The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-02-21

tbat they 10 Dc IN In Alabama, fOrida,
everywhere We hear much OF the rights OF labor and
the necessities Of labor Whatever laborers the North
claim part OF their right reemen that demand
for the black men OF the South Applause To work or
not work is the right OF men North work not to
work is the right OF the men Of the South. Anpause
II you say these men must be burdensome TO society
reply, "Wat till they before you neddle with them"
Laughter and applause) II is not considered necessity
for man to work IL he has money to support
himself; and IL a man can find food In roots
squirrels do, although may not be best for him. yet
he is TO be- the judge and not me nor you. demand
that work ha be free to the black man there as to
the white man here You may work as you please, for
whom you please as long as You please ane Tor as much
cous man that hoped TO live In public life that should
dare to introduce bill into tho Legislature that man
should work year for any one foundry or for one
man, ut a stipulated price agreed upon by another.
II Is mockery TO say that those workmen Of the South
are free II their labor Is not free.
THE NEGRO.
But II is replied '.rhey win not work; they must DO
won't work9 Not they who are best acquainted with
them. say that the who know the least about the
evidence they lived to them that they could
not SEQ them We know that opinions In the North
have been substantially correct for we based our Opinions
on our knowledge OF human nature at large, whereas
they Perpetuay In commerce with black men in
the administration OF system that msinterpreed
human nature and contravened Gods great laws;
consequently they were continually administering
government on wrong principles 1t was said that the
what streams OF blood have down platforms
cratic speeches for tho last twenty years We have gone
through a war that has tried men s manhood Professor
wolcomb told me that within the sound Of horn we're
four thousand able bodied slaves and not twenty able
vet ne,,har va, rnrI 80 an -, % an IN
stance in which during this terrific struggle there was
one single case Of instruction, volence untemp
cd ibems"lves with forSesIanoe and With pruaence
that think scarcely less than divine inspiration in this
ciarod 10 ho iaso han ,on rna To- IiI,ar, coworSs.
and we laughed TO when proposed to make
charge from them they were in BATH viii ain deny
the courage Of tho black man. tApplause Again, they
That h The heat thing 7 ever knew of them Would Won
work under such clrcumstances az thew have
Neon In c,,cums,arces mo, which indcrsnts have
been formed agninst tbemS Would Won work n every
dollar YOU earned were taken from YOU, How hard
wonld Won works How early would Won GET unp How
late wond YOU toll ~ Won did moi Gel a cen, for II,
WouI Won work n vour family were nat 10 bo heltered
nv IN ouId Won work n ther, was mn noss,btv of
lifting Yourselves in the civil status OF the community
mr. Ieavno vour children hotter thar von found tbeny
When a lad though not cruel I was sometimes heed.
loss and ,ecect nm ono ocrasion 10 have
taken nm nnocent av and nu,Ied on ono wing another
wing one icc another loo fano,ber another another
and ,notber and Ia him down on tho table md won
dnred ne ala not 90 Here ara these b,ack men. we
mil of their vino and their legs and then saw .,Tbe
law Niger won Z work n ausb,erI But eyncr;enc,
IL now Showing thai thcy vii, WORK in fact ,bev do
work-for wages II Ia the concurrent testimony OF i'm
partial men the south that for wages they working
the attention Of those who disposed be respondent
10 this extraordinary fact that since tho last Christmas
practi ally really undergone revolution, that
the whole ableboded force of the laborng Of the
transformed IabOreTS
workmcn, and working to-day for This
impossible thing-ihis mountain OF dflculty-has all
been moved ont OF the way, quietly that scarcely
think what has taken place, silently the mig sips
into the day, and friction feel jar
these have out from the state of unpaid and
unwilling laborers nto the condition OF paid aborers for
wages and doing their duty faithfully
miHrs rRcrstuY
affirm as part OF this bill OF liberty that they are to
have rights OF property just the came right earn II
thai you have; Just the of ming that
Won have lust the same power OF conveying IL hat YOU
haVa the "A IN havn
They TO be raised up all the rights and
mites Of property they exist according to the law Of
they TO have likewise hes civil rightsone crimi
nal aw-not code for blacks and code for whites
1hs country despises class legislation tlass legisia
ton, unjust always and odous hero Is Just
just and should 10 just odous the South the
North crime whether committed by black white.
Murder is as murorous at white mans hands "a at
black mans hands Theft Ia thoit II q man
carres midnight his faco Than IL he carried the
ing on his brow: And as with regard to tho criminal
law there Is to b. court OF aiudicat 90, and equal
rights in tina, court for ALL upon the ground that to
hood belongs the law aud that courts arc for Its roicc
uon ana they are 70 nave Tue right OF appear ng OF
y, au'ng anu 9e,ng lmp.eaaea o. oea,ns w'nes. ana
ye,ns Against JUDI ~ any o'"e' nee An III
'"c eo"'""n'J naS.
SUFFRAGE
Then, lastly, they 10 have the right or sunrage
suffrage the log cal sequence OF emancipation There
two doctrines Of suffrage: thai Il h boon
prerogaiive conferred by society. That Is the old
narchcsi doctrine whitfield down small an essen
tia element In monarchy yet Thoro Is but other
ground-tha IA that sunrHge belongs 10 manhood, and
that every h4t Is born h born 10 suffrage, and
10 suffering alone claim ffage for the black sim
ply beca SC he Is man. and on that ground only claim
for every man; not boon given him, mark you,
but an inherent right; because we have taken the
doctrine that every man has natural fight to liberty.
Now, in our ace In country and under insttu-
tons, IL impossible for man to have liberty uni ~ no
has all that Is indispensable 10 liberty by VIII CHI II Is
cured and operated II man fays have right 10 my
ear, then have right to the palsaons OF tho
pierre without which the ear Is nothing Il have |
natural rght TO my eye then haze natural right TO
I'M n d no ACC nj
nat raj right Its nstruments and when you say
man has right to his liberty, under government
nation and IN this age Of the word he has with that
natural ght and part OF H. ght TO all thos IN.
slrumcns that Indispensable 10 the acquiring and
executing OF H. Now. n Their b. thing that stands
palmer than seem, M thai A. A. thai