The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-13

The great fatter the great. The strong make
fellowship with the strong The rich rank
themselves with the rich. But Jesus Christ
was the Messiah of the poor Born IN a
manper. he made the lowliest roof sacred. The
son of carpenter, he maze the coninonesV
calling honorable. Having not where to lay
his head. he took from poverty its disgrace.
Condescending to men Of low estate, he made
bride of rank forever despicable. Lifted up
That he might draw all men unto him, he
thereby invested human nature with dignity
which forbids the strong man to oppress the
weak, forbids society to divide itself into
castles, and forbids the Government to outrage
its citizens.
In contravention of the Christian religion,
the President of the United States has once
again set his heel on the necks Of the lowly.
His late Message is the greatest affront to the
Christian spirit Of the age which has been
given by any Presidential manifesto since the
iniquitous days of the Fugitive Slave law.
With scorn and indignation, with sorrow and
shame, we have read the dull, stony, and
cruel argument which the Chief Magistrate of
a Christian republic has pointed against a
class of citizens whom he ought to exalt
rather than to degrade, and whom he ought
to clasp with the hand of fellowship rather
than to smite with the gauntlet of scorn.
This state-paper is without parallel and with
out excuse. 1t is out of harmony with the
Christian era. 1t is three hundred centuries
old. 1t is the product of Pagan brain. BY
the side of the Roman Emperor who kept in
his girdle bodkin to pierce flies, let us place
an American President who keeps in his ink
stand pen to stab negroes
This new document from the Whited Sc
pulchre is filed with dead mems bones. 1t
crushes at a stroke not merely multitude
but race of victims. 1t rolls like Jugger-
naut over the rights of one-sixth portion of
the American people. 1t relights the dying
fires of that martyrdom which the negro race
on this continent suffered for generations, and
ought to suffer no more. 1t begins again the
prosecutions which all mankind lately sup
posed were drawing to an end. Not even
HoratiO Seymour, were he Governor, nor Fer
nando Wood, were he Mayor, would have
written, at this late day, message so bitter
in its accusations against the most dOcie
race in the Republic. The man who promised
the black-faced millions of his fellow-coun-
trymen that he was to be their Noses the man
who wrote to Governor Sharkey that all
negroes who could read and write ought to
vote; the man who said to Major Stearns that
negro suffrage ought to be promoted in Teu-
nessee; the man who assured the black regi-
rnent that this Government was not to be for
white men alone--this man, forgetting his
pledges, forgetting his duty, forgetting his
Lord, and forgetting the Judgment Day, has
kind by putting forth, under the solemn seal
of the Executive Department, an official re-
utterance, in the year 1867, of the satanic
ISLANDERS against the negro which disgraced
the year 1856.
Daring the peril of the republic, the negro
was a loyalist; his master a traitor. The
negro was the nations defender; his master it's
assassin. The negro succored Union prison
ers; his master starved them to death. Yet
now, after this history, the President pro-
poses to deliver the negro, bound hand and
foot, to his master He argues that black
loyalists should have no political rights, and
white Rebels no political disabilities. He asks
for the repeal of all that Congress has done
towards reconstruction in order that Southern
whites may Immediately be reinstated over
Southern blacks He declares that impartial
suffrage is worse than military despotism. He
intimates that black men are unfit, not only
to share political power with their white
brethren, but even to govern themselves. He
believes that foreign immigrants should have
more privileges than native-born citizens He
insists that no peril has ever yet betallen the
republic equal to the peril which will ensue
from what he calls Africanizing one-half the
country. He maintains that what is stigma
tized as negro supremacy in the South will
cost two hundred million dollars a year. He
concludes that the ballot in the negro's hand
will paralyze all the mercantile business south
of Mason and Dixon's obliterated line.
Such an argument as the President has
uttered against the negro could fall from the
lips of no man under the sun except a Southern
''mean white" The only human being who
has ever been able to shake our faith in the
equality Of mankind is the Southern "mean
white" From any other President ever to be
chosen ont Of this same class, "Good Lord,
deliver us l''
How strangely the Presidents Message falls
upon the ears of thoughtful Europeans One
President of the United States issues procla-
nation emancipating the slaves; and his sue
Cessor writes message asking practically for
their rendition to slavery. How the beginning
of 1868 puts to shame the end of 1867 How
the silent sepulchre at Springfield rebukes the
babbling Executive at Washington
Spiritual wickedness prevails in high places.
What is the remedy Spiritual purity must
prevail all the more in other places. When
the Government is base, the people must be
noble. When the State is false, the Church
must be faithful. The Christian conscience OF
this nation ought to be so sensitive that such
Message from the President would sting
twenty million loyalists to indignation, and
cost its author his immediate impeachment.
The Christian religion ought to prevail
among the people to such degree that a
Chief Magistrate who would speak against
the just rights of the weakest citizen would
raise as great tempest about his head as II
he had publicly assailed the Thirty-nine Arti-
Sles, A nation that quietly looks on while
trampled itself.
Inc venerable Rev. DIR. Cutler of Brooklyn,
On nIs ath,bed, said to his friend the Rev,
DI' ly1g, VINO sat at his bedside, 81 feel like