Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-07-21
PUBLIC LEDGER.
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Who Is Joseph II. Brown. Of Georgia
in the year Of our Lord 1862 A ram
pant secessionist and Governor Of Geor
gia, then State In the Union. Who i
Joseph Il. Brown. OF Georgia, in the yea
of our Lord 1862 A rampant seces
sionists, captor OF Fort Pnlaski an,
Governor Of Georgia. Then one Of tn,
States, by placing faith in q man lik'
him. believed that II had seeded from
the Union. Who is Joseph Il Brown ia
the year Of our Lord 1868 f? A delegate
70 the Chicago Convention of the Radica
party. Who disfranchised ex-governor
Brown The Congress of the United
States. Who enfranchised Ex-Governor
Brown? The Congrass Of the United
States. Why was Governor Brown dis
feanchised? Because be was rebel hi
hands we're reeking with loyal blood
Why was he enfranchised2 Because he
believed ia negro equality and supremacy
because he believed that four millions OF
negroes that are not able to make their
own contracts; that do not know the
value OF their own labor; that are not
able to take care OF the dependent, the
aged, the infirm that are not able TO
take care Of their own education; that
these four millions OF American negroes,
part Of whom he has treated all the dayE
OF his life as his own chattels. are per.
fectly capable of self government. and
therefore to be trusted with the Elective
franchise. Because he believe,i that he
himself ought not TO vote, bat that his
field hands ought to vote. This is the
virtue that WISHES his hap DIS, that wipes
out the last stain ofloyai blood. This is
the faith that purges from sin. This the
sacrifice that atones for guilt
All, my friends, how foolish were our
fears, when we looked with dread into
the future. When our hearts were trou
bled lest the Republic had lost the sffec-
ton Of the intelligence Of one. third Of
its entire population. Behold the cor.
soling assurance contained in two-,hD DIS
vote of the Congress of the United
States, which declares that our fearsI are
unfounded; which declares that these
people will make good citizens in the
future; that all that it is necessary for
them to do is TO pledge fea)ty to the
Radical pnrty by believing, or pretend
ing to believe, that they themselves ought
TO be disfranchissd and their negroes en-
All that is necessary to
prove themselves worthy of the elective |
is to make public confession |
that they believe themselves unworthy /
of the elective franchise by indorsing
their own disfranchsement, and then |
to 90 one step further in infamy, if thu
be possible, and declare that while tb ey |
themselves are unworthy their for mer |
chattels are worthy. With this self -stul-
tifcation, the most stupendous evr,r COM |
mitted, the guarantee for the futare per
of our institutions is complete.
And yet, my friends, was it not natural
that we should entertain sJme fears
May we not even now mistrust the value
Of such guaranteed If we had our
doubts and fears when Congress pro-
claimed the disfrancbisemen of rebels
and the acknowledgements of the loyal
negroes" as the guarantee of futu,
'afety, what shall we say when in rev
Ihort months afterwards that same Com
yress destroys this guarantee and in lis
tead proclaims the enfranchiseu ,ent of
he negroes and of such of the disfran-
bised rebels as are prepared 20 declare
themselves unworthy Of O. ofrapehise-
nent, unworthy Of the name of freemep.
unworthy of the citizensh; n of the Re.
,ublic. II we feared y ~ enfrancb;sa-
nent of Ignorance and the disfranchise-
nent of intelligence, what shall we saw
then, this ignorance is to be led |
y those who BIZ their own con-
esslon are the basest of the base ? |
he Fathers said, No taxation witbou,.
representation" This was the princip,s
{ their Justification, the rock of II cir
nth, for the vindication of which thew
lodged, before God and all men their
yes, their fortunes and their sacred
onors. To-day eight millions of our
'llow.oitizens are taxed With ,ut repre-.
antatlon. Their substance il taken
ON them without their con f,ent. anpro-
rated to pauperS nnautho, hzed nv their
oles and used in the end for their own 4
opresslon.. And this is lone in order
establish the great Congressional
larantee for the perp, .tuity OF Rennb.
ian, ri institutions. " le Fathers said,
The Government .erives its powers
?" ipe consent OF the governed. The
.ople govern. To-day the Govern :
ent uses its pc yer to procure the con-
mt oil the Wn' ee people to be governed |.
negro@. And this is done in order to
taolish th' great Congressional guar
tee ior .he perpetuity of Republican
stituu Jns. The Fathers said, Every
an D IS right to worship God according
u e dictates OF his own conscience
0 day every man has q right to worship
TOD, in one-third of the Republic, ac-
ording to the dictates of State Con-
ention. And this is done in or3.er to
the great Congressional guaran-
&c for the perpeiuity of Repuhl. ican in
Iitutions. The Fathers said "Eyery
nan is innocent until he is proven
uilty." To day every man, in one third
the Republic, is guilty and there
IRE diSiranchised until he proves !
imself innocent by his ac-
on of purgatioD. And this is done in
rider TO establish the great Congressional
uarantee for the perpetuity ofrepublican'
Institutions. The Fathers enacted "No
nan shall be deprived of his liberty with
ut a special trial before his peers" To.
ay in one-third OF the Republic no man
an % incarcerated longer than it pleases
military commander, without a tris 4
efore military commission. Aud th is
: done in order to establish the gre ,at
Congressional guarantee for the per De-
nifty OF republican institutions. fhe
fathers proclaimed the Constitution the
upreme law Of the land. To day the
Iill Of Congress is the supreme law o. the
and, in order that it may establisJ lis
reat guarantee for the perpetuity Of re-
ublican institutions.
Oh, ye fifteen hundred ihousan, brave
carts, behold the result Of yos toll
'ou forsook the endearments Of bems
on braved the summers heat