The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-09
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wendell Phillips Reads warning
Lecture 10 Ulysses n. Grnnt.

From the Anti.Slavery StanuaIu'i
Abolitionists and all earnest Radicals
are now summoned to address them
selves to the work which is yet TO be
accomplished. 1t has become very ap-
parent, through what has transpired in
GEORGIA and elsewhere, that the recon
struction laws require careful revision
and perfecting in sundry particulars
The negroes and loyal 'ohites Of the South
qreaHv need the means Of SeD-defence.
The question of contiscation, especially
with reference to the large amount of
land fraudulently conveyed from the
possession of the United States govern
ment to the hands of rebels, should be
at once considered, in the interest of
the landless blacks, to tohonl, by rirtue Of
their past uRreqaited toll, the soil rightfaL
ly belongs A system of national edu-
cation which shall be comprehensive,
and at least co-extensiye with the eX-
tension of the ballot, should early be
inaugurated by Congress. The measure
of primary Importance now to be
promptly initiated and adopted on the
re-assembling of Congress, is an ad-
ditional amendment of the Constitution
forbidding disfranchisement, or proscrip-
ton from official trust, on account Of race
or color, in any State or Territory Of the
Union. Such an amendment, if adopp-
ed promptly by Congress and submit
ted to the Legislatures of the several
States, would, without doubt, now be
ratified by the requisite number. 1t is
urgently demanded to guarantee TIE
ballot to Southern colored men, and to
enfranchise many thousands in the Bor-
der and Northern States. The measure
should not be postponed for the consid-
Grafton, of the Forty first Congress, but
should be promptly acted upon and adopted
by the FOrtietk. "Let us have peace" has
been many times reiterated duIing the
campaign jnst closed. One danger be-
fore us is the assumption that the fact
of Grants election in itself will insure
"peace" at the South. Abolitionists
and those who have studied attentively
Southern society know better than this.
While Southern Legislatures are per-
mitted to perpetrate such high-handed
outrages as the lawless expulsion of col
ored members, as in Georgia, without
due punishment; if rebels are permitted
to take seats in the House of RepreSen
tatives who come from districts wherein
colored and white Republicans were
practically excluded from the polls,
"peace" cannot be realized. The negro
is still the bone of contention, and un-
til his manhood and political equality
is everywhere recognized he will con-
tinue to be q disturbing element in our
politics. Smarting under their political
discontinue, the Ku-klux will still hold
sway, especially if their reasonable Chief
is permitted to remain in the White House
til the fourth of March merit. With the
triumphant reelection of General But
Ter, and the well-known desire of most
of the new Southern members for the
revival of the measure, ire hare strong
hopes Of the successful cOnSummatiOn Of the
impeachment and deposition of Johnson by
the beginning Of hener year. With Wade
even two months in the White House,
and such tools of treason as Rousseau,
Steedman, aud Company, of New Or
leans, replaced by Sheridan and other
trustworthy, loyal men; with the recon
structon laws properly revised and
amended; with suffrage and right to
hold Office vouchsafed to the negro
everywhere, the nation may be well on
the way towards "peace," having Sc
cured its essential conditions, before
Grant is inaugurated. While deliber-
ate and organized injustice to the negro
is perpetuatcd, the "irrepresjible con-
tlictn will continue, no matter rho may
be President. 'Let us have peace, then,
by promptly doing those things which
make for peace.
The new era which opens before us,
with the significant defeat of thG slave
holders and their apologists on Tues
day, is full of interest to abOltionists
and conscientious Radicals, to whom
the national conflict means something
more than mere partisan strife, to end
with election day. Our many trlumphs
in the past have been won under cir
cumstances of adverse opposition much
more formidable than anything We are
likely to have to encounter III the near
future. Opposition we are undou6ted-
" to have, but now, as hitherto, logic
and right are on our side. We have
but to press urgently and perseveriugly
our demand and our past successes are
a guarantee of ultimate complete trl-
umph. The Times, the Post, the Herdtd,
and the conservatives" for whom they
speak, already exultaut at what they
deem the eclipse of Radiealism, reckon
,cithOm their host in suppoSing II to beI
trithim tie power Of General Grant, y, as
they alege, II be has disposition, to mdteri-
ally obStruct the progress Of Radical re-
formation in national politics. If the Re-
publican party consents TO be the in
strumeut of that beneticent retOrma-
tion all will be we'll with both the par
ty and the country. If it refuses, 1t
will only be worse for the party. There
is no halticay house for permanent lodge
meat bctlceen Slaue,y and genuine repubh.
cdniSm. The only truly formidable op-
pouents the abolitionists ever had were
the brain champions of the slave system
while their power was co-extenslve with
the nation and their leadership ac-
knowledged North and South. Their
day is over. The earnest Radicals are the
positire force in the neC order Of things:
The tendency Of this century is TO "HirerSGt
Radical RepablicGniSm.