The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-04

secured, and are hereafter to be secured, in the
Constitutions Of all the States: Never Never vote vote
you free. Expressions OF assent.) Register
your names GIVE WILD Vote for united
owe will,') Vote SO to change the Constit1-
tion of this state that your liberties may be
contaminated and made secure ('Yes, bless the
Lord.") Cherish no hates nor prejudices grow
ing out of your past relations. Never say or do
9nyin1ng an n 70 PToy@oEe @ war NO 9t bd6S races Of
men since the world began has ever been
punished more than they have been punished
Where are they? Defeated; some of them are
in exile their ideas all lost every object in their
livesgone never TO come back again. AS the
country grows and becomes the foremost nation
of the globe, their record will grow darker and
darker. IL is terrible fate. God knows
would not lay any more burdens upon them.
II the people OF South Carolina honestly,
faithfully, in the right spirit comply with the
leve that their Senators and Representative
If they can take the oath, and they must take it
will be admitted into Congress, and that the
whole controversy will be settled. Lay down
your platform of principles, invite everybody
to stand upon II, give 70 ali the right i nann Oh
for the great Republican Union liberJy-loving
party OF the country by twenty or thirty thou.
south Carolina hold in their hands the desti-
nies of the state. They can place it abreast of
the most liberal and progressive States in the
country. or they can be false and recreant, and
let 1t linger behind the age, the derision of It's
so9 so9iSS dS tne the rstY sP ishouts w of "We wi
All of you in favor of doing it hold
up your hands, Thousands of dusky hands
1t hold up your hands. (Ths same number of
hands were again raised, to the great amuse-
ment of the white portion of the audience.) Mr..
Wilson set himselfto correcting the blunder of
the colored people, and again put the afnrma-
could not be misunderstood. This time all
hands were raised in the affirmative and none
in the negative; In the course of some further
remarks, Mr.. Wilson declared that the loyal
people OF the country would keep the Govern
ment in the hands of its friends, North and
South, and that if the persons who are now dis
franchised assist loyalty in the work of recon
structlon, their disabilities would be removed.
This he stated as his own opinion and belief,
and not by any authority.
Mr.. Wilson spoke again in the evening at a
colored mass meeting In Hibernian Hall.
He leaves tomorrow for Beaufort and will
be in Savannah on Monday.
EQUALITY IN RAILROAD CARS.
CHARLESTON. May S.-The directors of the
Charleston City Railway Company have volun-
tarily adopted the following resolution
Resolved, That the cars be thrown open to the
to 4ecoEnae Fight q ali to ride
CHARLEsToN. May 3--S P. M.--The resolution
of the Charleston City Railroad Company, sent
you to-day, was transmitted by the President
Sickles who wrote the following in reply:--
P S nsys eS5 ~ n @
mitting resolution OF the Board of Directors
declared that lie Of the Go@Psny W are open to
the public and that The right Of all persons TO ride
pany will be appreciated in the right sense You have
removed occasion for collision and disorder. You
have added further and emphatic testimony of the dis
position OF the people of the South to accept in good
ment Of the colored race, In the concession of
m OF ali Sess 10 SaS pan
In the most conducive to the public interests.
take The the Initiative in N M assures tending to promote
sSd sSap 70 TO eaSre a6 Sos
ends hence, have not yielded TO the impatence OF
aSse atsaon t6e mary enthorte eeng
that In this as In other similar matters more % ssts,
the voluntary action Of those most interested in
doing e9Ga T JeTT psGe TO cne reed 1cKLE
TO John s. Riggs Esq, President of the City Rail
way Company
A REBEL LECTURE SUPPRESSED.
RICHMOND Va, April 3.-Again has military
! authority interposed to check the eXuberant
sentiments of the unreconstructed chivalry of
| District No. /. In this instance no ordinary
! character in this community has fallen under
the notice of the military commander. The
most bellicose and unsubdued fre-eater in the
| literary fraternity ofthe Old Dominion has been,
! in the very commencement of a brilliant lec-
turing career, brought to the full stop. lee
ture on 1.-The Chiyalry of the SOUTH"
announced to be delivered last evening
former editor Of the Rchmond Ezamtaer, was
prohibited by order of General Wilcox, COM
! mandant Of the post Mr.. Pollard, in company
with the Mayor of the city, waited on the
General TO ask him to rescind his order, stating
! that the lecture was simply narration of his
torical events; but the General persistently re-
! fused TO allow of its being delivered. The ire
| pressible Pollard came out with card this
morning In the Lynchburg papers, stating that
! he intended referring the matter for considera-
| tion to General Schofeld, and If unfavorably
decided upon, of submitting this question OF
free speech to the President. who ON former
| occasion, permitted the republication of his
| paper He is determined, he states, TO deliver
this lecture at any cost, and if denied an audi
| ence in the South TO go to the North or TO
| Europe.
LOUISIANA.
ooRREsP ONDENcE BETWEEN GENERALS SHERIDAN
AND GRANT IN RELATION TO THE PRoHIBIToRY
CLAUSES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION LAW.
NEW ORLEANS, La, April 29.-The following
| correspondence between Generals Sheridan
and Grant in relation to the registration of
| voters under the Military bill is of Importance,
| as it proves that General Sheridan did make
| application for instruoions in the prohibitOrY