Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-01
NUMBER POS;

W bhob buN NOIbJIbuJlOU ib0Clt INVuICos III
any other view, everything pertaining to
restoration, so far as regards the great body
ot the people, in at least eleven States Of the
Union, is but making promise TO the ear
to be broken 10 the hope. All, therefore,
who ACCEPT the issue of the war in good
faith, and come up to the test required BY
the Constitution, are now loyal, however
they may have heretofore been. But with
this change comes new order Of things
One of the results of the war is a total
change In our whole internal policy. Our
former social fabric has been entirely sub
verted. Like those eonyulsions In nature
which break up old incriistations, the war
has wrought new epoch in our political
existence. Old things have passed away,
| and all things among us In this respect are
| new. The relation, heretofore, under our
old system, between the African and Euro
pean races no longer exists. Slavery, as IL
was called, or the status OF the black race
| their subordination to the whitesy upon
| which all our institutions restedAis abol!
ished forever, not only In Georgia, but
throughout the limits of the United States.
This change should be received and accept
ed as an irrevOcable fact It is q boOtless
question to discuss now whether the
new system is better for both races than
the old one was or not. That may be prop
er matter for the philosophic and philan-
thrOpic historian of some future time to in
quire intO after the new system shall have
been fully and fairly tried All changes Of
systems, or proposed reforms, are bat ex-
periments and problems to be solved. Our
system Of. seli-gOverhment was an expert
ment at first. Perhaps as problem, IL Is
not solved. Our present duty in regard to
this subject is not with the past or the fu-
ture. IL is with the present. The wisest
and best of men err in their judgment as
TO the probable working ofany new SYSTEM.
Let us, therefore, give this one a fair and
impartial trial, without prejudice and with
that earnestness of purpose which always
looks hopefully to success. 1t is an ethno-
logical problem, on the solution Of which
depends not only the best interests of both
races, but, it may be, the existence OF one
or the other, IF not both. This duty of
giving this new system fair and just trial
will require Of you, as legislators of the
land, great changes in our former laws in
regard to this large class of population.
Wise and humane provisions should be,
made for them. 1t is not for me to 90 into,
detail. Suffice 1t to say, on this OCCASION,
that ample and full protection should be
secured to them SO that they may start
equal before the law in the possession and
enjoyment of all rights of personal liberty
and property. Many considerations claim
this at your hands. Among these may be
stated their fidelity in times past. They
cultivated your fields, ministered to your
personal wants and comforts, nursed and
reared your children, and even In the hour
OF danger and peril they were in the main
true to you aud yours. To them we owe q
debt of gratitude as well as acts of kind
ness. 81. Ir.tfIr.f
This should also be done because they are
poor, untutored, uninformed, many of them
| helpless, lab e to be imposed upon, and
need it. Legislation should ever look to
| the protection of the weak against the
strong. Whatever may! be said of the
equality of races or their natural capacity
to become equal, who can doubt that at
| this time this race among us is not equal to
the Christian? This inequality does not
lessen the moral obligations on the part of
the superior to the inferior. 1t rather in
creases them. From him who has much
more is required than from him who has
little. The present generation of them, it
| is true, is far above their savage pTogeni-
| tors, who were at first introduced into this
| country, in general intelligence, virtue and
moral culture. This shows capacity for
improvements buLin all the higher eharac-
teristics of mental development they are
still very far below the European type.
What further advancement they may
make, or to what standard they may attain
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Snch are not our ideas of Government
noyer have heen and never shonId he Cow,
arnments according To our ideas. sbonidi' ~
inoL to the GOOD of the whole. and NOT n ,
nor ri only The greatest good tn the great /,
ast number is a favorite dogma with some.
Some 60 deCended orr old system. INIT Won
,,non, this was never INV doctrine The
r,reotost GOOD to ali. without detriment or
S,;nrv to'anv ia the true rnIe. Those Cow
ornnnsnts o1lv are fonnded upon correct
,,u;nni',Ios of yeason and instice which IoolS
:, tha Greatast' attainabie advancement q
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