The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-08-02
Wendell Phillips,

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This gentleman made speech at FAR
mington, New England, recently. We
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Governor Andrew, writing to the Fa-
neuil Hall meeting, said III don't want
the suffrage question raised yet. The
South is destined to great deal of confu-
sion. | don't want the black man mixed
in" Well, that would be good counsel,
if he could be kept out of it.
1t is said that Stanton and Harlan and
Speed are in favor of suffrage. but have
reason to know that those gentlemen don't
take the liberty to stand up against the
President in favor Of their own views
When President Johnson says, Have I
your advice 10 reorganize Mississippi ?"
"Yes, SIR" They don't say so. They are
not to be relied upon. Now, I don't count
the President our side lie is not to be
counted as force on eur side. At present
he is force on the other side. els to be
flanked or subdued; to be converted. His
attitude is to be changed; if not, the Repub.
lie is gone. My policy is the policy Of Gen.
Grant, propose to move Immediately up.
on your works. Mr.. Johnson, you are
wrong; your plan is wrong; it bears within
1t the seeds of death to the Republic; we
move instantly upon your works. We
summon the public and expose your plan,
show that your attitude is fatal, hope that
you will change it, beg you to change it,
exhort you to change it, and if you won't
change it, then roll the wheels Of the Re
public, and crushed it and you. The last
governor your President sent South was
taken from the confederate bench. Ist!.at
the class Of men, President johnson, for
provisional governors and judges? Our
hope is in diverting the purpose of Andrew
johnson; to make him shut the door of the
House Of Represen a-ives upon the fourth
lay of December until we can rally the
North.
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Now. gentlemen, have never wished 20
blame the President; bu; he is Southe,ner
The mistake Of this whole battle Is, that
when there was fight between our north
ern and southern ideas we have had a
| southern President. If Hamlin had been
Vice President, you might stay at home
| II Hamlin hal been Vice President, every
negro in the southern states to day would
have the same right as the white men. -
Who turned him out? Massachusetts,
turned him out. William Claffin, of West
Newton, engineered this man into the Pre-
sidency and engineered Hamin out, and
Massachusetts must bear the blame. The
fact is, we have, in this struggle between
northern and southcrn ideas, southerner
-, man who cannot see the negro i'm par.
TALLY, who has the prejudice of the VIII te
race against him. We have got five months
to work in. There is possibility that he
like Abraham Lincoln, may be brought on
10 the right basis. Hc sent down Car
Schurz to examine into the states he has
inaugurated The New York Herald says
it was a wise thing. Well, now Andrew
johnson knows slavery, root and branch
by his own neck, by his children, by every
hour of his life. He did not need repor.
Do You suppose that officer can penetrate
this subject better than man born and
bred in sight Of this system. No Andrew
johnson knows that when he organized
these six states he gave up the black race
to tho control Of the white shareholders
and your duty and mine is-and let it bt
known as Mr.. Sumner let Abraham Lincoln
know it-that if this is his attitude h,
must count US as opponents; that where HI
stands to-day we do not trust him. No
that we give him up, but that we watch
him. The present policy is worse than ar
error, it is a crime.