Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1865-11-25


nifack urou President dolmron before The
dh of Ioaon. The occasion was public
lcclnic--ono Of tho Fraternity Course,
Mnsle Hall, on Monday cyonlns-when he
epoko al follows VI Alcssra Llueoln, john
ION and neochcri
lIe fLiueolnl was the FIRST Of long line
Of Presidents who dared TO Invite q negro
10 tho White House, lie had The ability 10
talk with negro without once reminding
him TINT lie Is u ncgro--0n accomplish
menl that does rot seem TO be lrit at the
White House. Once when called on the
President, said Mr., Douglass, Governor
Buckingham also called aud desired to see
Mr.. Lincoln. "rcll him he must walt
said the President; "l want TO have long
talk with my friend Douglass" think,
continued the lecturer, that was the first
time that the Governor of great State
not yory contemplate State--w0s COM
PEELED TO stand ont in the cold while the
President was oonvoysing with negro.
The lecturer then referred to the recent
sermon Of the Rev. II. W. Bccchcr, aud
said; In this gospel of forgiveness, there
lisa new advocate. ! thought Presdcht
Johnson stood alone high above the New
Testament. But lately there has sprung
up another preacher in Brooklyn who
seems to he equally in tho iorgiying and
forgetting mood. believe Christianity TO
No liberal enough in this direction, but
Rocchcr is more liberal than Christianity,
and so is President johnson. In the Chris
ian religion we are required TO forgive
aur enemies and forgive them that tlespass
against as even seven times day, aud
seventy times seven, but upon one condi-
ton, and this seems to be entirely omitted
in the present casc--if they repent. That
is the condition. [Applause.]
believe that we are on tic verge, my
friends, of being surrendered TO The con-
quercd rebels, that We are on the verge of
losing that for which this war was wagcd,
and ans inclined TO think that we arc to
lose it, if not through mbecility, through
treachcry on the part Of the very man that
sits at the head of the Government. JEFF
ferson Davis is great criminall | would
moi shy word in mitigation Of his crime
or eXtenualion Of his punishment Pun
ished he'll never be punished no danger
Of his being punisned-not the least in the
world. Hes only waiting to come under
The head Of the twenty thousand dollar
pardon. lie was traitor, but he played
the role Of a traitor openly and honestly.
lie was Il wolf, but not wolf in Sleeps
clothing, though lie was found, believe,
in lady's dress. Whatever else may be
said Of him, he did not steal the FURNISHED
livery of the great heavens TO serve the
devil in. lie did not by loud and furious
devotion to the rebel cause, get himself att
the head of it merely to etray it and Ia
destroy it, Whatever else may haunt hid
conscience in his cell, yOnder at Fort Mont
roe; whatever else, the thought can neveH
come TO him there that he betrayed thel
friends who trusted him with power. Hel
did what he could, and whatever consola-
ton can be derived from devotion to n bad
cause must be his. But what shall be said
of the man at Washington who was loud
and so furious few months ago in his de-
nunciations Of treason and traitors, and
slavery and aristocracy, and every form OF
class legislation; who was only inpatient
with our good President Lincoln because he
was too lenient Of the traitors; what shall
we think of him, if after these professions
protesting his determination to punish
traitors and make treason odius by punish
mcnt, declaring that treason is crime and
not difference of opinion, that traitors
must be punished, not pardoned, that sla-
very in every root and fiber must be des.
troycd that the liberties of the negro must
be secured-what shall we think Of him
after getting possession of his Government
and this cause, he shall finally betray it
into the hands of men who have tried 10
destroy it; if he shall select those who are
the guiltiest of this rebcllion--the rich.
men of the Soulful he shall select those
men who led the bloody host that sought
TO destroy this country; what shall be said
Of him if he shall betray us by giving the
power TO these Shareholders, taking it away
from our friends, by giving the elective
franchise to these rebels and taking it
away from The brave black men who, with
iron arms and steel fingers, stood up in de-
tense of our flag at the South Loudap-
plause1 What shall be said Of this man
if he shall betray us, demoralize the Re-
publican party, deaden the moral senti
ment of the North, and leave to our chill
dren another negro question to breed war
and disturbance in the future Why, we
must say of him as the Scripture hath
"Better were it for that man that he had
not been born; better that a milestone be
hanged about his neck and he cast into the
sea, than that he should do this thing"
We abhor very properly jefferson Davis
and Booth, but deeper and more dreadful
cxccration will settle upon the mans name
If he shall sacrifice us to his policy as he
now evidently aims to do. Why, If we're
n white man, after this war, should blush
10 my bones to look a white man in the
face and deny him the right of suffrage.
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