The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-19

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of story told of certain Scotch qIyine, who was
troubled By congregation afflicted by sort OF
cTooIeSiy and distorted. One Sabbath morning
coming into his pulpit ana opening the Bible to find
ps text his eye agnted S. on al inc worGs @ G ars tn
Taxing off his spectacles and putting them do Tn by
the book, and looking around his congregation with
significant Rance,h he repeated the text, said IN
my haste, in my haste all men are liars Gin ye'd
been here, Dowd ye'd said 1t at your leisure mon"
Reading some State papers and listening to some
politicians, Is very apt to say in ones haste that
state papers and politicians are greatly given to
lying. Rea0ng these State papers, and listening to
this politician, one is very apt 10 say it at ones
leisure.
While these bills were under discussion, every
wind that blew from the south was heavy with the
sighs and groans OF a suffering ana wronged
of the chaIne.house OF the South, wherein this
humanity was being tortured; every report tnat
with q record of horrors ana atOmnations inflicted
by our enemies on these, our faithful friends ana
allies. What need to repeat the dismal story of men
worked through season. then driven out with their
families to starve of the children of loving parents
torn from their arms and sides, and bound out
the wives OF Union soldiers dishOnOred; the orphans
OF Union soldiers gwen over by the state without
mercy to the cruelty of their c0d-blooded maserss
OF houses burned, and tleds laid waste and property
destroyed; of men and women lashed, padded, inn
prisoned for life, and hung for paltry oenses by
due process of law; of human Deings-cltizens of
the United States carried into the open market
place, and under the shadow of the Constitutional
Amendment, sold, enslaved for term of years. or
Tor RGp tlSS cods .oson cried the humanity Of tho
these denominations p Congress heard, and an.
swered. For the sake OF the colored people, OBJ
ject," responded the President; "for the sake OF
morality, for the sake of religion forbid this
effort on the part OF the radicals to egaize amaga-
mationln our midst to compel white men to marry
should pass by this whole silly and disquieting
me- it tD It R to the
were it onY silly and disquleting; but it Is, In ad
diton, so wicked and abOminabe, and its result SO
I Np fnNYe VaOf
| the world.
1t is the old arRument-old as sin-confronting
just demands by appeals to ignorant brutality and
petrfed prejudice. Andrew Johnson knew iull well,
no man better-that civil rights have more to
do with social equality than his policy has to do
with the principles OF sound morality and righteous
| law.
1 stand a woman, -disfranchised by the State
incapable OF sitting on jury, or Oh being tried by
| jury OF my peers,-ranked by the law with black
people, children, and idiots; clvly, immeasurabIy
the lnIerior of the voter who first helped to make
| President, and was then made President himself.
Ciyilly, say IN point OF law, stand immeasurably
this mans inferior Yet speak the words of truth
and soberness when say, that do not believe any
amount of equal degradation, of civil nights withheld
1 and wrongs inflicted could ever reduce me- or any
other respectable woman, the social level OF the
man capable OF making the speech of the 22d OF last
| February.
| Beyond this, Andrew johnson knows without the
| telling that 1t was the tumbng down and not the
building up process that gave TO us race OF mixed
blood that 1t was the Withholding not the granting
of human and civil righIs that worked the dshOnor-
ing of the black, and the degradation or the white
1
| "Nepro equality, indeedw exclaimed Andrew
| johnson, on the oath October, 1864 the city of
any day along the sidewalks of High streets where
| the great slaveowners more particularly dwell, and
you will see as many muatto as negro children, the
former having an unmlstakable resemblance to tneir
| ristocratlc masters"
II is civil wrong not civil rights the degradation
not the elevation; the South, not the North the fire.
els, not the radlcals IT IS the slavery propagan
dsts and saveowners OF the South in brief, Andrew
| johnson and his friends, not Congress and his
enemies who introduced, defended, maintained, and
! extended the blessings oil amagamatOn in our
| midst.
| l protest against the President of the United
| States using the influence of his high Office to
strengthen cruel and unnghteous prejudice already
| test against the Chief MAGISTRATE OF q Christian
nation pleading for and defending feeling that
finds outlet in crueltles unapproached and atrocities
unparalleled IN the annals of the world.
Said the Norfolk tVa.) Post last February -
There has heen no such manifestation of joy and
jubatlon IN the South since the route of the Fede-
raj army at Bull run as that informing US of the
Presidents veto OF the Freedmen's Bureau bill"
Hear at the same time the Richmond Enquirer
declared
There is but one alternative, We must reduce the
negro 10 slavery or we must extermlnate him."
30 was tbs oy % GSnera
after wrote:-"He is our tried and faithful friend,
he exerts himself to the utmost OF his power in
behalf he defends our rights, and devotes all his
energies to our interests. We are safe"
Then feeling safe being sure of their trend, these
men 1ell tooth and hail upon the hapess victims OF
their hatred and the Presidents policy.
Every statement, every record, every letter. every
speech, report that has found its way TO paper
or PRINT, North or South, goes to prove that, from
the moment the position OF the President fairly
! and 1ully understood in the South, the display OF
cruelty ,he persecution OF the freedmen has fright
fully increased and intensified.
| sOlemnly believe, as l make the tremendous
| CHARGE that had Andrew johnson maintained the
| position he assumed twelve months ago, the mas
sacre of Memphis would have been impossible; that
but Tor the favor he has shown the spirit OF
caste, rebellion, and slavery, and the insults
he has heaped upon the patient and help;
| less blacks, humanity would not have been appalled,
1t was through those three days of crueltIes SC
| abOminable and atrocities hideous that the pen
refuses TO write the tongue to speak, or the ear to
| listen TO he tale. say, because believe am com
peed to cay, that would pray Tor the rocks to fall
| upon and Rnnihiate me, rather than stand III the
place OF the President OF the United States when the
Great Master makeh nquisitlon for the blood OF the
slam in the streets of that city of Tennessee.
My friends, let us consider this scene well and
carefully, Tor Memphis s but type of the spectacle
the whole South will present IL the troops be with
drawn, the civil power reesabllshed the Rebels en-
1ranchsed, the black loyaists DISTINGUISHED the
States restored to their old basis, IN word ii the
| Presidents policy be established IN government
| Never could there be q ore overwhelming retuta
ton of the Presidents theory, that the ballot woulC
supeTinduce of races and the consequent eXter
mination OF the blacks, than i'll the recent riot a
I Memphis.
Does any one suppose, if these blacks had fai
4 opportunity to defend themselves by the ballot, l
the authorities and city officials had aught to gain
to oSe by some thousands oil their votes, that tines
| outrages would have been tolerated for an hour
Setlnterest is stronger than hatred. If black vote
could hurl them from their places, they would so
that the black voters protected their friendship
| gaint d, and their ballots secured
ALI history demonstrates that one human beini
never is SAFE IN he hands OF another. When Empero
Nicholas was told that his character was as good as
Constitution TO his people, "Ihen," 4" sad he, am Ou
lucky accident and OF surety such lucky accident
do not abound in the South. The only security To-
the welfare OF these people, and consequent peace