East Saginaw courier., 1866-05-23
Speech Of Wendell Phillips.
Real Issue Of the Radicals.
Negro COnDressmen and Negro
sD irF Social Equality. ' la

Negro Congressman and Negro
sD il'P Social Equality. m la
Speech of Wendell Phillips Before
the New York Anti-slavery Socl-
ETY., in New York, May 8.
He thought there was great sub.
stance of truth in Mr.. Raymond's re-
marks. Americans must acknowledge
the development Of the characteristics
of the colored race provoked by our
recent contest. To be black was to
be loyal and patriotic. The blacks
were exempt from the policy of cow
ardice. The black men of Savannah
went out to decorate the graves OF
Northern soldiers, but were shut out
by the power OF the local government.
They needed no disguise, and were
proud to exhibit their loyalty in the
light, He found fault with Gen.
Grants report on Gen, Butler because
its author forgot that Ben. Butler
saved the nations life in two OF the
nations greatest emergencies. 1t was
Butler at Annapolis who saved us
Washington, and the same Ben. But
Ter preserved New Orleans for the ma
tion. 1t was to the loyalty of the
black men of New Orleans that the
old flag was permitted to float over
the third city of the republic, His
tory paints us in 1865 and 1866 deba-
ting whether the black man shall have
his rights compromised away and thus
to save the nation. No American
statesman ever thought of compromi-
sing his own rights. Our statesmen
compromise the rights of third par
ties only. s,g
The speaker held that the Auti-
slavery Society met to say that those
who represent the black race protest
against any plan of settlement which
had been advanced by either the
President or Congress. Slavery is to
be fought by the great social elements
that make governments and give
character TO nations. The only sure
cure is universal amnesty and univer-
sal suffrage wherever the American
flag floats. Not that he would not
have traitors punished. He did not
underestimate the crime of such men.
A disfranchised man coming out of
the crisis has all his ties doubled by
the experience of n common misfor-
tune. If jeff Davis could have hung
he would have passed into history as
sentiment-perhaps, like Charles
the Second, as power; but the time
for hanging him was past. The lead
ers i'll the South hated the Notth more
than ever. If we had not intellectual
forces sufficiently strong and numerous
mcnt and the nation are futures
We must open our eyes wide and
take in the whole country, The half
million of leading minds of the South
could not be changed. God does not
change lifelong prejudices. He pla-
ces them in the grave, and gives room
for the young, fresh truth to grow,
and it therefore takes whole genera
tion, at least, to accomplish such Il re-
suit. The South does not dread ne
gro suffrage as the greatest evil
That is not where the bite comes
Negro suffrage meant score of ne
gro Congressman sitting in the House
of Representatives. 1t means colored
merchants in Now Orleans and col
ored Senators in Columbia. 1t meant
negro representation sharing in max
ing railroad laws aud other laws. 1t
meant social equality, and there was
where the Sou,herner met the ques-
ton. Social equality follows hard on
the heel Of the ba!tot-bcx. and the
South knows it, and she resists negro
suffrage for what must follow it. The
negro in Maryland in the Legislature
is as good IA John Hancock signing
the Declaration of Independence, and
this was a principle the South would
not admit Nor would the North ad-
NIT it. She gropes towards it, but
does not travel very rapidly in the
right direction. johnson never prom
ised anything and he never fulfilled it.
His treason cou,npuced when he
brkc from the party that elevated him.
The speaker took great delight in the
tanning of animals, He had recently
read about the tanning of lion in
Paris. The animal swallowed the
coat of hussur, and the buttons
gave him a grdat fit of Indigestion
laughter After that whenever a
hussar coat made its appearance, the
lion was as docile as lamb. Now
John Tyler swallowed hussar coat,
and Andy Johnson had swallowed an
other, aud he was tanned. The
speaker, however, did not consider
the President the worst possible man.
President johnson has no other OBJ
iect in his heart than to break up the
Republican party. He would praise
him (Mr. Phillips) if he thought he
could secure him a denomination for
the Presidency. He went to Wash
ington with correct ideas, but soon
became possessed of desire for re-
nomination and knowing that if the
Republican party remained intact, the
next President would be General
Grant, he and Seward set themselves
to work to break up the Republican
party. Mr.. johnson neither hates or
loves---a politician never does. BY
his acts the country has lost six valu-
able months of education, and it is
doubtful whether we can now reap the
benefits of the war. When peace
again rests on the battle fields OF
America, the North will charge down
or it will succeed without any conpro-
mise inscribed on her banner. When
history writes her fate, let her record
that there was no issue but universal
justice, and that we died fighting foI
it. Book education is of inexpressi.
BILE importance to the blacks of the
South. They and the poor whites