The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-11
CASTELAR, ON LINCOLN.
Magnificent Tribute to the Martyred Presiden,
by the Great Spanish Orator.

by the Great Spanish Orator.
From a complete report of Castellar's great
speech on emancipation, we give the following
passage, as an addition to the remarks by this
eloquent republican which we reported on
Saturday.
wish to present you another example of a de
cided purpose to accomplish gradual abolition
which was forced to conclude by immediate aboli.
ton. refer to the example of America.
The Puritans are the patriarchs OF liberty; they
opened a new world on the earth they opened a
new path for the human conscience; they created
new society. Yet when England tried to subdue
them and they conquered, the republic trlumphed
and slavery remained. Washington could only
ginians could Lot invoke the OF God, retaining
Slavery Jay said that all the prayers America sent
slavery continued, were mere blasphemies. Mason
mourned over the payment his descendants must
make for this great crime of their fathers Jefferson
traced the line where the black wave OF slavery
should be stayed.
Nevertheless, slavery increased continually
beg that you will pause a moment to consider the
man who cleansed this terrible stain which obscured
the stars OF the American banner. beg that you
will pause a moment for his immortal name has
here been invoked for the perpetuation of slavery
An! the past century has not the century to come
appears so disappears heroism also.
have often Contemplated and described his life.
Born in cabin of Kentucky, of parents who could
hardly read born q Moses in the solitude of the
desert, where are forged all great and obstinate
thoughts, monotonous like the DESERT and, like the
forests which, with their fragrance, send a cloud
, OF incense, and with their murmurs, cloud of
impetuous current of the Ohio, and at seventeen
in the vast and tranquil waters OF the Mis-
sissippi; later, woodman, with axe and arm
telling the immemoria trees to open way
to unexplored regions for his tribe Of wandering
workers reading no other book than the
Bible the book Of great sorrows and great hopes,
dictated often by prophets to the sound of feters
they dragged through Nineveh and Babylon; a
child of nature; in word, by one of those miracles
only comprehensive among free peoples, he fought
for the country, and was raised by his fellow-cit-
zens to the Congress at Washington, and by the
nation to the Presidency of the ReDublic. w hon
the evil grew more virulent, when those States were
dissolved, when the Shareholders uttered their war
cry and the slaves their groans of despair the wood
descendant OF Quakers humblest Of the humble
greatest create mora of our time and STRONG
thought; before him veteran army, hostile Europe
behind him, England fayorng the South, France
riven country; he arms two millions of men, gathers
a half million horses, sends his artillery 1900 miles
shores of Tennessee; fights more than 600 battles ;
renews before Richmond the deeds of Alexander of
Caesar; and, after having emancpated 100000
the very moment Of victOry-ke Christ, like Socra-
tes like all redeemers-at the foot OF his work. His
work! Sublime achievement! over which humanity
shall eternally shed its tears and God his oenedic-
But Lincoln you will tell me, attempted gradual
emancipation. This is true; / never eyade the
truth. But the privileged classes shut their eyes
and opposed it. as they shut their eyes here and op-
mediate abolition came. When a man of the wis.,
dom and political prudence OF Abraham Lincoln
appealed to supreme measures, 1t was because he
was convinced that all hope of compromise was
gone that gradual steps are impractcable in re-
forms demanded by justice and humanity. Since
then the United States having turned their slaves
into men, have devoted themselves to converting
these men into citizens.
And to-day, gentlemen, those beings who were
formerly not even menl are freezer than the first of
the sons Of Europe. Those men who could not
learn to read because the Southern gentlemen muir
dered any one who would dare to give them book,
have to-day innumerable schools. Those men who
were like beasts of burden wretched the reptiles
free men, are American citizens; they sit in the
Congress and the Senate of Washington. The
United States have refused to recognize members
OF the federation those States which have not in
their turn recognized the liberty and the equality OF
the negroes.
You talk to me OF exceptional laws Many have
you given to sustain the influence of priests and the
tyranny OF kings ! @ admit your exceptions Il you
1000 900 men,