New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-06-20

one BODY" said an ancient Apostle; and mod.
ern Humanity, Fraternity. or Gas the French
say Solidarity, is but fainter reproduction Of
the same idea. Men hate those they have
wronged, and seek excuses for continuing in
their evil way; but every other human bosom
responds to the appeals Of the injured and op-
pressed.
The ruling class Of your section seem in sgreat
haste to get back into the Union as they once
were to get out of it. Reconstruction is
their general theme. Provisional Governors
are being rapidly appointed for your several
States, yet not rapidly enough to satisfy the
demand. Conventions to revise their several
Constitutions are speedily to follow. For dele
gates to those Conventions, the great body OF
the Southern soldiers in tho late Confederate
armies will vote while nine-tenths OF the
Southern soldiers in the Union armies, being
Blacks, are not allowed to do 20. And tho pros
pect now is that the delegates elected by the
votes of the Rebel soldiers will determine that
those Union soldiers shall never be enfranchiSed,
but shall remain serfs and subjects in the land OF
their birth-the land fertilized by their sweat
and preserved to our country by their blood.
Do you really believe that you ought to decree
this, or the North consent to it, in o restored
Union
To-day. by your laws, Union soldier, being
Black, cannot give testimony against Rebel
soldier, being White: so that the latter may
waylay, assault and abuse the former for having
enlisted in the War for the Union, OF may enter
his humble dwelling in his absence, and there
assail, terrfy and outrage his dciensecss family,
fearless of any legal redress.
Can this continued Why should i'll
Itisurged that the Blacks are grossly ignorant
Admit it. Can those who for generations have
forbidden and punished the education even Of
Free Blacks justly make this OH obstacle to
their acknowledgements
Slavery being dead, why should its accesSo.
ries and bu,trcsses be preserved You are
leyeling the late earthworks erected by the con-
tending armies and planting corn where they
stood. Why not level also the bulwsrkS oil a
social wrong forever outgrownf
In British America, both North and South Of
us, no political franchise. no social privilege Is
affected by color. Some thousands OF iugitives
from your plantations and slaye-pens have
found O refuge in Canada, where they arc
naturalized, vote hold Office, and give testi-
mony, on precisely the same footing with White
immigrants from this or any other foreign coun-
try. Very few Of them could read when they
crossed the boundary; many OF them cannot
yet read; but it is not even alleged that thoy
vote less intelligently less worthily, than other
citizens. Then why should they not vote in
the land Of their birth AZ well in that Of their
adoption
The British West Indies are mainly peopled
by Blacks who were slaves down 70 1898. All
manner of horrible predictions of outrage, not.
robbery, sedition and desolation, were put forth
by their owners TO prevent their emancipation.
These failed; they wore emancipated; they
have since been regarded by the laws exactly
like other subjects: they testify. vote, ssrve on
junes. and hold Office, precisely like Whites;
vet Queen Victoria has no more loyal subjects
than they. no colonies more quiet or !reer from
tumult and sedtion, than thofe they inhabt.
They are gradually improving in industry and
good habits where improvement Is needed: they
are steadily buying land and acquiring property.
Antigua and Trinidad are surpassed IN produc-
tiveness, in thrift, and in the price Of Eable
land per acre, by no other British colonies; even
q brfN Iou- nd IL
gate, is improving. In those Islands, the Blacks
are to the Whites as three TO one: yet no one
complains that equality be ore the law las led to
the spolia,ion, or oppress, n. or abuse, OF the
slaves Of the Whites-g ossly abused slaves at
that.
Why not try Justice tere'
Brazil is q siaveholdi g empire, and has ever
slaves. Her foremost men are tired Of Slavery,
but have not yet yer nred to prapple with ii.
But Brazil, though UNFOLDING SNery, know
no political dispa. among i.eemen. The
slave Of yesterday, BE- freed, h all the rights
and privileges Of any citizen.
Can we not, nov III Slavery is dead, safely
extend the like to race entirely Free?
Men Of the Sout'. h. us have a true Peace.
based on universal Eight and Justice. Let us
speedily obliterate all prescriptions, all dis
franchis ments, all heart-burnings, all traces of
past lostilities. Let US unite to secure the
prompt repeal Of all existing acts of Congress
oh tart ion in aif af
members who have been involved in the late