The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-06-19
..standing on the Yankee grave, -
He will not deem himself q slave"

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Mr. Speaker, all the efforts made here OF elsewhere to
elevate the negro to equality with the white man IN
che South states either cvilly SOCIALLY polit
eally. are perfectly idle The negro must be kept in
gubordination to the white man. no matter how elo-
quenty you may deck of The theory ofequaty. In my
opinion there is were declaration of war between
the races It ia true active hostites arc suspended
when aud who 10 they Approximate to anything like
equality in numpers the sword Of power must be held
nes Hses and interests II Se White involved to relax
that power for single day. The negro must know 1t
exists and it necessary he must feel it. say this with
Full equality Of rights viii never exist between races SO
dsslmilar tn It cannot sbcaly amagamRte, especially
when they live together In large numbers. When ANAL
gamatton takes place. when marriage eau be consumma
ted between them when the white woman shall bring
forth negro offspring without blush. and the white
grandsire shal. afrchonately pat his nappy.headed
grandson then equaltymay be said to exist between
the You may then with safety grant equal rights
Of all kinds, and possibly prepare for the millennium.
Why, then, interpose such obstacles to reunion?
But these are not all the difficulties interposed
favor an almost indefinite pos,ponement, urging with
zeal that the South is too guoran too uncvized, to
be trusted with any share In this republican Govern
ment. Northern education and civilization must and
should be more extensively spread among them before
their admission to representation wilt cease to be dan
Rerous. The honorable member from Minnesota Mr..
Donnelly takes the lead in that position In speech
delivered some time since he declared The great bulk
of the people of tho South are lude iliterate semciv.
ized Their condition in this respect would be shame
full to any semiciyilized people, and Is suoh as to
render repubo Government resting on the inteli.
gent Judgment Of the people impossibihty But let
us crticise somewhat further this Phariseeis, this
claim and boased superiority of the North over the
South in .'enightenment and Christianity" Educa-
ton is certainly widely didused the North. Her
people are greatly enlightened. but they act great
many false lights Whence sprung all these isms even
In this nineteenth century, aud within the age of the
great reormer from Minnesota? think the enlighten-
ed and Christian North is entitled to credit for them
all-Mormonism Milterism, spiritnaism, freeoveism,
and worst of all IF 1t should spread beyond Massacn
sets) strong minded omanlsm. have sprung ana
spread over that hiphycvi lied and Christian region
The poor ignorant untducated South incapable OF
producing evidence of advancement and progress
But let us continue the ntrast little tul thcr.
Booth the assassin not caught, but 0rduety shot
by o company of soldiers He was brought to TINS
city dead in order that the reward for his arrest might
be secured by proving identity After that his entrails
were torn out thrown out to the hogs; ms heao
adorns some chronological museum his heart IS pre-
served in SPIRITS his spinal column can be seea winch
will display to the learned how much he must have
suffered by the approach OF the bullet to the spinal
marrow; the dance of his remains are despossted Goa
and our Northern Secretary of War only know where
We know that they were not handed over to his poor
aart broken mother, that she might exclaim over
l5d l3kraye in burst of agony "Would to dodi had
s S hr thee! Oh, Absalom, my son, my son. )"