Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-02-28
No Surrender,

To hungry man, is not half loaf
better than no bresd? Yes, but before
the hungry man can get the half the
loaf, somebody must have previously pro
Vided the whole one. The negro will Sc
cure only a moiety of his rights, unless
the Party of Justice demands for him the
full measure. -ar -.tl .--s.-l 50 t..-sf
This demand we have persistently
madel this demand we shall persistently
make.
A Christian nation ought to pay its
debts and keep its faith. But this ma
ton owes debt to the negro, which is
still unpaid. This nation has bound it.
self by solemn pledge to the negro,
which is still unfulflled. The nations
enemies have been pardoned, but its
friends are still oppressed. Though the
negro helped to save the Republic, he is
still contemned by the Government. o
American people, speak to your rulers
that they rule justly .-...
Except for the Two Hundred Thousand
Muskets which the negro added to the
army of the Union, the Federal Congress
might not have been able to sit to-day
Shall the Republic be ungrateful to its
preservers God forbid
What remains to be done for the negro7
We demand his guaranteed personal
liberty-which, despite the Constitution
al Amendment that prohibits slavery,
South Carolina still refuses to acknowl-
edge, but makes that amendment null
and void by her execrable Negro Code
We demand his personal security-which
Is every day jeoparded in every State,
county, city. town and village in the
eleven rebellious States. We demand
Land under his feet-which the Govern
ment granted to him during the war, and
has taken from him during peace. We
demand for himself and his children the
spelling book-while already his reani-
mated prosecutors are burning his school
houses over his head. We demand for
him, as an American citizen, all the
rights of American citizenship-While
the Southern provisional governors are
saying, Rather than let the negro vote,
he shall be driven to Mexico" We de-
mand that the law of the land shall be as
impartial as the bandaged Justice that
holds the scales-and shall never see the
difference between citizens on account of
their color. --.-..-.. .-...- .r,.--
These are our demands for the negro.
Are they extravagant? Are they unrea-
sonable Are they fanatlcal? mol they
are just, humane, Christian, necessary
God himself makes these demands of this
nation Woe be to the nation if these
be unheededl e Let my people CO." He
says. But we cannot free them and yet
fetter them at the same time. To give
them half an emancipation is to hold
them in half slavery. To leave their
rights to a settlement by their enemies is
to mock both God and Man. To commit
the fate of4, 900, ,000negroes TOT 5000, ,0O0reb-
els is not craftsmanship, because it is not
christianity. After Emancipation in the
West Indies in 1884, Parliament proposed
to give the former shareholders power to
legislate for the former slaves. No."
said George Canning, "while human na-
ture remains the same they can never be
trusted with it." Is the human nature
Of American shareholders any more
No. Herein lies our OBJ
lection to the Amendment proposed by
the Joint Committee-an amendment
which has already passed the House, but
which still awaits the voice of the Senate.
Not Objectionable so far as it goes, it does
not go to the vital point. lt Is guilty of
ne OH VI 4 1T mo6bS OILY QAlI
he case. 1t leaves the marrow of the
untouched. Even its
riends have only faint friendship for it.
A distinguished member Of the House
aid to us yesterday voted for that
but at the same time, felt
hat 1 ought to be carried out of the
House and whipped for it p We are in
ormed that large portion of the radical
members voted foI that measure with
reat reluctance. Thank God, Charles
umner is yet to be heardl
Gentlemen of Congress, the Party Of
ustice wakes stronger day by day 1t
oes not believe in half way measures
Neither does it believe in half way men.
{ the Radicals believe their principles
let them maintain them eour-
geously. On such vital questions as are
ow before the nation, radical leaders
hould never propose, and never accept,
compromise. May God suffer not our
set to slide Taking our position for
'qual Rights, We prefer defeat under
lch banner to any victory by compro-
lise. Let the President fall away let
IA majority Of Congress hesitates let half
be Press praise whom it ought to re-
uke; but let every man in whose soul
urns the FIRE of Freedom remain true to
is God, 20 Humanity, and to his Coun-
y.-M 7. Independent,