The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-31
Forty Acres and One Thousand Dollars
for Every Black Man.
WENDELL PHILLIPS TAXES THE FIELD.

At the seth national anti-slavery festival,
held in Boston on Wednesday last, the Rev.
John T. Sargent. president of the SIassachu-
sctts Anti-Slavery Society, presided, and in
troduced the Rev. John Weiss, who, after
few predatory remarks, said that so far rs poll
tics and the requisite number of States voting
could secure it, the Fifteenth amendment was
partly safe. 1t did not follow, however, that
the amendment was safe. They had still to
secure the rights, the privileges and equality
of all the independent races of America. 1t
was not so much the Fifteenth amendment
they required rs amendment in the hearts of
the peoplc-amendmcnt Of the prcjudices OF
the people in regard to the negro. Notwitll-
I standing the war and the political advantages
they had they lud yet to secure absolute nordt,
social and spiritual equality for the negro and
The Chma,nan. In the Fifteenth amendment
they had taken down the bars to equality, but
they had yet to exert themselves to prevent the
ballot boxes being made loaded dice to throw
doubles Of victory against the black race.
REMARKS OF Mr.. WENDELL PHILLIPS.
Mr. Wendell Phillips said that In one point
of view there was scarcely anything to be said,
and vet from another point of view there SEEM
ed everything to be said. As In Pope's line,
''Alps rise on Alps" SO they had no sooner
risen and done one portion OF their work Than
to them the work that lay beyond. The old
Latlns, when they carried friend to hide his
dust in the earth, were accustomed to say,
''Vale, Cdle, atque iterlLn uate." 1t was The le-
gend of soul without any faith that 1t would
ever again meet the spirit from which it part
ed. Ii was the old Pagan's despair when he
parted from his friend. We could never say to
The Christian sautation, Farewell and all
hail." was their motto today. Farewell for
the work that was done and all hail to the
labor that opened to them beyond.
THE INFINITE FUTURE.
They were met that day and perhaps for the
lost time with regard to the specific object OF
securing the first step in the freedom OF the
race Right beyond, however, was the Infinite
future This was a joyous and festive scene;
he would be grave for few minutes. He
would remind them that when they turned q
man ont with bare freedom, they had not given
him much. What would they say to q slave
dealer who unclaimed his captiveS and left
them in wilderness, and said that that was
| freedom. WOnld not that be mockery! Free
dom, how, when, and under what circllm-
stances? They had taken penniless, frendless,
|
the bare land and said they ought 10 be pene-
tratcd with gratitude that they did not
hold them any longer. 1t was an i'm
mense gift, looking at the past; but it
demanded immense work in regard TO the
future.
crPFEE MADE ALL THIS WEALTH.
Whence came those stately streets, culti-
vatcd cities and broad roads, wcll-treiShtcd
ships and harbors They came from the in
dustry of 35,OOO.OOO of people, and the plumber
of the whole IS, 600, 600 hal been monopoliZcd.
When they said TO u New York editor the ne
GRO needed assistance to get on, he said, "Root
hoe or die" The negro stood, as far as the
law coild make him, on level OF civil anu
political equality with the whites. Much more,
| however. remained to be done to put him on a
real equality. He wished the negro TO be com,
pensatrd with such share ofwealth which had
been plundcrcd from him as Would really put
him on a level of equality. They owed the NO
gro onc-seventh part of the wealth ol lne
Country Without land the black man was
helpless in the hands of the property-loiaels,
and the ballot in his hands would prove, unuer
such circumstances, merely q strength 10 tne
Conservative party.
GIVE HIM Ills SHARE.
He proposed. therefore, That Congress snould
secure TO the freedman iorty acres VI iah.,, ant
sl0OO to start himself on it: They had as YET
rivcn him nothing but his bare body, reduced
below the level of culture, dcmoralized by
Years of toll, and asked him to go to work on
| his own account while he saw his family starv-
iun. anu then told him to be sure to vote the
Mpublican ticket. He would not leave the
black l4ce there, but would devote the rest Of
his life chiefly to rousing the white race to q
sense of Justice. He held that every white
man on the continent who had seven dollars
of his own, owed one to his next door negro
ncighbor. on any principle of justice,
share OF the wealth belonged to him.
ABOUT W. p.
He was Republican, for he must be that or
nothing Poor as the party was, he belonged
to it. Poor as it was, he would not trust Fir,
ginia in the hands of white Democrat until
he placed her black men on land there, with
q roof over their heads, a mule in their stable
and grain enough to feed their children until
the first crop came in. Without it they turned
a million voters on the South to be the ready
tools of every demagogue. He would say
Yale the letter, Yale the chain, Vale the whip
lash and the years Of unrcquitcd toll, Vdle the
stolen wages, and Yale the white church and
the railroad confined to white men. He wanted
them 10 maintain the Standard, and 10 hold
it up, not merely as their organ. but as tle
organ for Justice 10 the freedmen. for ballot lor
woman, for protection for the Indian. lof pro,