Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-03-10
The Anti-slav.ry Policy.
From Senator Wilson's Speech tho Freedmans Durea


From Senator Wilson's Speech the Freedmans Durea,
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Do no, tel me that We nre lowering The
country Go knows the country has baeu
lifted frtmi out the depths up u thou aDC
leagues TOW ard Heaven, within The las,
| five yenrs. The Dation Is infinitely higbei
inltbe estimation of all the CHI istian ant
civil 2, d nations than at sBs other period
Of lis history. Whoever writes the history
OF this era must record that the ouly states
men IN America of this age were the anti
slavery men. Whotver writes, Of thest
events, greater aud grander than those o
any other period OF the worlds history
Will write tldl no ietplc did more. sacri
iced more. opred out more b'o1d, expeud
ed more treasure, o'gan z-d more uf lhe
hnmanIties aud chuiities Of Christian vil
izalion for the an Iio,ution of distress. or
made-a nobler record; and he will record
the fact that our public men, weak person
ally as they are. end fau ~ as they are,
have cumprtheuded ihe condition Of the
| country, the duties of tue hour, and, moving
With The eternal forces, have won viciorie.
for humanity that will send their usn,es
down aieng The ages forever f@lff
Sir, where is the meme Of Abr.ham L.
coin ,o-day? Slow sometimes TO nc. bu,
always locking ard working in the righi
diec lon maligntd, .lnnder,d speered at.
accufsed oy enemies, aid complained of by
doubling friends, who shank from thai,
eo ious eeed Of emsncipa,ion that saved
the country, he has left an immortal name
in the nails of his c, un'ry and his race. -
When be fell u der The pistol Of the assus
sin, more tears were-shed in this country
Tor him thar fo' all the, pub c men who
b We ever lived on the North American
con inent; and, as the story Of his assassi
nut'on went over the v orld, nations wep,
lot the fnii OF The foremost mao Of the nine
cent h century. IL was because. Abraham
lAlncolu was our leader, the champion Of
our ideas. thst the world wept over bis isll.
There is o ( y man among Us who, IL he
had filed that lofty place. and been as true
as was Abraham Liucolu to our ideas,
principles and policy. would not be ned
by the ions if be had fallen Ia the con
hict. Abraham Lincoln was u good han
but il was because he was he champion of
he cause Of Liberty that oil coming gener-
ations viii remember him, aud send down
his name forever with beuedic ions. e'ai-,
Just in proportion as We individually,
and he political orgsn'z.,ion to which we
belong. have been true to our ideas, have
we been s.rong. l. has been ibis hesita
tion. this iimidity, this qnibbling, that has
heen buiden for Us 10 carry and there
ore more Senators than one upon this floor,
who kn.w that We have not only had this
great cause Of country and freedom TO
carry through ,he war, but we have had to
carry the weakness of hesitatiGg. hating,
aud uncertain public men upon our should
ers. do not say that We hsd 10 carry tho
Senator from Pennsylvania Mr.. Cowan
for he did no, 60 al oil beJneither took
bimse nor let us carry him he was not
mnci OF burden 10 0s, and not much of
stop 10 our way. in the past, and he vii
not be in ihe,furute. He was not OF US |;
he is not of as now, or be would not ri,e
here, aud utter these sueers about the ne.
gros heel and the Degro's leg The negro
may net have as Gne leg ss the Senator
from Pennsylvania, but there are many
negroes who have hearts .qnise as good as
is The heart Of that Senator and 1 know
some OF them with brai s quite as capa
cious and quite as well trsined as bis own
Sir, it is timefor men who rally round tho
standard Of the great, Union republican
party Of the country TO lunders, aud that
Ibis Christian people, with their keen sensi
bllities, ibeir broad humanities, aud their
ripe intelligence. for there iscombined 10
~. ~.
and character never before associated 10
any political. organic ition, do you want
their feelings wounded by these vulgar
sneers at poor, oppressed race. which has
been kept down for centuries. wronged and
outraged The Senator from Penns lyania
should understand that the man who trines
with The sentiments and the manly sympa.
thies of The American people Is not likely
either 70 lead them or TO control them 10
The future. or 90