New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-31

nsarz 4. 1vl.s q nc I.s..sae.lea o slavery.
The following is a remarkable passage fro


The following is a remarkable passage from the
late speech by Henry A. Wise
Slavery was weakness, if not a wiekedness-a
wlckeduess because a weakness, to which am
not willing ever to expose my descendants for
| fear of humiliation like that to which / have
been subjected. praise God daily for my deliver.
ance both from its "negrodom y and its q niger
dom very Significant words, which are of very
Inherent meanings illustrated by. the scenes and
events OF the passing hour. But the emancipation
OF the negro in the South has been sudden shock
ing, harsh and inhuInan in the extreme to bhth
races, white and black-wantonly cruel to the
white master, and crushing to the black freed
man. He is now a freedman, without q friend :
but he is now freedman a am now free of re-
sponsibility for his care and comfort, aud [ am
content. -
honor the negro for his exemplary conduct
during the conflict, and will try my best to be-
friend him He must ID justice Be allowed a
large margin of indulgence for his sudden double
OF liberty not Of license or insolenoe but no one
shall insult or Cypress him without my femon-
STRANGE and assistance. He must be encouraged
to work, and be paid his fair wages and be dealt
BY justly; but l cannot swear to support and
abide the means whereby he and his quondam
master have beth been wronged The freedmen's
bureau now has the responsibility OF his fate and
that is worse to the negro than whisky or new
white settlements ever were to the Indians. The
negro, like the Indian, left to himself, will pass
away, unless wisdom and charity combined shall
be aliowedto override the worst passions which
trade IN human misery and misfortune.
And i cannot consent to be held responsible and
liable to punishment for not only the acts Of NV
sovereign State bnt the acts Of God. The late
civil war was not only declared by sovereign
States against each other, but it was sent by God
himself to stretch ont a drawn sword veranother
threshing floor than that Of ornan. He is, / fear
an intdel who doesn't see that the fire and sword
Of this war were sent from Heaven God knew
we could be torn away from our black idol Of
slavery only by fire and blood, and the drawn
3syWord OF the destroying angel Of war;. He sent
sn and we ought to praise the Most High that
l1 IS aa not send verse plaques, like those of
Egypt, agaanst whatever weakness or Wiekedness
we chung to like Pharaoh
Sut appeal to christian charity, and to every
known law, whether individual citizens and neT.
sons ought 70 be yindictiyely punished by man or
government for the acts of sovereign States and
the inevitable interposition of divine providsnca
He viii surely kick against the pricks who taS.as
vengeance on me for the acts of Godl / can only
turn my pursuers to the old book OF the wrath n
the law, Where they will learn that while God often
used the heather to punish his chosen people for
thelf dsobedienee, yet If the heather did his own
VIII even, in heathenish way, he never failed in
turn 70 punish the very insfrumentalities Of his
own special providence I"abide, therefore Inc
order o. providence, and l ask pardon Of Cod and
its extinction. ~