The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1865-07-29
"The Glorious Motto, Negro Equality.u


were spoken by onewho IS a chief in what h
frankly styles the "Republican party" an
one who speaks by authority Gen. Herr
Wilson, Senator from Massachusetts,. Their
are many men in Idaho who have heretofer
voted with the 'sUnion" party who have n,
sympathy with those who are now attempting
to level all distinctions of color or race to
Common, undistinguishable equality anc
.wbo siA not Knowingly furnish vote fol
the turtherance Of the crazy effort to accom-.
plish wbat the klmighty, in the very struc-
ture of humanity, decreed shoald never be
done. Many of these gentlemen refuse to
believe that such Is the policy which the
most Influential. leading spirits ofthat party,
have marked out, and upon the adoption of
which the political contests ofthe future will
] be fought. 1t is nevertheless true, as all will
fully realize on the opening of Congress in
December next. Notice has been distinctly,
Eemphatcally given by the Radicals, that no
memberof Congress shall be admitted from
any of the RECONSTRUCTED States who is not
elected by ballot-box open to the negro !:
and the edicthas gone ont that every North
ern State must adapt its laws to a like con-
dtion.,
We have room but for few extracts, but
the following from some of the most promi-
nent leaders, East, will show upon what ba-
sis the Republican party is now being organ.
lied in the Atlantic States, in whose steps
the party on this coast are bound to follow
to- preserve their political association
At a late meeting in New York, the N. Y.
Times reports Gen. Wilson as follows:
Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts was the
uext speaker He sad | have approved of your
object, and have often attended the meetings of
your society," but have not one word to say on
the dissolution. l can say, however, that slavery
is dead and in its grave. There is no power in |
the country to breathe vitality into it or restore it
to life. stand here to declare that am in favor
Of giving to the colored race all the rights hicb
| enjoy myself. (Applausel. have no faith in
the loyalty Of the south. was in Charleston
the other day, and saw but solitary Union man.
{ Laughter.( believe the work of ant-slaye fy
men has not yet been accomplished. and it will
not have been accomplished till the eolored race
were secured in the exercise OF all their rights
He regretted that they had not gone to their
homes with the sweet voice OF Miss Dickinson
lingering i'll their ears. lie was for putting the
ballot as had been the bayonet in the hands Of |
The black man Ia the last thirty days he found
-he current Of pubic opinion favoring the black
nan. IheyItepa6ican party must u1ftrI It's Dan
aer bearing the glorious motto Negro Equality"
Atan address to the negroes of Charleston
'ecently by Chief Justice Chase, the position
vas taken that the elective franchise should
,e extended to ALL MEN without anydistinc-
ion whateyer--a ground which includes
Jhnamen as securely as negroes. We ap- s
END his remarks
sNow aboutthe elective franchise. Mayor {
Delaney says that lie heard me in the Capital c
f the United States say that the black man 7
nght TO have the elective franchise. If he
ad listened to me 20 years ago in the city q
f Cincinnati he would have heard me say c
be same thing. Things have worked on to- {
ard that.resule, and certainly they look a ;,
reat deal better now than then. If every +
ody in this city saw things exactly as Bsee g
hem if they felt IS l feel, > that it is in the n
interest of everybody, white and black, that ),
very man should have the same rights be-
,re the law, it would come very soon" o
Wendall Phillips the favorite and most I
Ioquent of all their champions, at a Con- L
ention in Boston, lately, is reported by the u
orresrondent of the S. F.. Bulletin and g
astern papers to sternly adhere to his de-
rmination to advocate the reputation of
le National debt, if the nation refused to Ii
lopt perfect equality between the white te
i'd black races
Mr. Psillips argued in support of his res u
ution, that reconstruction, as laid down in al
resident Johnson's North Carolina procla- te
alton, was an absolute surrender of the
Elm of the Union into the hands of Alexan-
,r f. Stephens and his coworkers, and w
tactical fraud upon the North And there tr
as enc way in which the people could still n
Id the helm of affairs, and that was by =
claration of Reputation of the entire war ~
bt. A party based on this principle would Fl
we his voice and vote till GUd called @hinh ci
me. He would constantly oppose every 4;
ID of reconstruction that did not place the
gro upon an absolute equality and level Ell
th the white man. There were but two la
rites, in the country-the sycophants of pr
#. Davis and the lovers Of liberty. Every w
IN who supported the North Carolina proc
nation was Davis sycophant. Better, far an
tier would it have been for Grant to have OF
rendered TO Lee, thar for President john uu
y 10 Kava surrendered to North Carolina lrs