Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-07-14
Meeting of Colored Men at Wash
ington.

New York, July s. kWashingtonr
dispatch to the Herald states that meet
ing of the National Colored Monument
Association was held yesterday in the
grounds Of the Treasury Department.
John f. Good was Chairman.
Letters were read from Governor An
drew, DR.. Claiming, Horace Greeley,
Gen. Fremont and Frederick Douglas.
Addresses were made by Mr.. Day,ia ne.
gro, Henry Wilson, ex- Governor Hahn
of Louisiana, Gen. Gregory and others.
The following abstract OF Henry Wilson's
speech will be read with interest:
Mr.. Wilson gave an account of bis first
coming to Washington thirty years ago,
of the sales of slaves be had witnessed,
the brutality OF the treatment of the slaves
and the despotism of the slave masters !;
bat, said he, 81 thank God slavery is
dead and buried. Thank God for that,
(cries of "amen' and cheers) and want
TO say to you 10 remember--carry il to
your neighbor and let it 60 from neigh
Dor to neighbor across the continent-
that the freedmen of the United States
shall be protected in all their rights
(lmmense cheering) Slavery has rob-
bed your cradles it shall rob them no
more. (Cheers.) 1t has had its auction
blocks; the auction blocks are gone for
ever. 1t has had its bloodhounds those
bloodhounds shall be on the track of
your race no more. loud and continu-
ed cbeering) Let the former slave.
masters understand this. CIV Fa
Let every rebel in the country, from
the Potomac to the Rio Grande, UNDER
stand that their power and authority over
the black man on this continent has pass.
ed away forever. / want them to under
stand it is destroyed, and with its death
the compromises of the Federal Consti-
tuition, the laws of Congress, the black
laws of the late slave States, and of the
free States, and all the political dogmas
and ideas upon which the system depend
ed, must be numbere among the things
of the past
The Dred Scott Interpretation of the
Constitution from the Supreme Court,
under which the negro has no political
rights which white man is bound to re-
spect, goes with all this other rubbish in
to the dumping ground of slavery. (Im-
mense applause.) Iwant them to under
stand that their black code and their
black laws and all they have done to
hold men in slavery was abolished for
ever With slavery itself, and serve here
to-day a notice upon them that have
bill, which | intend to intro
duce, too, on the first day of the next
Congress, for the personal liberty of every
freeman on this continent, and want
them to understand that | belong to a
body of men who are accustomed to sleep
on the field OF victory--a class of men
who accept the doctrines of the New Tes-
tament-who accept as the living faith
OF the North American Republic, the
Declaration of Independence, class Of
men who represent the principles of
liberty, of humanity, of justice, and set
OF men who never were and never can
be defeated.
Nothing is more sublime than the rec
ord Of the black man in this struggle
They have stood by our brave soldiers
md sailors in the thickest fights. They
lave guided them against the enemy
They have stood by our men when fugi,
ives from starving prisons and given
hem food. They stood BY the country
in the hour of trial, and the
country will stand by them.
In conclusion Mr., Wilson urged his
learers to temperance, industry and
economy; to educate themselves and
heir children to be an ornament and
blessing to the country. %