The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-09
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Of commas and OF literature wherein no one
was taught these lessOnsl 1t was slavery that
stood In the pulpit; it was slavery that
GsIuse1 @ 1uu the me, saGrs9ental Sia h h emolsmsi
ReUietD; 1T was slavery that presided over
Harvard College; it was slavery that
poisoned Chestnut street. Out of the pit you dug
up the North. The conscience and the blood of
the nation came up for that in. torrents and
dehled; and 1t is a wonder that IL did not come
out imprisoned at the last.
Here we stand to day, and the miracle is we
were so ready In that call for the right aud the
true. Doubtless every man is bound TO rejoice
and thank God tonight when be thinks thstif
ten years ago l, or any one, had stood on
platform like this and told you, men of Phila-
delpbia you shall live in ten years to see negroes
dictate the law IN Richmond and seated in the
Capitol of Alabama to form Constitution for
the State, you would have hissed me from the
hall and sent me to lunatic asylum. But to-
day we live here to confess that we heartily
recognize the permanent stride the nation has
made; but there is limit to 1t, as when you
come to the illustration you must ackno Wedge
Is THE SOUTH CONQUERED?
We have got two elements at the South, black
and white. In what mould of mind are they
Well, some men imagine after Antietam, aud
Gettysburg, and Atlanta, aud the surrender OF
Richmond, and Lee going back to be President
Of a college, that every southerner is ripe for
Union. They think that q little smoke and
hafa-hundIed cannon on the soil of Virginia
have made the South cover. My friends, If five
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vent men to the matured conviction of men of
middle lite, he is not worth the turning. The
mistakes OF generation are in that way; his
tory does not show it to be thus. God never
calls for the arena of new ideas by this method.
God removes great mistakes by His messenger,
Death; and when mans brain is too cold for
new idea, his heart too stiff and tght-bound to
come up to any further progress, he gently hides
them from the world, and gives room for the
new idea to take its place.
Do you think that If Bull Bun had been the
asst Of ha of o1ld how
forced Philadelphia into the belief that slavery
was right? DO you think that if you were 70
have Bull Runs from the 22i of July, 1861, down
to the trump OF doom, that it would have ruined
the Declaration of Independence? l will tell
you, No. That when GabrieIs trump sounded
you would find Massachusetts crying out, in
spite OF all, that man was created equal.
(Cheers.) And so the same principle exists in
the South. Come with me to Georgia, and |
will show you woman whose delicate hands
had never done bit of work until after she was
forty years old She had counted her revenue
in her past lile at from eighty to nearly one
hundred thousand dollars yearly; she gave her
husband and two sons to the Confederate army,
and they lie under the sod OF the Rebellion; now
she works from early dawn in caring for her
boarders that she may thus earn the bread for
her children. Do you think such men and
women are ashamed of their convictions? Do
you think they will likely part with them? We
have abolished slavery; we can do it. We can
not abolish the master. If you attempt to re-
strict him, 1T will take at least from twenty to
You are building on quicksand. You have
got to curb them with iron; you have got to
curb them down with granite to make them safe
to build upon. | appeal to philosophy: / appeal
to common sense. have no prejudice against
JEFF. Davis, Beauregard, and Wade Hampton.
| respect them in certain sense as decided men,
| Now know these men as exactly as know my
own impulses. know that If you had whipped
| New England back to Plymouth Rock you could
not ever wipe out OF her people the principles
that her forefathers brought there. That is no
| compliment to New England; it is Just as true
of the South. You can never build safely on
Beauregard and Hampton and others of that
| element. | tell you, as student of history and
| as a business man, if the South was one homo
eeneous white race, this Union could not be
| restored for twenty years. the very circumstance
that must be accepted by us is, that there are at
| the South four millions of a race that can be
| greatly instrumental IN restoring the Union.
| ooLoR-BLIND PRESIDENT WANTED.
Now then, from that l arrive at my idea of
| restoration. 1t is not whether like negro suf-
| frage or not; it is not whether 1t may have been
the best thing or not. We don't make Govern
ments of the best things. l know that negro
suffrage would lead to the prompt, reasonable,
and quick restoration OF the Union. There is no
path to it except by negro suffrage; no other
men talk in very specious way of negro
equality in South Carolina; and then weak Re-
publicans shrink back and say, am not in favor
Of negroizing South Carolina. My dear friends,
the question is not what you will do or will not
do: the attempt to save it by anything else is
like the attempt of 1861 and 1862 to save the
they could do it; that it was their duty to do it;
| and they tried to do it, burying in the swamps
| of the Chickabominy the best blood of the ma
| ton, and expending three thousand millions oi
dollars. But God took them by the hand, led
them up to the path in which He was willing for
them to walk.
In 1868 craftsmanship bowed his head, bat
common sense abolished slavery. In the signs
OF trouble men are apt to say, Don't you see the
| good ship of the republic to be too heavily
| loaded, and that yeu cannot swim unless you
throw over the cargo OF principles? say ii
makes no matter what becomes of the hull when
the cargo is gone; the only thing before us is to
get the idea into the White House which makes
the safety of the republic. / know the idea
which is finally to guide this nation safely, and
the only idea that can do it, is for us to finish
the work God has given this nation to do. II
cannot be done until magistrate sits In the
White House who is color-blind; till he does NOT
know the colored man from the white man.
THE TRUE RECONSTRUCTION.
Let me say to you one thing which l think
is true, and that is all that we gained. if tht
South comes back into Congress-all that WI
gained as the fruits of the war we lose if she
comes back not in the hands of the negroes-w,
turn backward in eur progress. Don't think mt
lanauc-and am only giving what Sheridan
said when in BostOn:-" Gentlemen, have me
no loyalist in the South that did not have blacl
skin" (Applause.) When / say any recon
struction that does not bring those whose vote
are loyalty-and, in truth, loyalty is but a syuo
nym for black-I do not mean few sprlnkleC
handsfull OF white men exceptional to others o
the race may be allOW wed to come in-I mean tn
State must be based on lOyalty.-the point Whicl
the nation touches when they come back is TIN
advance point. 1t will never go beyond it.
LEGISLATIVE yAGARIEs.