The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-19
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People OF the United States, be warm
ed that your demagogues are again gam
bling for your heritage of liberty your
guarantees of prosperity and your needs
Of victory. III the awful name Of God,
they buy you and sell you in the halls
Of your Legislature, and under the inn
pious disguise Of justice to all men, per-
vert the functions of laWgivers to the
procurement Of your abasement under
the barbara feet of negroes. Some of
them, bankrupt of a constituency of rea-
sonable beings, would enfranchise an in
sensate rabble of negroes, and control
ling them, vote themselves into lifelong
power to govern, to degrade, and defy
you. Others would convert the whole
into a kingdom of hate, the reflection
of their own bitterness of soul, from
past at1'ronts and suflerings which they
benevolent to forgive. Both must have
power of oppression, or lose the only
solace Of tier remorse, their disappoint-
ment, or their shame.
They are said to be fanatical. Believe
it not. There is now a great plot among
them-a perfect method of madness-in
which no detail is disproportioned, no
instrumentaIity distorted, no contin-
gency uncounted by the characteristic
enthusiasm and sincere but fatal zeal Of
the fanatic All is as sober, as shreWd,
as unconseionable and as cold as ever
sedition was planned, stratagem con-
trived, or assassination canVassed, by the
desperate and monstrous usurpers Oh the
dark ages. There is not a fanatic in
Congress. There is no Gerritt Smith, no
Giddings, no Lovejoy. There is Sumner,
With his scrap-book of fraud; Stevens,
vivid in every motion and look of his
contemptuous command to an associate,
ssto hell with your conscience;o Fes-
sender, the FESTIVE, but compulsory fol-
lower of Sumner; Wade, the bias
phemous and brutal, who dares to insult
the prayers of Christians by thanking
their God, in open Senate, for the inn
are examples of the fanatics. As well
class the cold but delusive dexterity of
the midnight gaming lDard with the
imprisoned but preposterous earnest
ness Of the mourner's bench, as the soul
less ratiocination of these mems politics
with the honest but unreasonable fervor
of the John Browns, the Giddingses, and
the Lovejoys of a former day.
There cannot now be abolitionists,
because there is nothing to abolish
This extraordinary negro movement,
conducted in the now absolute but still
stirring language of the old agitators-
in the splendid imagery and ravishing
sentiment of universal freedom-the
very poetry Of politics in all ages-is
nothing in the world but fraud-a
fraud upon the negroes, who are never
to have freedom in the suffrages pro.
posed for them; a fraud upon the white
men who make the constituencies OF
those who persuade them to believe thai
justice is the motive, a fraud upon thai
noble soldiery who pledged, in the light
ming and storm of battle, even to the
very enemy before them, every flash O
their guns, the perpetuation of the Con
stitution of their fathers, the indisso.
lubility Of fraternal bonds, and the dig
nifty of the Anglo-SaXon race, and {
fraud upon mankind, who, throughout
the world are called to witness and con
jured to believe that philanthropy an(
justice are the public objects Of suct
action. This stupendous fraud is prac
tised upon the public to cover up mere
scheme for preserving the reins Of power
in the hands of a junto; who proceed
upon two postulates: /. Self-govern
ment is failure and the strongest wills
must inevitably rule. 9. We have thu
power now and must keep it at all haz
ards.-E,rtrdct from tie National In
tellgencer, AprH7.
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