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


A false policy in any way planned or accented,
and We are DESTROYED. One single, one confident |
of a lite-time-has ruined the msrble which he |
! elieved 10 lie plastic as clay TO his ouch.
For this rea, on EN- clad that the senate mas
taIled to pass the Reconstruction bill of the House
1t is not sufficient merely to disfranchise Rebels |
who deserve the punishment 1t is equally nt cessary
TO enfrancbise loyal men, VINO have earned the
right 1t would be barbarism to leave them to the
tender meTcies OF their ex masters 1t robustness
to suppose that the United states can protect tnem
IN such restoration, even through the Civil Rights
bill.
peasant is wronRed oppressed, he only says;-
'God is hgh anu III Emperor too far of to
Lear" and submits. In such a condition OF rcslora
ton the poor Liberated Save think that God IS
indeed high, and will be compelled TO understand
that the central Government is too tar OF to hear
who knows not the story of the slave who, in the
early and EVIL DAYS OF the came day to the
headquarters of camp and demanded to It's gene
ra Slaves were scarcoiy the fit visitors OF an officer
brilliant in array and mighty power; but a mouse.
on know. can be of service 10 hon. Ibis general
IN difficulty, and this slave carried information
that miaht add to his knowledge and serve his plans
SO the chattel was admitted.
Who knows not how the general being in need Of
arms Tor bis troops, this slave guided hlm to place
where were concealed ammunition and weapons
manifold concealed there by other hands and Tor
another purpose tnan this-how, being strange to
the country, this slave described lay and bear
Ings, the paths to take the roads to avoid, the
masked batteries 10 escape the strong points to hold
-ior actual knowledge though a slaves, IS better
than theoretical planning, though a generaPs-how
lor all tnls, the sole compensation ne QeBlreu was
rife ana chance to die, and the poor boon was de.
med him. How the next day, as he went up and
down amid our soldiers, and under The flag, man
came nding hot with haste aud rage, INTO the camp
and demanded with oaths and revillngs, that his
sage be instantly gwen over to his swift vengeance
Did none protest, did none help, did none saver
Oh country hide thy face viii st IL is old that from
these soldiers he had armed from this general he
had assisted not hs nd was raised to prevent fate
which my lips tail Justly TO describe. This ave,
with cnan on MS leg with rope around his body,
was hed 10 the saddle OF ms master and under the
hna Spn hnr Qnn ran hu 10 10 NrnaG
intervening miles to his home; when the limbs
JAILED under the strain, the lash on the shoulders
was a restorative. Reaching it, his comrades
and tnends-nay, more his mother-were collected
to see the example" collected around the stake to
which was bound the poor body that sheltered this
heroic and martyr SOUL 4 cannot, cannot paint that
scene! Great God! that such things were possible,
and thy heavens 1all mott but through the sound OF
failing blows, revlhng oaths, and hIdeous blasphemy,
throuA the ahrighted and ghas y stiffness of his
compan ions, there went up cry for mercy, no
shrek OIL pain. no wall of despar but when the long
torture passed, and nature hau yielded to tuls
work of hends, the dying face was turned
tOwalds his mother, the eyes dim with the
veil that fails between time aud eternity, seeing
her eyes with their latest gance-the voice not
weak, but clear and strong even in death spoke for
her ear. BE of good cheer, mother; they de-
stoy the body, but they cannot kIl the soul" And
even with the bonos the free soul walked with God.
= Nth what weapon did we conquer in this war?
Every one knows however many may be unwilling
to confess, that 1T was Liberty Through what path
did we wax to victory ana peaceP Every one knows
that it was through Emancipation had we not given
freedom TO the slaves should have fought to de-
feat or an exhaustion that would have consented
to separation. had we not received the aid and help
these same slaves, niormers, guides as spies
as soldiers who shall say TO what point the conflict
would have been proIongedg What gratitude we
owe them! More than the pre- ent Is able to COM
pute and that only the iuture can understand.
But IN dong this for us they have enlailed on
pressors ever inflicted upon them in the past. Wine
the black their slave they desplsed him As
Their conqueror they hate him. Win the alisocrats
Oh the South be quick 10 fOg get that they
peeled to fight with their own slaves at Port Hud-
| son, Olustre, MIken's Bend, at Wilson's wharf,
Oh the James, through Georgia and the Carollnas ?
| Nay, that they were again ana again defeated and
| forced to surrender unto them Will they fail 10
| rem ember that INTO their conquered and burning
capitals, INTO Charleston and kicumond, the first
| troops o enter, wearing the blue Uniform of the
republic, bearing it's banner, keeping step to the
march OF Its music were black troops; of them
| but few months or years before, bond thralls in
| their midst.
BY saving us they have destroyed themselves,
unless we protect them by seeing that they are ena
b, ed to protecJ themselves
. What abomtnauon OF cruelty would it be to use
these men to conquer the South, then thrust them
under the heel Ot the humbled and infuriated con-
| queredI
AS one of them two years since a slave in
Charleston John finckneYJ, VIZ tes, and want you
to observe the extraordinary language used, "rhey
(the whtes) will make freedom curse to us for we
have home, no land, oatn, no VOTE and conse-
quently country; and 1t would be far better that
he had ney er been born than to undergo the hard
sh p ana punishment that will be inflicted on us ii
| we are lett alone. May Heaven lorbid, and God
| Almighty protect us from the revenge of the
|
What was the record of the wal through the days
| in which that slave of whom l tolo you was sent
| back to slaveIyp The record was de- eat, defeat
defeat dishonor and DEATH Not until the nation
put an end to these abomlnatlons, not until the
save was man, not until we had learned and
practsed the first lesson OF justice did victory lead
| our almles 10 peace The slave cried TO God, and
| God heard him.
| AS the war did not triumph, think you power
can endu that contains such dlscordanG elements
| Every black child apprenticed, torn from the
arms OF its mother, every black man hunted to
nv ma Ia fran
man OF woman bought and sold IN the mars OF 4 pace
every murdt r. riot, every massacre cry to GOD
against u.s. The bodies may be killed, but the souls
| ana their testimony cannot be killed. "shall not
| God avenge mis- own elect which cry day and night
unto him, though he bear long with them? L tell
you that he VIII avenge them speedily"
some talk OF this as q matter of tlme though
it were some phenomenon of human nature or the
physical world over which they could have posi-
| ble influence or control. Now we have the power
in our hand; now we can exercise 1t now or never
by us must this work be done.
The effects OF the Presidents policy are stamped
80 plainly that he that runs may read them. These
people OF the South are more rampant, more bitter
more reasonable at present If that is possible, than
they were while the war was actively waged, and
rival armies cOntended. They follow the course o.
their leaders, and, whilst denouncing the
unconstitntional acts OF Congress, and the
rPhIs in The Government as though they had never
gone to war TO destroy that Government, stoler
Its money, nor rbed its arsenals, nor built mter
nal machines, to blow up Its ships and men; nor set
atioat pirates, 10 prey upon its commerce; nol
Drained its resources, nor DESTROYED its honest de
tenders, nor red Its dead, nor starved its prisoners
in loathsome charnel houses through four years un
paralleled III the annals OF time.
What this po icy is, be only too well estimated
from those VINO support it, give 1t and and comfort
Who dare support this policy to-aayY Iquote iron
the record OF speeches., papers, and letters; Tha
Lee supports it. The uuhappy victim of tYrannl
cal Norfh at Fortress Monroe, j. Davis supports 1T
IT. Every man that pointed Rebel rifle fired a
Rebel cannon, supports 1t. Every traitor IN the