Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-06-09


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Tenth-A government which excludes
one-half the population from all partlcl..
patton in its affairs is not government OF
the people. :
EIeventh-To make sex a ground OF
exclusion from the possession and exer-
else of equal rights is as unjustitiable and
tyrannical as it has been to make color OF
skin the ground of similar abuse.
Twelfth-To withhold it from women
is to assign them to state of guardian
ship through sheer usurpation, and the
strong arm of brute force, and conse-
quently tends injuriously to affect the
character, policy, and destiny of a coun-
try.
To-day, my countrymen, this great ma
ton, nay, this the greatest nation on the
face of God Almighty's footstool, stands
out in bold relief disenthralled and free
Thank God the shadow of single slave
does not to-day, will not tomorrow, nay,
will not, must not, cannot from to-day
throughout all time, henceforth and for
ever, for single moment, desecrate this
blessed and thrice consecrated free soil OF
America, by one single dark spot. No,
no. Slavery is dead-dead to live no
more. The harlot slavery has been bur-
led in her own infamy and in dark obliv-
ion buried so deep and so low, that hell
and all of Satan's prime ministers combin-
ed can never, never resurrect her spirit.
Thank God All men are free men to-day
and every freeman a citizen, every citizen
an elector, and every elector a sovereign
in political parlance. We to-day are
all equal, equal before the law, at the
ballot box and in the council of this ma
ton. We are not to be designated in the
future, as we were in the past-as white
men and as black men, as master and SER
want. No more of this. But simply in
the spirit of the immortal Declaration OF
American Independence, we, you and /,
and your posterity and mine will be
known as Americans, and as fellow citi-
zens. Henceforth and forever men are TO
be judged by their worth, by their merits
or dement's, as the case may be. Men are
to be regarded as men, and respected as
such. All are to have an equal and fair
chance in the game of life and on the
high road to success. The question OF
color or of previous condition of servitude
will not be allowed to weigh in the scale
of merit against any man, or set of men.
All are to be regarded as American citi-
zens, and as such will be protected by
State ard Federal Government, in the
right of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. AS American citizens
you will be canopied under the
stars and stripes of the Union floating
toward heaven. Wherever you may roam
-perchance you may stand upon Africa's
burning sand, or sail the wide ocean over,
or climb the icebergs of the frigid zone
it matters not, you will be free, and as a
passport whilst tourist and as a tails
man to summon succor and protection in
the moment of personal danger and immi-
nent political peril, you need but eXclaim,
I am citizen of the great Republic of
the New World, and you will be succored
and protected by the strong and gallant
arm of the United States Navy, whose
vessels sail upon every sea and find har-
Dor in every port. Subjects of every ma
ton and representatives, of every nation
atty will bow in respectful obeisanc e to
your proclamation. At home in our bright
free land, every avenue TO labor and hon
est industry, as also to positions Of honor,
trust and emoluments, will be open and
remain open to all alike. Yes, friends
and fellow citizens, through the integrity,
faithfulness, patriotism, unyielding and
untiring devotion to principles OF right
per Sc and to humanity of Republican
administrations, Republican Congresses,
Governors and State Legislators, and party
rank and file, these inestimable blessings
vouchsafed us by Almighty God, have
been achieved. The escutheon of our re-
public is to-day happily free from the
blighting spots of slavery, prescription
and inequality. Now, my friends, we go
back to the good old days of 1916, days
of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and
Franklin. We strike out the past, that
eventful and disastrous past, that time
that was but which ought never to have
been. From glorious 1916 to perilous and
HIUmeutUus 1868. when, by the mandate
of the immortal and sainted Lincoln, the
chains were broken asunder and fell from
the manacled limbs of 100000 human
beings at the South, when we took up the
strain and entered upon a new life with
1895 At this period by the 18th Constitu-
tional Amendment, Slavery outlaw ed
forever, and we include the year of grace,
1869, glorious times glorious deeds
For in this year under the 18th Amend
ment we were clothed with the mantle of
citizenship, and now with
Malice towards none; with charity to all
We ourselves, you and I, in the year of
our Lord 1870, through the operations of
the 10Th Amendment, the capstone to
civil, religious and political liberty in
these United States, do assume the duties,
the labors and the responsibilities of citi-
zens and electors. And we do likewise
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long contested legacy, bequeathed US by
the fathers in the memorable days of
1916, when by their declaration of free
dom and independence hallowed and
made sacred by the precious LIES blood
of the pursst and best puritan patriots,
together with the change in our time, the
18th, 18th and 10Th Constitutional
Amendments, every individual man pos
sessed then as he does to-day rights, yes,
rights that every other man, all men,
white or black, rich or poor was. is, and
will be bound to respect. Justice, tits
true, has been tardy, but nevertheless has
been true to the last. To-day God looks
down from beyond the broad canopy of
heavens bright stars and planets, and
smiles approvingly on this great free ma
ton of free men, bowling at His divine
altar, revtrentially giving him the glory,
common humanity in the
common brotherhood of mankind. We
recognize the finger of the Great Archi-
tect of the Universe in creation, in revel-
alton, and in all that is noble, virtuous,
pure, just, Christian and blissful.
Hark I hear the shouts of freemen
Waited to the sky,
Pealing forth in tones of thunder,
Praise to God on high.
Through North and South tits sounding,
From East and West resoundiug, 49,.
In glorious Jubilee;
And the burden of the song is
God and Liberty.
Our Saratoga Letter.
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