The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1864-01-06

consulting Judge Wayne, Judge Grier, Judge
fancy, Judge Clifford, or Judge CAtrou, Seces-
.ionists from the top of their heads To the soles
Of their feet. (Hisses) Ifyou dcn't think so.
go ard examine them, that's all (Hlsses and
spplause) II they have reformed and repented.
shall be glad to know it. | jldse them by
their record-by their decisions. The Neg I0'E
Tines asks me TO day whether l would hot trust
the negro where all white men have been trust
ed for the last seventy years. II had no pFo-
lection but the bench OF the Supreme Court,
should have been 10 jtl seven gears ago; and
as for the negro, that Court has announced that
be has 10 rights that white men are bound TO
respect. What SEX Of Mr. Lincoln in b be-
half is, ian amendment TO the Constitution,
which his advice 10 Congress would pass IN sixty
days, that hereafter there should be neither
slavery nor involuntary serVitude IN any State oil
this Union. prolonged applause
Sensible people ask this question Il what
way can the rebellion be pu. down, and the
cause OF future rebellion he removed. eOnsist-'st
~ 9Th tie bsst i,tsresss Of The srloLs eo'nt'yF
This question Mr.. Lincoln has tried to answer
in his Proclamation. But Phillips and bis
friends do not ask this question, but another
aud very different one, viz: d" How can the
and advanced in society," This admits OF
very different answer from the former question
L is the one idea" OF rnlips; ana DC com
plains that the President has LEFT the coiOred
man IN the hands Of the Supreme Court. All
white meu aud their interests have been left in
The hands OF the Supreme Court since the Lc-
CHING Of our government, yet Phillips seems
81. g. Il
uon from that tribunal. Why should colored
people have dierent privileges from white
peopleS
But Mr. Phillips, in pursuing his one idea.
proposes bis plan Of reconstruct On. which shall
exalI and aggrandze the negro a: the expense
IF the white man. In order 10 him justice,
we VIII let him make bis own statement:
SCHEMES or RECONSTRUCT o..
Mr.. Seward wants the M's'sppi chairs
he Senate-Chanbtr filled. Sod J. He is for
having them filled a. they ar. am FIR max
,ag them 50 bot that Il Shareholder Cannot rii
/ "a them. want the States hack. and speedily
| back ia their fuil strength that We may say ~
france, " Go nome AID take care OF your Lw B.
! tot.eriBg throne leave America 10 hers H."
| But before VT receive those Siates we will p;u
vide, either by parchment guarantees here. or
| y nation laws there. that there shall be p ace
| and democracy forever when peace l. once de-
-lartd. Mr. sumner has "a theory that the
States are all gone and there Is nothing ltf
out territories. Robert Dale Owen has tneo
~ that the States are only dormant Mr.. sew
ard has theory that they are u much alive
IS ever, OH!y kicking Oh tie wrong side. do
lot know whether they are territories. or States
| tormant or States IN wrong condition All
| { know i that the hOus.. l. vacant aud | mean
0 clean il out before they get back. (Laught
r and applause) mean 10 make the platform
-nch that they may come safely lack and sUOu
iack, and back IN their own natural strength
do not acquiesce in Mr. Summers theory I'M
'ess am Obliged 10. | will take Nj. Lincoln's
Proclamation. If 1 cannot get any more. But
think three years OF costly AID bloody wal
entltle and enable us 10 get great deal more
aud do not mean 10 give up Until | am con
! vinced Of the contrary. Mr. Summers theory
has one exceedingly lad feature. The strong
st cord in the heart next 10 the love of the
Union is State pride. | want the old Massa-
,husetts. the laud Of End o,i and Winthrop
and the Pilgrims. So does Andy Johnson H.
Tennessee, AID so do the SPECIFICS Unionist~
IT Mississippi. / would save The State alive
for them 10y action, that would enable them t.
bring it back in their owa method and in their
own time. We have reached that point where
10 save the national liie-we must abolish the
system which tries TO cut The jngular vein o.
| the nation. The lions bloody Jaws give evil
dence that we have light To Shoot him 10 day
but there - one Inuu hO al ises YOU 10 wait
until be pairs his own claws and pulls out hi>
teeth ln 1900. The lesson To- day i The COnsti-
tuition to be thrown up as a barrier. And sec
ondly, which brings me 10 the second point, is
the Proclamation MIR. Lincoln proposes TO set
| N Ia
holders with The exception OF 4 lew hundred
men. 10 return 10 their estates. and TO come
back by vote OF One-tenth. in The Union
Every man knows that land dictates govern
menL II a few men own the territory il is an
olgarchy. Thirty thousand families own Eng
land aud 1t Is an oligarchy Every Mns>achu
sets farmer owns his farm and Joil DAVIS mul
uplied 10y million coald not make il other
than democracy. Let me con>caie the lands
Of the South and put it into the hands Of The
negroes and white men who nave fought for il
and you can go TO sleep with Your pa chmcnI
have cot the Union down there by q natural
root which nobody Can ever change You d.
not make Governments ike clapbOard house;
you plant them like an oak Plant me a hum
lred thousand negro farmers and a hludred
thousand white % ditrs 10y their side. aad Wi
rsk The South. Davis and all. William The
OOnque'vf. divided England among bis mobiles
and they hold 1t to-day. Divide The terriior,
o. the so: South a @mSDg our mobiles blacks and
Every Union man at the South, says Give rs
he power aud we can safely come back; keep /
It from US and we must either be exiled or |
hung" Mr.. Lncolns Proclamation gives 70 |
the old STAKEHOLDER, under the new euise OF |
land owners. the power OF The State. This plan
has been tried aud found wanting. i ls35
Great Britain emancipated the slaves OF jana
ca under an apprenticeship 10 St six years
IN two years the masters had behaved 20 like
demons that The Parl ament inteIfercd. lroke
he contract. and set them free Yet in ls4l
| heard Lushingion. a member OF Parla ment
say that Slavery existed there IS much as eve, !
hat was seven years after England had given
her blacks into the hands OF her land owner,
We have laid 250O00 OF the nubleSt lives IN
the Union in the grave We have maitrnncd
the industry Of the future with s. 900 OOO O1O
II Is my compensation money 10 The slave
master; and for one demand that Govern
ment mat means SUBSTANTIAL. practical. CON
mon sense protection 10 The men whom tie
government has freed (Applsu,e) am 10
DC Inc Tool OF no legal terms the slave 10 no
lawyers precedents The nation la robbed
'onr millions OF men and their ancestors fo,
seventy years We might have been couten.
led once TO have clutched them. ,lnelcss. roo,
anu naked from The jaws Of The lion but W
lave ground The lion 10 powder. and 10 the
Save belongs The land he has redeemed.
Mr.. Phillips plan is 10 recall the Amnesty
reclamation. seize by force The estates o.