Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-12-15


willing 10 surrender his prsjudioes on thil
subject, how certain II is that whom mer
know the existence Of their Government do
pends upon this concession to the colored
man, they will not only be ready but will 40
cord II with alaority. When they 500
that the restoration Of loyal men to places oi
power and the maintenance Of our institution,
depend upon the recognition Of the elective
franchise on the part Of the colored man at
the South, who can doubt but that
II will be accorded by loyal men
What we require Of the Government Is not
legislation, not constitutional amendments
on this question, or statutes at large, II II
| that the administration Of the Government
shall be 90 directed that the loyal men can
have power to grant the right Of suffrage Ia
the negro. Applause. We want, in the
Arst place, that the army Of the United
States and the flag Of the United States shall
be fixtures in every ono Of the States. We
want rebels excluded from political power
for q while. (Applause. We want the local
power in each one Of those insurgent States
conferred upon the loyal men Of those States !
IAGPl.usS; WI %.S, ,,., ;, -. than, .,,,,.d \,
all the influence and patronage Of the general
Government of the United States. We want
the Southern States opened 70 migration
from the North, that we may throw into
these States our young men, seeking no rob.
berry, not for any appropriation or misappro-
priation Of the peoples property to their own
use, but to plant themselves homes there,
and give new growth and prosperity to the
South. We want the avenues Of emigration
open to the North; and il IL were determined,
which has not yet been, that travel between
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tween the North and the West, no other power
would be necessary for tho ultimate reclams-
tion ofthese States from rebellion to loyalty.
Then we want, whether It be more or lees
extensive, the elective franchise conferred
upon the oolOred man in the Southern States.
These FIVE propositions are unquestionably
within the power Of the General Govern
ment; and with them We may change the
face Of political society In tho South, but
make the Union Of the States and the liber.
ties II represents the highest source ol
pleasure to those people.
We want also TO do justice to the negro
race. Justice must be accorded to the negro
in good time. 1t may be before that that
there may be sorrow and injustice. Never.
theless, justice in its own good time will hew
its way through the thick ranks Of privilege
and batter down the mass Of unholy usurpa
tion and enoroachments that have been piled
mountain high, until II makes ossa look like
a wart. [Applause.
We want In good time that the Govern.
ment Of the United States shall do justice,
and justice merely-to the men and women
and children who have been enslayed: not
for the purpose of political success, but fol
the purpose of increasing our comfort and
that it may stand as a part of tho record, and
! haN ha Naa har
our eseutcheon may be, by the angels oi
Heaven, wiped from its surface forever
Applause. 1t will be the elimination Of
our good fortune, our prospects, our happi
ness, and our glory; and trust that day
may come soon. Applause.
| When l was younger than am, living il
the State Of New Hampshire, at the town o
Nassau, whero obtained my education at 1
| University with a belfry on the top and ,
water wheel under the lower stories, laugh
ter, looking out with my associates and fel
low-students upon tho smooth and CLASSY sur
face Of the Merrimae river, that stream o
perpetual beauty and perpetual life, we saw
a cOlored boy. intimately known to us, upor
the surface engaged in the pleasant eIercis,
Of skating, for it was winter. While W,
looked upon the beautiful Merrimac, the lit
tie negro boy suddenly went in. You ma,
never have seen negro under such circum
stances. Laughter
| We went down to him with all the speeC
possible. Going out to the middle Of tn
river we took up plank and handed it T.
the little negro, and he grasped 1t with a
much slacrity as any one Of them will tax
a ballot when we give it to him. Just as b.
had got 1t on the hole into which he ha,
fallen, he fell off the plank and went in again
The second time he came up he wore an ex
preston shall never forget. You have neve
seen negro under such circumstances
| Laughter.
He was speechless, his emotions sup
pressed all rhetoric; he did not indulge Il
any eloquence at all. He grasped the planl
this time, not with alacrity but with ferocity
and we brought him again to the surface
We thought he was negro saved from tn
Jaws Of DEATH but of the little fellow slipped
and went down. You may never have seer
q negro under such circumstances
Laughter We handed him the plank
again, but he did not touch it this time You
may never have seen negro refuse 4 plank
under such circumstances. IGreat laughter.
lie addressed US a speech, and never hea I'd
a speech that contained so much Of touching
eloquencs as was embodied in that little ne.
gre's speech, "Please glib dis Niger the
poOdeM end of that board" Laughter. Yo,
see the end we had given to him was the icy
end. 1t was the same icy end that the South
ern people have been holding out to him fol
two hundred years. He was entirely satisfied
that the wooden end was the best.
Now, sir, what we propose for the negro II
this country is, to give him the wooden enC
Of tho board. lie has had the icy end 70
more than two centuries. The desolation 0
more than mortal retribution has come upoI
the men who extended to him the 10y end O
the board. and come upon them justly.
wish now to give him the wooden end of tn
board. lie will receive from that act O
justice the same joy which that little negr
experienced. Great applause.