Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-04-05
Negro Suffrage i'll the Distict of Columbia.
Speech Of Hon. George La1edOn,
Delivered in the Senate of Pennsylvania.
JANUARY 81, 1866
CONCLUDED FROM LAST WEEK.


Mr.. LANDON. | thank the Senate. This
/, the point that l wish to make-that when
y5u were pressed by circumstances, you
promised to these people thatif they would
side with you, that you would recognize
and maintain their liberty. Will you do it?
Once more, sr We hope to see the
south regenerated. We desire to see a
change Of things in the southern half of
this country. 1t never has been developed
As it should have been. 1t never has been
in the condition that it ought to have been.
We hope to see it ploughed, subsoiled and
planted with new secd--with good seed
with seed that shall bring forth an abun-
liant harvest Of JOY and human greatness.
We want to see the south developed in
telectualy There is a great sea of mind
there to be cultivated. We wish to see it
developed physically The South has the
garden of the land As the devil always
gets the best tunes so the South has got the
best acres
What is this garden spot now in COM
parison with New England?
The institutions of the SOuth-their sys-
ten of labor was like a simeon upon the
face of the land, whitening and blighting
Now we hope to see a different state of
things. We hope to see the South devel-
oPcd intellectually, physically and morally.
We trust the time may come when this
southern half OF our great country shall
bud and blossom as the rose.
Who is to work this change? ? Who is to
Sahsoil the land? Who is to constitute an
important part Of the element of improve
Ment and production? These four mil
you would have them successfully de.
veIop the country by the sweat of their
BROW and the toll OF their hands, they must
Themselves be developed,
In direct proportion as you develop the
.aborer you develop the country. Every
man knows that with serfs as laborers a
nigh development Of the country is imposs-
ble. In proportion as you elevate the la
hgIer You pave the way for the elevation
d The whole community. There are four
millions Of freedmen in the Southern States
hey are needed there to do the work. 1t
all perfectly idle to talk about driving
.lem into Central America OF elsewhere
III the first place, you could not do it If
!on would, and in the second, you should
lot If you could They are in the land and
jAty are to do the work You are to ele-
'ate them, improve them. You are to say
" the missionary, " Go there and go to
work, and to the school teacher "Go there
and 60 to teaching" There are already
many teachers there and many Of the freed
men are III schools. Yea, seventy thous-
tAa colored children are now learning ru
t'mental wisdom. You cannot develop the
and unless you develop the developers.
Ion must bring them up. You cannot
make water rise higher than the fountain.
We hope TO see peace in the South after
his. We have had trouble enough We
ave had war ever since | can remember
" nave had battles in Congress and out
" congress. Then came the bloody battle
just ended, and now comes the battle OF
5eaS gain. Il had thought when the bap-
'Nh ol blood was upon us, that the four
years war would settle the conflict but |
see that the same old contest is again upon
~ and II we do not take the right path
Low, It may be necessary to fight it all
''gt again with shot and shell.
Il How will you have peace in the South ?
ueFe are four millions Of colorcd people,
,-s' dIsenthraled and emancipated, and
vice as many millions of whites The col
..o people have snuffed the breath of lib.
'.y7some have fought in your battles,
f,,le tl nave begun to read, some have read
fIo o speeches Of Patrick Henry. they have
' Ight to take the Tribune, and they do
Is, 'ney have read their minds have expan.
F"' 'helr impulse toward liberty and the