The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-10


has ext'rpated slavery from our country. God
grant that all things pertaining to its unjust
laws or to tts spirit may be extirpated The
Rebel Legislatures have recently made laws IN
direct opposition to the Constitutional amend
ment, which reads-'Neither slavery nor in
voluntary servitude, except as a punishment
for CRIME, whereof the party has been duly
convicted, shall exist within the United States,
or any place subject to their Jurisdiction"
These Legislatures, also, true to their slavo.
cratic instincts, ignore by their acts the self
evident truth that man has an inherent right
to enjoy civil, religious, and political liberty.
There is not ON earth republic but this that
legislates the rights OF man away. No nation
but this dislranchises freedmen because OF their
color or race. In slavebolding Brazil they do
not go so far as do the enemies OF negro suffrage
in this country. In Brazil, freedmen, regard
less OF color, are equal before the law, ana
the blacks were sent to the Republican Chamber
of Deputies, as representatives. And vet, in what
nation, we ask, have they fought for liberty as
they have in our Revolutionary war, in the war
OF 1872, and IN our receut great struggle for
freedom?
In regard to political rights, we do not as a
nation stand on the same broad basis as did our
Revolutionary fathers. Washington, jefferson,
Hancock, and Hamilton went to The polls and
deposited their ballots where the negroes did
theirs. These Revolutionary patriots advocated
the cause of equal rights, and maintained the
rights CT all ireemen to the balot-box. The
black man voted under Washinetons, Adams,
Madl on's, ana JaCksons administrations.
In five OF the New England States they have
been votIng ever since the Revolutionary war.
In Pennsylvania they continued 10 vote until
1888. In Maryland and Virginia they voted
until 1882; in New Jersey until 1899; and in
North Carolina and Tennessee until 1885.
Negroes, alter lighting in New Orleans under
Jackson, helped to elect the hero to Congress.
+ The black people of this country have been
ardently and universally loyal, and ever ready
TO feht against the anti-democratc and anti
republican principles which despots have sought
to establish in this republic. They are Amer
cans by birth and love freedom with an uudyng
love, which they nstinctvely know is destined
for all Americans.
At New Orleans Mobile, and other cities,
how did they spend the Fourth Of July, 1865?
Was not American freedom honored by them?
Was not the memory of Abraham Lincoln
glorihed by this grateful people? On that day
the black men Of this nation proved themselves
worthy to assist in carrying out the principles
mculcated by the Declaration of Independence.
They proved on that day their right to demand
the same freedom the white man claims.
The negro wants no projection but Just and
equitable laws. He only asks, in the spirit OF
l776, to be entranchised from the thradom OF
oppression. He knows as well as we do that
distinctions growing out OF color OF race are
Incompatible with justice. This is an age of
progress not only for the white man, but the
black man.
The black man is becoming intelligent, and
looks upon the enemies of liberty, lust as the
intelligent white man looks upon slavery
sertdom, vagrant acts oppress ions, and wrongs
imperatlvely demands equal rights and Justice
and believes, with us, thai this demand viii! be
satisfied. He eXClaIms with the friends of equal
rights:-"Le there be freedom .or all, educa-
ton tor all, labor for ALL" Justice demands
this, and nothing else will be satisfactory.
Wewant no more Opeousas ordinance which
prohlbns freedmen from coming to to Hn with
out special permission; which prohibits them
liberty on the streets after 10 O'Clock at night:
which declares that freemen shall not reside
within the limits of the town, unless they be in
the regular service OF some white person or
former master; which refuses lreemen the right
to hold pubic meetings, to preach, or to carry
arms; which refuses them the liberty to barter,
or to sell goods, without the special permission
| ot their employers, under the penalty of i'm
! prlsonments, fines, or hard labor ON the public
! roads. Neither must these persistaut saveocrats
be permitted TO put into operation those IN
| famous laws enacted in the Rebel Democratic
Legislature OF 1865 which force treemen to con-
| tract away their labor and submit themselves
! TO slavery under new names.
we want no negro VagraDt laws, no more Jail
fees, highest bidder. rendition OF poor and ind
gent persons of color no moro reminders OF
the block, the bail cham, the 'nigger dogs" the
fugitive Slave laws, and the slave gangs OF the
| past,
Let this people alone to enjoy the same pro-
lection we are entitled TO claim Let this people,
| with the and OF Justice and liberty, work out
| their own destiny. II they will not work let
| them starve; but give them an equal chance
| with us in the struggle OF life.
| When the slave oligarchy ruled in the pleni-
| tude of its power, the rights of the laborng
| classes were tramDled under foot. Free labor
| was reduced to the level OF slave labor. This
| shall be no more. The fat has gone forth that
| labor shall not be subjected to a domineering
| unscrupdous aristOcraCy. A new era has dawned
| upon this country. Labor in the future will be
| respectable and dIgnifed and command the best
| portion OF the fruit II produces
The Union party of Louisiana has labored
earnestly and faithfully to wipe out the DIS
graceful laws OF the State, that she might be-
Abraham Lincoln was the prime mover in this
| work OF reformation. His sympathes were
ever with the Republican movements. His
| voice. which can never be lost to this nation,
was heard on the eve of his departure from
earth declaring his sympathy with the Constitu.
| tion Of 1864, which IGNORED the Black Code OF
this State, abolished slavery and the laws which
governed 1t, from her statute books.
My friends, the Republican party of Louisiana
! counting white men onlY-are in minority in
| this State Rebel Democratic party, composed
of domneerng arlstocrats, who one year ago
| were fighting against republican liberty, and
who to-day are seeking to crush loyal men, both
white and black, by renewed tyranny, continue
their satanic expressions and wrongs, while
they attempt to draw the veil OF hypocrisy over
their damnaOle cons spiracies.
The National Republican party, to which all
| loyal men in the South belong, seeAs to establish
| liberty and Justice throughout the land. FoI
| the past tour wears II has been working for tree
dom and equal rights, against slavery and op
| preston; against that slayeocratlc po" "ef Whlcl
| hates, with undying hate, Tree schools, a lree
press, free Speech and all that pertains to thai
freedom a just God designs for this mighty
We are called upon to battle with these rebel
lious tyrants. In that work; my irienis,, we
l..ls t