New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1867-05-17

civil rights. You have the ballot:
that weapon by which you can protect your
heads. your property. Your lives. aud your
liberties. which make you strong and power
ill, so that the proud and the wealthy III
the land conceGe to you the priceless blrs-
sings Of equal rights. Your rights are a.
sacred rs any mans rights in New Orleans
or in the country. We have put the ballot
into your hands to complete the work al
ready begun. | do not want to see a white
mans party nor black mans party. Gap
plause.) | want men to follow their pra-
Ciples, wherever they lead them. If you
/ black men are for the United States OF Am
erica, one and indiyisable, if you are Tor
the equal liberties of all men. if you are for
equal justice to all men, II you are for
education, for improvement, for develop
ment, then vote where your principles car
! ry you. (Cheers). If you black men have
to stand really alone in the right, stand
atone Better be right in the minority
than wrong with a majority. (Cheers).
God is ON the side of the right and in
the long contest the right will arise.
(Applause). | say. | do not want a white
mans party nor black mans party, and
do not want any war of races in this COuu-
try. applause and cries of ''goodD. /
warn you tonight, as do3the BLACK men OF
TINS country every where, to remember TINS:
that while black man Is as good as white
man, white man is rs good Us black
man. daughter and cheers). See to II
! while you are striving to lift yourselves up,
that you do not strive to pull nybody else
down. (Applause) God in his providence.
has given Us this magnificent continental
: empire, this mighty land, that requires
three or four hundred millions OF people TO
develop its resources. The country is large
cnou-h for Us all. Let rs all live together
AS children OF common Father, although
the blood Of different races may course
through our veins. Remember, further
'-.t \. - v.
I cal, nor distrust radical. Love Is radical,
: (dpplanse, and shouts of good ~ human
ity is radical. confidence in God and in man
is radical. (Applause) sometimes hear
men talk about being radical when it seems
to me they are away back among
the baggage-wagous OF the late war Cloud
lauChter)-aud adopt the language OF a
bloody contest, and not the language of two
years of peace aud the mighty future which
: we hope will be peace. He who causes
I alienation and disuust between the white
men and the black men OF this country j.
an enemy Of the white man and Of the black
1 man alike. tApp.ause.) Go to your Bibles.
5 You will read there that God made man in
2 | His own imaTe-the black man and the
J white man: that Of one blood all the ma
/ tOns. You will read there, that We have
/ the FatLcrhOod OF God over Us. and the
2 brotherhood Of man with Us. Aud remem
i | Der one thing more: on here IN New or
i. leans and in Louisiana, have by the action o
/ | the government OF the Uulted State, mort
0 | rights and privileges than your bretIreI
have in some o. the great and powerful free
e States of this Union. The government OF the
g United States has given you these rights
e | and put the ballot into your hands to chan
3, your own constitution and laws, so that youl
:. rights will be forever secure. (Applause.
c | Remember, chen, that your rights and priv
+ ileges are involved in the vote you give, aul
/ remember to vote for country tor liberty
e for justice, and tor men who are committed
+ fully and unreservedly committed, to unit
: ed country, the liberty OF al men, the edu
o cation and development OF all the children
l. of the republic.
:. We are struggling IN New YORK, IN New
d jersey, in Ohio, and other great states, t
It give the right OF suffrage, ana the fuIl an'
: complete privileges OF citizenship TO IN
/ men OF your race, ana we want you 10 Ael
US. Gwen do 1t, sure There are
: gre--t many mean men up IN our part OF N
q country: and there Is not meaneF man
ID TIE wortd than mean auhee' lTTeu
e, nerri nent} We nave men Dy tens OF tAot
Il sands who have voted against ever
n me sure passed by Congress TO make 70
q free, to give you your rights, ana nav
n voted against every en0rt maze 10 eNlen
t. the rights anu p[Ni'tSes Vi lue He
:, colored men ut the Tree States teh yo
d frankly we want you 10 nea
G, us tight the battle up lherG, We II 40 II,
rs How will You DO 1t; VIII ten you row
Al 10 1t. See 70 IL that you VOC EISht mere Il
y the time and every llhc; t4tt you 90 IL
pc vote tor any man unlese oE MS acIS anu I
"a corded opinions ne Is IN iaFor OF the unity
0l the country the ne OF tAe hatIon' auu u
IL equal rights OF all the men IL lAe haloi
u, (Applausc.)
H. Another thing. see TO II tlat your en-
5, mics shall never send up TO US any account
&c truthful or false (and they VIII maze tRe
le if they CAM OF your misconduct. No sci
IS men since the morning OF creation ever
!" hayed 30 nobly as have the colorcl men
w | these reoe!ilous States during tAe Ia
w six years. (Cheers.) You were Tor yol
IS country all the time. Many a 1ankt
be soldier bears testimony to your humahlt.
and TO the aid which he received AT Eot
We hands But while you were for your COUNT
lis and for your country's cause You We
er peaceful. hopeful, trusted in God, III Ill
Id the progress of events, bided your time, ~
CHI liberty came to bless your endurance. "a
ey plause) Then civil rights came; then Il
e, ballot: ami you stand tonight the cqua
ur and the peers of the prouiest men IN Il
of country. (Applause.) You know and
tn know, that there are.preiultces against sc
e.) in the South and IN the North. Inc Oh ah
re slavery men Of this country, VINO tlHt
OF two or thirty-three years ago, espOused No'
W, cause, were snee1ed at, lied about, huhl'
bis down, year III and year out, their Duslhe
lot destroyed, and their lives put IN leopard
ed Many a man with whom have HoAe pu'
mt ness for years. has turned on MS hee4 II
py walked by me, because pcleNeu t'
or every man in America ought TO be IA
lv man. | have walked the streets OF Bostt
and of the capital of the country, ana oet
I | lpanral l.ta az ahpliFtgplST. And WHAT