fruit in rebellion is lesson TO the
nation that hereafter II wants peace II s TO plant 1t on
the broad basis Of the recognition of the manhood Of
and every When il is done then have pesce
Until il is done IN Disgrace. Row we are just
launching another campaign. What is at Washington
will tel you One set Of men, anxious TO reconstruct
that whoever goes into that nomination with hall
dozen reconstructed States for renue il sure OF
nomination"
These are logical ideas legtimately flowing
from the political theory which assumes the ex-
tincton ef all State rights at the South, and which
ignores all Obligations Of the Constitution in the
matter of the treatpent due to /" loyal whites in
the insurgent district, vhile it insists with one
breath that the slaves are the mainstay' and
material support of the rebellion, aud with the
other that they are the only loyal Class IN the
South. Involuntary implication in the rebellion
operates to the disfranchisement of all loyal white
men, but not to the disfranchisement Of any body
who has black skin in the insurgent States 1t
may be that there is infatuation enough begotten
by the phrensy Of war in union with fanaticism
topopuarze this theory, which discriminaes against
loyal men because they ~hite, but we must, out
of respect for the popular intelligence, Se permit
ted to doubt it until the result convics us of too
much optimism.
The prospect before us, on the theory thus pro-
pounded by Mr.. Phillips, (and he has merely
stated in its full rotund development what must be
held by all partisans of that theory, however they
may for q season shrink from its inevitable tenden-
ces and conclusions,) we may read in the follow
ing frank admissions Of the speaker
We have difficulties enough ahead Of u.s. You will
again the nation into which you we're born
the oldiashoned calm quiet homey, home bred school.
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