The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-10

ends accomplished IN the accomplish
/ meht of the one.
Mr.. Douglass. Mr.. President, do you
Wish -
The President. ainnot quite through
Slavery has been abolished, a great
l national guarantee has been given, one
that cannot be revoked. was getting
ut the relation that subsisted between
the white man and the colored men. A
very small proportion of white persoi
compared with the whole number or
such owned the colorcd people Of the
South. might Instance the state or
Tennessee in illustrations. There were
there twenty non.slaveliolders to
one STAKEHOLDER, and yet the slave power
4 controlled that state. Let us talk about
this matter. Although the colored man
was in slavery there, and owned as
property in the sense and In the Ian
tuage Of that locality and of that COM
| nnuIity, vet, in comparing his copdi-
| tod, and his position there with the
hon-slavebolder, he usually estimated
| his importance just in proportion to the
number Of slaves that his master owned,
with the non-slaveholder. ~ iaii e
| Have you ever lived upon planta-
| ton? 0tea Aei'* e FeHfflsp1't
Mr.. Douglass. l have, your Excel
Iency.
Tie President. When you look over
and see man who had a large family,
struggling hard upon poor piece Of
land, you thought q great deal less of
him than you did of your own masters
negro, didn't yOu2 - atA3N
Mr.. Douglass. NotI! befa
The President. Well, I know such
was the case with large number of you
10 those sections. Where such Is the
case we know there is an enmity, we
know there Is hate. The poor white
man, on the other hand, was opposed to
tile slave and his master for the colored
man and his master, combined, kept
him in slavery, by depriving himiof
fair participation in the labor and pro-
ductions of the rich land of the country.
Don't you know that u colored man,
In going to hunt master LAS they call
it) for the next year, preferred hiring to
man who owned slaves rather than to
man who did not? pknow the fact,
at all events. They did not consider 1t
quite as respectable to hire to man who
did not own negroes as to one who did.
Mr.. Douglass. Because he wouldn't
be treated as well.
The President. Then that Is another
argument in favor of what / am going
to say. 1t shows that the colored man
appreciated the slave owner more high
| " than he did the man who didn't own
slaves. Hence the enmity between the
colored man and the non Shareholders.
The white man was permitted to vote
before Government was derived from
him. He is a part and parcel of the po-
litical machinery.
1 NOW ny Tug Icpeniou VI esoiuc'on
ana when you come oack 10 the o3lects
OF tnis war, you nho that the apontoh
Oh slavery was not one OF tue oDJects
Cong.ess anu .ne IleSiuenI ninseli ue-
ciared that IL was wageu on our part III
oraer 10 suppress .ne reDeilioI-- ~ .a aoo.
ntion vi slavery mas come as an inciuenC
| 10 the suppression oi srea: repelnoh-
as an ,hcluent, anu as an lnciuent wo
siouiu give !. 'ne Propel uiioc.'on'
| The colored man went into this rebel
lion slave; BY the operation of the re-
belliOn lie came out freedman-equal
tOa freedman In any other portion OF
the country. Then there Is great deal
done for him ON this point. The non
STAKEHOLDER who was forced into the re-
beilion, who was as loyal az those that
| iivedsbeyond .tne limits OF the state, 0ut
| who was carried INTO Lana nisprOperty,
and In number OF instances, the lives
OF such were sacrinced. ana ne VINO mas
survived mas come out OF - Win noun
ing gained but great deal lost:
NOW. upon tite P.inc'Pie Of Justicc,
should they pe placed IN conuition Oh
lerent from What tney were ueiore I! on
| the one mana, one mas gained great
| deaf on the otner nahd one mas iost q
great deal, ana, In poilticai point OF
view scarcely STANDS Wnere lie ola before.
NOW, we are taking about where We
are going 10 begin. we nave got at the
| nate that existed between the Two races.
Inc query comes up wneoner tnese Two
races, sHuated as Iney were before, with
| OUT preparation, Wi.hout tImelor passion
ana excltehent 20 DC ApPeaseo, ana
wNuout Iitue lor Uhe siigntesc Improve,
Ineht, whetner tne one snouiu pe turned
ioose uPoi the o,ner, anu De thrown To-
getner ~ Inc Dailot Do1, win this enlni-
TX ana nate existing between them.
Tne query comes up right there.
whether we don't commence war Of
races. thinK Understand TINS Thing,
and especially - that the case when
you force 1t upon people without their
consent. d''taaif
You have spoken about govern naent.
Where is power derived from? We say
| u is derived from the people. Let ms
take it so and refer to the District of
Columbia by way of illustration. Sup
community, which to a certain extent
must have government, must have laws,
and puttinU IL now n,,n,, tho hrnada :