The Portland daily press., 1866-02-10


trayed in the above familiar coloquy, he also
betrayed some confusion of IDEAS, and ignored
at least two facts Of the most vital importance
in deciding theiquestion presented to his mind.
He seems to have ignored the fact that the
colored race constitute part of~the people,
and the additional fact that the white people
of the South, by their treason, lost all their
rights, and are to-day allowed to remain UNI
disturbed in the country they have insulted
and whose flag they have dishonored, only by
his own clemency. .z.,-..-z-..s...--.s---.
Briefly let us look at few points in the
above. Says the President: { a
The colored man went into this rebeilion a
slave. BY the operation OF the reDelnon ne.
came out a freedman-equal to freedman IN
anv other norton of the country. Then there
is, a preat deal done for him on this point. The
non-slayebolder who was forced into the re-
belJion. and was as loyal as those who lived
beyond the limits of the state, and his propeI
~ ond in a number of instances the lives Of
sI,ch were sacrificed, and he who has survived
has come out of it with nothing gained, but a
great deal lost. Now upon the principle of
Justice should they be placed in condition
different from what they were before? -
five understand the logic Of this, the non
STAKEHOLDER, who has been in the rebellion and
lost, would be wronged and degraded by being
placed politically on an equality with the loyal
negro who has fought to save his country and
to. 'subvert the rebellion of his white neigh
Dor 4 Is the negro to receive his forced free
dom as a reward for his own loyalty Is he
to be kept in subordination to the white man
because, by the fortunes of the white mans
treason, the latter has lost while he has gain
ed The burglar fires and robs his poor
neighbor's house, intending his ruin but the
latter, by proyident insurance, is perhaps ben
efttted by the violence, while the criminal
gets into the clutches of the law. Does justice
demand the balancing of such an account by
making the losing criminal the superior of the
benefited victim of his violence and wrath
19 True, the President says the non7slavehold-
ers were loyal and were forced into the re-
belion. But just before he said, ga very small
proportion Of the white persons, compared
lHwith the whole number Of such, owned the
Hcolored people of the South !" and he takes
the estate of Tennessee in Illustration" and
says in that State "there were twenty-seven
Hnon-slaveholders to one STAKEHOLDER, and yet
"the shareholders controlled the State" What
are we to think of the innocence and loyalty
of tauenty-seuen men, full grown and develop
ed, who would allow one man to force them to
commit the highest criine-a crime the only
penalty of which, prescribed by the supreme
law is death If such be the quality, the
pluck, and the spirit of the Southern non
Shareholders, we think it will take long time
for even President johnson to convince the
world that their degradation, by being put on
a political level with The loyal colored people,
would be greater burden than they could
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10 One other point. The President said :'''H
Do you deny that first great principle of the
right of the people to- govern themselves
Will you resort to an arbitrary power and say
amajority of the people shall receiver state
of things they are opposed too s9siIlnpl'e2A
Even President johnson would hardly abide
the logic, of his own test, when carried to an
olio Vsoi iei i 1tn'5
ty Of the people Of Maine, in Constitutional
eonvention' should provide Tor DISTINGUISHING
every Democrat' or 10 renoer lnenglole 1or the
exercise of the right of suffrage the child of
every man VINO VINO yotea fof geo, Is. mcclellan,
OF the cmle otseveryi foreigner, wouio ME-
johnson think such a people deserving of any
tnnlnS petrer tnan an arpltrary power, or tnat
such majority should not nave forced upon
them state OF things to which they were OPP
poseda When Mr. Douglass tried to make
MN Apply ms rule 10 south Caronna, ms re-
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Placement Of tba. a., neone in soma n If tba s+ates
- n;ort,, ond - tto vow ,oo,,,o o,,;,.u of
treoso, 3 ana allowed 10 ,era.c;sa syo,, t,o
smallest civ;l and olitcal RIGHT ~ Nv q, act
of bis own nardonino nowerI Womb II hove
been tyrannical in him. when he pardoned to
,aor;ra fba bA,,csfort, their ,,olitfca, oet,o,,
should recognize the PRINCIPLES of eternal right
and ;,sticeS No one, will saw the Presidents
deniess the demands Of, sueb RIGHT and sneb.
i,,st;ca far no frankly said to Mr.. DOUGLASS. 81
or1n Ir wpep 90 YHAr ALI, yo1T Apvo.
c.rr coI,n mn noNR1,o THE rvrNx15N. on
AN rvrs .g!7TIr go 81 >; .n3I.lG9 u
gwot.,,o ,o.vo If tb;s ro.ttor for tho ,,ros.
entIw;tb a b,ief, notice of, single aad;tion q,
no;nt : To,v,rds' the ,close of The confa,ence
President johnson. limited his desire that the
colored men, sbould leave the South leave the
country. emiprate- 81 thinkv said he, 9that
atbe co1ored neon,e can live and advance in
acivilization. to -better q advantage elsewhere.