The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-05-14


that political rights belong to the government not TO the
pcopIef
THE ConPRoniss BILL
Next, the Compromise BILL The country have danced
about their IDOL the negro prejudice and the white
mans government even at tho foot Of Sinai, and while
rsverberating They have compromised with the sacri-
ice OF Justice and out Of all their offerings there has
forth this calf And this is offered to the people
the method OF reconstruction Everything but Justice
Anything offered to the country but justice Justice
the whites, but not the blacks Is Justice
with respect OF persons Justice founded on and gov
ened by respect TO persons and respect in the lowest
most degrading and insulting form; most impious to-
wards God, most scornful and oppressive towards
respect OF persons by the and the color Of the skin
administration of cruelty and outrage instead not on
generation merely but as In the case Of slavery
by color and millions consecratod to insult ana injustice
by means OF that stigma from parents 70 children gen
GRAFTON after generation And you can imagine in the
intoxication OF your white dance around this gold
calf Of compromise that Sinai's God will let you
dance on In prosperity. They say, How doth God
know2'' This is our sovereignty. We have made po-
htcal contract that the States shall have supreme
troll of suffrage and who is the Almighty that he should
the Almighty, neither will we let tho colored
have the benefit OF the white mans government.
The one superory OF the form Of goyerncn. adopted
universally of representation government based ON
the right of suffrage as belonging to all the people, and
right of manhood OF free agency Of personal conscience
and accountability, the correative of allegiance, the
allcglanCo
the central law the discovery which and construction
OF governments accordingly as the discovery oil tho
law of gavation, and the adaptation of our philosophy
and practice accordingly the discovery Of the circu
aton of the blood ana the correspondent certainty and
progress in the art Of medicine An ntuitive inevitable
urgency and effort 0f the human mind towards this law,
the obedience of society under IT, and there
never be peace till this harmony be attained, TIL
mems artificial political arrangements brought into
submissive correspondence with this demand and
siy Of human nature under tho controlling necessity OF
government ordained of God The throes OF empires
n1uttpny
efforts Of humanity in It's blindness struggling towards
the realization Of this undiscovered law tho acknowieds
| ment and enforcement Of this primal right OF man.
How SIMPLE and how plain is everything aud how easily
worked is all the machinery OF government when that
every individual possesses in that right and in the
mental law securing power OF sefproecon ana de-
fence; a right that when universal, makes the
| interests of all the interests oil each, and the
invioate secured rights of each tho interest
| and common bond and compusion Of ALL
said outrage to force suffrage upon the poo
pie Are your rights my rights forced upon the
people Of this State because the law compes you TO re-
spcct them MS your own Because well you am
permitted to hold property and you cannot steal from
without the penalty of the law for that crime is that
the forcing Of tho right of property on the sato or on
the people? Colorcd permitted TO hold pro-
perry and the laws protect them In It, Is that forcing
of the right OF property on the people OF the state
this State freehold consideration, is that forcing
of suffrage tho peoplef Because black laborcrs re-
ccivc wages their labor s that forcing OF the right
OF wages on the people Because other persons not
prohibited by law from the right of buying house aud
holding 1t in fec simple as well as yourSelI, Is thal
forcing Of the right Of purchase upon other house
holders the people OF the Staey Is thine eye EVIL
because l am goodP Because other classes as well as
your enjoy the privileges OF life and tho protection
OF the constitution those privileges therefore 10 be
regarded the exeres, Of despotsm forced upon the
sutcf Because your neghbors permitted TO enjoy
the same liberty speech aud opinion, OF eating and
drinking and believing and domestic arrangements that
you enjoy Is that the forcing OF the rights ana privileges
ton Of suffrage as possession Of the colored race de-
suffrage down their throats Because you are
se ca%mns Of Down
Men speak of thrustng forcing suffrage upon an
unwilling State as Il were some despoc ty1annic yo
mcddled WITH Tho Roman Catholics might as well
complain Of violence and force because Prolesants are
protected in the right to vote Professionals might as wen
say that Roman Catholic suffrage s thing forced upon
the STATE cranmcd down mems throats Whose throats
are seized? On whom Is any violence committed The
trouble Is that ono class is not permitted to lord 1t
another class Suppose that the burglars In commu-
nifty should denounce law giving to bankers and house
lies against robbery being violent aggression on the
burglars rights violence thrust upon tnem violation
OF their liberties Tho trouble Is that togies are not
permitted freely to oppose honest mch by violence.
There persons strenuous for free trade th1t he
extend II TO free trade in other people. rights ana
they hate protection such degree that they deciam
against the protection OF black people from robbery and
slavery despo,ism II the government proposes 10
give million OF its subjects into The power anu w
another million be beaten by them and deprived OF
every liberty that all rghtthat Is free trads which
the govern bound protect But If the govern
mcnt proposes 10 protect n million OF s subjects from
being beaten and robbed ny another million, tbat
despotism. government with the power ana p iposc
consolidated despotism But government bound ana
pledged protect and guarantee each slate III tho night
Of Expressing and trampDg down tie coorcd race " the
ruling class please Is free democracy. Propose law
defending and protecting the oppressed class, and be
reau for its execution and Instantly that is Denounced
despotc and is pretended that coniers too much
such law. II he 1t for the sake Of keeping
down the black race and bringing bak the rebels into
power, he is held the savior Of his country. The
veto clothes him with the power OF oppression but takes
from him the power of protection and that s the es
Ior the savehoIding democracy. Such Presi-
dent can by proclamation, take away the right Of sun
rage from millions but there is no dangerous power
IN that-noapproach TO dcspotsm IN that That Is oil
right agaas. Of Liberty Ss S ony %
duty Of the President to protect them, and
Let the President veto thai and instantly the press and
the pulpit shout halcluia Tho government may protect
oppression, and SO far is democratic FREQ government;
but the instant undertakes to protect the individual
from such oppression, as citizen shielded by the cons-
tuition that Instant 1t Is despoc The free traders go In
for protection Of State rights the grand business OF the
general government but the protection Of individuals
and Of personal rights that State trampc upon
them or sell monopoly VI them TO class they abhor
We witness party defending for States fresh from re-
beiou the liberty TO take away others rights the
passed iobddng that outrage they denounce, because
the robes themselves are not represented and is con-
rary republican freedom 10 enact laws which the per-
concerned have themselves had voice in pass
ing. The colorcd have representation; yet Is
NO violation Of republcanlsm TO deprive them OF their
rights without any voice OF their own IN the matter But
deprive the rebels Of the right 10 rob the coored race
by law is n wicked dcsposm, because the rebels them
selves not represented Thieves aud murdercrs not
being represented In the General Assembly IL Is des-
poiism n that legislative body presume 10 pass law
restraining the right Of theft and MURDER orbdding
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citizens innocent Of any crime, DO punished as u
they feons, because, being blacks they have NO
| rights that white men bound TO respect
| THE CIVIL RIGHTS
The President the Congress- the Administration, the
government, the people, acting the principle tina
black have rights that white mon are bound tc
respect All their legislation all their measures In 70
gard TO the coored arc that basis IL is not ad
ned that the coored have any rights which they
themselves entitled 10, irrespective Of the gilt or a.
lowance OF the government which they themselvet
entitled TO protect for themselves by sefprotecttor
and defence Whatever rights the coorcd receive
they receive and hold at the will OF the white race
the Of the white race be withheld bestowet
nj their pleasure through working of n