The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-02-03
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or HSn Of the Departed, Heroes of every col
egonv thaa lave sweat out their lives in mortal
s.s;rI,,, '1lat we may be freel Forbid n AL
hoSss l,o.y uou. , IN whose hands are the thunder
o,,t st;nt ~ ".dan, wh, and who win use them with
learned IN the last four yearsi sN' 30 "e H"'e
Again the statement wou,d NOT ha ,-,o 70
colored men had never fought for tbo oo,,',t,,. e
for the Government is as much tha .Sa.y,
ofthe weak who throw no votes. as tbo Stro,.
who do. The fact that the strono rob ths
weak of their share in the Government arones
no more the exclusive right OF the stronS tn
the whole Government. than that the stronger
of two brothers, having stolen all the mater
nal estate, and thus beggared his own brother
rightfully owns the whole of 1t. Possession
Of thing does not always argue an indefeasi-
BILE right to it, The right to property depends
upon the way or manner man comes in nos
session of it. And when political thieves
bawl out "This is white mans Govern
ment," meaning that the colored races have no
rightful share In it, they only declare their own
shame as abettors of the most damning theft
In the whole catalogue OF civil roberies.
Ii the lying assertion we have quoted should
be altered to read, "The white race have tried
70 make this white mans Government, and
ANONYMOUSLY failed" it would read more like
the truth; for who, even now, wishes to hear
oil the uolngs OF our Government for the twen-
ty years preceding 1860? or, rather. who is
Wiling TO hear anything about it? The print
ed lamentations Of the sage Of Wheatland-
the sel-written requiem of that prince ofcow-
ards, James Buchanan, who pays sufficient re-
spect to public sentiment to deprecate the con-
densed contempt ofthe whole nation for his
memory when gone from earth.--falIs like a
dull, leaden sound upon the ear OF the pecple:
and the book is almost forgotten before the
first edition has fully left the press. Shame
is written all over the history of that score of
years, and it has taken the best blood ofa mil
lion men to atone for it. No man with
white skin could talk thus arrogantly of
white mans Government, till one can be
formed and administered that shall evince a
moral elevation superior to Dahomey While
the wrecks of a quarter of million men limp
around and among us, while the hundred
| thousand widows weep, and half million or
phans sadly mourn for unreturning fathers
whose bones repose in Southern soil, let no
man boast OF the superior excellence of white
mans Government u tG iod
d No: let US hear no more of this heathenish
assertion. Our Government was intended by
It's founders TO be as expansive as the azure
dome OF the heavens, embracing all, blessing
all, protecting all, and reposfng upon the
strong hands and enlightened wills of the
whole population. 1t is fitted in idea and
purpose for every people and every cline un-
u0A 1iO sum IL ID tHe true exponent OF CIVIL
and political wisdom; and its benefcence
should, like the dews of heaven, fall upon the
weak and strong alike, curbing the arrogance
of wealth, and gently lifting the poor, weak,
and lowly to self-assertion, selr.reliance, and
developed manhood. ui.i a9t1
There was good timber enough put into our
| ship Of state to furnish navy for all the ma
tions; and though she has been exposed to
all sorts of weather, though her rigging has
been sadly strained by repeated gales, and the
| huh driven upon the sunken rocks of secession,
and knocked about fearfully by the tornado Of
4 civil war, yet she has outridden the gale, and
i arrived in port with every timber sound, and
every sail set. The shot and shell marks on
her hull only prove how invincible was the
/ craft, when manned by the genuine sons of
liberty of all eolors and races; and the recol-
lection of past dangers that gives most pain to
the survivors, is that the very men who now
yelp loudest the political wolt-howl, "Ihis is a
white mans Government" were the very men
| who tried to scgttle and burn the good old ves-
sci while tossed upon the angry biilows. Let
them snap their teeth as fearftllly as they
pleoee, ss tfrc black patr1ot, they will the SOON
er be detected as the wolves that must be ex-
terminated or silenced tor the safety of the
fock.-lIhe Right Way. r,o