The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-07-10

Distant and beloved Isle--th.
qrattan, Of Moore, Of Sheridan. n, c, ,ano M
CorcoIan, Of Meagher, and Of tie orest ho, Of
l$ufke e neI q ~ thee again in comms M
cis! grandeur, thy Magni6cient rivers aaa,s
white with the sails Of your trade !; tbv dsal
warehouses swarming with lifeLtby' m e.eat
factories, the laboring places Of thousan .s,lu
md thy Green Flag flying in the hrsss
giving indications that Ireland is free
THE BLACK HRRoEs OF THE UNION .n..
When / look broad am encoura.as'
and when Hook at home, my spirit i ess,.,
ed. The reconstruction measures of the ao.t
Congress, and the grand enthusiasm Of u'i
people for equal rights and universal s,,ffra"e
these are omens that better and briohsss00
times will yet break on our land. ~ ~.
honor of the great Union party &c
the country. be it said that in spite,
opposition from thousand sources Il baa
conferred upon the black man the inest;m a'
BILE and God given right Of suffrage yna
my black friends, have voted in the nast
You voted in that golden era of the Repnh.
lie during the revolution, the iliustriou.
Washington, John Adams, and Thomas JEFF.
ferson, walked up to the polls and deposited
their votes in companionship with your
fathers. 80
In five New England States, and in New
York, your race have been voting ever since
In such Southern States as Maryland, Vir.
ginia, Tennessee, during the years of 1899
1885, and 1888, negroes voted.
Your enemies cay that you are too ipno.
rant to use the ballot; there is one tllinp
you do know, the difference between a orey
and blue coat. Well, this charge of ieno.
rance comes with very poor grace from
party of politicians who have always been
connected with the most uncultivated voters
of the country. In Ohio, my State, their
was shining apostle of the copperhead
democracy, who was very much aroused
when the Freedmen's Bureau bill passed
Congress. He exclaimed to Republican
neighbor, Have you heard the news thai
the Black Republicans have passed a bill
giving to every negro a Bureau, and have
been married twenty-five years and have
none yet" 1885,. n
All the black man asks is an open field
and fair fight. There is story which il
Illustrates his present position It was in,
1776, when the American army lay encamp.
ed at Morristown, that q young foreigner
presented himself to General Washington
with an introduction from Benjamin Frank
I'm:
Whas 90 seek you here, inquired the
commaEder-ln-chief. 10 light for liberty"
replied the young man. What can YOU
40 ry me-" was the answer wash
lngton took MIN at his WORD. he was tired
and rose to the rank OF General. Having
fought for our independence. ne re-erossed
the ocean and returned to MS nome. Ameri--
can, as OGornan truly says -" You can
never forget among the bills at West Point.
overlooking the Hudson, marble eenotaph
still stands to commemorate the gratitude
OF the people ne served 50 we'll His name
was Thaddeus Kosciousko.
As be once stood before Washington, so
now the blacks stand before the United
States and the nations Of Christendom,
claiming recognition at their hands. To-
the African race, recently emancjpated, as to-
Kosciousko, the same questions are put, and
the same answers are given. What DO you
seek here Y" TO vote, light, and, II need
be, to die for Liberty" What can YOU
oan Try me. By all my ancient splen.
dor, by all my recent sorrows, by the wrongs
have suffered, by the bloody agonles which
have endured, by the fidelity with which 4
have preserved the Immortal hope OF final
deliverance, by my friendship for the Union
soldiers, BY the fearful odds against which
I have to contend, by what | have BEEN.
done, and suffered, ye nations OF the earth,
try me" Va -
This is what the black man claims: 1t Is
right that ne should ENJOY equal nghfs be-
tore the law as well as tue haughtlest slave
lord that walks the earth
By their desperate fidelity 70 the fortunes
of the nation, in many fierce tempest Of tho
war, fidelity all the more heroic that they
fought In chains and with the devotion OF
martyrs repaid with torrents OF generous
blood, the prescription and wicked bondage
in which under the Stars and stripes they
had been for generations, held, by their des-
perate fidelity and splendid soldiership, such
as Fort Wagner and Port Hudson. gave to
their bayonets an; irresistible electricity, the
blacd heroes OF the Union army are not only
entitled to liberty, but to citizenship and
the pohtictan VINO woald deny tnem the
rghts 1or winch tnear' Wounos and gio,ineo
coiors. so eioquensiy piesd, y unworthy 10
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