, 1870-04-10


this city, display which to some, doubt
less, seemed ludicrous, to some very touching,
ausl let us hope, to few only, repulsiye.
Esewhate, III the course of the week, in
many towns and cities, there have been
similar displays, bearing everywhere the
samc aspect. But everywhere, however it
seemed TO the unthinking multitude, it was
1.-The substance of things hoped for aud
the evidence of things not seen the final
and crowniug act Of the legal emancipation
eif race. a great fact which marks an era
III the history of government and civiliza-
ton. 1t is thing to pause over and con-
slider for moment
We contrast tho condition of these COL
ored citizens now with their condition only
lew years ago. It is not merely that then
the great body of them in one half uf the
country were chA.tels personal, aud that
they are now citizens on legal
equality with all other men. Il.
other Tines aud in other countries there
have been like revolutions in the condition
OF the people, stupendous and complete as
it Is. But il is IN its social aspect that the
change il most remarkable. a few years
ago there existed in the minds OF almost
every white man, q hatred for al black
men, which was the more difficult TO eradi-
cate because it was allied to contempt
The rising generation, though still, perhapa
sonewLat under the influence of this feel
ing. as tradition, know really nothing Of
the bitterness and strength which belonged
10 it in their fAthers' time. The dictum
that "a black man has no rights which
white man is bound to respect" was not,
when it Was made, Al extrava8ant assert;ou,
huverer barbarous it might have seemed
when reduced to writing, but sobe. state
meut Of an accepted and p1actised fact
Excepting only those few fanatics, hatod
md aespised almost as much "a the negroes
themselves, On whose behalf thew were Ia
boring. it vzs the .,reyail;up sentiment that
black men were beasts. Differing onlv
from other beasts in heino hy ,u;s-
take endowed with The rift ~ snaa.1, on;7
holding some unfo,tuna.e and ,1;sonst;no
resemblance to the human race. Az il had
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