New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-11

have hardly begun appreciate the magnitude and The
meaning of the work before in connection win TIC
Freedmen Of the South.
We have been for the past four years 30 ABSORBED D!
the task imposed uron by domestic re''on ana 10Y
eign neutrality: the collapse has come 30 $40 leh! al"
with such startling events following ~ 4-'tA success
sion OF victory and assassination JOY o' ffoW; We,
wesosrcclY realize as yet, that ne i.epei =. .
tho war Ia ended and that the slave power IS over
thrown-fghtine no longer in the open n ID bnt ohs
IN secret with tle weapons OF the ass8Ssi tc tSlon
The pistol and the knife, and as we nor hear non
Barbados with the wholesale attempt 10 lAuo0"ee
into Northern ports the infection OF yellow leVer. .,
we scarcely re,lze that we were never beiore 81
rtronc and united, and that we have entered upon y
new epoch in our history and PERHAPS IN te hs.o o.,
IRE word where and sacred duties i0ry'd US ron
folding orr orms and ;uduging in the reiose for which
we have onceG and waited
Srch. howeyer is the fact, Our piary and naval
wolk is DONE and. although contenGing with An ei .
cans brave ourselves thank God II Is wen doAo'
Thanks TO our living heroes, Grant and Meade SAeiml
an Sheridan Fa1ragut and Porter ana an leir nooi
cynrads from the highest officer 10 The drumGer poys
trlks 10 our dead heroes now maTshaeu in The spirit
brl. whittier ther President has been suiamoAed 70
rejor therthat throng Of nnconnsed t'elsahas WIS
foinc l 10y their country have fallen on the D6ttc-
feds OF the South or died IngeIingN ID the prison
houses Of Davis st6cred Ia t@rturcG ana ntFuereu J!
the officers of .ee thanks 70 tose gOIons - mes NV
ing and dead the and stripes wave agi III every
Rebel State and, every Eeb,l ortess-lhe symbo
rot only of On unJToken nationality. but Of universal
freedom.
The work Of our fathers is almost completed This
war. iDstigated oy Southern SLAVERY, and aD'ied ny
Northern treachery ana European Jealousy is the CON-
sment Of the Revelation o i76. lt has reduced 70
practice lie principles Of tue Decaraiiol OF Indepen
oence and has proclaimed 10 the world no longer
a. ei;teriuc generality, but immortal Truth, tnat
this Government is based upon the divine Ifhcpe thtt
all men are born free and equal
Four millions Of slaves. people more numerous tha
our colonial Fathers when tley established the Bepu
lie are being converted into four millions ctFeemc'
aud tits in regard to these liors 70 me new cass
American citizens that the grayest OF duties now de-
yoye upon the American people.
The glory OF oar triumph is not vet complete. lftfel
work Of tho solder is ended. that Of the statesman
but begun ii is not enough tIat We stala before We
aeonies of dissolution, with ON starry constellation
undimmed. national supremacy undsposed eur
IN peris territory nndiminsh sdl proof never ngain
t. be questioned or forgotten tat government based
upon the affection Of free and an enlightened poo be.
Is the strongest government in TIE word
Itisnc. enough that Europe reluctantly recogr fes
In our career the westward course If empire pro re.
.ied nv Bishop Berkey, that aglani she ren H.
beers her ronr. - hsr nIeuetoIs Tor tie r,tl n
years and yodors es s; 81 our power and our srb
ence, sF@s In tie American Republic tie realization OF
-.,.to.'s dream when he aid;
"MettiaIs ! see IN NY minds eye roble and pals at
ua'in Iousins herself Ike si.snS nan arc, se s
aepewng her mighty youth and Anns her undalfea 'y's
To COMPLETE our hs.orio glory, to make our example
tboouChlv effective with thu world and espeelaiiS
with TrazI and Spain and eye'y power n nose 90
Ininions yet dvells slave We mrSt m1ko enl"AVp4
fon a success ana freedom triumph We must over
c9De step by step the Generalization produced D!
Slavery through specessige goneI9h0pE we MAsl
rensy Ia part to this injured class the doOt when 70
nscsie we owe them for their long and cruel ooHdGgs
I've must protect them in tAelr constitutional rshtS,
furnish them vita freeAo.d' and guard them IN tAen
homes that with the institution Of the family reestsb
lshed and the relation u hgSDa-d anu Ne an lG"tel
and child restored they may taste at last tAo blessings
of Christian civilization. We mus. see ust seho5'-
houses and churches are scattered throughout tne
Sonfh AS in New-Engiend and NcwNork; and that
education In the trades and arts, edreat ion, moral
religious and intellectual is brought Within the Ieaei
OF every citizen Of whatever SHADE
The coored have established an eteI raI claim 70
the respect and gratitude If the American people ny
their ungavcrng fidelity In this war, athous they bad
had in the past but anal reason 10 honor ard CHERISH
the American Constitution. HAD meg gwen 10 tne
Rebels halt the aid and comfort extended 10 We hsoe
lon BIZ sympathzeTs az the North, by the exfrs0ents
and Democratic leaders WHO encouraged DAVIS IA MS
work Of treason Who besought ron LOrd Lyons
reign End poured their reasonable con
sersetion into the ear OF Dr. k.s3el Of Tie London
Tsrass with slight thought that it wond he pnblse Tor
edihcation ia his private daih. whefe "Ouh We
fate of America had the slaves. instead Of oovotiu8
themselves 10 the service II our army, guiding our
troOps warning our Generals cOlce9lng aId nGIsing
Union prisoners ESCAPED from the deadly prisons Of The
Rebellion until al length enrolled IL our ranks, IN
slaves omuaied the hIaETy II our bIeTtsi sODs Nba
Would have been the late OF Artrca instead OF DeinS
native and LOYAL In their sympat ,s they lad been like
sone in our midst, 6le4 reacheTOus ana hostile, The
tools Of Southern siaS enoders Oh iOega astoera OF
their country In is hOnr Of need plrnouuong the war
FOR the Union failure and seeking by eytry means
consistent with their own safety to hamper tAe
ment to dlshonor tie fleg' 20 dismenoer ce National
teri. tory and 10 hUmiliate tie American people
TIE same proyidcutial hand That has guided us ID
this war has created q new tie OF sympathy between
thu colored race and their tellOwcOunTymen, which
W. defy the utmost matgijty OF politicians. Every
nj her who has lost son, every widow who inonrns
soldier gone knows that she has been beTeit by the
sane cruel power th0 Welded the overseels Whip and
the auctioneers hammer and heuceiorth she Will regard
whoever Womb amp!e that lace rs the coniedeT-
ates OF the traitors who have saddened Ler hfe and
desolated her home.
When a.few DAYS ago the murdered body Of Abraham
Lincoln passed through our streets and Democratic
Councmen thought TO propitlnte The frelen element
by excluding the coiOTed people from tie procession 81
Mourners the silent greeting given to the few c0ored
men who were admitted at the last moment by our
right-pinded Police Commissioner, tod more signif
captly than words how deeply the assembled masses
estimated at near a million OF souls, resented that
double and desardly insult 70 the feelings OF the vihS
and the memory OF the deaJ
No person who witnessed tat spontaneous and ire
pressbe expression Of pnbc sentiment in the hundreds
ads handkercefs n at waved like snow flake
ct the approach those prosecuted they passed
with uncovered heads aid fearful eyes contrasting the
scene perhaps with the riots Of July, 1861 need doubt
that the politician from this day Shall seek 10
cure fore On by trampng his coiored country
ep will for his name 20 the latest day the execra
Tsn ara. contempt OF every irue'hesrted and Loyal
We NAV safely count, think upon the general ep'
roval and coperatOn Of the nation III Inc WORK OF se
Whiting the Freedmen OF the South.
7 do nor indeed forget that we have had 'arty IN
sverv branch of the American Church in s range rom
Rome 10 Oxford and from Geneva TO Boston, VINO lave
thus far been the bitterest enemies OF this mucl
wronged people. refer to that satanic sch9oi oi tAs
olory which without regard TO creed or ritual has wor-
shped AT the shrine slavery and blessed IL IL inc
name OF Christi while priests have stolen the nVery VI
heaven for the service OF the devil sarping solemn
creed with solemn sneer mocklng at the higher law
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