The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-25

rated, and under military supervision TIVE mill
lion bales of cotton were raised In 1866 MILLIONS
with the civil polity OF the states
where they belonged; tranquility and order
period of transition, from the relation of master
and slave TO the relation of man and man-the
relation of political equality. Under the guaran-
tees which military occupation afforded for the
security OF life and property, Northern capital
and Northern enterprise have been rebuilding
the cities and cultivating the fields, restoring
the railroads and navigating the waters,
constructing bridges and establishing tele-
graph lines, reopening commerce and reViV-
ing Industry, opening schools aud building
churches. from the Potomac to the Rio Grande;
and IL has been recently affirmed by authority
than which none can be higher in all the South,
that our presence and our measures have saved
their public records from destruction, and Lneir
own civil officers from lawless violence. Nay,
more; 1t is acknowledged that to the conside-
rate acts OF military adm ntstration they are
indebted for the opportunity of providing
means to suhsist their families, and for pro-
ducing the present crop. which promises TO be,
in many respects, and in many sections of the
South, the most important and the largest
which has been grown tor many years IL
thai, without military occupation and controI
the restoration of the Rebel States would have
been delayed for years, and. II ever attained
tervals of anarchy and conflict"
We have space to allude to only one more
point made in this admirable speech, and that
is with reference to the suffrage of colored
OAblAOAb III ANSbOA JttitOos COhoANA SASANhSS
cannot be stigmatized as a fanatic upon this
question. He simply takes the case as he
finds it, and as a soldier and a statesman con-
siders what ought to be done. He sees, as
every intelligent man must see, that to leave
the colored citizen without vote in these
States is to leave him utterly destitute of
the means of self-proteotion, and is to invite
ha Npi11act n ornaltv and Nyin1aroa i,
the future. 1t is also to concentrate a
monopoly of political power in the hands of
the very men who have just laid down the
arms wherewith they madly sought to over
throw the Government. Let conservatives
who are so alarmed at the idea of negro suf-
frage in the Rebel States, read these wise words
of General Siokles:-
Acknowledgement is peace. Liberty without
rights, AID the means TO protect them, is war.
The only condition upon which military occu-
patton may cease In the Rebel States, is to give
the ballot TO the emancipated race. With That
shield of safety, they Will be secure from OPP
preston, and the country protected from sedi-
ton and treason. (ReneWed applauSe) II
follows, therefore, that the peace, prosperity
and welfare of the South have depended
upon temporary military control over
their local governments, to be exercised only
until legal civil authority could be established
in accordance with the requirements of Con-
that the acknowledgements of all the loyal people
of the Rebel States was an essential guarantee
of present and future security and repose and
that unless the freed people were enabled
to protect themselves by the ballot, they
would have been compelled, In self defense to
seek refuge in the loyal states, and overcrowd
all the channels OF Industry, ar else TO prevent
that exodus of millions OF Blacks, flying from
oppre ssOrs The Government world have been
compelled to pro ect them at home. by prolong-
ing military occupation until the Rebel state
Governments voluntarily afforded adequate
security for the lives and possessions OF the
loyal colored people; and 1t remains to be
! said that the military officers duty
in the Rebel States were. sent there by
| the authority of Congress, and with the slnc-
ton Of the loyal people who put down the
| Rebellion expressed through their representa-
| tlVes. Comrades, IL is impossible to undo that
noble act of justice which has elevated the
| loyal freedmen of the South to the rank of citi-
| zens. From many points of view there is no
| reason TO apprehend that a subordinate race
can do more than defend their rights. A law
oil graVitation controls the MOI al as 1t does the
| material world, The weak cannot overcome
| the strong members Culture and destiny COM
| bine to assure the dominion of the white race.
| 1t was Mr. Fore, believe, who called a reac-
tion the most dangerous form OF revolution.
Such would be the character of q reaction that
restOred the Rebels and their friends to power
May that day never dawnp