The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-12

every person of color in the rebel States,
to secure to them and their posterity for
ever, complete and veritable freedom.
Having promised them this freedom re-
ceived their aid on the faith of this
promise, and by successful war and ac-
tual military occupation of the country.
having obtained the power to secure the |
result, we are dishonored if we fail to !
make it good to them.
Third. The system of slavery must be |
abolished and prohibited by paramount
and irreversible law. Throughout the
rebel States there must be, in the words
Of webster, impressed upon the soil it.
felt an inability to bear up any but free
Fourth. The systems of the States
must be truly Republican"
Unless these points are secured, the
public faith will be broken, and there
Will be no safety for the public peace or
the preservation of our institutions.
: Such, then, in brief, is the platform of
the New England radical party, and,
indeed, of the radical party of all Sec
tons of the country. For example,
Messrs. Wendell Phillips, Henry Wilson
and Henry Winter Davis--three gentle
men, the most learned and eminent
members of the radical party have
lately put forth their ideas on the all
absorbing topic of the day, this question
of the admission of the Southern repre-
sentatives. The tone of Mr.. Phillips
remarks is violently denunciatory of the
President. He does not, cannot, trust
Mr.. johnson, because he is a Southern
man, and has already shown signs of
weakness in his treatment of the South
ern question. Mr.. Johnson's Cabinet
cannot be depended upon either, accord
ing to Mr.. Phillips, for the simple reason
that Mr.. johnson is the President and
his Cabinet are entirely ruled by his
policy and opinions. Mr.. Phillips then
proceeds to blame Massachusetts for the
election of Mr.. Johnson, and says that
but for Massachusetts politician, Han
nibal Hamlin would have been Presi-
dent, and now every negro in the South
would be enjoying the same rights as
the white man. Mr.. Phillips fears they
cannot trust the President, who will ex-
ercise his executive influence over the
clerk Of the House, to compel him to adj
NIT to seats at the organization of that
body the members from the Southern
States, who, once admitted, will be in
such force that the Northern members
cannot compel them to vacate their seats.
He wants such influences to be brought
to bear upon the President as will divert
his present purposes, and induce him to
close the door of the House of Repre-
sentatives, on the 4th of December next,
until they can rally the North. If this
be not done, then indeed all is lost" the
North has surrendered to the South, and
we shall be governed by the white race
Of the Southern States"
In the Honorable Winter Davis, of
Maryland, we have different sort of
person from Wendell Phillips-a man
most cordially hated by the South, and
who returns that hatred with interest.
He plainly tells the people in his speech
on the 4th ut Chicago, that the spirit OF
heSouth is not subdued and that their re.
turn to the Union is matter of necessity
and notof choice; that they would vote to.
morrow almost unanimously for South.
ern independence, were the opportunity
given them. We will not pretend to
argue the point with Mr.. Davis; but in
all candor we must say we differ with
him. We do not believe the people or a
majority of them would vote for disso-
luton Of the Union, were the question
fairly submitted to them tomorrow,
and we have quite as good facilities for
judging the Southern people as Mr..
Davis has had. He forms his opinion
from what he has seen among the
rebels of Maryland, of the Booth
and Harold stripe, and not from
the real people Of the South. We
have no doubt that were vote
taken among Mr.. Davis constituents
large number of them would vote
for dissolution of the Union, and to
make Maryland the frontier State of the
new country; but these Maryland seces-
sionists, like the Copperheads every
where, do not represent the sentiments
of the mass of the Southern people. Mr..
Davis, too, wants negro suffrage, in or
der to cripple the white population of
the South and prevent it doing future
harm to the nation. Does the nation
stand in danger from no other quarter
but the South? Aia= J- .iJ
But we pass from Mr.. Davis to Senator
Wilson. He made a speech in Wash
ington on the 4th of July, in which he
said he wanted the South to understand
that slavery and the black code were
abolished forever. He said he had pre-
pared bill for the personal liberty OF
every freedman on this continent. This
is wide view, and includes in its
boundaries the Monroe doctrine. .,Vir-
GINA, certainly, has no objection, but
will probably rejoice in the adoption and
enforcement of this bill, and we believe
she will as freely and fully acquiesce in it
as the men North or South. sa.il
We have given, in the foregoing, with
ont Comment n full inc;oht into the |