The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-07-06

little oppressive as In this case.
Never was there an instance in which
the cpnqueror showed such un-
bounded mercy to the conquered.
Consider that six hundred thousand
men-the flower of the youth of the
North -Aave been offered up to this
god of war. Every house is house
OF mourning; the land has been
bathed In tears; thousands upon their
crutches are limping through the
highways and the by-ways of the
country, and nation has wept over
the dead and the dying.
The war over, Lee, Johnston and
Dick Taylor surrendered; vet not
one drop of blood has been shed in
punishment for what had occurred !;
no man has been executed. The
people of the North have shown that
what they were fighting for was the
domination of American sovereignty
and the perpetuity of the American
Union. They demanded 10 victim,
and sacrificed no one upon the altar.
L wonder if the people of the South
had been the conquerors, they would
have offered better terms or shown
themselves more merciful. If so. I
think they would have been more
humane than l think it possible for
humanity to be.
The North Offers to the South the
privilege of re-entering the Union on
certain conditions--namely: that there
shall be certain equal rights and privi-
leges between all classes and condi-
tlons of men. 1t having been under
stood that the vast mass of the colored
people were favorable to the cause of
the North, can it be expected that q
government sustained by the sympa-
thles and arms of this race would
leave them to the tender mercies of
anybody, to be deprived of the
liberty they had fought for and won
IN this great contest? Are not the
people Of the South willing to accept
these conditions? Much depends
upon you, my colored friends, in the
adjustment Of this matter, and 1 say
to you again, educate your children;
send them to school; pursue your
avocations honestly, like men of
sense, industriously and cnergetically;
and when you go to the polls, go as
freemen, rs Americans, not rs colored
men, not as the members of any
class, but rs belonging to the whole
United States, and vote for those
men and principles which you believe
most conducive to the liberty, pros
perity, greatness and glory of your
country.
If you will glance over the map,
you will see that it was intended for
but one country. Beginning at the
mouth of the Rio Grande, where,
among the quiet recesses of the
coast, the doves of commerce find
shelter from the storm, look upwaads
until your eye rests on the Bay of
Passamaquaddy; thence cross the
great inland seas that divide the couu-
try from British America; thence move
across the plains towards tho Rocky
Mountains, where the iron horse is
so fast making its way that, in year
from now, he will scale the highest
crng, and, with joyous note of
triumph, pursue his way down the
Pacific slope, to hold forcvcrmore the
Eastern and Western portions of the
continent III loving union; return
down the Pacific coast to the point
whence you started, and then look over
the country, with its mighty rivers,
bearing upon their bosom so much of
its vast wealth; see land where
every conceivable character of soil,
climate, production and resources
exist in every stage OF development,
from the simplest to the grandest;
look at the people, their language,
habits. genius, enterprise and worth;
their devotion to cause in which,
believing they were right, they sacri.
feed million OF human lives-a
people whom God has planted upon
this continent, so full of excellence,
and glory, and power, and beauty;
and when you take the whole scene
in-these mighty rivers, these cloud
kissing mountains, and great inland
seas, al pant of the glory of this
great republic-tell me if, when God
created the world, BE did not design
this to be one country. one nationali-
ty, one Union, forever? Great APP
plause.) And what "God has Joined
together, let no man dare to put
asunder." (Renewed cheering.)
In the providence of the God of
Battles and of Nations, this is to be
the great and mighty nation of earth.
Here the tree of civil and religious
liberty, las was elOuucntly said in