Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-10-11

IN court ana TESTIFY, ana tid' III Soiho Az
stances lords and mobiles have been sent to
the galows on the evidence of house ser
wants. Our colored popultion are as well
qualified TO testify as they. You keep the
negro out OF court, and what chance has he
for Justice? Just none at all. The Gov
ernment and the world are aware OF this:
and | do not think Congress Will regard the
Constitution you may frame as republican IN
FORM or calculatedto TO secure the ends o1 JUS
tice to all citizens, unless the negro Is per-
mited to come into court as witness. L
NAV be mistaken. but should that wrongb be
perpetrated, and your Constitution rejected
on that account, for one shall acquiesoe IN
the Justice of the decision. The fact Is, we
have no other course left us but to make
clean breast of this whole business. do full
justice to the negro though he Is OF an lnfe-
rior race, and remove the whole subject
growing out of his slavery, emancipation
and status, from the theatre of politics.
Our loyalty may not be the II ost ardent
and proud at the present time. Our prop
erty lies ruined and scattered in the wide
sweeping and bloody paths of war. But
the ruin wrought is not the only aspect OF
the case that should be considered. The
suffering has not all fallen to your lot. The
sacred remains of 200, 600 Northmenlie bur-
ried in Southern graves The sacrificing
heroism of your Northern brothers, which
has challenged the admiration and wonder
of the world, touches the chivalrous feelings
of the South and teaches US that we were
conquered, not by menals or towards, but
by foemen worthy of our Steel Their
wealth and resources have astoBished the
nations of the earth as well as ourselves, and
| let me say to ! ou that the North is so firmly
| fixed in its position that the conflict for the
last four years calling to the field a million
and half of men, and spending money in
proportion, has had but the slightest effect
upon either business or society; and the
| Government was never 50 strong In men, re-
! sources and the affections of the people as
when the war closed At the time OF Lee s
surrender Grant had under ms cUIIinaiIu
eight hundred thousand men, and could
have held every position he occupied, and
concentrated at any given point five hun
dred thousand of his veteran troops. The
wonder is, not that you were conquered, but
that you were able to hold out so long a
gainst such fearful odds The Southern
people are brave as the bravest but it is
folly for them to think one is match for
ten of the same blood, and each as brave as
| himself
TIE United States was never so powerful,
nor so much respected by other nations as
at present Not even in the darkest hour
of the late struggle when you seemed to be
a full match for the Great Republic, did
France and England combined dare to insult
the old flag. Their sympathics we're with
you, but they dare not make them of any
practical value and now both nations are
ready to get down on their marrow bones at
her bidding! Now this great, powerful and
honored Republic is yours. You form a
part of it, and share in its glory. When a
few years shall have passed away, and the
exasperations of the present are healed, none
will be prouder than yourselves to say Il
am az AmeFlssasfF ffftsr called the attention
of his audience to some imperfection in the
old Constitution which he wished to see
remedied in the new-to the Importance of
utterly squelching the regulators-of max
ing duelIng a crime to be severely punished
by law and various reforms,