The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-21

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sWlnde OF Congress; for IL is a swindle. U,augb-
ter.) Yes, It is swindle. Suppose we IIse fba
word compromise. That is a good word which
you Will hnd ID both worcester and Webster.
II has an honest meaning. Two men own farms
and DO not know where the line runs tbev
don't waste their money on courts but sit do En
and make compromise, and run the line some
where. Two men have made a contract and
made money, but they don't know how To diyide
| ", and don't intend 10 fee lawyers go thev sif
down and divide it with common sense. ~
| Both parties at present should be consplted
ABOUT the right to vote-that is, compromise
IN l1Sg the white men of Massachusetts and
south Carolina met together and shut the negro
outside OF the door, and cheated him, and called
" q compromise. (Applause.) The Thirtv.ninih
| Congress did the same thing. They met to aid
the loyal white man OF the South. and tbe
| President of the White House consulted with
them and shut the doors against our allies our
only allies in the South: for in those dsastrone
| years, when hope almost died, when with sick
enlng hearts we watched the two beams of tbe
scales hanging even, and oman knew which
| would strike the beam-in those long draarv
months of 1860 and 6l, '62, and '63 when 700
feared the foreign hand which would make one
weigh the m ost; what made England and France
tremble before they put their hands into our
1t was that in our own scale hung four mil.
lions of blacks, representing the Justice of Cod
and the civilization OF the nineteenth century
And when the South craved assistance Nan9
leon looked down TO the foundations of his
throne, and Victoria scrutinized hers and thnv
heard the mutered protests OF Lyons and Man
chester's starving thousands, and dared not mt
themselves INTO our quarrel, against God and
justice. tApplause)
They were our allies, but when Congress met
to settle the fate of the nation, they shut the
door IN their faces, and having swlndled them
out OF projection, we came out on the portico
and said, Behold the patent compromise p, The
negro said, "Give me a vote; you took me for a
mark for the bullet, now give me balloI.r 81
can't do that" said Thaddeus Stevens, "here is
n rNlo tn ~ cnRrrN nrAlrA u 1. -
Give me my banner" said the black man.
"You can't have that ~ said Massachusetts, "but
you shall have the right to buy land in South
Carolina, and If you dare to take possession YOU
shall be shot. You shall have The rights of a
trial by jury, Where the judge and all
are Rebels, who will be sure to cheat you. The
thief aries ed on Sunday mo rning tor stealing,
assured the officer that he could not escape
as ne had consclentious scruples against travel
hug Oh Sunday. So the Congress- when it gave
the negro this sham, ragged fragment of rights
PRETENDED they had scruples about giving him
that ballot which was guaranteed, and protec.
ton alike. But the main fault does not lie
there; the main disgrace does. It is a swindle,
not compromise. 1t was mistake of states.
mapship altogether. 1t was an ablication of
duty. Seven months in long debate they argued
TO protect him. Who from? Protect him with
Bureau and Civil Rights bills. From whom?
We do not have an Irish bureau nor Ger
man bureau. We do not have civil rights bill
ior the Irish. What do we have a bureau for
the negro for? Who will hurt him in those ten
territories where lie has been our only ally
Who Will hurt him? look back three years,
and see Wade Hampton on his knees in the
month OF April, halter around mis- neck and
his hands tied behind him. He could not hurt
the negro then; but we unloosed his hands, we
took the halter from his neck, raised him to
his ieet, gave him the land ON which he stood,
put the power of a ballot in his right hand,
gave him back his property and pres tige, and
then set to WORK to protect the negro from him.
Protect the negro! The rulers ought to have
gwen to The loyal black man at the South the
right to vote, and then project the white man;
Tor that is what YOU will have to do. (Applause)
Protect Robert Small from Governor Aiken?
No, indeed Give Robert Small political
status in South Carolina, and pass a bill that
he will not abuse it and hane Wade Hampton.
Protect the negro from Mayor Monroe, of New
Orleans Nay more; give to such men as
Dnrant, of New Orleans, all the power, and tneu
crcun scribe it, and you will see that he will
not abuse Mayor Monroe. 1t is the cart before
the horse. am not making nice distinctions to-
night. am not claiming too much of Congress.
We met the Rebellion on our frontier with four
millions OF black men, and some half million of
whites, our allies Who is to be trusted with
power? Are our allies to Oe put at their mercy?
No! mol (Applause.)
Instead of that, the policy of Congress trusts
the White, dominant, still unconverted, defiant,
revengetul white race with power, ana then sets
to work TO create machinery to guard them.
sheridan said once, in the English House of
Commons, 81 have heard of man dashing his
head out against brick wall, but never heard
OF man building wall expressly for that Dur
pose;" and yet this is exactly what Congress has
been doing Tor seven months.
The error and the Danger are here-every single
question of great importance morally or Justly,
to the fnanC al circles of our seaports, has
vast interest. They look at that possible revo-
luton and panic when the country floats back
TO coin; they remember the dreadful 1919 in
EEgland's history, when Sir Robert Peel dragged
the nation back to guineas; when every other
man man was bankrupt and then say when is our
1919 to cone? Under this policy, nobody can
tell how soon. Nobody can tell how wide these
influences will be- and on the policy which SAYS
10 tue South-Be part OF use, come into har-
mony with the nineteenth century, arrange
yourselves with the industrial energies of the
ration and all its ideas, and we have twelve mil.
hons OF customers that will make every Northern
spindle do double doty, make every Northern
hand be crowded with work, tide us from that
possible panic and leave us no possibility OF one
The nation has not skill, industry or capacity
suthcient to supply the aching void of a truly
reconstructed South. Four millions Of negroes
wanting fifty to "A hundred dollars year of
Northern manufactures, or from five to seven
millions of whites IN the same condition! Why
II would add to the demand on Northern manu-
factories two hundred millions OF dollars for
only the negroes.
On the contrary, admit the element uncon-
Verted No sin that il is unconverted but it is
unconverted. They mean to get capital;
not from you, not from ideas not AS
Illinois got it, from Northern energies and en-.
terprise, but from the Government from in
trigue, from diplomacy. The South, minority as
she was, ruled us from 1900 to 1860, with
the single exception of Kansas. She means to
Try IL again, once in that hall OF Senate and
House. IL Is not essential reconstruction that
she viii there seek to gain, and 1t is through
political intrigue, through the re,ources OF
present triumph, that she will fill her exhausted
eXchequer.
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