, 1866-02-09
Passage Of the Home
| stead Bill.
SOUTHERN LANDS FOR ACTUAL
! SETTLERS, REGARDLESS
OF COLOR.
Speech Of Senator Lane on
| Reconstruction.
Reply Of the Colored
| Delegation to the
| President.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
Another Coal Mine Exp'osI0n---
Thirty Lives Lost.
Reported Death Of Gibson,
! the Sculptor, Dnfounded.
English Indignation at the
Murder Of Gordon.
Missionaries Driven Out Of China.
THE RECONSTRUCTED SOUTH.
Independence, No., Threatened
i by Bushwhackers.
COT. FLETCHER SENDS FOE
Il ASSISTANCE.
j Gen. Butler Cuts Gen
/ Grant.
!, REPLY OF THE C0L0REI
II DELEGATION.
Independence, No., Threatened
by BushWhackers.
GOT. FLETCHER SENDS FOR
ASSISTANCE.
Gen. Butler Cuts Gen.
Grant,
REPLY OF THE C0L0RED
DELEGATION.

Answer to the Presidents Srcech-Thc
Hostility between the sfayex aud
While Tra&1,-1'fle Presidents Arcu-
naeus Demesithcd-1<eaiy to sgae Celo-
utzation Scheme.
WAsAISaroS. Feb. a.--1hc following Is the pub
lIshed reply ot the colored delegation 10 President
johnson prepared after they hsd the,z interview
With him ycsiestlay:
sense Of p1o}fery, as vel as your own repeated In
umauon OF fndlspofltiHu to dtstusa or 10 listen 10
reply to the viesp and opinions JOE were pleased
today. the undersigned would respectfully take
tins method 0. replying thereto. 'Bcliev3ng. rs
We do. the sieWs md opinion. expressed 10 thst
address. entirely unsonnd and prejutlcial 10 The
h'ghe-t interest ot0pr race as well Al our country.
Ne csunos do otherwise than expose the same. and
rs fts u may be IN OFT power. arrest their danger
influences. Ii IL not neoessa5 at this time. 10
cali attention 10 more than t~o OF three features al
your remarkable addreee.
The atst point 10 which We feel especially bound
to take exccpuop, fa your attempt to found policy
opposed 10 our cnfrauch1eeneE.- upon the alleged
ground Of M existing hostility on the purt Of the
se whe o 5he
end bold that IL Ia entirely frepfocal hui you OBJ
ytousls commit an error By drawing IN argument
n9sn 20 incident o. stals q s1aseiy and making II
the South IL easily explained II hat liz root and
bo,b .ds. b. he eunnins of the :sye msstc1s. r.
lhnee matter. sec1tld their heceudancy over both
The poor whites and the hl1ckf br putting eonity
each. There vas no earthly rrason Why the blacks
should not bate and dread the poor shitss when In
their naEtess received their elaye c1:chete, slave
drivers and overteerf. 1hey were the men called
IN upon al occasions b. iht steEs when auy deud
RI orsrase Va to Be committed upon :es s4.s
OF ibis hutred beng removed. the hatred must be
:cmorrd also when elavcr. Is atotshed. The cause
u the autasousm il removed. and Eou must ece
that il II altogether .hoetcal. 1t II putting new
aine INTO old bottles. Mcndfnc nett garments " ith
old clothes, TO 1cgislate from flaseboid1ng and
bare repeatedly declared ,onr purpose 10 MAINTAIN
tn freedom. Besides esen II It Neee true A. ron
aleee that The hostility of pc blaeks toward the
freedom af in ktate Of tla1R1y, IN the name Of
Heaven, ne rereeutia1ly nsk, how can you+ IN new
q your professcd desire % promote the welfare q
the b1ack uan- derivr him Of Ill menus Of defence
The panopfy Of political power!. caa ii be that
fhe strong and cast down Inc defencelctrt Csn
you, by art possibility OF reasoning. regard this Is
jus', fair Or w1se:, Experience lroses that those
greatest inpunity. Men arc whipped oftencst who
a1e whipped eatirst Peace between races II not to
i'e secured BY degrading one nae md exciting an,
i. from auo,her; But b. ms1nfainnga .tate o eqas
jnsttee between ali parnee-asst pure, then peace
On The colonization subject that you we.e p1caecd
to breach very much could be said. II il tnposef
bic to Euppose. In view Of the useFulne.s oF ,he
black man In time OF peacs ns taboscf
in the Sonih. md in t1ne os Nax soldier Al the
North, and the growing respect for hrs HEhts
among the people snd hls Interesting adapt alton TO
high tta,e Of civilization Ia this. his native land
2hxt there can come time when be ean be removed
| from this country without = ,ezrtne shock to IT,
pro.tetisy nnd peace. B-stdcs, the WORT enemy Of
| ihe nation should not cast upon it, tafr name
greater iufanY .nan to ruppo.e that Negroes could
BE- tolerated among then, IN state Of the most de-
grading slavery and oppression, and mutt he cast
avny and driven into exile for no other cau.e Than
! haying bt.es trted from thelr chalnf.
fsignedl GEO. 7. DOWNING.
JoHS JONES,
WM. WAIrFER,
FlED. UoruLAss
LEWIS T. poCGlAzs,
And otheJs