The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-21

late fight and without a Northern ar!
my to give a promise of success to q re-
newed struggle for emancipation IL Is
not improbable that many who have
been delivered by our soldiers would go
into the camp of their old masters 10
secure their freedom on easier terms than
by fighting against them. The contro-
yersy practically comes to this : the
North must conquer and hold the South
for the negroes, and make them and it
q dependency, or freedmen, if they re-
main in the South, must relapse into the
servile condition to Northern or South,
ern masters.
MEXICO TO BE A REFUGE FOR II NEGROES.
If the negroes are ever to be free,-
equal and independent, they must have
a place of refuge set of and secured to,
them by the common consent of all he
States of the Union-of all the repubg
lies on this continent. Such a land of
promise is now held out to them by the
liberal government of Mexico. 1t beck
ons them to the rich region stretching
round the Gulf of Mexico from the Rio
Grande. Haze are not q right to accept
il for them, and unite Uih the struq-
cling people and President Of The Neri-
can republic IN restoring. IL from foreign
domination, and confirming to our reed-
mum PuP"tNt'nN u HI"t' 49, ~"
in q cline eongenial to their physical
constitutions and their habits, and pre-
~senting in the productions of its soil
everything which their agricultural skill
is accustomed to rear in perfection, and
will at once raise them above want to
Independence? In the region to which
they are invited they would become q
line of demarcation between the United
States and Mexico, and along its mari
time frontier a coast guard against LOT
eign invasion-ande1 ne Wafag o. me
republic Of Mertco, on the one nae, ~
under that Of Me United States on the
other. [Cheers.l
A WAR WITH MEXICO RECOMMENDED.
But it is said we cannot undertake q
new war for the sake of the negro. I
soY zoe must for our oaon sokes, When o.
!, foreign monarch makes the conquest ola
: reDublic on our confines and The Over-
! tIroW of its free Institutions the accom-
. p0piment and the aid to O rebellion de-
- siuped TO ruin our oUn. The avowal of
," the purpose of the invasion in the de-
claratioll that it was togive sascendency
to the Latin race'' over the Southern
y section of our continent, with a blow
struck like that of Iightning, making q
I wreck of republican government in
y Mexico. %admonishes the people of the
"a | CDlLPu SltlupS llldU LllpTC ~ no safety lOI
: their own freedom but in driving out
! the military tyranny which has taken
: foothold at our most exposed portals
\ On n late occasiou I presented some
y views on this subject, aud quoted q par
y liamentary debate in England, showing
7 that the government of England and her
: greatest statesmen notonly had support
ed but applauded the stand our govern
y ment had taken against a ike aggresS-
ion, when merely threatened by a Holy
Alliance, as the highest proof OF the pa
es triotic spirit of our people, ready, not
not only to risk everything to defend
nt their own liberties, but to go beyond IL
I'd and fight for any other people thus as
s, sailed on this continent. Are we In the
Of flush OF victory over the rebellion when
Is brought he foreign invader INTO our
S, country, with the million OF gallant sol
b diers of both our lite warning. sections
lie willing to make a crusade for the delIv-
1t erence OF the Mexican republic, now TO
COVER under n froWh ora Bonaparte
It England turned her Dack on tne designs
e OF THIS feline enemy, VINO holds OUT 10
% her, nevertheless, ms VeiVet paw
d Her c~oinlnonalty VIII compel tne gov
eminent TO sustain the cause 10 when
;e Canning pledged her, AND what Will
al Kussia 0 enc Is tue irlenu Oh ine
re Cniteu cta.eF, anu ia' ".apiieoucu NC
,e friendship IN the most painful Crisis OF
our late unhappy trials. what she WIZ
u do, not Tor us, put Tor hefseIf, snouId we
b, encounter the heir OF her most iormiua-
r. bic invader ana recently hinseil ne,
he invader III q most tehaeT anu eAposeo
II point, requires no roPne 70 loresee.
er 4a THE ISSUES OF THE DAY.
is 7 address you, my friends, not as a
At party man. The time is pregnant with
N issues in which are involved the fate OF
IS races, OF the government of the nations
a of this continent, and, possibly, those OF
n Europe. The most stringent sticklel
10 for party organization, as the means OF
continuing power, in the hands. of party
associates, ifhe Is a patriot, willembract
all parties to restore the conceptions o
the fathers of the constitution in theil
II sublime simplicity. / am a democrat o.
o the JeIierson-Jackson type-a republl
h can of the Lincoln-Johnson stamp. Th,
wal democrat and the war republican
who united in our armies to follow thu
democratic Grant to. the field, to assert
y the cause of the Union under the copsti
Is tuition, and to fight it out on that line
d constitute the party men who will com.
n bico IN sthaf y oolra of. oipiI 1fa--oDd