The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-04

step In the argument and say II you think the NORM
price or tthe OF it. for your freedomi And has it
not had the chance for nearly one hundred years
IN thus a to ss' SSa yC css A obserVs
question here OF the rlghtulness or wronglnness OF
slavery; IL is merely TO test the true dsposlon Oh
the North towards you TO take the measure Vi lts
love precisely in that measure In which inc people
Of the South are now being made 10 pay IN aS Wnrth
gSt 81 nay your an enV lime IN II
had willing to testify It's desire for u III making
terms of compensation for it-if 1t mad been w,mS
1t has imposed upon the South. There is the iact,
and no voice Of man can override II. Thefc Is no
"though speak with the tongues OF men ana OF
angels, and have not charity, am become as sound
ing brass or linking cymDal" rsoro
Is large pecunary loss somewhere; 10 Is two th0u'
sand millions OF dollars. In the change OF your con-
where. Now, suppose we represent IL as tile SUD
scription list OF your freedom. VINO are the sub
scribers on that paper-wno the contributors who
have set down their names to the prices OF your
freedomS Understand, the man who owned you in
the past has really set down on that subscription
paper one thousand dollars or one thousand i've
hundred dollars for your freedom. Well, now, what
Is the practical application OF this vlewY You
owe your freedom, under the providence Of God, to
the loss and deprivation OF the white people OF the
South ana to the general willingness Of your old
masters to submit to the sacrifice. What does this
South should more heartily recognize whose loss 1t
Is that set you free, and when you how cheer
losses OF the late war; when you see the white peo-
pie OF the South cOnsenting to your freedom, even
though 1t has put the chill cup Of poverty 10 their
as the most unfortunate OF yourselves. then, say,
Whatever there is Of generosity counting all under
the returns Of Christian love- whatever there is Of
the true spirit OF thankfuness, make TO your OLD
masters, and not to those who have made Gods
This thought IL OF piece with all have TO say to
you; IT wl bear the SEED Of many good reflections:
Of the white men OF the South, and the thought
should inspire at least u benevolent regard
grateful! rejection, according to the great
Is the true liberator, and not he who stands
ut the foot of the cross and says:'! am the cruel
fer. am tho cruel executioner. My bloody and
strong hands have done this work, and the
mission Of sins cast You me the honor and the glory
and the profit"
Now, Yet another view You have heard many
times OF the indispositon OF the North to give you,
nom ITSELF the freedom it claims to have acquired
people Of the North, as it claims and demands and
legislates that it shall be given you among the white
people OF the South. Now have you ever thought
OF the significance OF this, OF the evidence 1t gives
of the OF true affection OF the North for you,
and of the way il goes to help the proof that your
emancipation did not come from the DeDevOlence OF
the Nortn that IL was trick and spoil Of the war
calculation to-day Of profits to the white people OF
the North while 1t Is sentence OF sacrifice and OF
poverty to the white people OF the South? The
whites OF the North will not willingly give you suf
frage in their own States. They will not even give
you WOrk IHerc Allu Willlo tUcy WOuiu SCI you up
IA an idol in Virginia and North Carolina they make
you, IN Indiana and Ono. such contamination ana
plague that even the sweat Of your labor stinks IN
their nostrllS.
Northern men come down here. They organize
what they call Union Leagues. They sit with ,ou
there; they consult with you there; theysglve you
their hands and strike VOWS OF friendship and com
partnership on them, and yOu are nightly pleased.
But the North there Is another league that you
not told OF. 1t is the Labor League; and IN that
league you are daily condemned. You are useful In
that organization in the South IN which Northern
trades unions of the North won't admit a colored
man Of you; and, though they allow the worst white
men that Europe speWs Out 10 emigranf sips to
field, they will not allow you to wage work with
them, or even to come In the presence Of their
ganiZed societies. The contrast between the Union
League IN the South and the Labor League in the
North tells the whole story. The Northern man ia
the South Will strike hands with you at the political
council fire, will eat your meal and meat, will pig in
your beds; but the Northern man in the North will
disdain and scout you, and drive you even from the
classes-wil grudge you even o division on the mud.
sill of the sweaty bread, that OF the very lowest
white man among them. Even the very dregs OF
their society rise against You.
Look at but two incidents in the experience OF The
black man IN the North IA aborer and bread winner.
~ has not been long since TWO cOlored men were
employed as brickmakers in the navy yard at Wash
ingtOn. The white brickmakers drove them out,
and In the shadow OF that government which has
made so many professions for you a protest was
sent up to the secretary OF the Navy against the
plOyment OF negroes even to make Drick-a task
for the Egyptians. Again, negro skilled as a
printer, the son of Fred Douglass, sought admission
INTO the Typographical Union. The application was,
with the respect OF any argument consideration or
explanation.
You know very little OF the North but from hear.
say. IL Is to you lar and ultraviolet land; anu
member that you get most OF your information OF it
from men who come from there to deceive you and
to profit on your poor, Ignorant and romantic aifec
ton for distant and UNEMPLOYED country. You
nave their Interested word that the North wrestlcs
In love for you and all that talk; but you have the
fact that the North never gave You freedom except
as weapon and an advantage in It's own hand, that
the North does not willingly give you suffrage, that
that the North does not give you equality that the
North does not even give you labor the rghttO make
your bread with the white man and to go with him
In the market for the price OF your living. And
now what Is the North to you? You are going TO
live In the South; you have got to make your profit
there you have got to make your friends there, and
tage-not III an impossible Utopia not az IN Il coun-
try and a TIME wherein you do not liye but III that
land wherein God has let fall your lines and wherein
you are TO find your homes and your graves.
know yOu have got some crosses to bear--that in
some respects you are not now fairly getting your
rights from the white people OF the South. / AN
free and unreserved, and fearless to confess this
You often do not get justice, you often fail TO see
crimes committed upon you avenged by the law. /
noticed some time ago that negro was Wiley muir
dered flor he was IN flight at the tlnle) within the
shadow Of one OF your county courts in Virginia and
the murderers are as yet unarrested, and do not
believe that they were vigorously pursued or sought
after with the desire of discovering them. 1t was an
from the ground. But remember that you are not
alone in this disappointment OF justlce-that even
many white man mas failed in rotten communities
in the South, where white towards and white bawds
make public sentiment, to get justice.
Now, believe me, there are other rights which you
want more than political rights. You want the
right To nave justice done you in the courts; to live,
in the severest eye OF the law. as every inch free.
You should have IT.. You want something more than
ths-to be regarded practically not as ''niggers."
with tickets OF leave not as lreemen by courtesy
by any lelthanded title, but treemen in fee simple
and In full estate There Is terrible outrage on
your race, of which must allow you have to
complain even until your voices strike che sky.
refer to hideOus war upon your race waged in the
South under the forms Of the law and executed by
the instrument OF the gallows. I cannot close my
eyes TO the TACT that Tor years since the the gal
lows In the South has reeked with black vicsims
Within that time how many white criminals have SUI
fered the extreme penalty OF the law even for crimes
that have made the world doubt whether the boosted
courage Of The white chvalry OF the South the polite
bl0odtnrstness OF former times has not degeneraeI
since the war into mania for assassnati0ns The
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