The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-08

n. Morris, Esq, colored man, OF
Louisville, addressed meeting of freed
men at Paddy's Run, KY, on the 27th
ult. That he talked to the point, a few
extracts win show. Among other
things he spoke of the l-r.
GROWTH OF IDEAS. ts.
Ideas grow. A few humanitariqns,
William Lloyd Garrison, George
Thompson, the Beechers, DIR. Tying, the
Tappans, Frederick Douglass, Charles
Lennux Redmond, Peter II. Clark, Jno.
j. Gaines, Joe Henry, William Sumner,
Sumner, John BrOwn-"his soul is
marching on''-Thad. Stevens and old
Ben. Wade, are but few of those who
planted radical ideas in this country.
Have they planted in vain? 1 remem-
ber when KenIuukians poured like a
Hood of damnRtiun from slRvery's hell
into sister city to kill the "niggers, "
simply because they were free and
making an honest living. l saw some
thing of that horror, but there is one
thing which history has not recorded,
for history was the black mans enemy;
that is this, there were five white men
killed in hat mob TO every one colored
man. Covington and Newport put on
sackcloth; and there was general
VI AubSN uhlllutll AahNl OAA
with all their sins upon their heads.
Here in our native State we will admit
that the colored people have been COM
paratively free from the effects OF mob
law heretofore, under the old regime,
for this reason: Slavery existed, and
the negro being a slave, OF course be-
longed to the rich white man, and he
said touch him if you dare, but lay the
weight OF your little finger upon him,
you greasy mechanic, or you toiling la
Dorers, and we Will drive you of the
State, or send you to the States Prison,
or hang you, or shoot you down as we
would mad dog; and the poor white
man, debased as much by slavery as
the colOred man, cringed the supple
knee to the dark image OF the slave oil
garchy. --.a.-r
The poor white man was as subser-
Went tool to IA rich white, came and
went at his beck and call with the same
avidity as dog, was ever ready to do
the dirty work of the oligarchy, and
was as eager for their smile as any i'll
treated cur for the kind word of his
master. This is the guard, the check
that has kept the mob at bay in the
slave States. But the thing is changed
now-we are fee in name, if not in fact
the condition of affairs has, by a
whirl of fortunes wheel, made u great
change; we were at the bottom yester-
uuys HallOWlnB III lne uhlEe Win SWluei
scratching gravel with the chickens,
barking at intrUders with the dog, steal
ing old massa's chickens, like the
fox. rObbing him of his bacon like a
slave; but to-day We are-stupenduus
chRnge-an American citizen, entitled
to all the privileges, and immunities OF
the white man, our muster OF yesterday.
Has the seed sown by Chase, and sum
ner, and Garrison, and Douglass, and
Wade, and glorious old Thad. of Penn
sylvRnia, aud countless other workers
in the field of humanity, borne no
fruit? Yes, the harvest has been an
abundant one, disappointing the fond
est hopes of the most eXpectunt, for
where they looked for an ordinary re-
turn the blessings have piled up beyond
computation.
OF poor Kentucky given over to reb-
ell or democratic rule he said:
IMPoTRNT KENTUCKY,