The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-09

NIX PHlLLIPB Address.
Mr.. Philips, coming forward, was rec ived
with con OnsideTaOle applause. He commenced II
address by statiUg that he wished to make few
ma ks on one of tie resolu ions which had been
offered Mr. Phillips then read the third resolution,
and proceeded substantially a. follows - 4 think
there is very much truth IN the remarks which my
irlthd Mr RemOnd has made TO us touching the
coOred race. Much as some OF us Lave been
charged with Jaruahtv IN our Judgment OF that
race, no such charge ought ever TO clOe the lips OF
an Am rcan at this crisis against acknow ei iging
~ marvellous, wholly unexpected development OF
events OF our clvi contest. II will be a rare and
beautiful credit to the negro in the history of IhIs
Rebellion, that, willie when we spoke of white men
we DESIGNATED Their position IN relation TO the
issues Oh the war-we said lOlal men, Re.
publican Copperhead, Secessionist-we added an
eplthet to the name OF white. When we divided
the South, spoke OF the lovalists and
the RGbtls but no man ever added an adjective
10 tins ack man. To be black loyalty, patriot.
ism, and Justice, without an epthet (AppaUseO J
lheY etded no description. Iustinct, common
ana rom that cowardice which takes the name OF
DOicY AID cOnceais its sentimeOt. We have a great
man uen a! he south, whites who were said TO
the courage 10 show it. In the first moments of the
wal they held Their peace Men said that vas
cowaidice, but Port Hudson and Fot Wagner
sc"Lcd tha' charge, and we have tins day accord
TO h, IT good sense.
tound Prtat ault with the report of General
Srant touclng General Butler not that he cnticized
hs less memorable enOrts Virginia but because
ne critic zed them III spirit which forgot hat in
1861 1t Vas Butler wit that saved us Baltimore, and
thereby saved the capital and symbol of nation.
allty. app ause If Butler had not gone round bv
Annapo is ana saved us the passage 10 the capital
Grant would ney er have had room to be He forgot
IN that great crisis OF the New Orleans
gavG us cOntro OF the Gulf again, 1t was Benja min
Butter that saved us IN that Ond terrible crisis OF
nationa emergency; and he will tel us, as will his
successor, too that IN that moment when all tue
LACK race was reilcenthe will tel that it was to
the LOYALTY of the black men OF New reans tnat he
owed il that The national flag waved III triumph over
the third city Oh the republic.
Ii has been proved beyond dispute that thousand
men engendered the Rebellion, and gave II birth.
H. in 1860 God had pleased to take them to Himself
o. drop them the other way llauPhter) there I'd
been 10 Rebellion. These men are still alive the
lai ger portion OF them Congress proposes dsfran.
chlse them. 1t IS idle. DiSiIHnchlsing hem ould
onIy be until 3 them by that tenderest or all ties
I g tie, OF common misfortune Disfranchise
John Anorew, and Charles Sumner of Massa-
chusets, and you add fifty per cent to their power
ID shanchise JeH Day S, and YOU add to his inau-
ence IN his native State. II he could have been
hanged he would have passe into history as a sem
tment, perhaps like the memory of Charles 1, ike
power; but that time has foateu by Disfranchis,.
that In settling the problem the Iuture those men
must be counted IN. II we have not got elemental
forces enough TO neutrallze them this nationality rs
lalure But we have elements-we have sufficient
strength to ignore Jefferson Davis ana thousand
ike MIN II they still i've, and that strength is Jus.
Now let us face the whole problem Let us open
our eJ es vide and take in the whoe country You
can neither get rid of change the half million
lead Dg minds OF the South Battle does not con-
vert million OF men. Nsuons do not live or
change by battles; they live and change by forts
God does not change lite long prejudices but He
takes them away everv thirty years, and leaves room
for the fresh Young truth TO grow. We have rot to
work for that beolo 100000 OF poisoned men and
treble-poisoned women are taken 1t from the midst
OF the nation. Meantime, how shall we tortIIy jus.
tlce! how shall We der pOsterity posstble! |
think there little mistake in appreciatlng the
motives OF the south on tbs question. 1 do not
Oe ieve that the south breads simply negro
suffrage; IT. is not tLe,e that the South meets
the blight OF he question. A negro voting ouce
an eS s S bsbP is not somts asr a such
programme -Four hundred thousand e1roes IN
Souh Carolina, with everV adult possessing a vote,
does no. mean negro suffrage onl, it means score
OF negro representatives the House of Represen.
tatiVes. (Applause.l 1t ans New Orleans not
only counting among her merchants men with
colored blood, but counting among her Senators
and Representatives, among her chief officers,
ba to take his seat Will find colored man sitting
beside him. When the committees are raised there
must be White and coored men on them. Both Will
such as railway Schemes and then the next thing
is social equality That Is where the Southern man
meets the question The Northern statesman has
always seen not as far as his nose but an incn
behind il (LauPhter.) The Southern man sees be-
yond 1t and the south sees II To-Day She knows
distinction of races; that the American idea is of
that cosmopolitan character which we comes to its
maGnanimous bosom all races and all creeds The
South knows it and she universal suffrage as
cotant courier Ot the Army of Equality tha comes
behind There is no use in disguslng the 0uestIon
and the man that does not believe that the black
man in The darkest hovel OF South Carolina is as
thoroughly. an American representative John
does not be ong to our civilization. (Appause
The American Ant-slavery society is now cox
tenslve with our geographical extent. Ihe whole
ma ion is turned into one great body. unoeriying
which is the ignoring of all races That is the lesson
OF the war, nothing short of it, tAppause The
South has learned IL and knows IL; but the North
has not learned it vet She grOpes her way towards
II. She is willing TO acceptlt 1t her leaders had
been Wiling she had proclaimed her sentiments to
the world. There l. abundante eV dence TO show that
in May the South was ready to accept the Northern
idea. " ny was 1t not dOneg
My friend Mr. rockingham saws Andrew John.
son IS no traitor. He never promised anything, and
he has fulfilled it. Well, that is [ ue in general
sense; he never aid promise anything. He poured
out words, and nothing in them, HIS treason com,
mepced when he accepted the leadersh o OF the
Nor,h IN tins great struggle Taking office in the
name OF dominant party that carried us through
yated him (ApplaUse.) There is mis- treason. tie
knew what he was assuming Very true, we were
traitors a. our friend to us, and stuotd traitors.
II nave any idoIs-Which some of my friends think
have-t is not the negro, but it Rarey the horse
tanner (Lau9hter.) l was TeadIng lately an inte-
Te.tng account OF the tanning of lion in Paris
They did It thus They I ok hussar's jacket
stuffed with 800 brass buttons and threw it into the
hons den. he deVoured 1t rght away and had an
NeeS. Laughter Ever terTardS, when man
with hussar's jacket entered his den, the brute,
with ieToci0us instinct, never touched HIM. The
kmencans have deVoured one hussar's Jacket, with
John Yler IN it; and another with Fillmore; and
1t took another with Andrew johnson, (Ap-
pause and laughter)
President johnson as early as September, set him.
self TO wolk to break the Republican party TO pieces
be uses en-, and he would praise me to-day to get
him renOm nation. Applause The Republican
party did not recognize The fact. 1t went on step
by step striving 10 conclae hIm until thev ba tn
day demoranzed the public We lost six months of
education AN irrepaTabe loss and am not sure that
now with tho Administration araInst US and the
people thus demOroIzed, that 1t will be possible TO
save the fruits of this battle. But If we mean that
our children shall win II the next time division is
made on the battlefield, the loyal North, ifit does
go down, must go down with the banner of absolute