The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-06-20
John MI. LangStOn.

ing speeches. He addressedG 4 large
mass meeting at Ieesburg, Va, the
other day. We give the following
sketch from the New York Herald
Mr. John NJ. Langston was the
next speaker. Among the audience
his appearance excited much. inter
est, Of light mulatto complexion,
with features of Caucasian type, at
tire OF faultless, and with a powerful
voice, accompanied with a clear
enunciation, he commanded at once
attention and respect. He said ::
"My friends, what does it mean that
am permitted to stand here to-day
whereso many South orators once
stood, and to whose voices you
gave your attentions? ! was born
slave, and when a boy left this
State of Virginia, with the fearful
shadow of slavery haunting me day
and night-Slavery-a thing that
takes possession of every faculty of
man and incorporater in the prop
erty Of another his functions ofsoul
and body TO this old State, where
my father and mother sleep their last
sleep, | am permitted to come again
to find no more toiling gangs swell
tering in the cotton fields, under the
brutal lash of an overseer, but to
find the blacklist man among you q
citizen Of the United States, support
ell and protected by the strong
shield of American law and liberty.
He congratulated them that slavery
was gone-slavery, the fell enemy Of
both white and black men. Refore
the rebel fire was leyeled at Fort
Sumter no white man among them
could with truth say he enjoyed the
full possession of civil, religious and
political liberty; for slavery, fet
tered 9he minds ofall. In the name
Of his white father and his black
mother he had received with JOY this
great boon of freedom. In truth
and soberness he declared the eman-
cipation of the black man was equal
ly the emancipation of the white
Whe Samuel Hoar went to plead in
the Supreme Court Of South Caro-
lima a case involving the rights and
liberties of certain Massachusetts
citizens of African,descent, he was
maltreated and driven from the
State by a mob Of gentlemen of
property, whose action was digni-
fed and made honorable by legisla
tive enactments in that State. His
American citizenship was no shield
against outrage, as in the instance
Of the old Roman. Where was
American liberty then for ye, o white
men-where 4? Hon. Chas, Sumner,
with stars and stripes waving over
his bead, lay bleeding upon the
floor of the United States Senate,
felled by the hand Of brutal slave
holder for denouncing the accursed
institution. Where, then, was
American liberty gone. Glimmer-
ing through the dream Of things
that were, a schoolboy's tale, the
wonder of an hour. AT last came
the conflict of battle-not for the
sake of the slave, as you (address
ing the colored mem would still be
under the lash of your master A
time, however, arrived when;the un-
bridled license of slavery put ifs
hand on the liberties of black men,
and shook the gauntlet of defiance
in the face of the nation. All now
changed: and if the white man
stands up to the full measure OF
American liberty, the black man
shall stand beside him. But where
shall those men stand who rebelled
against the government When a
child throws off the parental au-
thority he deserves to be punished {;
but if that child repent, father
would eXclaim IL forgive fyou.-
Bring hither the fatted calf and let
US rejoice" Let these Southern
men but write tn sentence Of repen-
tence and the peans of joy which
will swell throughout the North will
melt into the harmony of love. II
still unrepentant, the government
will say, "Stay where you are, and
the loyal blacks shall legislate fol
YOU" Standing before colored
men and women, he would say
You have friends in the North as
as well as in the South. Value
them. By educating yourself you
will learn to do so. Gain the cul
tivation Of everything that pertains
to well ordered life, and when you
make contract consider it binding
and sacred" Speaking of the dis
reimbursement in the North of black
men, he said in the State Of Ohio
where he lived, by beautiful hocus
pocus arrangement they had twisted
him out of black man into white
man, and he voted accordingly
When convenient they reversed the
process and put him in the category
Of disfranchised niggers. He ad
vised the colored men to work anC
labor.to acquire money! In fact
his lesson to them, laconically stated
was enforced in the old and quain
expression, s'Root hog or die AT
ter giving a very fine advice to the
colored men to a avoid whisky anC
tubacco, educate themselves fol
their altered but ignored condition
he returned thanks to the white me1
for the kind and respectful hearing
they had given him.
\ At the termination. of his speecl
q crowd of whites and blacks gath
cred around the speaker and shool
his hand warmly, after which tn
audience quietly dispersed. o
Modern Democrats are full of low
) for the soldiers. The Cincinnati