The New York herald., 1868-05-28


made that they be accepted, which was adopted
Mr.. WENDELL PHILLIPS, In support OF the reso-
lutions which offered. thought they were plain
enough not TO need an explanation. think no one
news fresh from Washington Indicates very Clearly
the necessity of what may be called Justly an antsia
very organization An organization TO watch parties
10 watch political action, to press and aid the gov
ernment and TO carry forward so far as its means
allow allow, radical action and movements. That 1t Is
the permanent rights, the substratum of the rights
y, & .ne colored race, no one will deny. This move
sen's Is IN its broad sense movement DISTINCTLY to
IN, & es PACK race just where the white race stands
demoeraa 70 political rights. We fall back on the
onntvor aoctrine that one class Is not TO protect
afoter az a Glass; that the wealth and the strength
ana the ''sSs Wsav are not to protect the feeble
into politics, the moment we get t"' outside s of
Christianity ana moral relations that doctrine is
1t meant anything meant that every ~ c,ass, snond
hold In It's own hand the means of protecting Itself
government from 1889 down to lss3 was that a. ssd
not recognize this rule with regard to the black
mans government, bound in sense of instica tn
protect the black race. To-day In Garden Hall Ia
met most benevolent and high.toned meeting,
assembled to grant education to the black race-a
good movement and one deserving much sympathy
and cordial ord support: as long as any class
with regard to them the theory on which govern
ment rests AS long as they need aid to exercise any
proper condition. The movement to which this Con
vention ales itself Is movement to enable the black
race to protect educate and feed ITSELF That Is the
exact distinction between the two. said that this
was peculiarly important hour for such meeting.
The vote recorded last night and brought to In the
impeachment, is the best text on which to speak.
On this topic the government is a strong one-the
murder OF Lincoln and hardly osciilated from
its basis. IL stood the treason Of Johnson and Il
stood the attempt TO impeach him, showing the
strength OF democratic government The weak
ness which alarms us to-day IS the weakness OF the
radical element in the dominant party; the weak
tries to put the black ON his own feet. l read the
news this morning as the best commentary on that.
Mr. n e he SAY & He Wa 6e
negro again that placed suffrage in the republican
platform In the first debates In Congress- in 1907,
1877 and 1920, the Missouri compromise, the terri
torial question between Webster and Haynes,
In the omnibus question OF 1850, in the re-
only great historical question that will survive grew
out Of the M m negro question The negro lies at the
ernment. Our fathers tried to enact Injustice into
constitutional law They tried to run counter to the
nexoraoIe % Laws For @ two q three generations we
frain we shall be dashed to pieces, for God will not
sanction this great injustice. We are very slow to
impeach Andrew Johnson, by which mean the dis
pute between Congress and Johnson, which was only
In reality dispute between the two sections OF the
republican party the radical and the conservative,
the point a. which that dispute occurred being the
tSe Sf e Mr. st attempt %
races and suffrage. The theory of Congress has been
to preserve the status Of the negro. In that
effort Congress has been less by the radical element
ceved outwitted here and there the radical element
me- by the traitor at
the White House they have In that death grapple
Tas VIZ SncsSS wa as
raised TO read out Of the ranks the traitors who de-
% ~ wa a
interest OF the hour-returned for an answer that
we are not strong enough to do It, and that is the
two years to counterwork Congress. All that time
the element represented by Mr.. Wade, Mr.. Stevens,
Mr. Sumner and Mr.. Butler has been endeayoring to
clrcumvent and grapple and chain down within legal
limits the executive power. Defeated IN that they
a. last 70 remove tae a9aer q Inc t
nation deem him guilty Of such high crimes and mis-
demeanors as merited removal. ferhapsi 4 should
there is large sect!on Of the democratic party who
believe ne should be deposed If there is any legality
the i attempt and they wsrs defeated. They go tS
Chicago mud they dare nst !s. ss Ssss,s ssss1 WIN
that the radical element-that which has cagried ~
measure; which naturally dragged up Trumbuli and
Fessenden and tho section which they represent TO
ssS oday
white ISass told chicago that s ySS :hs q @ nSs
that we are as last informed that this element, on
which We have all relied, has demonstrated and feels
its own weakness. 1t Is q well known maxim that
power, safely divided, touches Its own downfall the
has Il seven y rs
have divided It safely, and the lesson 10 be
dvsa Se0rs Ss
l remember one Of our own Senators told me year
ago touching this questionable strength Of the
year ago when the Senate met in caucus to decide
prellminariy whether they would put into the Con-
the point which distinguished the Congressional
plan from the Presidents, the point which angers
.ne on s me
to decide whether they would include that in their
plan the vote stood fourteen to fourteen. Il was tie
vote and was lost but the point was subsequently
carried BY vote Of fteen to thirteen. In this thr-
were included the names Of the seven traitors
iicans. The necessities OF the Grant campaign de-
mand the readmisston OF the ten southern States.
me radical q as Mone hs voss sa,es a ne NOT
groes In the rebel states. Their speedy admissiop,
therefore, we learn from the confession Of Mr. Wisol
and revered as is General Grant should ke elected.
IL ID confession Of utter weakness. The party that
into the ned in the loyal States with General Grant
at their head and rely merely on the rsacal eIe.
the en' condtion Of i'A the coiored people as the
south Mr.: Phillips spoke e follows about Chief
Soss css ssou s ss s s 1a
great apostate of Marshneld ne mas been bought
with an ofler; but he win be deceived. He was
bought with an oner Of the pottage but not with
the pottage, as all our Northern men have been
again and again bought with an orer The only
wns Is g n dssS e o cs
beforehand. (Applsuse.) Heaven help those men
who have disgraced themselves aud are waiting
for their reward. Oh, no, there is no
hope for Mr. Chase's nomination. The onD plat
form we shall have TO rely upon II that OF Chicago,
and all that we can make out OF politics must
be made out Of tnat. There is not radicasm
enough In the nation to break away from the repub-
can party and run an independent candidate, no
matter who he be- There is not strength enough,
there Is not faith enough In the people. All the re-
ance we have to-day Is In the radical element OF the
republican party. We are to help t not BY attery,
but by criticism Charles Sumner does not want the
nattery Of the Chicago platform to-day: ne y not
does Butler nor Boutwell, they long for something
more but that platform Is the best thing they can
hope TO carry now inside OF the party what they
party is loyalty to principles, to press them on
strongly and fearessly and this we mean TO do and
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