Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-05-13

ways of law and liberty. Do not compel
them to speak in tones that you cannot re-
fuse to hear
Wendell Phillips plan of Pacif-
cation.
WENDELL PHILLIPS made a speech on
Tuesday, May 8, in New York City, before
the American Anti-Savery Society, from
which we extract the following, as furn-
ishing an idea as to how he would pacify
the South: ......... .,I ..
When we speak of the great mass of pub
lie enemies-not rebels-public enemies on
the other side Of the picket lines of this
civil war-what should be the policy OF the
Government which will soonest and surest
guarantee the peace and the liberty Of the
negro? Well, friends, my idea is this: A
thousand men banded together by delib-
crate and determined purpose, intellectual
and decisive, are the rebellion. 1t Is not
safe that those thousand men should dwell
in North America. [Great applause.l Liy-
ing or dead, here is no place for them. Men
saw ,ury has no power to Danish citizen.
OF course not. never intend to try a pub
lie enemy by Jury. / should as soon have
Thought of Gov. Hancock and Gen. Warren
impaneling jury on Bunker Hill 20 try
the red-coats. The idea Of q jury impan-
eled to try Jefferson Davis as traitor, in
the language of Shakspear, would be
most lamentable tragedy-comedy. - For
four wears the Supreme Court and the Uni
ted States Executive have proclaimed in
word and in deed by proclamations OF bel
lirerency and blockade, by exchange OF
prisoners, by solemn judgments, that the
men on the other side of the picket line
were public enemies. Iwould have an act
of Congress selecting out thousand men
leading men of the Southland enunciate
to the world that they were alien enemies,
and that this sovereign nation, which has
q right by all law, national and interna-
tional, to forbid any foreigner from tread
inc its soil forever-forbids any one of these
men being found within the limits of the
United States OF America, under pain of
death. [Great applause.l An act of Con-
gress to declare that these men are public
enemies whom Congress refuses to natural
ize; holding as Congress does In its hands
the exclusive powers to naturalize an alien
into q citizen. OF course when l Danish
these men, their property falls into the
hands of the Government. l should also
add to it the property of a thousand or two
thousand more, the subordinate actors IN
this great conspiracy, not strong enough
to require that they should be banished,
but strong enough to require that they
should be crippled. Having thus gained
the land of the States, l should give 1t to
the loyal white man and black man, and
have thus secured one element that gives
vitality to the parchment guarantee of lib
erty-land. Now for the other. In revo-
lutionary times, with the single exception
of South Carolina, every man, black and
white, who was born free, voted-with the
single exception in the same State of a
property qualification. Our fathers were
too wise to require book learning as pre-
liminary condition of the ballot. | am sur
prsed and marvel that so masterly = mind
as Stuart Mills should proclaim that in
his theory, man must read before he votes.
Does he not remember that, for four men out
of five, education does not come from books?
Does he suppose that there was no education
In the world before printing was invented? !?
Is education the exclusive prerogative of
colleges? o, no! The masses of men all
have their faculties educated by work, not
by reading. When God declared, as con-
dtion of our being, that we should earn our
living in the sweat of our brows, he gave
the guarantee of the development of brain.
Whoever works develops his intellectual
faculties; and taking men in the main, TAX
ing them in classes, the masses who work
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the masses who read but don't work. And
this is the reason why the negro is half a
century ahead of the poor white man OF the
Sohthern States. The negro inherited a
brain which work had cultivated for four
generations, and he added to it the skill of
practical hand. The consequence is that,
whether the soldier goes to him for advice
or the merchant for counsel among the
masses of the South, the negro is the only
man who can give him either. The white
man inherited brain s0dden by the idle
ness OF four generations. Therefore, to-day,
the only class ready for the suffrage in the
South Is the negro. In Difference to ma
tional prejudice, and in consideration of my
own race, would not exclude the white
man on account OF his ignorance. But the
only class that, as class, has had that mann
-ipulation and development of the practical
college of the masses-wOrk--is the black
man! Infinitely better, If you can have but
one, is the education of work. | scout as
irrelative the whole question Of the limita-
ton of the suffrage on the ground of in
formation. The black knows enough to