New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-10
ballot is the Columsiad Of our political life and every

Republics for to each alike the ballot is necessity 1t
idle to expect any true peace while the freedman is
robbed of this transcenden right and left prey to that
vengeance which is ready to wreak upon him the dsap
pointment Of defeat The country. sympathetic with
him, will be In condition OF perpetual unrest With
him 1t will suffer and with him alone can it cease TO
suffer. Only through him can you redress the balance
Of our political system and the safety Of patriot
citizens. Only through him can you the national
debt from the inevitable reputation which awaits IL
when recent Rebels. in conjunction with Northern al
Ties, once more bear sway. He is best guarantee
Use him. Ee was once your fellow-5olieri he has
always been your feOwman II he Is willing to die fol
the Republic. be is surely good enough to vote And
now that he is ready TO uphold the Republic it will be
madness to reject him. Had be voted originally, the
acts OF SECESSION must have failed Treason would
have been voted down You owe this tragical war and
the debt now fastened upon the country to the denial
this night. Vacant chairs in once happy homes IN
Vulnerable graves saddened hearts, mothers, fathers
wives. sisters brothers. all mourning lost ones. the
poor ground by q taxation they had never known
before oil testify against that injustice by which the
present freedman was not allowed 10 vote. Had nc
voted there would have been peace. II lac votes now
there will be peace Without this you must have
standing army: which is sorry substitute for justice
Before you the plain alternative of the bao,box OF
the cartridge box choose We between them. =,
Reason, too in every way and with every voice ci'
out in unison with necessity. AL policies, all eApvai
eneies all economies take up the cry Nothing 90 nv
polite wrong; nothing so inexpedent as SI Sf
nothing so little economical as the splllt va III
Justice is TIE highest policy, the truest
the most comprehensive economy. In inns nsPlIa'.o"
act Do yon wish TO save the national credit now I'M
peried by fatal injustice and esPecait ~ ~ 80
the national currency linen 90 uot ; ~, az; a.; Terin
throes Yon complain that labor is unorgenlSed ana
that tie cotton crop has failed. Do you wish LABOR 10
smile and cotton to grOwl Then SOW the land Will
Human Rights and eucrcle it round about with justice
The freedman will not cannot work while You deny DIS
rights Cotton will not cannot grow IN such an Amos
phere. 1t is absurd to expect It. IN using tne m
us you now do you i0itate those baTDarous llsh VINO
insisted upon blowing By the horses tall until an ACT OF
Parliament nterfered to require poWing 10y harness
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higher reason than because il is Improbable But IL Is
contrary TO nature and this account renders the
whole social system insecure, where human hlghls
ere set at naugh there can be no tranquility except
that OF force which is despotm This most reasonable
conclusion is sustained by the philosophy Of history.
which speaking by of its oraces the great ltaien
Voo tells us most entenously that "nothng out OF Its
natural state can either easily subsist or last long
Truer words never uttered as statement oil
philosophy or a warning to injustice enacted into law
COOP AND GLORY OF THE REPUBLIC.
Mr. President, already have taken TOO much lime
and still the great theme, in its various and multitude
nous relations continues to open before u.s. At each
step it rises aspect-assuming every form
of Interest aud Of suty-nOw with voice OF command
and then with voice of persuasion. The national secur.
ity the national faith the good of the freedman the
concerns of business agriculture justice peace, recon
citation obedinee to Godsueh are some OF the forms
it takes In the of all these speak to-day hop
ing TO do something for my country ana espeelay lot
that unhappy portion which has been arrayed in arms
against u.s. fhe people there our felowcitizens,
and gladly would hail them If they would permit II,
longer section, 10 tue DouNu Dut
integral part of the Republic-under a Constitution
which knows no North aud TO South. and cannot toll
crate any ''sectiona" pretentons Gladly DO OFFER
NV best efforts in all sincerity for their welfare But
see clearly that there nothing in the compass OF NOR
tai power important to them IN every respect
morally. politically and eeonomiealy-that mere Is
nothing with such certain promise TO them OF beneh
cent resuthat there Is nothing so sure TO make their
land smile with industry and fertility the decree OF
Equal Rights which now invoke. Let the decree go
forth to cover them with blessings sure to descend
upon their children in successive generations They
have given US war; we give them peace. They have
ragged against us in the name of Slavery We send
them back the benediction Of Justice for all They
menace hates offer in return all the sacred charities
of country together with Oblivion of the past This is
our Measure for Measure. Ills is our retaliation
This is only revenge.
And here hope to be pardoned if stop for one mo.
ment to express my unalng confidence in the triumph
of the cause Tnid peryerse cOunsels postpone
the gladstone consummaon; but the contest begun
can end only when Slavery completely transformed by
metamorphosis which shall substitute Justice for In
Justice Riches for Poverty, and Beauty for Deformity.
From history we learn not only the Past but the
Future by the study of what has been we know what
must be, according to unerrng law; Call H. II You
cSson or call it. If YOU please the Rule Of fee and
from the results Of certain forces determine the proper
tonate results OF increased forces. There can be hC
mistake in the answer And so it plain that the Equa
Rights Of All will be established. Amid all seeming
vicissitudes the work goes Soon late the fna
victory will be won. believe sooD Speeches cannot
stop it, crafty Vaccinations cannot change it. Against
Its Irresistible movement politicians impotent a:
those old corjurors, who imagined that,
BY rhymes they could pull down full soon,
From lofty sky the wadng moon"
These verses which shine on the blacketter page Of
the great lawyer. Sir Edward Coke, apy describe the
lncsntstions of our day to pull down Justice from Der
lofty sky 1t cannot be done In this conviction can
observe what comes TO pass without losing faith
listen with composure to arguments which ought not to
be made and can see with equal composure how ind
vidual opinions hesitate between Congress and the
President Ii is not 10 the oscillations OF the pendu-
lum that we look or the measure OF time but to The
face Of the public clock and the striking Of the church
bell The indications Of that clock and the striking Of
that bel leave no room for doubt.
In the fearful tragedy drawing to a close, there
q destinv stern and irresistible that of the Greek
Dra;ns Wbicr seems to master all that is DONE hurry
ing on the death OF Slavery and It's whole brood OF SIN
There is also Christian Providence, which watches
this battle for right caring especially or the poor ana
dowptrodden who have no helper. The freedman, stu
writing under cruel oppression, now ts his voice TO
God tue avengeT 1t is for US TO save ourselves from
righteous judgment Never WIN nnPuIhy can !cu
still Is paving still the gTievous penalty therefore, by
every motive of selfpreseUation we are summoned 10
be Just And thus Is the cause aSsoe!a'eu iuussOuVy
with the national LIE
But in ssyipg the Republic We elevate it. In over
throwing oppressive injustice we give ial scope 70
the principles Of our Government ana iui .aat iuea
of perfect Commonwealth" which has entered into
fhe visions Of philosophy and poetry. am all that
has been that is and that shall be, end none among
IortaIs has hitherto lifted my vail such was the
ENIGMA cat on the pavement of the temple OF Minerva
For arcs IL remained unanswered but the answer Is
now at hand The Repubc IS all that has been that Is
and that shall be; snd it is your duty to LIT the vail
To do less than this were failure, for such was the
aspiration and promise of our fathers when they as
sumed their first In the family OF nations 10 do
This will fix the example OF American Institutions. 80
long as Slavery endured 1t was mpossoe SO long as
Black Code the wretched counterpart OF slavery en-
dnres in any form it impossible. To attain this Idea
we must proclaim the rule Of Justice Slavery thus far
Ias been the very pivot round which the Republic has
seyolyed while all its policy at home ana ABROAD mas
Isdated from this terrible center Hereafter the Equal
Rights OF All viii take the place Of Slavery, and the Re-
public win revolve on this glorious pivot, whose in
tae fsrreaching radiations viii be the Happiness o.
tie Human Family There is nothing that the inagna-