The southerner., 1866-05-26

ment and elevation, and Christian char
itv have come to us from the ever friend.
ly North, in the same spirit that brought
them in 1855, to this devoted city,
when the scourge of yellow fever was
here in its wrath. Let US not forget
that then as now it was to the North
and its generous people that we had to
look in our want for aid and assistance.
Unless stop is put to such violence
!: and outrage upon the freedmen, we can
never expect relief from the presence of
Nothern bayonets, and admission to the
rights and privileges of the Federal
Union; but we shall become the BY
word and scorn Of the whole civilized
world. We shall be considered barba-
rians, and be justly excluded from the
, sympathies of all christian men. It is
our duty, gentlemen of the jury, 70 see
to it, that people who are loyal and
true to the nations flag in the time of
trial and danger, shall be protected
, against the persecution of those, who,
fresh from scenes of treason and rebel
lion, are pursuing their victims with
most internal hate, for no apparent rea-
, son, except their fidelity and devotion
| to the country.
t We fully appreciate the magnitude
and difficulty of the task set before you
: the monstrous wrong with which you
, are called to grapple, like the giant Hy.
f dra, still lifts some of its many heads
which you must strike down, or they
S will continue to disturb the public tran
= guilty. 1t would be childish to expect
that so great an iniquity could be ex-
tirpated in a single year, or even in a
r single generation. 1t should be re-
membered that it had invaded every
s source of public; private social and do
mestic 'ife-not only did it control the
$ political press and all political parties
: in this State, but with rare exceptions
e it spoke from all our pulpits, pervertipg
$ the gospel Of human brotherhood into
j. the gospel of human childhood, and of
/. the absolute submission of fact to the
r best, and avarice of the rest of human
! kind. Our religious teachers had for
e gotten to preach the wrong Of with
!. holding the line Of labor, trading in
: tho bodies and snnlS of our fellow on,
e of separating husbands and wives, pa
t rents and children, and sending them tc
s returnless distance from each other,
# and from the houses of their living, and
It the graves Of their dead; and had be-
d come with some worthy and gloriou:
r. exceptions, panderers and apologists o.
If the lust, and violence of masters, who
in return for his service were willing
h to feed him on the fat of the land -
= Our legislators instead of following tht
is christian law, requiring much where
IS much is to be given, and proportionirs
1t accountability to the gifts and talent
q OF nature, had established the reverse
enactments, Furnishing the ignorant ant
uneducated, whom it was made a crime
~ to enlighten, with death for many of
j fences, which when committed by th'
IL educated and privileged, were satisfied
5 with fine or imprisonment. Our court
y of justice had proclaimed the infamou
Is doctrine that dusky men had no right
u which white men were bound to res
IL pect; and into this very temple Of Law
pious woman had been dragged as
n criminal for an act which might almos
u invite an archangel to come down from
$, the mansions of the blest; for teachin!
'e the poor children of oppression, and o
D. licensed wrong to read the Bible, an'
e the laws made not to govern them, bu
to crush out of them every feeling o
st humanity.
s. "And worst of all and worst to b
I'd deplored" was the prostitution of ou
i'd houses, the very heart and seat of dc
We mestic purity, the poisoning of which
ed fatal to all moral vitality-and deaf
Of to public and private happiness. Th
be subjection of the woman Of one CON
ye plection, to the wild fury of unbridle
We licentiousness, and as a consequence dt
an nying to the woman of our own COT
I'd plexion the holy rites OF marriage, Q
ed making in thousands of cases those rite
re as mueh a mockery as conscious trai
lis ors oath, are proclaimed on every plar
nd tation in the bleached faces of the CHI
ac- dren in the slave woman, bleached b
ur blood of the first families, until hardl
Ike half our births were Of lawful wedlocl
ra- and until it would seem that masculir
virtue must be nearly extinct in tt
lst proud circles of the chivalric aristocr;
Id cy IF the State.
IN Your duties under these circumstal
in ces are difficult and dangerous, for ye
en are called upon to oppose the worst Pa
of sions of every desperate man, who W