The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-13

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illustration. There were twenty
seven non-slaveholders to one slave
holder, and yet the slave power con-
trolled that State. Let us talk about
this matter as it is. Although the
colored man was in slavery there, and
owned as property in the sense and
II the language of that locality and
OF that community, yet in comparing
his condition and his position there
with the non-slaveholder, he usually
estimated his Importance just in pro-
portion to the number of slaves that
his master owned, with the non
stakeholder Have you ever lived
upon plantation?
Mr.. Douslass-I have, your Excel
lency.
The President-When you would
Look over and see man who had a
large family struggling hard upon a
poorer piece of land, you thought
great deal less of him than YOU did
of your master?
Mr.. Douglass-Not I.
The President-Well,I I know such
was the case with large majority of
you in those sections. Where such
is the case, we know there is an
enmity; we know there is hate.
The poor white man, ON the other
hand, was opposed to the slave and
his master, for the colored man and
his master combil ed kept him in
slavery by deprivirg him of a fair
ductions Of the ricr land of the
country. Don't you know that when
a colored man is going to hunt a
master, as they call it, for the next
year, they will prefer ivil g with
man who owned slaves RI her than
with one who did not? 1 know the
fact, at all events.
Mr.. Douglass-Because ley treat
ed him better.
The President-They die not con-
slider it quite as respectable there to
hire to a man who did not own
negroes as to one who did.
Mr.. Douglass he would
not be treated as we'll.
The President-Then that is an
other argument in favor of what I am
going to say. It shows that the CO.
lored man appreciated the STAKEHOLDER
more highly than he did the man
who did not own slaves; hence the
enmity between the colored man and
the on-slaveholders The white
man was permitted to vote before the
Government was derived from him.
He Is part and parcel of the politi-
cal machinery. Now, by rebellion,
or revolution, and when you come
back to the object of this war, you
find that the abolition of slavery was
not one of the objects, Congress and
the President himself declared that it
was waged on our part in order to
suppress the rebellion. The abolition
of slavery has come as an incid ent to
the suppression of the great rebel
lion: AS an incident, and as nm ac-
cordant, we should give it the proper
direction. The colored man went
into this rebellion slave; by the
operation of the rebellion, he came
out freedman, equal to freeman
In any other portion of the country.
There, then, is great deal done for
him on this point. The non-slave-
holder, who was forced into the re-
bellion, and was as loyal as those who
Lived beyond the limit of the State,
was carried into it, and his property,
and, in q number of instances, the
lives, of such were sacrificed; and he
who has survived, has come out of it
with nothing gained, but great deal
lost. Now, upon principle of JUS
tice, should they be placed in CON
dition different from what they were
before? On the one hand, one has
lost great deal, and, in a political
point of view, scarcely stands where
he did before. Now we are talking
about what we are going to argue.
We have got at the hate that existed
between the two races. The query
comes up, whether these two races,
situated as they were before, without
preparation, without time for passion
and excitement to be appeased, and
without time for the slightest i'm
provement, whether the one should
be turned loose upon the other, and
be thrown together at the ballot-box
with this enmity and hate existing
between them? The query comes up,
will we not then commence war of
races? think L understand this
thing. Especially is this the case
when you force it upon a people
without their consent.
The darkies, with this flea in their
ears, departed, grumbling at the Pre-
sident's inconsistency. They forth
with wrote out and published in the
Chronicle q card, addressed to the
President, whose views and opinions
they pronounce 'sunsound and preju-
dicial fo tho biobaSt iotaraofoo of tho