Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-09-29
Tn inder in Georgia-Thunderiag Dem
ocratic Speech -Ireland and Africa
Heaven ard Hell-A Black Mans Ell.
oQuerce,

ish oppression produced remarkable
men-man whose words OF eloqucnct
still burn in the breast of every pat
riot in America as well ~ Europe
And most of the inspiring words anC
thoughts OF our day calculated [,
route tyrants fell from the lips o
men like .Curran, Emmett, Burke, anC
others Of Ireland who deeply felt the
hand ofoppres>ion which lay so cold
y upon their people and country.
But still more eloquent tongue,
arc 10 rise up in our own country
tongues that shall send forth ever
more streams of fire upon their gull
ty oppressors. For it is 10 down
trodden people that We have to look
Tor the fire which 10 torrent OF tyr
amy can drown.
Lately rebel member of the Geor
gia Legislature, upon hearing the
powerful words Of eloquence which
fell impr0mptu from the lips of an
uncultured orator-a native black
man, had no words to express his
ideas but such as these =" Hell
hdched up and on a rundWdy, by the
HriRq God {" Sirs, we can never
stand this "-continued the white
member "J ignorant blacks can so
move the stony hearts of men and
make conscious guilt to be felt in our
souls, where no such guilt was felt
before, what in Gods name is to
transpire when these black men
shall have taken the benefits of col-
Iegc and have ransacked the classics
and dug through the modern noun
tains of patriotic Ireland tor words
and thoughts of still deeper and
stronger force Gentlemen, / for
one, though | have met face to face
the bold invader from the north,
shall decline to meet the eloquent
black man in the political oratorio.
He must be excluded from the legis-
lature and from the jury box, and his
children must be excluded from the
school If the white man would reign
in conscious belief that he is right.
the black man wrong. England ex-
ecuted the Irish patriots and orators,
for treason, as her courts shamefully
interpreted their crime. But what
OF Ireland from that day till this l
tremble to reflect upon it ! Poverty,
degradation and distress reigneth.
and the canker of ,0rong TO Ire>
land is recorded in every page of
British history. Shall Geoi gians
duplicate the English record toward
Ireland, only using the word Pom.
pey in place of Patrick ? Heaven
forbid-Georgia dares not so an
notice to the world, and democracy
dares not thus deiamc her record,
even though by doing this we REIN
state the party Of Buchanan in pow>
erl There be some things men may
not do among these are rebellion
against heaven. If freedom be u
right, and if The ballot and legisla-
ture be woven in such right, then
hath heaven 50 ordained.
And hath God said, :" color smells to
Heduen !" Not so--color can never
break the Golden Rule nor batter the
walls of heaven and hell. The DEM
ocratic party cannot break and bat
ter these eiementaries OF govern
ment and yet live. | shall be ccn>
rured for these words, but shall re,
tire to private life where the arrows
of censure cannot reach. Ii Is better
SO than TO float upon the tide and
live without any soul. Farewell to
the Georgia Legislature
The white member having conclu>
ded and left the hall for his home, q
vote was Immediately taken and the
colored members excluded from the
Georgia legislature. At this mo-
ment one Turner, a black member
unlearned but of superior intellect,
arose and spoke briefly but with q
power which silenced the majority
party for half an hour. With great
boldness he showed up the majority
and defied their power. We give his
closing words: IF we are black,
said he, off we have skins not colored
like your own, it is Gods doings-if
it is a crime, tits Gods crime. Hold,
then, my and your Creator respon-
sibiu, but do not punish IIis crua-
lures. But for Gods crime" one
portion of His creatures pcrsecute
and punish another, and for being
guilty of that crime, have otherwise
innocent men been deprived Of their
legal and constitutional rights"
1t is now your day. The next
turn Of the lottery wheel it will be
ours. And at our turn we shall heap
Goals of fire upon the heads of our
white fellow citizens. We shall not
drive them from these halls. We
shall secure to them the ballot even
moro firmly than now. We shall
open the public schools TO the white
children, who are now excluded by
false legislation. We shall insure the
fullest liberty to sll-especiaily TO
the whites who are now halt enslaved
by laws as aristocratic and false as
the laws which govern Ireland or
Spain. We shall unto ourselves in
destiny along with the poor and de-
spised whites of Georgia, and with
them we shall rise up. The destiny
of the governing classes we know.
/ IL heads downward, and if Gods
laws be the same in the future as in
the past their descent is as sure as
eternity, unless 1t be Gods will that
we the sons of Africa shall save
them. We shall smultipIy our race
and take to ourselves redoubled pow
err by educating our children. The
war of races so freely invoked 10y
the ruling race in Gsorgla cannot
come. as the blood of the Georgia
nobility flows in our veins 10 begel
attachments which demagogues car
never blot out. The down trodder
whites will be on our side, and Il
them we shall fly for the right de
MED us and them by this powerful
white minority. Georgia shall ot
our home"
Born houses of Congress met Sept