The New York herald., 1868-05-14

old brotherhood OF thieves. (Applausel
Resolved That all the of the past wear and the
critical hours opening before summon abolitlonists
to renewed and, II possible, devoted Efforts to
Impress the national conscience the absolute need
OF st stronger guarantees for all the rights which
the war has shown the necessity OF recognizing in
the negro race. and to extend the circulation Of the
Resolved. That weakened as our ranks have been
by what Is now most clearly shown to be the mis-
taken confidence Of some who once stood with us
here our labor should be all the more abundant to
hold up the hands and strengthen the public support
mnent peril and are treadng under foot every party
and personal consideration to marshal 1t on In the
nor is Emancipation I ' Itself safe till the citi
Zenship or every native, tmparuai suuIage,
an os evep, y a
race are firmly anchored In the constitution ITSELF as
well as heartily accepted by the conscience and con-
say therefore, TO all old fellow workers. up, re.
lax no effort. quicken your ZEAL double your toll let
those who remain more than make up for those who
have fallen out Of the ranks and keep our tme-hon-
ored nag flying till all 1t ever meant written ON the
Ta he SS0ss o oSr
worker, James Mott, OF the earliest laborers in
the dela always earnest, vIgant, tre!ess devoted
aOoundng In good works, takes one OF the most de-
| voted comrades from our ranks and In him the
negro has lost one Of his heartiest and most efficient
friends. But falling III his rlpest age we bow to the
| wise and kind Providence which lifts him TO higher
sphere, and offer to his family circle tenderest
and most respectful sympathy IN their great bereave
.ment. (Applause.)
| REMARKS BY CHARLES q. BURLErGH.
CHARLES G. BURLEiGu, after the reading Of the
resolutions, said there was occasion to rejoice at the
progress OF their cause in the past Yet, after all,
| this triumph had not been achieved on the ground
OF the thorough acceptance OF antislavery principles
Statesmen and politicians did not reach rs far as
| those who aim at the desirable. BY that means
| alone could the attainable be secured 1t was IN
that spirit that they had addressed themselves to the
work work Their principles were d desirable because they
ceSSity TO convict the President just a5 during the
war the Emancipation Proclamation was military
necessity. There can be no peace IN this nation un
| Til the laws, institutions ana usages thereof are
based on sound principles, and until among officials
| and the people there is tendency 70 reach this
| point Il was necessary to push Andrew Johnson
from the char he had desecrded because he was an
| States were TO be reconstructed rs tending to the
| same result. Equal rights and simple jusGce to all
were needed. anu the people should be educated up
| 10 this idea.
ADDRESS BY WENDELL PHILLIPS.
The meeting was again addressed by WENDELL
1t is now thirty three years nearly thirty tour
| since this society was organized, and when 1t was
| organized suppose every member imagined, as GER
tainly did when / became an abolitlonist t1at we
were devoting ourselves unselfshly to serving the
magnanlmous devotedness stretch ng the
shield OF the naton's strength over victned race.
But God has shown us in the providence OF thirty
years that this toll which we tho ught magnanimty
has in reality been PATRIOTISM that the labor which
we have expended to shield the negro has in Its real
significance been toll to save the nation Itself
Every thoughtful man who looks back thirty years
will see In the whoiQ course OF national AFFAIRS
no matter where he traces back the source and
the cause, that we have been gradually gravitating
towards q social and political corruption which
like that OF ali other free governments had been to
the weakening OF the people ana STRENGTHENING OF
what were called the higher classes To aid popular
education, essential democratic institutions, univer-
sal suffrage, the actual and entire presence OF every
responsible being In the government are elements
which we are to owe to the presence and the relation
Of the black race among us. II the nation survives
essentially democratic 1t will be because in the acci-
dent and contingencies OF the past we have had a
black race among US. As Jefferson said sixty years
ago, The freedom of this nation Is owing to the acc
the preseryation of republican Institutions the yS
lance Of popular Thought, the education OF
parties, the continuance Of the great democratic
| tendency here will be owing to the education which
the anslavery has given and to the necessity
which the war has imposed on the American people
white lips saying to each other ''WOuld to God we
could wake up some morning and find every negro
pie and halcyon scene" But fifty years hence his
tory Will look back and see that the only chance God
old shape, at least in your day and mine has been
the presence at the South OF 1000 of essential and
inevitable Ioyyal,sts. without them / affirm there
| never would have been a probability, and no
this quarrel between the loyal North and the re.
words, my friends, the the future opens before
us the brighter becomes the question In which our
said twenty years ago. The romance Of your history
is the fate Of the negro race" And when the future
/
plots from the archives OF American history, IL Is no
doubt fact that he will find no more fruitful treas
than t%at consttntona history shows us that eVery
great debate on the floors OF the national Congress
which history cares to preserve today every great
debate which by Its associations has become hisor
cal, has grown out OF the negro race-notning else
The first great Congressional encounter In '92, In
| which the chiefs of revolutionary fame crossed
swords with each other were the slave clauses
OF the constitution. The next great debate
was In 1907 and 1909 the question. The great
shock OF the Missouri compromise that nearly erect
| ed q severance OF the Union was negro question.
The great debate OF 1929 and $780, In which Webster
and Hayne crossed spears the Territorial question,
was negro question:; and ever SINCE that day every
salient point Of Congressional history has from
the relation OF the to our politics, until at last
| Fort Sumter made him master OF the situation.
say to-day that the President whose right hand
the White House by the slave and " Andrew John
son. the first American President IL deposed from
his chair OF State, II will be the hand Of the negro
that drags him down for it Is on the question Of the
status OF the negro that the President has deded the
purpose OF the loyal masses and staked his na2is-
trate's existence on that ISSUE Wherever you
go, therefore, wherever you touch American his
tory, no matter In what point, everywhere at every
moment, God has marked the relations OF this race
to ourselves test OF American moral liic-as the
fucrum, the lever OF American political progress.
| And the cause In which we have been engaged for
thirty years Is, In other words, the protection Of ma
| tionality. We have discussed IL on principle, we
on n' this M platform. We have discussed ethics, we
have summoned the Gospel, we have endeavored to
impress conscience ana aphg 'ne war ,ho e we ap
| the nag And on these two wings the great cause OF
anti-savery has been borne upward for thirty years.
| But a. said to-day, moment ago, God has placed
| us this hour In the hands OF more incxorable laws
| than Congress or the republican party We are to-
| day In the hands OF justice, we are to-day IN the
hands OF political economy. The great selfish forces
OF the nineteenth century have grapped this negro
question and know that the negr0's place Ia safe
that he has better right than any other man TO fold
his hands IN content and serenity because the lips
Of Providence proclaim to-day TO the American
| Deople .on,y be lust and you will be strong- The
| question to-day Is q question Of business. Recon-
| struction has got beyond politics. Whether COM
rade ats there and makes card houses OF paper con-
stiiutions or not IL not the essential question Ten
states are not only in political anarchy; they are In
social anarchy; society Is resolved into Its original
elements The great forces Of the nineteenth century
are all unlocked and dscordan graphing each other.
Recopsr,ction has struck down deeper to the under
| stratum than where the Senate sits to-day. The
| question is whether the South shall eat bread or
starve. The question Is whether the nineteenth cen.
fhnca Sofo