The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1865-06-06

that they were unwilling to labor for
their living. of e'f
For, after all, labor must be the car.
dinai law of your lives. Twas, myself
Western Boy, and in the log cabins
of the West, we Jared just as roughly
as most of you have Jared. We had
very little capital, nothing to go upon
but our own good will, patient hearts,
and free school education, which, thank
God, this country gave to all her white
children, and is now going to give to
all the blacks who will take il. Well,
upon such capital, we went to work,
and we came to something.
You can do the same thing if you
will 90 to work in the same way. But
if you spend your time in fretting be-
cause this or that white man has a bet
ter time than you have, or more advan-
tages, and takes short cuts TO what you
may think success, you will, in the end,
be very sadly disappointed. Take
things patiently, and labor faithfully ;
the result will be glorious. Let the
soldier fight well, let the preacher
preach we'll, let the carpenter shove his
plane with all his might, and the plant
er put in and gather in as much corn
or cotton as he can-working for fair
wages, and as he gets able to hire 9TH
ers, paying them fair wages too. Act
thus, and / have no fears for your flu
ture.
Now as to the elective franchise
Major Delany has said that he heard
me say in the hall at the House of Rep
resentatives at Washington, that 1
knew no reason why the hand that laid
down the bayonet might not take up
the ballot, If he could have listened
TO me twenty years ago, in the city of
Cincinnati, he might have heard me
say substantially the same thing. But
the colored man did not get the elective
franchise because l said it then. Quite
possibly he may net now. Certainly,
however, events have progressed re-
markably in that direction.
If everybody in this city saw things
exactly as / see them, if they felt as l
feel, that it would be desirable on ac-
count of the general interests, that
every man should have the same rights
before the law in the elective franchise
as in everything else, it would come to
you very soon. But there is not that
agreement.
Having nothing to do with politics,
/ am not prepared to say what will be
the action of the Government. am
no longer in its counsels, and there.
fore, do not know what it is prepared
to do. l will only say this; believe
there is not a member of the Govern
ment who would not be pleased to see
universal suffrage. But am not ready
to say that the Government will now
establish universal suffrage This I
do know; if you are patient and con-
stanlly show by your acts that you mer-
it the right of suffrage, that yhu can
safely be trusted with it, that in your
hands, it will be on the side of order,
liberty and education, reasoning upon
general principles, can safely say you
will get the elective franchise in a very
short period. / trust it will not find
you unprepared. But respect your
selves and respect the rights of all, and
do your very best to show that you are,
each and all of you, worthy to have it.
You can not get it by threats or mis-
behaviour. You can get lit by patience
and perseverance in we'll doing.
Now if the Government of the Uni
ted States, taking everything into con-
sideration, shall not think it proper to
enroll all the colored men as citizens
and voters, what is your duty? To
fret and worry about it? If l were in
your case, l would go TO work and
show that the United States Govern
ment was mistaken, in making the de-
lay. If yon show that, the mistake
will be corrected.
l think it is the best plan for all men,
white and black, that every man who
is honest and of due age shall have the
right of suffrage. Having it he will
respect himself the more, will do more
productive labor, and will add more
wealth to the community. He will
receive the respect of mis- fellow men,
and the society composed of such men
is always great. But if the Govern
mcnt think different and circumstances
delay the action, advise you to be pa
tient, calm and Industrious.
This is about all / have to say to
you. When man has been faithful in
the honest performance of his duty, he
is thought better off if success attend
him in this world. But if it so hap
pens, i'm the Providence of God, that
these material results do not follow that
performance, still he carries in his own
mind the conciousness that he tried to
do what is right in the sight of God,
to everybody his due, con-
tributing all he can to the general hap
piness and improvement, diffusing as
much enjoyment and contentment as
he can in the little circle of which he
is the centre; with that consciousness,
he goes through life "happy as king,
though he may no. be the king" ends
it in felicity, and goes where there is
an end of all these controversies, be-
cause there is but one God and one
Father, before whom all His children
are equal. ra
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