The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-09-08
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II is my dn,y 10 warn you tonight
that IL you turn deaf ear 10 what ]
have spoken to YOU II you will be de-
ceiyed; II you will hate the white peo-
pie; il you yourselves will provoke war
Of races--1 warn you that destruction
is in store for you. When such war
comes, II unhappily il should, the whites,
North and South, will unite against
you. | see letters from the North al
most every day saying let the contest
come; we will fight it out Oh, my
colored friends, that voice from heav-
on could tell you that the best friends
YOU have on earth are these southern
people -these people who have been
raised with you II is strange to me
that You can be made TO believe any.
thing else. The radicals have tried the
white people and failed with them, and
now they are failing with the col
ored people | have studied the history
Of your race for four thousand years.
During your slavery you enjoyed more
advantages and happiness than any Of
your race elsewhere. II you want 10
preserve your advantages and happi-
ness in freedom. you must preserve
your kindly and natural relations with
the white people. 1t is our interest
to have peace but If you will wage
war, il you will hate our people nj the
instigatiou Of carpet-baggers: woe be
unto you. These are words which
should strike deep in your hearts as |
utter them --woe, wool unto you will
be the words from all parts Of the world.
These are not threats, my eolored
friends they are words Of counsel and
warning, and wisdom to you. do not
know what Is to become Of tho country.
There never were so many whites and
blacks assembled together in one gov
ernment as freemen, before Wneth-
en- il viii stand OF fall | do not know. -.
Philosophers say it cannot stand, |
wont dispute 1t with them. The man
who votes the radical ticket should be
condemned by white aud black, But
even to these wicked miserea Is use no
! violence; hurt not a hair ofthoir heads,
but drive them from your society, for
sake them in their business, and brand
them like Cain, to DO fugitives and yag
abonds upon the face Of tho earth. r.
You may say this is prescription. Are
they not prescribing your Let them
know it before hand what yonr feelings
are and what your conduct will be to-
ward them. and they will abandon their
wild aud wicked projects.
FROM c G. BuRR's "0ID GUARD.
The right, therefore, to resist these
Reconstruction acts" adhere eternally
IN all the people, or any individual
injured by them; nor would
such resistance be revolutionary, To
reyolutionize Is 10 change the constitu-
ton Of a government The right to
preserve that constitution inhering. no,
not only in the constituted authorities,
but il it come 10 that, in every individ'
nal, any resistance Whatever TO it's over.
throw is precisely the reverse Of reyo'
luton When the laws fail not 70 pro
tect a mans rights, or life, he mus,
leave all to the laws. But 10 kill a
man 10 self defense is not murder. =
Nor Is resistance 10 nsurpation revolu-
tion. So Gen Blair's assertion Of the
absolute right Of The federal head 81 the
government to resist. with every force
At his command these tyranuies and
unlawful .reeoBatruetion" nets, is en-
tirely sustained by the common max.
AIMS Of free government And the prop.
osition carries us further and proves
that, should the executive fail to do his
duty in stopping such revolution
then the duty Of stopping il devolyes
upon the whole people, or upon any
individual Of the people As the PEG
PIE are the fountain Of all authority,
whenever their official agents fail 10 en-
force the powers VII ieh they have dele
gated 70 them, each and every ind
vidual may exocute that power himself
70 the best Of his ability. and in any
thai may be found necessary 70 rd the
land 81 toe usnrpers and iFrants
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