The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-11
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Senator Wilson, of Mass, made many
excellent speeches throughout the State,
ofNewYork during thecanvass, but We.
have not seen anything in them that
pleases us better than this extract from
his speech at Little Falls last Saturday.
He addressed himself to the chief buea-
boo that now haunts the Democratic
mind, as follows: az
"Our country" said that iIlustrfous
statesmen, John Quincy Adams, 'Fbe-
gan Its existence by the universal.
emancipation OF man nom the. thrnlI-
dom OF man." Amid the darkling
storms of revolution, America proclaim
ed as Its living faith the sublime creed
OF human equality. From out the
rolling clouds of battle. the new repub-
lie sStt took its plaeein the family of
nations, proclaimed in the ear OF all
Humanity that the poor, the hum
BILE, the sons oftoil, whose hands hard
loned by honest labor were the equals,
the peers, before the law, of kings and
princes and mobiles. This declaration of
the rising republic in the New World
was an inspiration to the champions
OF popular rights in the Old World, and.
q hope to the people in whose hearts
still fingered the dimly- bered acs
cents of liberty. To men crushed In
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the pTocla clanation Of the seIf-eyident
truth that linen are created equal and
have. aninaIienable right TO life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness, has been
for two generations living faith, that
would inume their darkened pathway
70 liberty projected by law. Eighty
ninety years amer the proclamation or the
sublime creed of humanequality,wh which
has been an inspfrat ton to humanity the
Wlde1woEld over onr ears are pained
and our souls made sick here In our
own America with the brutal and VuI-.
gar outcry of "nigger equality" Here
in Christian and Republican America
every effort of patri otism, liberty, JUS
tices and humanity, to lit the burdens
imposed upon a poor race by Centuries
or slayery-e very effort to instruct
the intellect darkened by years of
brutal and vnlgat .demagogulsn of
America as, snigger equalify6 1Nfg-
ger Equality ~ Whenever / haarsa
mar, ,g born In this land, educated in
these free schools taught in these
Chfistian churches, instructed IN these
varied industries, pirate about s'nigger
equality : accept Il as a confession
that he insttnctlvely feels that the negro
IS sshfs superior, and demands legisia-
ton to make him his inferior. 1SfRger
lequahtyl IT is the Language of bru-
'tai1ty. and Nulgartty. No gentleman In
\ a4AeI pEtAtea0 ue mi niegere requaltty.0 ~
Hhe creature that e 30 base as TO do so
must be, and is, a vulgar fellow. He
maYsltYe in d fine house; he may dress
tnlthe garlo ola gentleman; but a noble
or manly sentiment never dWelt in fIfa
ppsot1i. remember ON one occasion
gheq1a Senator WIS undressing the
Senate and plging in calling negro
niger that Z Mr.. Seward turned
TO me and said tsthat man vii newer
be dent; the people always mean
TO elect q ehtlenlan for PresI dent; and
the manlWhO spells negro with two g's
can never be RFesidentsn He Is a yul-
gar fellow who fafses san ontcry
about ssenigger equality, md he e
fits 81 Under just, shumane and equal
laws no man should look mp to51ny
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