Nebraska advertiser., 1868-02-27

com1lated the walls; they entered into a sacred
covenant with the God Of heaven, bus we're never
able to close the contract. =,
In l775 they promised, 81 Providence would
crown their revolution with success, they would
do Justice to their bondmen. John jay, the nrst
CHEZ Justice of the United States, assigned the
reason for the covenant in the following words;
rI believe that Coo governs the world; and be
Heve IL 10 be a maxim in HIS, as in eur courts tha1
those who ask for equality ought TO 90 II"
Lauren, Of South Carolina, ca mo to the confess
sional with most appropriate words:
at am not orc Of thosew no dare trust in Providence
for defence and security Of their own liberty VINE
they ensfaTe and wish to continue in slaTery th0usasas
who are as well entitled to freedom as themselves
But after the shouts. Of their deliverance had
gone out to tho ends Of the earth, what did they
/ testify as TO the fuIfliment Of Jehovah's part Of
the contract It was fitting that Washington
should announce tho result. Aear him:
"Evsry step BY which the United States have ad-
vanced to the character OF an independent nation
seems TO have been distinguished BY rome TOKEN "
proyidential agency"
But tho storm once abated, tho emotions evoked
BY its original fury soon subFidod and were followed
By terrible apostacy. The Father Of bis Country
marked this change with deep regret. 10 Colonel
Laurens he said, in 1872;
tThe spirit Of freedom which, atthe commsnsemen
Of this contest, would have gladly s~acri5ced everything
to the attainment Of its object, has long since subsi.
ded, and every selfish passion has taken its place"
Luther Martin, Of Maryland. said:
rWhen. our liberties were at stake we warmly fell
for the common rights OF mes. The danger beinl
thought to be passed which threatened ourselves, VIZ
are daily growing more i~nsensible to those rights"
Mr.. President, these venerable men were right
that national sins bring national p~unishmentS.-
They were right in allowing that the promise ex-
torted by calamity often fails in prosperity, and
that their own pledges Unfulflled were recorded on
high. At last, through long years Of such terrible
apostscy as never before ~disgraced Christian civ
i~lization, we were called upon to comply wish that
men of the Revolution. We entered as our first
answer. this is a white mans war and we are am
ply able. Providence replied with Bull Run and
such like disasters. Finally, to the ear Of this ma
ton came from over the lapso Of years the admoni
tory words OF Martin "respeot the oommon rigats Of
men," The patriot father called upon for another
son to Gil the place Of him in his cory bed, the wife
mourning q fallen husband, and orphan children,
in their unutterable anguish, learned 70 pronounce,
or espect the common rights Of men ~ Providence
hedges US around from every avenue of escape. or
else to-day We would have been found enacting
| over again the scene described By Washington, al
lowing "tho spirit Of freedom 20 subside and every
selfish pa sion take its place" But the mere fact
Of emancipation is not a full compliance with our
~natiotal duty unless that carries with it allethe
rights and privileges Of freemsn. To grant a man
bis freedom from slavery and yet not secure to him
the full and fair protection Of law is only a mock
cry and insult. To allow him to Hmsse property
and then let others govern il By law, to allow him
to seek liberty but deny him the power of preserv-
ing it by legislation, to allow him the claim to life
but refuse him a jury Of his peers, would be to
rob him Of the substance and cheat him with the
shadow.
Mr.. President, there seems to be q strange dis
crepency in many Of the leading positions Of the
speech Of the Senator from Wisconsin. In one in
stance he afirms snow that they have in good
faith pledged anew their allegiance, and desire to
join with US in rebuilding the waste places over
run by this Cessolating war; now that they have in
tact ceased to be rebels, why shall we continue 20
denounce them rs rebels % Butin the next breath
be tells Of 4 war Of races. He says "That war is
now impending all over the South tits only the
presence Of the Federal Army which prevents its
outbreak upon q gigantic scale in the exile and
determination Of the blacks from the Potomac to
the Rio Grade"
OF this have no doubt. From ell the denun-
citation Of Union men in the rebel papers Of the
South; from all the murders of loyal colGred men
in the South from the refusal 10 punish forcrines
against life and property and character Ehen 10y
atty seeks redress ia rebel courts, 1 have o doubt il
1t q fact that only ''the Federal Army prevents the
determination or exile Of the blacks from the PO-
tomse to the Rio GTande." Fatal admission; terri
bic truth
But, Mr.. President, the passionate appeals Of tina
Senator, his fiery dcnuDcistions, his strange porver.
sion Of facts, al tend to precipitato that very state
of things be processes to deplOre. These are no
new alarms the changes have been Tung upon
tn EN- ever sinco the fatal rupture between the Pres
ident and Congress. The Philadelphia convention,
Of which the Senator was 30 conspicuous a mem
Der, prepared the public mind for just such a state
Of facts, and declared that
'sNo people have ever yet existed whose loyalty and
faith such treatment long continued would not ALLEVIATE
and impair"
This was intended to be an apology for the first
outburst Of rebel hate. But then, asif a little fer
mentation might aid the rising Storm the address
continued.
'The ten millions OF Amricans who rive IN the South
would be unworthy citizens Of G free country, deEcne-
rate sons Of heroic ancestry, unit ever to become
guardians Of tho rights and Liberties bequeathed TO us
by the fathers and founders Of this Republic, II they
could accept, with accomplishing submissiveness, the
hpmiliatiOns thus sought TO be Imposed upon them"
Certainly the Ieaven has leavonei the lump
certainly the party have the anticipated results in
the necessity Of q Federal Army to save the blacks
from "exile or determination"
But the Senator says "they have in good fa th
pledged their allegiance" and ceased to be rebels.
The rebels Of the South would not thank the Sen
atoF for such assertions. They know they cling to
the fancy that the lost cause will yet revive, and in
all their social gatherings sing their rebel songs,
eulogize ;heir heroes and curse the Unions the
Yankees, and the Gag. They hold as their true
position, with the Augusta Georgia Constitution
alist: eve are g beaten people beyond that
declaration do not 60" They hold with Chalmers;
| eve Of the SOuth struck Tor individual hberty ~, but
Capitalization overwhelmed us and endangers the
liberty Of the whole country" They hold with the
Mobile Tribune, relative to the Orleans massacre /:
alt was well done even if five times or i've hum
dred times the sacrifice Of life had been made to
accomplish the purpose il would still have been
we'll DONE" They hold with the same paper "that
the defunct confedoracy seems not to DO so very
dead in Kentucky after all" Does any sane man
| believe fora single moment that to knock down and
beat an opponent ever expelled a logical fallacy
from his head, or expelled a corrupt motive from
his heart RAther nc would cling more closely to
his idol, and nurse his anger in secret, hoping for
Ian opportunity to entbrOne the one and crafty the
/ other.
1 believe in nay heart the honorable Senator
would this day regret to see the military called
away from the South on account Of what he must
know would follow. He knows that the o~onFtitu-
! tional guarantee Of freedom Of speech would perish
In an hour, and no man would be allowed to discuss
the war, the results Of the war, and the rights Of
the people Of the North, East and West to 20
lWhere they please and utter as fully as at home All
the deep-scated convictions Of their souls. He
knows that the former slaves would De as COM
pletely at the mercy Of the rebels as when they
i were in their legal power, for now the additional
motive would appeal to the brutal and Infamous
that these people Of color loved. the old Gag and
aided she Lincoln hirolings. BE knows that men
Of the North would be injured in business and
driven from many parts Of the South. he knows
a free press would be mobbed as a pleasant pastime,
and editors shot as amusing recreation for tie
knights Of the lost cause. He knows that schools
and colleges dare notallOw their pupils and students
to recite in public the spirit-stirring eulogies upon
loyalty and the American Union which patriotism
has produced and eloquenee imm0rtalized. He
knows that the pulpit dare not attempt to enforce
kindness and forbearanee TO tho f. eedmen and the
duth Of submission TO the laws Of the peoples Con-
gress, as required by IT, doctrine that "the powers
that be are ordained Of God" He knows that af-
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