The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-02-21
THE NORTH VICTORIOUS
Henry Ward Beecher in Reply to
Wendell Phillips.
STATEMENTS Of The LATTER CORRECTED
NEW PHASE OF THE STRUGGLE.
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THE PRHsIDHNT It's VETO.
WHAT THE SOUTH WANTS.
Her Schools and Colleges to be
Opened.
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EQUALITY AND FRATERNITY
NEW PHASE OF THE STRUGGLE.
WHAT THE SOUTH WANTS.
Her Schools and Colleges to be
Opened.
EQUALITY AND FRATERNITY.
&c. &e. ke.


NJ Music, Brooklyn, BY the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
being third Of the series given under the auspices OF
the Brooklyn Fraternity The occasion drew ether
immense audience, the spacious building being filed TO
perfect jam The subject one calculated to excite
intense interest especially when contrasting the lecturer
himself and his topic with the lecture delivered
time ago by Mr. Wendell Phillips, entitled 'erhe South
Victorious" Mr. Beecher perhaps in spirit Of friendly
contest chose very distinct and rival subject-'eThe
North Victorious" Tho fact Of these learned doctors
dsagroeng and that one Of them to hold forth
his chosen theme enough account for the crowds
that filed to ovcr1owing the Academy last night. Not
only Plymouth church fully represented in duty
bound II should be- but the bench and bar OF Brooklyn
sent forth their lumnaes to mark the occasion with
scat not often noticeable these In fact thera
was not space for additional person to crush in in
pit or gallery and when the lecturer appeared tho
dence was IN state OF high wrought excitement. At
and was introduced by Mr. Aaron NJ. Powell Mr.
Beecher, on coming forward, was warmly greeted
A PERSONAL PLANTATION
Mr. REFcRER sad-Beforc commence to address You
this evening ask your indulgence while make n cor
recton of statement which made here last Tues.
day evnne-a statement so inaccurate that am per
suaded rather it must have been unsupported or If
che speaker mr. Philips, BY one e wno dc
ceved him. At any rate, the statement is at variance
with the truth should not make this correction on
concerned with me In It, And therefore, such state
mens made IN my own home among ,an my own people
silence gave consent Twill read the report and then
make the statemen.-
The other day Henry Ward Beecher and his friend
Governor Parsons, Of Alabama came to Faneui Hall,
Boston, and brought tho nsolent message that
To this Hall Governor Parsons said to the Loyal
League Club substantially We do not believe in Massa-
chusetts You believe in free schools; we do not You
believe in free labor; do not You believe in
mcchap !cs being equal before the law we do not We
want 70 pnt the heel on Massachusetts isms wesay
Ia all bosh. We have In reconstructed Alabama diff
ierent plan, and shall be obliged you If you let
North loan us q million and half OF dollars TO
pete the task. Mr. Bcechcr also made speech
fIl am Thnp
Senator Sumner go upon his feet "Governor Parsons"
s.id he, ''when man asked bread from Massachusetts,
IL should be Civ zen freely but when you ask loan Of
70 DO expended to complete a TASK, the who
sends the money for an experiment wishes that
Alabama You ask Us TO loan you million and half
Of dollars 10 send to Alabama We would, before we
said Governor Parsons "you want the negro 70 vote
the negro does not vote in Massachusetts,"
When was In Washington Mr. Stanton requested
to make the acquaintance of Governor Par
sons, as tho most sensible man who had been
ss s s s III. s'' 81 S %s
weeks received both telegram and letter
from Mr.. Stanton, as had also some score or more
Governor Farson: touching the state Of things in
New York After that meeting al his urgent soli.
citation and he being stranger, ! accompanied
York and Boston were almost in identicaly the same
words will give only account Of the meetng Bos-
ton After arriving at Boston went 70 the Union
Club There gathered together there perhaps fifty
persons Governor Parsons made statement first and
and blacks in Alabama and in BIS siaemen, avoided in
every way and form any ausion that could be bly,
Phillips He represented The people there as starving
and liable IN freeze dFng the winter; and then he
n o. ~ona se ana s%pahu. %
che pope and grant them assistance during the winter
On the second point he said that the school funds
were lost, and that the common schools Of Alabama
have bsen utterly destroyed her colleges and common
schools without means TO keep them going. When Ala
haxvra h~r .ltaA
government when she shall have been readmited into
tbe Union, ask since her debt only three and half
York for moa and half 10 enable Alabama 10 open
again her schools for her black and white population
request and leave YOU this statement that
has ecen made OF that request and Of that state
Affirmative. You shall have your million and
half in any single day that presen; yourself you
descIies-s rc,esstroced state wishing to opn your
slcne came forward and expressed their readiness
place the whse million and hall required for such pur
poses as thai stated by Governor Parsons make ihis
statement no~ because think II "a due 10 Governor
TIE NORTH VICTORIOUS.
For ten mputs not gun has been fired In the whole
southern s'sis in war. so completely has rebellion be
destroyed is the marvel Of ioreign spectators, and
may well be- Que fears prognoscated long con.
rnued war; eat since last May there has been no |
the blacks perfectly have things changed within |
tbe year, ter. could be scarcely the shadow Of a |
represented In Congress TO day There is no us ason
why, far the vhole people OF the South
cerned ana tor relations and feelings 70 the govcrn
nent they should not DO included In their representa-
ton in Congress- II just and right, also, that these
treedmn stosd be eectually guaranteed In their ber.
aes-spI snssbefore the country disBsses this qucs-
son from the people and adopts system of rrprcsen.
taiion Tor then in the halls OF Conaress. Applause
csuse also Of tbsthat Providence has put tho future
regeDerash. Of the 50 tn OF the North upon this
iasiss pcieancnt OF the condition OF the black man
That he shoa.d have this iibcrtyfor that VIII works
elass m yna srcore iusi,oe for lie msdis r,ass.s
must NOT b. sus you benefit all classas.
AnKmcAN uHER1Y DETSED.
But IN the nature Of things you cannot adopt prnc
pie and p"lcy which shall rise mp TO empower the hot
tom Of society That shall not carry with them every
rank and degrce IN So etv. (Appause) When there
fore We demand that there shall DO liberty and ct
zsaship for the sss. and the lowest In effect plea
cot for the botiom but for the whole Of society which
stands upon ,s foundations tRenewed applsuse) Al
low mo, then, 10 consider the substance o. thu, liberty
which our amended constitution has given 10 ali those
: cre IN boudsge Tnas liberty not TO DO merely name;
{, IL sssrvi ark with contents It Ia matter o, i'm.
porancc that should TO n that we have got some
thing better Than title, n name. And when we look
al the oontsnts Of bcrty not TO take foreign
word liberty diosrsn. in France iron what we do in
America We demand that berty here shall be Ameri'
rsn Nesy IL 70 contain rights Of person, rights Of
rns sEnno sxnrlkp To CIVIL RIGHT.
when our amended constitution gave 70 the
black man ib'rty declared that he was
erected ia,o manhood out Of chattlcbood; he was
\
condition Of man, and thai must be secured 10 him |
. nd al tiIst which belongs 10 the the social
scosomy Of liberty, thai which makes love Minister
ing angel OF God and parentsse and the fsmiiy-ods
best church upcn carsh-thni must meet IN him. Hh
lime In hsIn and say 70 The one beloved Chou art
mine and thine t" for all their life long four millions
Of had power Of love thus 10 declare, for be-
heart snd heart forever lowered the dark shadow
Of that owned both and everybody free 10 the
other Mppianse II there any scene on earth that Ia
more Nsn-csndcat than Thai wbich enc by The
cradle side whea tbs mother reads strange prophesles
10 the fare ~ the child aud says IN mine; II bis;
" 10 ours" And yet In al ths generation there have
besa uslsous ~ mothers sitting by the aide Of their
nsadis With biiss gangs 10 ftnk that they mus,
scr the dsughtss 70 feel Mother Is not mire: