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


the state We do not wish the fragments and
she'll OF 4 state ~ stand for a sound and solid
state give General Banks the full benefit Of
bis argument might object 70 the testimony
OF Msior General who refused TO a cOlored reg
iment that had left half is soldiers dead before
Port HedsOn, 70 write that name on its banners.
and grasted IL % Write regiments that we're not
within teo miles Of the battle field But Do
not Judge kim entirely by his own record
IHE NEGRO NUsT VOTE
The black dsfranchised will be utterly unpro
tected IN your day or mine. he will not DC sub
stanfally projected IN his rights The hrst
theory Of Democracy is that every class shall
hove the means of protecting itself Aristocracy
saws. I'm rich. I'm learned, IN high-born III
protect YOU poor, ignorant lOw-born" Democ-
fcay SAYS that every class must have the means
Of protecting itself Applause You say that
Salmon T. Chase is chief justice, and the federal
constitution contains a provision iOrbidding sia-
very. Salmon =. Chase has 4 long arm, but u
IS no longer than was that of Chief Justice Mar
shall Marshall said il was illegal TO hang the
missionary, but Georgia hung him despite that
The Supreme Court said 10 Massachusetts,, III
you want 10 protect your cOlored seamen You
must send to South Carolina. We did. Aud
they told our messenger that If he did not go
home they would imprson him with the colored
seamen While we are at the South. as to-day
With our armies. We can protect the negro. But
enact the bounds OF State sovereignty and you
are powerless. Ia Louisiana you grind a
negro 70 powder for ninety nine times out of &
hundred without offending the federal constitu
ton. Chief Justice Chase can only look at IL
and grieye Ia England a status runs to the
eud OF the empire, but the federal government is
interlocked with the State government doctrine
aud # you adop. this system you have the black
man aud white 10 fight il out between them
/ But give the negro his ballot and he needs no
other defense Give him the ballot and the
demsgogues of both parties will be. bat in hand.
at his knees Reconstruct those States and they
have great weight in our future They repre-
sent the iranchised ard DISTINGUISHED classes
What has check mated the North in the past. IL
! that the power of the South has been welded by
the aristocracy. Leave the negro without the
ballot and you leave Us in the same position in
| the future, the influence of the South will be
! welded by the few. Give the negro the ballot
and you give him education
The only reason / value government Is on ac-
count OF is developing man. Government is
the scaffold and building OF manhood Ii is the
| effect of the democratic form OF government to
give every man his due weight The man that
I holds the ballot ia his hand, however poor, oI
ignorant. or criminal has his hold upon the high
est OF the land. When the Court OF ST. James
| in London comes down upon the poor mans
die. it interferes-if il iDterteres at all in his be
hslf-irom a motive OF Christian princple il
covers him with its benevolence But when " all
street, State street, or Chestnut street looks
down into the poor mans cradle here il remem
bers thai that very hard hand holds ballot; il
| remembers that unless il shall put religion on
one side aud Intelligence on the other Of these
baby footsteps that that ballot is TO shipwreck
The nation The wealth and strength and edu.
cation Of thirty millions OF people are mortga ged
TO cover that cradle with the choicest influences
of civilization. Great applause Gen Banks
saws ne is educating the negro. He can't do il
challenge the Major General 10 show me in the
record VI history one instance where a people
was educated unless the ballot mortgaged The
selhshness of the upper classes 10 educate him
You have got 10 the benevOlence and sehshnes-
together. You have got 20 make wealth trem.
bic NJ tho poverty beneath IL You will never
have the education of four million blacks Unit
the white men above them fear them They will
WELD the influence OF these blacks against us, a.
they always have done, unless the blacks are
supplied with the ballot We must have capital
end labor congenial
The blacks OF Louisiana are the sullen sub.
jects of a government they hate. | know Of
0luck man who had been all his life free prac
tical engineer at New Orleans. who had beer
earning hundred dollars month, who was sent
by Banks Provost Marshal on 10 plantation a.
work for seven dollars a MONTH and he has beer
there fourteen months Is this kind Of freedom
preparing that man for anything Colonel Ben
edict. now deceased, confessed 10 me that y ew
| York soldiers were detailed TO whip the negrOe.
upon the plantations. who had broken their con
tracts deny thesname of Democrat 90 any
man that makes the attempt to protect the negro
without giving him the means 10y the ballot u
! protect himself. You may say, " Why are YOU
worredy The President ia pledged to Union
and emancipation" | don't accept the Pres
dents account of his own office. Mr. Lincoln i.
proud of saving that he doesn't lead events. but
follows them he does lead the people. hs
does what they want. repudiate that theory oil
his Office Applause and Kisses He is ex
pscted to initiate policy TO lead and not tc
follow events The President OF the United
States spending four millions of dollars and CIV
ing out seventy thousand commissions, does lead
events lie cant help il. he has more inAu.
ence than any other thousand men assert
Our civil contests will be frutless unless states
men and thinkers holding he helm undertake "a
lead and not to follow. (Applause) But we
have got TO play this game with the cards We
have. All the moro imperative is you debt and
mine, that We should utter and make Others utiel
the deep founded sentiments Of the people on
| the question of reconstruction We have an
executive who stands asking what he shall do
/ and We must tell him-when Grants cannon
| comes now there is an end Of agitation When
peace comes our mouths will be shut After
every great war comes an era OF material pros
perity Every man sets to work 10 make meney
Whatever settlement ia made when this war end,
will last twenty wears, So much the more ip.
portant that We settle il right. We must plant
the seeds OF safety Tor the people There is 70
ing on in the coniederacy more important
fight than that OF Grant or sherman, and that is
the fight between Davis and his subordnates -
Our military prospect is cheerful 1t Sherman
has not the whole confederacy In his right hand
he will take Il in his left Cheers
Ii Grant does not give US Richmond as
Christmas gift. IL is because he is to give II to L,
as New Years gift. believe. with Davis anC
Lee. is game OF empire or death II Davis
cannot save the Confederacy, perhaps be car
carry fifty thousand OF bis men over into Mex
CO. aud plant himself on Mexican soil but il b,
canpot effect that, nv own impression OF Davis
aud Of Lee. who have given up every,hidg Tor an
idea-fsme. family. wealth. country-i- that
like Napoleon in December ST. the game i.
death or an empire They ask 10 terms they
offer none But such men Stephens will b,
willing 70 come back az senator's, and Georgi,
will soon be willing 10 come back into ia,
Union
sUrPosIrioUs Oyer FRON GEORGIA.
suppose Georgia should make this proposition
Union submission TO the dag every black mar
in arms free every man. woman, and child vino
has actually embraced the proclamation free. bu
for the three million outside your pickets emsn