The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-07-21
Senator Wilson's Speech In Washing.
- ~ TON on the Fourth.


~ ton ON the Fourth. a
want the South to understand that their
black code and their black laws, and all they
have done to hold men in slavery, were aboi- 4
ished forever with slavery itself; and serve
here to-day o notice upon them that have
prepared q bill, which intend to introduce,
too, on the first day of the next Congress, for
the personal liberty of every freedmen on this
continent; and ! want them to understand
that belong TO body OF men who are accus-
toned to sleep on the field of victory-a class
Of men who accept the doctrines of the New
Testament, who accept as the living faith of
the North American republic, the Declaration
of Undergraduates class of men who repre-
sent the principles of liberty, of humanity, of
Justice, and set of men who never were and
never can be, defeated. tCheers. In our
ears the words, the touching words, OF Abra-
ham Lincoln run forever, and the black man
may, in some hour of future trial, keep the
jewel of liberty in the family of freedom. Mr..
Wilson then reviewed the various political par
ties with which he had been connected at va
rious times, but from which he had broke when
they ceased to carry the standard of progress
to the height he thought it should go, until at
gle, I have seen slavery wiped opt of the coun-
try, from Canada to Mexico. Now / tell you
to-day, that, casting party obligations aside,
we stand on the eternal principle OF right;
have sworn to stand there to the end of the
chapter; and 80 long as there is right not Sc
cured, or wrong unredreesed, these men are
ready, and will build up and pull down at their
out of every hundred of the men who in No
vember last voted to put Abraham Lincoln
God bless his name-in the presidential chair,
, are standing to-day shoulder to shoulder, de-
termined to protect the freedmen of America.
Nothing is more sublime than the record OF the
black man in this struggle. They have stood
BY our brave soldiers and sailors in the thick
est fights; they have guided them against
the enemy; they have stood by our men
when fugitives from starving prisons and
given them food. They stood by the
country faithfully in the hour of trial. and
the country will stand by them. Good,
good" and applause 1t is said if they pos
sessed the right of suffrage they would vote az
their former masters dictated to them. If
there ever was an ntterance that had not the
semblance of truth in 1t, that Is 1t. believe
if the Government had told the rebels when 1t
forced them to lay down their arms that they
must do justice to the negro and give him his
franchise, they would gladly have done it; but
am not here to find fault with the Govern
ment, and shall keep my faith in it until it is
broken. And believe the President of the
capital of his own Tennessee that, if no one
else would. he would be the Moses, and be to
them what Abraham Lincoln would have been
to them had he lived to carry ont bis great and
glorious principles. understand thew saw thew
hold the right of suffrage in their hands, +
want them to understand that an act of Con-
gress prohibits them from holding Offices nm.
der the Government, and until Justice Ia done
10 the negro those gentlemen win 90 minus
q the Offices. Pardons won't give them to them.
IoI am In favor Of compromises generally: but
we may accept - compromise justice to the
~SSof'S 80 .i'V Heit --- - --.- f'2H. -
rhe Unanimeusly Republican Senate
$50 iof Connecsicus Refuses to Sustain
- ,ha PreSident. b. a,sa.'s..e-
Co,r.etcot Laoislsture-scna.e. Thursday.
NJ. Harrison called up his resolutions
endorsing the policy Of President johnson
Mr.. Hodge was not ready to endorse. l,
was suspicious 20 zee Democratic news.
papers approving the Presidents policy
"They are either coming to US, or we are
going to them" If the Senstor presses
his resolutions, / will offer an amendment
Mr.. Rockwell offered q substitute fOl
) the second resolution. His amendment
expresses full confidence 10 the Presidentt
administration, and believes that the i'm.
portant questions grow ng cut, of the re-
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