Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-05-22

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if that principle be adopted, the insti-
tuition ofslavery over the whole country.
and making slavery lawful lif carried
on under the American fag) upon the
high seas, where our fathers had de-
clared it piracy. .--.
In 184S, at Baltimore, W. L. Yancey
introduced a resolution embodying the
same sentiment In the Senate Cal
houn could not bring his resolution to
vote, and in Baltimore only twenty
six out of two hundred voted for YEN
cey's proposition. Mr.. Clark, of New
Hampshire, substituted an amend
ment to the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, to forever prohibit Congress
or the people of the United States
from abOlishing slavery in any State
which objected to it. How was that
amendment defeated, and what was
the result of that defeaEf Andrew
johnson, in his great speech of March,
1861, land it was great speech,) told
the people Of the country that if the
Senators from the Gulf States had not
absented themselves from the halls
of the Senate, or had they answered to
their names when called, they could
have carried that amendment but
they sat still IN their seats, and refused
to vote. or went into the cloak room OF
the Senate chamber, and when by thus
absenting themselves the amendment
was lost in the Senate, they hurried to
the telegraph room and dispatched to
the Governors of their States, saying,
''No compromise can be had; the South
must 60 out" The war was thus made
by the South, and the North met it,
not in the name of the North, bat in
the name of our country and its Con-
stitution /; and they fought it through
with determination that every child
should be heir to every acre from ocean
to ocean, and from the lakes to the
gulf. They fought to secure to the
future hundreds of millions of the
South propIistorship and citizenship
IN the grandest country in extent that
the world has ever seen the graadest
country that could be carved from
Gods earth; a country which, but
eighty years old as government, has
borne civil war in which two armies
were engaged, either of which was
greater than Russia, France or united
Germany could put into the field To-
day that every child of the South
should be heir to that mighty extent,
to these vast and varied resources, to
the protection of the flag that repre-
sented US throughout Christendom, on
every sea, as the powers Of the Union
and the Confederate armies combined.
[Applause.
In 1861, radical Abolitionist as then
was, l myself voted FOR the Crittenden
resolution, in which it was resolved that
the object of the war was not to extinguish
slavery. did it because I believed that
slavery had already received its death
blow I did it becasuse l would have
gladly avoided convulsioR and because
it would have hemmed slavery to its CON
stitutional limits, to girt it with fire, and
that it would ultimately die out. saw
the force the South could bring to the
field in defending her territory. l felt
l had an appreciation of the power of en-
durance of the North, by which. notwith-
standing the valor and extent of the
South, she could crush her out. Indeed,
in a speaeh of mine in the Fremont
canvass, said, in response to the
threat of the South to seeede, that
she would not-dsre notify to 90 out
because, as 1 said to my own people in
Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, it will be
the duty of our Commanding General to
summon to our flag such Of our people as
will come, and though they come bearing
black SKINS and the badge Of slavery, we
would put arms in their hands, and their
own slaves will subdue or drive them
headlong into the Gulf Of Mexico. Such
was my faith. Yet voted, as did every
man on the floor, for that compromise--
We moved slowly. We complained Of
Lincoln's tsrdiness; we implored him to
issue the emancipation proclamation long
before he did 1 went to him personally
and urged him TO employ colored troops
Finally, went and asked him to give me
q eommisson to raise regiment Of color
ed troops, with power to draw on the
Quartermaster for stores. aYou want"
said Mr.. Lincoln, ''to organize a colored
regiment you are no soldier" ssNo."
said /, 81 am not don't mean to lead
them 10 the field; 1 don't mean to pretend
to do it; all want IS to go home and say,
'Colored men of Pennsylvania Come
and enlist without bounty; if need be,
without pay; put on the United States
buttons; shoulder the musket; bear on
your backs from your wives and children
the United States knapsack; prove in the
face of the world that the eolored man has
manhood, has courage to die in the great
cause; tell to the world completely that
under the curly head and black skin beats
a heart as true to the cause of liberty as
under the iaxen hair and fair skin of the |
Saxon. EApplause- cannot go with |
you as your Colonel, I will 90 as your
Chaplain, or as yous companion; will |
share your danger on the battlefield. -
Finally, colOred men were accepted as
soldiers, and when that was done the col |
ored man was made free throughout our |
eounTy, for no nation could live with |
self respect, which had called upon q serY- |
lie race to die for it, and when the war |
was over, refuse the rights and attributes |
of citizenship to that people- Long ap |
plause Thus It came out, that by the |
war the South compelled Us, step by step, |
TO the enfranehisement Of the cOlored race,
and Congress has been true to its duty
It has provided that every eolored MAJ in
the Capitol, who has resided there SIX
months and is regularly registered, shall
vote, and in the reorganization of these
States it has made all of them citizens.
Some of you ask me what right Con
gress has to recognize these States
Was there a Southern Confederacy or
was there not / think there was
ALL how many graves l have counted;
by the tens of thousands in 3 single /
cemetery 1 have seen them heaped,
and but q few miles north of your city
they are still hesping new graves over
the dead patriots. These graves testify
that there was Confederacy; that IL
had armies and nayies, president
cabinet and two branches of Congress,
and courts of justice. You know there
was Confederacy, and that for four
years and more, none of these States
were States of the United States.-I
You know that the State governments
which bound them to the Union were
overturned. As Andrew johnson SAID
in his proclamation appointing Gov
ernor for each State, "the people OF
these States were deprived Of civil
government by the violence of reyelu-
ton" There is no State of South Caro-
lima her judges since 1861 had been
administering laws under an oath to
support the Confederate States, under
an oath to support the Constitution of
the Confederacy. "But," says some
shallow reasoner, eff the States were
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