Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-09-19


God though trampled in the dust, we never
the right. [Applause.] The loyal men of
Maryland are as true to-day as ever. [Great
Applause They and all classes have said
they will march side by side, black and
white, and redeem their country. Zap
plause. Thirty thousand blacks stand ready
in Maryland to cast the ballot. Shall we
trust them ? No, we no longer doubt them.
Tennessee and the District of Columbia
have settled that question forever. [Ap-
plause. / know but one black man in
Maryland whose position is doubtful.
["Whose'l His name is Abe Caulk, in my
county. Some one came to me sometime
ago and said Abe Caulk was a Copperhead.
.Oh," said l, 81 think that's very true"
The next time saw Abe told him, ssThey
say you're Copperhead, Abe ?" "Oh, yes,
Massa John, I'm a Copperhead. Saysl,
'sAbe, you're fool ''No, massa," says
he, sim no fool. Just hear what Mr.. Nash
says. You know | am pretty old man,
and can't iead nor write, and amt got sense
enough to learn, and, besides, I'm mighty
fond of whisky,I never thought was fit for
anything but to be Democrat. Great
applause and laughter. That sort of reas-
oning overcame me, and surrcnded at dis
crction. But, nevertheless, although Abe is
almost gone, | expect when | reach
home to hear Of his death. think if he lives
he will certainly die with shame and yexa-
tion when he learns that Thomas Swami has
became an admitted leader the Democrat
ic party. Laughter and applause.] What
do we ask OF Congress in this emergency?
We ask that Congress shall Sc
cure to every one of our citizens
the right of suffrage. We are not going to
quarrel about the means. do not doubt
myself as to the power of Congress over that
entire question. l believe it settled by the
18th amendment. believe it was previously
incorporated in another provision guaran-
teeing to all the States a republican form of
government. don't care under which they
proceed, nor in what manner, so that they
produce the result. But man may ask me
if would vote alongside of the negro? l
say, "why, only ask this Congress Of the
United States to give me chance to do that
very thing" Applause and laughter. We
have asked in these resolutions that Con-
gress shall pronounce for the adoption of the
States a constitutional amendment. Why do
we do that !? Because, in the language OF
Mr. Sumner, we want ''irTeversible guaran-.
ties" TApplause.] We want the verdict OF
this people, as pronounced upon the thous-
and battle fields of this last war, entered up
in the shape of solemn constitutional judg-
ment, that the ages cannot efface, and that
the hand of man, devil though he may be,
cannot in any way ignore. [Applause. We
have done it heretofore. AS constitutional
act we have adopted emancipation. And the
light emanating from that provision has ac-
tually inspired with the spirit OF true pro-
phecy that wonderful Chinese Convention
that met down at Annapolis the other day.
Laughter and applause They. actually
prophesied the truth, although trying to lie
In their souls. They said slavery was never
to be resuscitated in Maryland. Applause.
, ,, the black man is sufficiently intelligent to
testify in the courts, though involving the
. punishment of death admitting that the
black man shall be witness; admit
ting that he shall not be, and never can be,
enslaved; admitting that the black man IS
citizen; that the black man can bear the
standard of his country as he marches along
: in your regular army; admitting that
: he was deemed worthy to fill up cohort Of
e ter cohort and legion after legion when the
G struggle in this last war was for the contin-
Q ued existence Of the nation; admitting that
since the foundation of this government lie
has been received into the navy and has
!; fought years agone upon the decks OF our
most venerated ships side by side with the
b white man. [Applause] Admitting all
, this, tell these numbering old coaches that
lately started out to canvass for the adoption
of the new Constitution from Annapolis
+ they might Just as well try to stop the tor
, rent of Niagara as to stop the earnest anu
6 fearless enunciations of these principles by
u those acting in obedience to the intelligent
moral obligations Of justice and loyalty, and
in the vindcation of the loyal sentiments Of
the fathers in proclaiming that every man
shall have right to protect himself by the
ballot. [Applausel believe in the justice
of God and believe that God intervenes in
: the affairs of nations as well as He does in
:, the affairs of men. AS firmly as ! believe
y in the great principles of the religion of
Christ, believe that His Gospel shall ls
u preached to all men, and that the souls Of
all men redeemed shall, without regard to
color, rise and exist triumphantly around
the throne of God; but that on Garth, be-
$ licve that all men, the black man among all,
o shall have his rights as well as the white
n man. Applause / care not for these false
9 prophets / core not for Andrew Johnson,
\ for Thomas Swami, for Governor Bramlettc.
n You cannot have a world without having
q some traitors in it and these are men who
/ browse continually about, and whenever ell
l., evated to power by one party succamblng
It and yielding themselves TO the party pas
o sions of another party and by botraying
v their friends, will always surrender to the
il occasion. But in thee oming of that better
v day, when four millions Of people redeem
n ed, no longer bur,lcncd with shaclles shall
i. step in the grand army of progress and
!, becoming actors for the achievement
& of the greatness of this revolution, and no
i longer impediments upon the wheels of its
i progress, shall certify to all the earth that we
w are the greatest people that Gods sun shines
" down upon. [applause]; then before the
o. genius OF this America, when your swans
Is and your Johnsons and your Bramlettcs, self
a abased, will bow to submit to that rebuke
r. which they so much merit, and they
w will excaim in the language of the
W son of Jonathan as he bowed before
ii King David, "What is thy servant,
n that thou shouldst look upon such a
II dead dog as am?' [Great applause and
lc laughter Blessings are before MS, before
= the whole country, when the rights Of all
= men will be established, as believe to be
ID Gods decree. The war was His agency so
e. long as He believed it necessary, and then
G. He used the traitor Andrew johnson, and
n Tapplause1 when this people shall exhibit to
ne the world the spectacle of nation thai
of founds its policy upon the great principle o.
N. equal and exact Justice to all men; then, al
or a consequence of that doctrine, greate
lv than the great law -giyer of the jews shal
s as proclaim to this land. 'Blessed shalt thol
If. be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be il
At the field; blessed shall be the fruit OF I'd,
n, cattle; the increase of thy kline, and th'
Of flock OF thy sheep blessed shall be thy bask
so ct and thy store blessed shalt thou be whei
in thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be
to- when thou goest out, and when the tones o
of this grand bencdiction shall be heard ovel .,
I'd this entire land, even the tribes OF .ne oouti
q ! shall no longer stand upon Mount Memo AM
nj. curse aloud; and the people Oh ts's .hiic'
he blessed land shall cry amen ana amen
sly [Great applause
his Tur AMENITIES OF LIFE.-Thc Springfield
CO. Mass Repu5lican tells this story 8
oui ..Tbere was a noteworthy, illustrative in
10Y cident ON a rail-car, out of Springfield til