The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-02-15

y you III LnOsc b6cUO0B WH0Fc SUcD is Lnt
case. We know thero is an enmity.-
4 We know there is a hate. The poor
, white man, on the other hand, was op
posed to the slave and his master, fol
the colored man and his master, com
p Fbined kept him in slavery, by depriv,
ling him of a fair participation in the
4. labor and productions of the rich lands
OF the country. Don't you know that
the colored man, in going to hunt O
mastci9 as they called it, for the next
year, preferred hiring to a man who
owned slaves. rather than to onewho
! didn't? | know the fact, at all events
Mr. DouglassTBecaus :hey treated
him better. 20" ~
The President q They did not consid.
.er " quite as respectable to hire to a
man who did not own negroes as to
\ hire to one who did. aE qr.g q .
Mr.. Douglass--"Bcc he wouldn I
d be treated as we'll" 70
Thc Prcsident-''Thcn that is anoth
er argument in favor ofwhat / am 90.
ing. to say, 1t shows that the colored
man estimated the slave owner more
1 highly than he did the man who did
not own slaves. I" ''o's'
hi Hence tho enmity between the col
orcd mau and the Observation-Disclosures -
The white man was permitted to vote
before the Government was devised. -
He Is a part and parcel of the political
macbnerynow, by rebellion or rcvo.
luton, and when you come back to the
objects Of, this war you find that the
abolition of slavery was not one ofthc
objects. -...
tnqCopgrcss and the President declared
Pthat it was on our part, in order to
suppress the rebellion. .n,The abolition
of slavery has come as an incident to
the suppression Of the great rebellion.
AS an incident we should give to it the
proper direction The colored man
went intothis rebellion as a slave. '
By the operation Of the rebellion he
came out freedman equal to freedmen
in other portions Of the country. There
is q great deal done for him on this
Ipoint. The non.slaveholder who was
forced into the rebellion, and was as
loyal as those that lived beyond the
limits Of the slave State, was carried
intoit and the property and in num-
bcr ofinstances, the lives Of such were
Sacrificed. And he who has survived
has como out of itwith nothing gained,
but Q great deal lost. 20 l!i.m aa,o
| Now, upon n principle of justice,
should they be placed in condition
different from what they were before?
On one hand one has gained great
deal On the other hand one has lost
a. great deal, and, in apolitical point of
view, scarcely stands where he did
before. 'i''' '. 10 .s.
Now VIC are talking about where we
are going to begin. We havo got at
| the hate4that existed between the two
races. Tho query comes up whether
/, these two races, situated as they were
before, without preparation, without
time, for passion and excitement to be
appcased, and without time for the
slightest improvement, and whether
the one should be turned loose upon
4 the other. and be thrown together at
The balIot-boX, with this enmity and
bate existing between them. The
query, / say, comes up, will VIC not
then commence war ofraces? think
| l understand this thing, and especially
| is this the case when you force it up.
on hepeople without their consent
/ You have spoken about tho Govern,
ment. Where is the power derived?-
We say it is derived from the people.
!, let us take it so an | refer it to the
District of Columbia by way Of illus,
tration. Suppose, for instance, here in
this political community, which, to a
= certain extent, must have government
must have law, and putting it now up.
on the broadcast basis you can put it
Take into consideration the relation
which the white has heretofore borne
to the colored race, is it proper to force
upon this community, without their
consent, the elective franchise, without
regard to color, making it universalf
The Government must have a con.
trolling power--must have lodg.
mcnt..
For instance, suppose Congress sho'd
pass law authorizing an election to
be held, at which all over twenty-one
years of age, without regard to color,
should be allowed to vote, and a ma,
iority should decide at such election
that tho elective franchise should be
universal, what would you do about itf
Who would settle it? Do you deny
that the FIRST great principle Of the
right Of the pooplc TO govern them
seIves2 Will you resort to an arbitra.
ry powor and say thatya majority Of
the people shall receive a state Of
things they are opposed tor
{ Mr. Douglass was said be,
fore the'war." ..........l 3. ~
The Prcsident-"I am now talking
about principle, not what somebody
said" ''i' n "a ta..
!. Mr., Downing-"Apply what you
have said, Mr.. President, to South Car
olina, for instance. " t.a,f.
!, The President -"Supposo you go tc
South Carolina or Ohio; that does moi
+ change the principle at all. The query
/, to whichII have referred still comes
up. When our Government is under
!, going a fundamental change of govern
ment, commenced upon this principle
] and has existed upon it, now you pro
pose to incorporate ar element thai
/ did not exist before in it. | say thS