The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-02-20
N. c., TUESDAY,; FEBRUARY 90 1866

a great deal less of him than you did Of your
! master? -
/ Douglass-Not I.
!, The President We'll, I know such was the
case with large majority of you in those sec
/ lions Where such is the case, we know there
Is an enmlty, we Know there is hate. The
poor white man, on the other hand, was opposed
to the slave and his master, for the colored man
and his master combined kept him in slavery
by depriving him of fair participation in the
labor and productions of the rich land of the
! country. Don't you know that when a coEored
man is going to hunt master they call it,
Tor the next year, they will prefer living with
man who owned slaves rather than with one
who did not [ know the fact at all events.
Douglass Because they treated him better
The President-They did not consider it
quite as respectable there tQ. hire to a man who
did~not own negroes as to hire to one who did
glass.--Because he would not be treated
as we'll.
The President.-Then that is another arsu-
ment in favor of what / am going to say. 1t
shows that the eolored man appreciated the
STAKEHOLDER more highly than be did the man
who did not own slaves hence the enmity be-
tween the colored man and the non Shareholders
The white man was permitted to vote before the
Government was derived from him He is
part and parcel Of the political machinery -
Now, by rebellion or revolution, aud when you
come back to the objects of this war, you find
that the abolition Of slavery was not one of the
objects. Congress and the President himself
declared that it was waged on our part in order
to suppress the rebellion. The abolition Of sla-
very has come as an incident to the Suppression
of great rebellion. AS an incident, and as an
accordant, we should give it the proper direc-
tiOn The cOlOred man went into this rebellion
aslave; by the operation Of the rebellion he
came out freedman, equal to freedman in
any other portion of the country. There, then,
is u great deal done for him on this point. The
non stakeholder, who was forced into the rebel
ion and was as loyal as those who lived beyond
the limit Of the State, was carried into it, and
his property, and in number of instances. the
the lives Of such were sacrificed, and he who
has survived has come out OF it with nothing
gained but great deal lost Now upon prin-
ciple of justice, should they be placed in con-
dtion different from what they were before p
On the one hand, one has lost great DEAL and
in political point of view, scarcely stands
where he did before. Now we are talking about
what We are going to argue We have got at
the hate that existed between the two races
The query comes up whether these two races,
situated as they were before, without prepara
ton, without time for passion and excitement to
be appeased, and without time for the slightest
improvement. wlelher the one should be turned
loose upon the other, and be thrown together at
the ballot-bo with the cnmity aei hate exist
ing between them The query comes up, will
we not then commence war Of races | think
understand the thing. Especially is this
the case when you force it upon people
without their consent.