The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-07
THE PEOPLES COLUMN.
THE POST PRAISED BY A PRIEST.
10 The Editrcf the Norfolk Post: ~ =

tae. .,7 ''. -, June goth, 1895.
Ny DEAR STR have received the
first five numbers of your Journal, /
have read the programme with that
same eager attention with which / have
perused everything that you ever wrote,
In your editorial chair, North or South,
for the last ten years. ] like your pro-
gramme. IT promises just what you
mean to give, and will certainly give.
You took the Boston Courier In your
hands and made it all that daily hon
est earnest and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. be.
ioH H..se edited other journals. T have
lished by YOU NSI,, a. a. ''is paPe's Rn
were Just what they should be in a com
munity out Of joint. Now d new field
is opened before you Society is re-estab-
lished, and If we are true to ourselves
the United States will be ONE nation
for the first time since 1776, from the
Lakes to the Gulf The foundation is
laid. Let us build on it.. You spoke
great truth when you said "the power
of the Union has been so wonderfully
shown by !, recent events;n but that
power is not yet wholly developed,
and it cannot be wholly developed until
gthe great heart of the nation is made to
beat with unison-pulsating Down with
aristocracy, up with universal labor;
make the artisan and the plownan and
the blacksmith, and the lamp-lighter
feel at the South as they feel here ut the
on the independence
of their own good behavior and the hon
,esty of their own Ilabor-let them learn
and feel that we are all born equal, and
that as long as one Observes the ldWt the
humblest, buthonest, member of society
has heaven-given right to, meet the
highest magistrate of theState on foot
ing of human equality; and when this
true feeling pervades the whole COM
munity, then the great heart of the
Union will beat in unison. e .l'l-''s p
The prospect before you is cheering
You have anoble. mission before you,
and, must say, without f1attery, Ibid
you ever know me to fatter?) that you
have entered upon it well. God speed
you l.n,ss os t.orges q = ..5o,. s.5
You know your way, and you can
steer your course with confidence that
will master your course. Ia " epa ~ 7t
Help the colored people! % But help
them to rise! Let not a falsely popular
one-sided and dishonest theory gain
ground, that because they are emanci-
lllCy uIuSt DC dliOWSu tNtIy liz
of American citizenship at once. Allow
this theory to get the upper-hand and
we shall be heels over head in the same
dirty meshes in which we have been
entangled for the last four years. Advo.
cate, in the name Of God and in behalf
of our beloved country, that the colored
race must and shall be educated before
they are allowed to exercise the rights oil
an educated native. Gov. Andrew
thanwhom more earnest and consistent
friend of the colored race--but at the
same time very conscientious and ra-
tional-does not existin our republic, has
said this much will do, and / respond,
Amen. IN, s,f.- s--.s- -.....-.--
It does my heart good to read what
you write about Norfolk. You say what
did I think of her fifteen years ago, and
/ did not hesitate to tell the Norfolkians,
Of course, / do not wlsh any wooden
nutmegs in Norfolk, and its denizens
may well be spared the Connecticut
clocks. 81, But an influence of the slow
quick spirit of Northern enterprise will
make Norfolk what she should be, the
queen of the central States, and her pop.
Citation will be quickly inversed Cor up
versedl from II 600 to II 600. t--'l
j Should Rev. Mr.. Keef ever ask you
who penned these lines you are at liber-
ty to tell him, that lam and have always
been loyal man and -''7-. a-'' z
! A CATHOLIC PRIEST.