The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-09

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cIai grandeur, thy magnificent rive Sonlmer-
white with the sails of your trade tbs again
warehouses swarming with life,tbrs great great
1actorles, the laboring places of thonsonn .anu-
and thy Green Flag flying in the 'i hnoS
giving indications that Ireland is freo I,'eeze,
THE BLACK HEROES OF THE 1-,IoI1
When look broad I am encorn AHaY.
and when look at home, nv spirit ~ Jagged,
ed. The reconstruction measures of tho ea MATT
Congress, and the grand enthusiasm Nc 80 S9th
people tor equal rights and universal snes 'he
these are omens that better and hria.nase
times VIII yet break on our land Te ~ s
immortal honor OF the great Union part,' 'u ne
the country, be it said that in sn;t. VI
opposition from thousand sources '? IL
conferred upon the black man the inea s. naS
bic and God given right of suffrage ': Vn
my black friends, have voted in the nos LOU,
You voted in that golden era of the Rennh
lIc-durlng the revolution, the ilIustrion.
washington, John Adams, and Thomas lief
ferson, walked up to the polls and denos;teI
their votes in companionship with yonr
| fathers s'uf
In five New England States, and IN No.
York, your race have been voting ever CIV; WV
In such Southern States as MARYLAND '' WE
ginia, Tennessee, during the Years of 1000 Do
1885, and 1888, negroes voted. wy
Your enemies say that you are ton inv
rant to use the ballot there is one t5 tn
you do know, the difference between ora:,
and blue coat Well, this charge of S in
rance comes with very poor grace from
party of politicians who have ALWAYS hoo"
connected with the most uncult.vated voto sn
of the country. In Ohio, my State tSa;s
was a shining apostle of the copper fesd
| democracy, who was very much aronSad
when the Freedmens Bureau bill nasoed
Congress. He exclaimed to Repubcon
neighbor, "Have you heard the news tIat
the Black Republicans have passed a hin
giving to every negro a Bureau, and l have
been married twenty-five years and have
none yet"
All the black man asks is an open field
and fair fight. There is story whichI
Illustrates his present position. 1t was in
1776, when the American army lay encamp.
ed at Morristown, that young FOREIGNER
presented himself to General Washington
with an introduction from Benjamin Frank.
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"What do seek you here" inquired the
commander-in-chief ITO fight for liberty,n
replied the young man. What can YOU
do 2" TRY me- was the answer WASH
ington took him at his word He was tried
and rose to The rank of General Having
| fought for our Independence, he re-crossed
the ocean and returned to his home. Ameri-
can, as O'Gorman truly says &c You can
never forget among the hills at West Point,
overlooking the Hadson, marble cenotaph
still stands to commemorate the gratitude
of the people he served so well. His name
was Thaddeus Kosciousko.
AS he 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 emancipated, as to
Kosciousko, the same questions are put, and
the same answers are given. What do you
seek here?" To vote, fight and, if need
be, to die for Liberty" "What can you
do?" "Try me. By all my ancient splen-
dor, by all my recent sorrows, by the wrongs
have suffered, by the bloody agonies which
1 have endured, by the fidelity with which
have preserved the immortal hope of final
deliverance, by my friendship for the Union
soldiers, by the fearful odds against which
1 have to contend, by what 1 have been,
done, and suffered, We nations of the earth,
try me-"
This is what the black man claims. 1t is
right that he should enjoy equal rights be-
fore the law as we'll as the haughtiest slave
lord that walks the earth.
By their desperate fidelity to the fortunes
of the nation, in many fierce tempest of the
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 politician who would deny them the
rights for which their wounds and glorifed
colors, so eloquently plead, is unworthy to
participate in the grandeur of the nation,
which these heroes did so much to vindicate
Your rights and privileges as citizens, my
friends, will be most intelligently, vigilantly
and CALAMITY maintained by the fearless COM
mander of this District, Gen. D. E. Sickles ;
who on the field as we'll as in the Legislative
halls of the country, has proved himself an
accomplished soldier and wise statesman.
The black heroes of the army are entitled
to all the emolument of citizenship. 1t is for
US to recall the devotion, the courage, and
the sublime heroism this prescribed race
has displayed during the fearful rebellion
Have we NOT all one fatner! Inc same eS-
sential elements alike of physical, intellect
ual and moral being, enter into the compo-
sition of his nature the same earth sustains
him with her fruits, the same heavens are
spread over him, the same noon measures
his monthly periods, and the same revolu-
tions of the globe bear him onward to his
future and eternal destiny. Is he not then,
my neighbour my equal in all the essentials
of humanity 2
THE APPEAL.
word and am done. I speak to you
to-day, my respected auditors, in the inter-
est of and in behalf of that organization
with which the proudest recollections OF the
last five wears have been identified.
/. This magnificent National party, though
young in years, is old in precious memories,
haltowed associations, and in unfadlng glo-
ries Stand by it, for it has sent eighteen
hundred thousand brave men to the field to
fight for the Republic Stand by it, for 1t
has expended four thousand million dollars
to save our country from disunion and death.
Stand by it, for its chief struck the letters
from your limbs Stand by it, for 1t mas
conferred upon the blacks manhood sunrage ="
Stand by the grand army of the Union tne
pride and beauty of which are imperlshaply
blended with the sudden blaze OF victory
tb.t rosa above Fort DonelSon, and then