Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-05-03

ties, their property and their lives. tApnlsrs.
And you must establish free schools for the eS
cation OF your people, black and white for ~ u.
your not having instructed Them not hay o. ny
All free, demagogueism has been enabled 4 them
on their minds, and lead them into n podIopol s-
bellon would not have left single relic re- e,
slavery living Oh the North American contirsVoI
| (Applausel. That is what We onebt In Raw
then, it is what we have done and are doing r
and we want you to help us finish it. tCrie Low,
The President adopted what he called c.,
policy" 1t was policv under which there coy
back spirit of defiance against the goyernr,ate
OF insult 10 loyal men, and it was Of hatred tn,
wards the freedmen of these States The 20 .o
Is made up. There are hundreds of men sleorillu
to-day in their graves because Andrew T"LpanB
adopted that policy, and the people Of thesl
gone With the rebellion. Cheers AM III ~ mas
"thank God.) 1t will return no nor. cries sr OF
ana Poncy mas been adopted that has bpouob!
peace back again, and has caused tb4 Uttpught
OF the government to be respected OH Iuonorit!
the rebellion 20 be crushed, and YOU black p ol
before me to-day are ENJOYING vonr I'll. III
a, aIo' ci1,zsns tree and equal with white man
III every respect And now YOU are songht of En-
pursued lmpored and asked to trust AID ~ vi
men VINO undertook to break up the govarnIoe eat
S Sn .9e onited states and keep you forever in
| MI johnson, from GeOl gia who went Nh b;
1861 to PIttsburg, Penn, laid down the doclPi,.
That capital should own labor. He said also. tL,.
no Wogid amer nave any one Of his slaves Pres
lcent OF the United States than Abraham IL,
coin" See how this man has come do II from III
! lofty position, and consented to take his var,
| slaves by the hand. He don't say now that Co..
tai must own labor, but he says to labor. "TriL,t
| US, try US, give US chance" daughter In tL
| first place, after Congress met-the Thirty-Nist
ConSre' finding their country i'll sad condi
! ton under the Presidents policy. We off.rod .
| constitutional amendment, and we submitted !, g.
you for adoption. If you had done So, yuur rrrrc
sentatives would be in Congress now provided E[,
sent men who could take the "'iron-clad" ostI
elect Snrh N ON Or y,nh Ixy
(Laughter.) You tell us that that coIstitutou,I
amendment dishOnorcd and degraded YOU Fgy
it was never intended for any such purpose alj
1t does not DO 1t. There is not man in the world
dlshonored by accepting this. 1t proved in the
brst place, that all persons born IN the United
States or naturalized, should be citizens of In.
United States or of the State in which they resided
Is there anything degrading in that? CCres nt
= no, no. Then it proved that no state sbouI5
enforce laws abro8ating the privileges and amcni-
ties of citizens OF the United States. Does ina.
deg ade anybody? Ono, no.") Then il PROVIDED
that citizens should live under the protection ~
equal laws. Who is degraded by that (''Nouc.
none.O Then it provided that il you excluded
any class of men from suffrage you should be cur
tailed on the basis of representation. Who WAS
degraded by that {" None, money Then il
provided that men holding certain Offices, having
taken an oath to support the Constitution, and
having violated that OATH should not hold Office
in the States or under the government. Well let
US about this.
These men, with hundreds of thousands Of
others, without single cause, without re
text that be justified, raised Their hands
against the country, plunged into treason, and
there is lot one OF them vino was not saved by
the parole of Grant, sherman, Sheridan, or some
other General, who, in his aboundidg chaillv
protects them. There is not one Of them Who
could not be tried tor treason, convicted Of tree
son, and executed for treason. Yet most of these
men are now breathing treason am abusing the
very men through whose mercy they ar livluE and
waking day after dry. tApplause) Because
men who carried us through the war have b en-
more charitable, more humane than any men that
syer trod Gods green earth. Never in the hs.
tory OF the human family has a rebellion of TINS
character occurred. That some of the leaders
have not not been tried and executed but not one
man has been tried for all this bloodshed, and
sorrow and agony. Well, we did not want their
money, they had not any to spar except what
they made themselves and we did not want their
Cont, derate bonds. daughter aud cheers.) We
did not want what yet remained in their fields
what Sherman's bummers had spared We want
ed to keep the government of our country, and to
put the government Of these States into tho
nan, of men who had been lr he to the country
true to liberty, and who will not r,is the stand.
ard of revolt gainst their country no more for
ever. (Cheers.) SO we provided that few thou
sand men, men guilty OF treason, the responsible
Mon OF this war, should not hold office, either ma
t!onal or State, unit they we've relieved of these
disabilities 10y two third vote of Congress
Well, now, they tell me that is very hard thing
tn nix 1t is Astounding charity itself.
Here is a man that sits in the senate Of the
United States, knowing better, he goes out of the
Senate, raises the standard Of revolt pulls the
young men of the South in the battle cOnscrpts
them, has them tied together, and pushed into
the field of bYttle for the purpose of breaking up
the government of the country and We say to
him, sir, we don't take your money nor lands
your liberties, your blood, your for cited life, but
we say you shall never more sit in the Senate Of
the United, until we choose to consent to it. Now
this mercy of the government, too charitable too
mercful, if at all subject to complaint, s disap-
proved OF by them: This provision was rejected
under the inspiration of Andrew Johnson and his
policy, with scorn and contempt But after all lit
will be aOOpted--it will go into the Constitution
and We shall remove these disabilities when men
prove by their acts, by their words by their daily
lives, that they are worthy Of mercy, but not til
then. (CheerS.)
When we found that amendment was rejected
that loyal men were insulted; when we found that
thousands Of black mon were murdered, and that
they were trying to keep them in q state of seri-
dom, we passed what you call here n Sherman
bill 1t was bill introduced by Mr.. Williams, Of
Oregon. 1t was the product of several men, for
tell you we made 1t wiser than we knew how. Goa
III his providence directed and controlled our at
tons, and under his good guardianship We pro-
ducGd that measure, and We included III it the ad-
ditiOn that the black men OF hose States should
have the rights of suffrage. 1t is theirs 1t is
possession, and no power on the North American
Continent will ever be able if YOU are faithful to
yourselves, to take the ballot out of your posses
sion. Great cheerng)
But am told here that this prov 8 on and the
supplementary act that did not let these rebel
Legislatures keep the States out, but made them
submit the question to the whole people, am
told there is degradation in that 1 don't see it
l don't feel it. L think the COnsti-
tutional amendment is brstling all over with char
Ity, generosity, liberality, the generosity OF
great, victorious, conquering country. Zap
plause.)
Well now let me say here, that believe you arc
going to adopt this constitutional amendment
down here you are going to organize, and that
you will choose Senators and RepYese natives who
can take the oath Of office, that You will conform
your State Constitution to the re iuircments Of
that act, and that youwil carry it into effect But
| am told by some men here that they are opposed
to it. Well you surrendered with General Lee
because you could not help it. Iaughter) lam
sure of Que thing, and that is, that the colored
men of the South will on election day do the work
But tell every white man here to-day, you who
stood by your country amid the storms of reyo-
luton, and you colored men who were always
loyal when devastation swept over the land |
tell all loyal men-the men who we're dragged
into this rebellion; the old JacksoniSn Democrats;
the Harry Clay Wings and repentant rebels the
young men that were deluded and misguided into
civil war, and who on the battle fields shed their
olood-that trust you will stand square to-day
olart yourselves on the platform, the republican
platform, that is broad enough, large enough fol
Ill the loyal men of the country and all tie liberty
owing men to stand upon, and if there is any
body that don't want to stand upon it, let them
'alse their own State, stand ON their own platform
Ind HIauohfor oh / beliaye