Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1868-03-04

the people of Alabama not to vote II
the coming election, but to trust to
those who cannot 60 so the polls. to
prevent majority of the persons reg.
istered voting in favor of the consti-
tuition which has been framed in that
State.
| am not surprised that the Sena-
tor, who assumes here to he the cham
pIon OF the rebel cause. should put so
much reliance on this rebel testimony:
but do not fail to remember that
Stephens and Fitzpatrick and the
Southern Radicals, secessionists. con
servatives or Democrats, whichever
you nay choose to call them, told us
that if we emancipatrd the black
people we should have civil war; and
| remember that, on every issue OF
the last thirty years. these men have
been the champions of brutal aud
degrading barbarism, that they have
prophesied and predicted, and that never
hns one of their prophesies or predictions
been fulfilled, nor never will be.
But the Senator told US that if it came
to war, If we had a war of races, no disci>
pline would save the freed people Sir,
these millions of emancinated boudmen
do not intend to have war of races
They have borne, since the close Of the
rebellion, more insults, wrongs and out
RACES, patiently, than any people have
borne. in any portion of the Christian or
civilized world, in modern times Not a
single man has been executed for the mur-
der of these hundreds of freedmen; and
whenever such man has been convicted
the President has pardoned him or remit
ted his sentence. No murderer of these
people has been executed They know it I:
but they have borne it all hopefully and
prayerfully, trusting that the time would
come when the loyal liberty loving people
of these States would frame constitutions
and elect officers that would secure to them
the protection that belongs TO all the chill
dren Of men.
The freedmen do not intend to have n
war of races And does the Senator mean
to tell us that, if the brutal champions Of
barbarism inaugurate a war of races, no
power in this Government, no discipline
IN our armies, can protect American citi-
zens against the bloody instincts Of those
whose chamr ion he has become? Does
the Senator, rom his high place here in
this Council Chamber, mean to say to the
men who are struggling to prevent the res
toration of the Union on the basis of equal
civil and political rights, that, if they in
augurate a war of races, the discipline Of
the army, the laws of the land the sense
of justice, the spirit of humanity, of Chris
tian America, are pOweress to prevent
the butchery of the despised and hated
race? Does he mean, by these words, to
inspire men whose hands are redeemed
with the blood of hundreds of thousands
OF the nations defenders, to imbrue their
hands in the blood of the smitten children
of the African race! Why does he
talk about the impending war of
racesl Is it the policy Of the Ad-
ministrati0n to incitc a war Of races 4?
Are the Conservatives to fight on
that platform in the coming presi-
dental election! | tell the Sena-
tor, the Administration, the Democ-
racy, the secessionists, the disunion-
lists, one and all, that the loyal, lib
erty-loving people Of Christian
America, who put down the slave
masters rebellion with the IRON hand
of War, have resolved it, and they
Will proclaim it in the ears of guilty
men everywhere, that they Will put
down a war Of races, by whomsoev-
er begun. with the same iron hand.
They did protect the innocent and
they will punish the guilty.
But the Senator, doubtless for a
purpose. talks about Northern Radi-
L. ! l.
coupling together the words northern
radicals and southern radicals is not
original with the honorable Senator.
Within few days after the President
of the United States entered upon the
reactionarv policy, after he abandoned
his vaunted doctrine Of putting the
rebels on the back seats. he had n
great deal to say about rebels at both
ends of the line, about the next rebel
lion being in the North. about slough
ing off the Northern Radicals and the
Southern Radicals. Now. the Seua-
tor from " Wisconsin uses the language
of the President, of whose policy he
is the champion, although he is reluc-
tant to admit that the Southern Rad
icals Of whom lie speaks are now
Democrats acting with him. North
ern Radicals and Southern Radicals
Sir, / accept the Senator descriptive
phrases. These terms, northern rad
icals and southern radicals" are not
in any sense geographical terms they
are intended to express the embodi-
ment Of IDEAS, principles and policies.
Northern Radicals believe in the faith
erhood Of God and the brotherhood Of
in breaking every yoke
and letting the oppressed 60 free in
doing to others a. they would that
others should do unto them in the
sublime creed OF the Declaration Of
Independence. and IN the maxims and
precepts Of the founders Of the Re.
public They are committed, fully
and unreservedly committed. in favor
Of the unity Of the country and the
equal rights and equal privileges and
the equal protection Of the citizens Of
the United States Of every race.
Southern Radicalism. being sort
Of trinity Of secessionists, conserva-
tives and Democrats, SCOTS at the De
claration rs self-evident lie, a gilt,
tering generality. disowns the doc
trines OF the republican fathers. and
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