The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-03-24

While DR.. Bromall's bail for uni
. rersal outrage Was under discussion
ia the Housc II Representative.
Thaddens Stevens delivered The fol.
lowing speech, reading il from the
elerk desk.
ihis. Sir. Speaker is grave ques-
. ton q argument Il Is uoi 4 0ucs-
ton for dcmag0uacs. The world 4
going 20 ID is progress " human
government andeeery day advancing
III TIE great science which is rs make
man happy or make him miserable.
We are either 60 relapse into state
Of barharism. where thar infamous
doctrine That one man can own an-
other, is % be rc-esiablished. or We
are 70 establish that doctrine, whose
every man governs himself and has
rlghis that are inalicuable, and a.
mong these iualjenable rights Is the
right Of universal suffrage, which no
man shall dare, after this question 10
shall have passed away, 10 dispute.
We are not now merely expoundiug
I government, we are correcting the
i Injustice, the error and the iallacies
which were heaped Oh other times
4 hy necessity. From the dark ages
up mankind has been ground down
/ BY despots who could not control the
people aud were unable to form gov
ernments such as ought to control
them; and as in Europe Asia and
every other country do control them. I
Europe, Asia aud every other coun- /
try in the world, until the last cen
fury, were bonnd in chains which I
they could not break; in chains and
withes which they could not snap: I
but the period arrived when Almighty
God, the Governor of the Universe /
placed within the power Of our faith
ers, both the knowledge and finally I
the power to break those chains and
give the world opportunity, il it
would be free.
When the dawn ofreyolution came
il broke upon the world as new,
mighty and glorious reformation, that
which never before had opened the
eyes Of mankind and given clear
insight into the rights Of the human
race; opened the eyes Of our great
and glorious fathers and taught them
precisely what we have to carry out |
and what, when we have carried il
out, will make tyrants everywhere
tremble. Then demagogues who !
talk to us about the difference Of
races will be ashamed, and will skulk
away from the face of man. What
was that great right which they dis /
covered 1t was that all men were
born equal that the black man who :
brushes my colleagues (Woodwards) II i
boots is just as much entitled to ev- =
cry privilege as my learned friend or 4
myself. Whoever undertakes to make
such a distinction between the color
ed race and ourselves because of col :,
Dr. OF his skin, or the formation OF his 5
body, has Forgotten his God, and :
MS God will forget him. In other
words, You must go back now to uni .
'ersal and impartial suffrage as the
)nly foundation on which the gov
,rnment can stand. You must build :
III your science Of government on
hat, and when you attnpt to de- -
art from it You forget that you are
nan, you become a tyraut, and YOU
leserye the eAecration Of the human
ace Of
There is no other way but by uni i
ersal suffrage IL which you and / ar ar,
nd every man can protect ourselves n Il,
gainst injustice, inhumanity and ae
wrongs which would otherwise be in a.
Iicted on us. We have got to e, e,
'oint in this nation when we can
dept that great and glorious prin- y
ip!e; no man dares TO say that we tai
hall not adopt it. My efforts shall 81
e to prove to this House not simply -,
hat we have reached that point, but S 81,
nat we have reached it by means of
he constitution, which we have not q
iolated, although our fathers, who !
.onld have adopted the principle,
nd who proclaimed it, could not
dept it without violating a contract
hitch they themselves had made, ;,
nd without destroying the great
overnment which they were then
uilding up. trust, therefore, that p pti
shall be understood when | say sll'
lat my doctrinenow is, that we have
cache that period which our fathers !,
ID not reach could not reach. | Nsl
ffer slightly from my respected col w.
ague from Philadelphia Mr. Kelley utt'
n that ground we have reoched M NE
sriod when we may speak OF univer- II G
I suffrage, not as boon, not as AID
#, bnt a. an inalenable right, which Ire
, man dares to taxi away, and :
hich no man can surrender. His /
cd has forbidden it, the science Of
'yernment has forbidden il, and a
let us understand that nui. ]