Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-06-14
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Judge Bond of Baltimore, has been all
able and-aarnest leader in the great revog
luton which has given Maryland evermore
to Free Labor and changed her vote from
BreOkiuridgein 1860 to Lihcolu in 1864, =
In a.spRsch last wOek before the Maryland
Frevdmen's Aid Society, he said: ''t
"It is an efroneouS idea that Slavery is
dead. Truth crushed to earth will rise
again, and so will q lie. (One form of
Slavery ia dead bnt how mdItifarious its
forms may be remains for history to de-
veloP. The South is to come back and
take part In the Government Of the United
States. : = The, questlopss before the Ameri-
can people are, how the State shall come
back ! upon what terms they shalIcome
back, and what we shall dictate to them,
not whAtthey shall fask. They exist now
as States, without government. The Con.
stitahon'requires that we shall give them
republican form Of government. II you
give the government tosGall the people of
the United States, there Il. no question but
what they will have it. VINO has bewitched
BostoniaIs"to think; 9hRFe the men who are
to come to Congress from these States will
ever vote for revenue bill which is to pay
debt which'Was ron upin whipping them?
how many Of them have the bonds OF the
United States How many Of them have
not got the bonds 0f'the Southern Confed.
eraoy2 Anat i.a sfiHs Oh
"Slavery, he added, exists In every thing
except name throughout the South; and
how is 1t to be abolished2 There Il but
one way, and that way is to give the freed.
men the fuuda mental power OF the Citizen
the ballot. Another erroneous idea said
the speaker, is that we must have some
test, some limithtlon'iup6n the right to
vote. This is question Of dynamica The
more power l can get on my side, the bet.
ter like it. The; morainegroes can get
to vote on my Side, the, better, BQt YOU
say how eS1y you do athisl Their State
CONSTITUTIONS are against lit. Didn't the
people of Maryland abolish their. cOpstitu.
tton! andSEhe people OF NJ Carolina, four
yearSa agof We did not sckuoWl ledge the
new thing they made, but we ell ackooW.
lodged the. right of the people to abolish
their constellation. Theifo old constitutions
are abolishedi h6d If you lgs back TO the
Constitution of the United States, you
must calliupon the people of the United
States living 10 these States, to form their
government. Then ID Virginia we shall
have msjortty of the people on our side,
about whose loyalty there is no question.
In South CaFolina We shall have nearly the
wholei We shall divide the Southsrn
vote and prevent from goingcioa GongFess.
those GhoiWillorssis the payment offthe
United States debt. and repudtatal it.
1Judge Bond advocated the educating Of
the. freedmen. ~ Tidy exhibited, he said !
more capacity than any foreign emigtants
who landed on our shores There Were(lebs
criminals among the blacks propSEtionaIly
than among thelzwhftes. The negro, he
ssid, has as much intelligence % His mas.
ter, and q great deal more loyalty. There
is no stfety for the. South If the black man
isi not given the right % vote, If the cup Of
freedom they were about to drink is dash- :
ed from their lips and they Nerey told 1t
was ell q mistake. The returning Of An
thony Burns to slavery is but very small
thibg compared toS fetdrpingta whole pa
1tioh to slavery. Let North oAr6lina aud
every other State knock, aud knock sgain
until thyy are tired, unless they do Ps Ma
fyTsnd has done-unless there shall be
neither slavery OF iihyolun tsry servitude iu
it s3e 6t for crime, and CInIess they. have
given the colored. people The only thingthat
will protect them-the elective franchise.
Judge Bond sPokeat copsIderable length,
add the ;yiews. he expressed slicited the
hearty appE0bation Of the audience"