The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-03

childTen-the analogy is too papablv falaclous I.
deceiVe g anv one. You must let the blacks yo Q o.
agree that they shall not count.
TX There is very much OF railing accusation" in
your letter which pass in silence. do not agree
hat the blacks OF the South are destined to exter
minahon, because do not believe they are to be
lett to the tender merces of her whites As to the
Frc2dmen's Bureau, 1t IS to day subsistng quite as
may very soon be dispensed with. Give us equal
rights, secured by equal laws and lei the Bureau be
abolished at once! some VIII die whom ITS opera
tlons would keeo aiive; but the blacks are very
Wiling to take tker chance without il, If they may
thereby secure the inesiimabe besslnG Of just and
x. You and are not lieey to view the late Re-
belhon alike You hold 4 IN assertion OF "the
OF c1spirecy of slaveholders to extend the area
and increase the power OF their iniernal "institu
uOn'" You telk oil "the right TO chance and alter
their form OF government" IN the same breath that
you deny the light OF four mi hons OF southern
people TO any voice whatever framing or modify
ing their government or he laws under when they
live. 1t is plain that at variance With respect
to first principles, and cannot proftaby argue till
we have settled the meaning of terms. From
your point OF view, the firing on an unarmed
steamboat sent with food to the Fe4eral garri-
son IN Fort Sumter, the encirc,ing OIL that fort
with frowning iron-clad bat,ores, the robbery
OF the Federal arsenals, armories, and sub-trta-
suIIe9 throughout the SOUTH the seizure OF the Ma.
tonsl forresses the BETRAYAL and captivity under
Buchanan, mind you y Of the Federal army guard.
ing the frontiers OF Iexrs, the mob vic ence and
terrorism which hunted down and senced Unlou.
isis, especially II NortheTneFs throughout the
sayeholding region, aod, finally, the bombardment
nhu ICuuClOu - sumter, were al htilklng eXemDi-
fcatlons o. the pee fc, lamblke tendencies of the
conspirators for secession WIN, then should you
and discuss the natterf That "the Southern
people"-(l mean, Tor this ouce, the whites onlv)-
were not for secession until bu he'd terrorIzed lied
into acquiescence in the plot through dread of
more immediate ii not more formidable peris, |
hold myself at all tunes ready to demonstrate
That the conspiTators knew they were not il
proved by the haste OF the south Carolina oligarcny
TO rush their state out of the Union with out await.
ing any form OF Cooperation " The facts that in
all the States that seeded before Sumter was BON.
barded to fire the Sou hern heart" there wa, a
cautious avoidance Of any fair. fIank submission of
the momehtous ordnance to popular vote, with
the utter rout OF the Secessonists in majority of
the slave States, have an eloquence that ZAP out
weighs argument. need not expatate on them
Governor Perry 1t Is the height OF presumption
IN those who for four years did their utmost to de-
suOy the Union, now to assume to measure and limit
the 1gh OF the loS al men, Whit for black at whose
hands they experience so toI rbe a defeat-so com
plee an overthrow You ought to counsel them to
accept readily, gratefully, equal rights secured BY
equal laws as the basis of prompt thorough bene-
cent reconstruction Wnen before did ever the ab1o.
Lure victors IN SO mighty struggle say to the van
qushed, "Let henceforth be equals % only to have
The overture repealed and uedg / en- reit you to
considerl Yours, HORACE tiREEIEY
New York, May l, 1865.