The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-13


nanimty there is in a great Government lie
this that will allow one tof our women, one OF
our children, or red man, or black man, to
be captured on the high seas and made PR,
by the captive's friends to demand him, says
he is not citizen OF the United States,
he cannot claim our protection. Now the
burdens of government, but he has
no claims 10 the protection OF the flag. You
say No sir he is not an American citizen"
SIR want every every rSarSctSe man 20 pc a, ,G c1zen@sn
but say some friends In this country, 'if you do
that you make voters OF the colored people,"
II does no such thing. If the people of
have the right to make voters OF them. If they
don't want to do it, they have the right to pro-
hibit. That right remains the same with each
State as it ever did This proposed provision of
the Constitution says to you and j, sir, that
every man is human being; that every man is
citizen OF the United States. You have no
right to go out and murder him; you have no
right to take his property; you have no right to
take his work without paying him his wages;
you have no right to abuse that man or tri1e
with his rights or privileges He Is man even
as you are, and has the same protection from
the laws that you have. Any Christian people
on top OF Gods earth that would not give this
protection OF the law TO every human being,
that had life breathed into him by Our Father,
commits great sin and sinks into oblivion.
Sir, when you ask me how became such
great advocate OF universal citizenship, can
answer the question. have had my pre- iudices
Just as other men in this land but when |
marched with the columns OF loyal men on
Southern soil, and saw the flag of treason de-
family faunted in our faces; when / looked
around me and asked for friends, appealed to
the white man in vain; he was the friend OF the
traitor, the sympathiZer with rebellion; he
owed allegiance, he thought, to treason, and not
to the Government Of che United States. But dt
the deep dark hour Of night, he poor cOlored
man. bolCed dolCn by The chains of sid9e1' 1co,lLd
9Cdde the TiUers and come INTO yolGr picket lines
into yoa9' camps, and tell you 1rhere the Rebel
forces lay, a?d bo1o you might attack treason and
destroy IL. (Cheers.) That is the reason ,Chy /
cared not Ichen l toUnd q man that 1CGs ma friend
a friend TO nly cOtahy-hough his skin aCGs
black, could trust him sooner hdn I could The
oohtte traitor. ('That's soy
Hence ! want him to have the protection of
the law; | am in favor of his having it. 1 ask
you, my countrYmen, ask you, mothers-who
sitting around IN this little group, taat have
fond sons that lie away far of beneath the hot
burning sands OF Georgia, whose faces YOU will
see no more on earth, whose graves you can
never VISIT again, perhaps. and the old fathers,
too, ana the little prattling babe, that often
asks his mother, Mother, when will my father
again return to me 2" to have the laws of this
land so modified. that while traitors in the South
have their gatherings, day after day, to strew
garlands OF flowers upon the graves OF Rebel
soldiers, that they may live in their memory as
long as life shall last-if some poor, old decrepid
regro, who has gained his liberty by the march
and proves of American arms, shall come
along with basket OF flowers to strew upon
the grave OF some poor loyal soldier, that he
shall have the right TO do IT, and that no person
shall have the right to interfere and that he is
to be protected. (Emotion.)
Now that Davis, the head of the
Rebellion, Is in prison at Fortress Monroe for his
| otienses against this Government they begin to
| speak of his case. They grow so sympathetic
| in reference 10 his punishment. They must
examine him every week to see whether his
| health is improving or declining. They must
| have a continual report, and, il he is a little
| declining, they give him the right to go where
he pleases in and around the Notifications.
| If they keep him pretty close for dav or two,
| few gentlemen go there to see whether or not
| the country is ripe for bailing him out. When
| they put finger on The putSe Of the nation, the
Pulse begins 10 6eat up TO- ftoer heat. Ifhey at
through the land that these men aCiN trembte in
| their CoOtS
When they find that they cannot do that, Mrs
Davis-I do not blame her for that; she is a
woman, and as a matter of course loves her
husband, and it is her duty to do all she can for
| him-eoes to Washington, and she begins to
speak of paroling JEFF. Davis. His sacred parole
| His bond OF honor, L suppose. (Derisive laugh.
ter.) Like to the man Stephens who is now
running at large with the other traitors in the
same old way. Some have pardons in their
pockets. Some have paroles in their pockets.
Every one OF you who has been in the army
knows what pardoning a Rebel means. WhV,
We pardoned them one day, and captured them
the next. That's about the way we did. The
country wants now to see if Mr.. Davis can be
pardoDed. The physician then comes forward
and takes hold OF the pulse of the American
people, and finds that it is not quite enough fol
them; it has not cooled down enough yet TheS
| have been dosed a little too much with medicine
] already to be given quinine. So it goes out thai
| MIR. Davis cannot be paroled; it cannot be done
Ny tellow-countrymen, in my judgment,
charge no man with it; there are men IN This
land TO day l1hO are high IN position, ,Uho, if 1
| TIyTafao
and turn him loose, and let him escape The couihy
| ('Johnson, Johnson-the President.") / do no
believe that such thing enters into the plans o
the loyal people OF this country. Some OF thes'
| people say, "Do you want to keep a man in
| prison and let hlm roI? Well, don't know
| that want to keep man in prison until ht
rots, but they kept good many of our soldier
there until they rOtted. (Sensation.) The,
had no sympathy Tor the poor soldier whei
, he was dying at Andersonyille. Many a poo
| boy, perhaps some of you, lost their fee
, | there. ! know one in Pey:on county,
} | Young man named Doherty, both of whose fee
{ | dropped of in AndersonVille prison, and VIII
/ | now walks on two wooden legs. Then there al
| others who suffered in the same horrible way
Ihere was no sympathy in the bosom of traitor
ior those poor men then, while they were groaI
' | ing sunerlng, and dying. When did you eve
{ | near soft voice coming from the South saying
, Tome mere, friends OF these poor soldiers, an
, | give them relief We are not able to DO it. TAX
. them away from US and administer to thei
v | Wanls'" But II one of these traitors is kept !
prison little while, especially II il is the gref
r | Jeh. Davis, some Of these people speak of th
| great hardshlps--it is terrible wrong that mu,
v not be done.
a Ladies and gentlemen, it may be that hay
. none OF the milk of human Kindness i'm m
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