Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1865-07-07

Washington the ith, was by the coorcd
men, The following brief accouu, of the
proceedings. and of Senator Wilson's,
sharply defined and incisye speech, will
be found interesting.
New YoEK, July 5.
4 Washington despatch to The Heraid
states that meeting Of the National Col
ored Monument Association was held yes
tcrdav III the grounds of the Treasury
Department. John Flood was chairman.
Letters were read from Gov. Andrew. DR..
Claiming, Horace Greeley, General Ere
mont and Frederick Douglass. Addresses
were made by MIR. Day, a negro. Henry
Wilson. Ex Coy. Hahn.of Louisiana, Gen.
Gregory and others.
The following abstract of Henry Viii
sons speech will be read with interest:
Mr.. Wilson gave an account OF his
/ first coming to Washington thirty years
ago. Of the sales of slaves he had witness
ed the brutality of the treatment of the
/ slaves, aud the despotisn Of the slave
master, but, said he, thank God. slavery
is dead and buried. Thank God for tina,
+ tcrics of .aincn'' and chccrs.1 And
want to say to You 10 remember. and carry
it Ia Your neighbour across the continent.
lhat the freedmen of the United States
shall he protected in all their rights
ummcnse cheering Slavery has robbed
Your cradles. Ii shall rob them 10 more.
tCheersl 1t has had its auction blocks
The auction blocks are gone forever.
1t has had its bloodhauuds, Those
hloodhonnds shall he on the track Of Your
race no longer. cloud aud continued
chcering) Let TIE former sla,c-mastcr
understand this. Let every rebel in the
country, from the Potomac To Rio Grande
understand that their power and authority
over the black man in this continent has
passed away forever. want them Ia un-
drrstand it is destroyed, aud with its death
the compromises of the federal con-tItu-
ton, the laws OF the Congress, the black
laws If the late slave States and Of the
free States, ard all the political dogmas
and ideas apon which the system of slavery
depended. must be numbered among the
things of the past.
The bred scott Interpretation of the
Constitution for the Supreme Court, I'M
der which the negro has no political rights
which white man Is bound to respect.
goes with all this other rubbish into the
dumping ground of slavery. (lmmensc
Applamsc.) | want them to understand
that their black codes and their black laws,
and all they have done to hold men i'll
slavery, was abolished forever with slavery
itself; and serve here to-day notice
upon them that | haze prepared bill
, which intend to introduce too on the
first day of the next Congress for the per
sonal liberty of every freeman on this con
tinent, and wan. them to understand that
belong to n body of men who are accus-
toned 10 sleep on the field of yictory-a
class of men who accept the doctrines of
the New Testament, who accept as the
living faith Of the North American lie
public, the Declaration of independence
Il class nf men who represent the princi-
pies of liberty. af humanity, of justice,
and set of men who never win and never
can be defeated.
Nothing is more sublime than the record
of the black man in this struggle. They
have stood by our brave soldiers and sail
ors in the thlckest fights they have guild
ed them against the Union; they have
stood by our men when fugitiycs from
starving prisons, and given them food :;
they stood 10y the country faithfully in the
hour of trial, and the country will stand by
them.
In conclusion, Mr.. Wilson urged his
bearers to temperance. industry and
economy, 10 educate themselves and their
childrcn-to be an ornament and . bless
ins 10 the countn.