Daily national Republican., 1865-07-05

I have q sort Of an idea that If you held tho |
right Of suffrage In the District Of Columbia |
Mayor Wallach would have been hero; but in |
order to ensure his being here next fourth Of
July, think II will be well for the United |
States Congress to give you the right Of suf- |
frage, and advise you to present a petition |
to Congress to be permitted to vote in the |
District Of Columbia; and as am Yankee,
and have right to guess, guess you IL got
II.
Before close, would say few words TO
you on all important subjects pertaining to
your future conditions and prospects. II is
said by your opponents, the black man will
not work except they have q lash on their
backs. I don't believe It. IA Voice: 81
know II amt so."l Now want you to prove
that they have misjudged you, and that you
ore the most industrious men on this cont-
nent; that you will cultivate the soil for
yourselves as thriftily rs for your former
masters; that you will earn wages and live
with economy, educate yourselves and your
children, and make their light brighter than
your own that you will amass property, buy
houses and lands, and be like the hard-wo
ing, toiling men Of our country generally
industrious and prudent. don't want you
to initiate the vices Of your former masters,
who were Furnishing poor whisky, by pouring
to support them. Those men have got to
work for themselves now, to earn their own
bread, and not wiring IL from the hard earn
ings Of another. They went into the war "to
get their rights in the States and Terrific
ries, " as they said and have come out Of II
without any rights; they have lost your sup
port. Now support yourselves, be Industrious,
be economical and, above all, leave whisky
alone. Follow no bad examples that have
boen set you, but place your standard high,
and believe that God made you, as the rest Of
us, to gain your bread by the sweat Of your
brow, and not to force it or steal it off others.
Those who expect to pass laws to Cypress
or punish you for your loyalty will find them
selves mistaken. We don't intend to have
any such laws, and if they pass them we will
annul them in the Congress Of the United
States. / want them to understand that. l
want you to walk the earth with your fore
heads to the skies, looking to God Almighty
for favor, and to no one else Don't insult
any man nor allow any man to insult you.
Don't strike any man nor allow yourselves
to be struck. Let il be understood by friend
and foe, anywhere and everywhere, that you
will go whore you please throughout the
bounds Of this Republic, and none have
power to stop you or to make you afraid.
The powers that be- will be taught to leave
you alone If you obey the laws of the coun-
try. II you commit offences against the
same laws that white men do, to arrest and
try and punish you in the same way. And
say to you, that ia to be the law of the coun-
try. Behind me to-day are millions of Christ.
ian men and women who have pledged them
selves to God to that end the great thinking
men OF the country, the intelligence and char
ncter and wealth Of the country are on your
side, and while We are struggling and fight
ing for your cause we want you by your con-
duct to prove that you deserve all they have
done and are ready to do for you.
And now, in conclusion, say have made
no vain promises; but, in. the broad light of
->ountxy, i promise you that the Declaration
Of Indopendence-read here to-day-shall be
the living faith of United America. Loud
and prolonged cheering
sPEEcB OF GOV. HAHN, UNITED STATES SEN
AToR ELECT.
Gov. Hahn, Of Louisiana, being intro
duced, stated that his labors during the past
four years had been very severe, and that he
believed he had seen more of the rebellion
from which We have SO glorlously emerged
than perhaps any other man in tho country,
having seen both sides of the picture. He
declared himself as having carly become
practically familiar and disguised with the
institution Of slavery, although every Sab.
bath morning it was announced in the
churches and the sacred presence of the pro.
tossed messengers Of God that slavery was a
\diyiRe sstitution; the idea, however, never
sQt in his mind. Although he had
the social circle and at the socia
IRt n cOlOred man was no more than Q
the field, that doctrine never went
inS Oh him.
The assertion, said he, that the colorcd
man is hothing but a beast and not n mar
being as directly oontrasted by the evidenc,
Of their intelligence and good behavior W,
haye nj. Witnessed hefe to-day; although
RS oay have never seen in any city of tn,
Union so much excellent behavior and so higl
an intelligence as saw here to-day, except
perhaps, by the colored people of New Or
leans. The colored population Of that city
stand equal to any in the world. If you
wish to see what education and refinement
will do for the colOred man, go to New Or.
leans.
r The speaker then referred to the services
Of the colOred men under Jackson at New
Orleans and to their signal services at Por
Hudson. When he saw the evidences o
- bravery and devotion he declared h
Aythese arc not the actions of beasts Of tn,
"a, but of men with hearts and souls lik
Nllow-citizens, tho black man has haC
trials and difficulties innumerable to content
against, 1t was penitcntiary offence /,
teach him to read and write, and coloret
men were compelled to send their children
abroad to obtain an education denied t,
them at home.
I have seen at the auction block the fathe
sold to one man, the mother to another, ant
the children to others. tCries That's true
every word of it'll I know it is denied, bu
it is all the fact nevertheless. / have seel
- sacred marriage rights denied the negr'
l have seen every indignity heNpeC
em. But now, thank God, the negr,
Fna has every right except the righ
"a, and for that the gate has alrcad,
ed. Let the colored men follow thu
advice which the honorable Senate
ssachusetts has given them, and there
&c hosts Of Friends to plead his cause
ght to vote; and if there are but few
beginning they will increase as all sol
D in a good cause until every city and
Min Louisiana shall be as thoroughly alb
iOnized as your cities and towns at thC
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rpe- 'poOrwhite trash" of which / con
pr myself one, are no longer expected t.
Now any dictation as to how he shall vote
My friends of the North, you cannot con
keivo any idea Of the tyranny and proscrip
tion that has been exercised at the South
be speaker instanced several cases of oP
fession that ho was personally cOgniZant o
tha ahaI r,,la hnm in hai