Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-12-05

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friends, never so numerous as now
and to the merciful consolation of Al
mighty God, who never pitied her al
He now pities her, we commend the
weeping widow, and pray that she may
long live to share the honor of hei
martyred husbands fame. I. B.
From the Anti-SIavery Standard. Nov. III
The Latest PhIIIipic---Wen.
dell Phillips Programme
for the Euture--A Raspine
Article from the BItteresI
Pen In America, sc.
The people have spoken, and utter
ed their veto on johnson, his policy
and his adherents. The Republican
party has been the mere channel
through which, as the most convenient
and ready one, the Nation has spoken,
In fact there are but two parties to thi:
fight, and the Republican is not one OF
them. The President, as the South:
leader, is one. He seeks to shield the
South from all loss in consequence oi
her defeat, and to restore her principle
Of oligarchy-a white mans govern.
mcnt-as unchanged as possible. He
is one party to the fight. The people
are the other. They have made up
their minds that having gotten their
hands on the neck of the sectional
oligarchy, they l0iH strangle Il before hey
quit hold. They believe, with Lander,
that ''a king should be struck but once,
mortal blow" They mean that Sla-
very, with all its roots, branches, suck
ers, parasites and dependents, shall die
utterly and forever This is the signi-
fcation of our late triumph. 1t is more
than a partisan victory. 1t is the dec
lsration of a national purpose. Congress
and its amendments were counted out
of the battle. The President, repre-
senting the South's claim to an imme-
diate return into Congress, bringing
with it State sovereignty still strong
enough to uphold oligsrchy, appealed
to the people. They have answered
him, and nailed his theory to the
counter as base coin:
Congress abdieated and left the field lOhen
Il Tried TO stand neutral, asserting to its
amendments to the South's claim of SOW
ereignty over the law of citizenship, vet
protesting against the Executives
usurpation of acknowledging it. From
that moment the nation ignored them,
and fought its own battle on the prin.
ciple itself-impartial manhood rights
the nation through. Whoever will
serve them in carrying out this purpose
they forget and pardon all his past,
however equivocsl, and take him to
their hearts. Witness that pride of the
West, Gen. Logan. Whoever tries to
baulk them in this effort, no matter
what his past merits, or laurels, he
sinks out of sight. Witness Beecher
lost in the wave he fondly imagined he
should stem. Witness Grant unable
to stir plaudit on the Illinois prairies
Illinois, his own State-from an audi
ence of twenty thousand men, one-halfI
his own soldiers. Witness the New
York Times sunk fifty per cent. in
value in six months by its vain attempt
to oppose this dumb but reslstless
movement of the nation. This asser-
ton at all events, is utterly false. Ed.
TINES. This fact that no name. no laurel.
no services, 10eigh a feather If put into the
soals against HadicaliSm, Is the most cheer
ing and wholesome characteristic of tie hour.
1t is this that cheers as even against
such an appalling fact as that million |
and a half of voteTs-more than six
hundred thoussnd in the two States of
New York and PennsylVania-are still !
corrupt and ignorant enough to sup
port the mobocrat at the White House.
We recognize the terrible significance
&c fhr1 &c DIT Is,1,s., i Il I
of besotted and corrupt tools, the pat.
ronage of the Government and the
moral supporter the South-if the word
i'moraP' can eyer be used in such con.
nection-and its influence must be fear
ful. Still, the people have shown such
true instincts, such unfaltering deyo-
ion, plucking out right eyes and cut
ing off right hands when they offend
I'd, that we catch fresh hope from the
slections Maryland is herself testi- i.
nony of our theory. That defeat is fit
'ebuke to her faithless leaders. They
the negro out of his rights to
conciliate their opponents. They sue
,eeded in preventing Congress from
granting suffrage in the District of I,
Columbia for the same purpose. They
jagged the late Loyal Southern Con-
'ention on that question to propitiate !
ebels. OF course they entered the ean- :
ass loaded with the odium of their :
principles, and without the
trength which would have come from
heir avowal. Such policy deserves and
ecures defeat. But this defeat will !
ave Maryland and Tennessee. Masss- :
husetts nails her colors to her top )
allant mast. First among the States
dear old Commonwealth re-
elves the hated and victim race into
er Legislative Halls. While Tri5nnes :
nd Post, while National Republican
Committees and State Committees were
rebels back to Congress,
ven if they rode over the neck of our :,
My Southern ally, the negro, Massa- =
husetts shows them a specimen of sach !
model State as the loyal masses mean
hall exist in the present territory of =
outh Carolina before they begin to in =
uire whether it, said State, has chosen 2
ny fit person to represent it in Con- = =
ress. =
Revolutions never go backward. 1t :,
equally truethat Rrdicalism travels =
Eastward. Personal Liberty Bills, 9
Iomans's Rights Bills, and all such :
gislation, started from New England, = =
nd have Swung around the circle. /" =
he last Yankee notion viii soon be- h
n its travels, and complete them ~
hen North and South know no race n
sfore the law. Then, when a million :,
black men aid in shaping our ma 8
onal policy, their race will feel the "a
feet the world over. They will new ~
leave their brethren in Cuba under -
ie yoke. They will throw shield -
'er the struggling nationality of Hay =,
and lift Brazil into harmony with y I:
e nineteenth century. Then will "a
le touching and sublime picture Ma.
Lowell drew of Africa cease to be p
ue. a
Her great dark face no light 1,
From the sunset glow could take. Al
DARK as the primal night ti(
kre over the earth god spake; NJ
II seeHe5 for her a ddloR could HeUer break 81
So sit I. dreary. desOlate.
I'LL the slow moving hand of Fate an
Shall lift me from my sunken state, III