, 1870-05-09

Of oDe-ha1f OF I common Life would coEes
ourz. can remember the day when. 1t tho
lectures delivered in this very hall, co1ored
and We aetually organized smother, Iyccuu
in another part Of ths city. in ord Y thAt that
portion Of Boston might not be deprived Of
the pleasure sud the instruction OF tho
1ecture-1oom: And al Of ron femenaos55 IN 5
and brave James ". Stone, that colored
mxn, much to everybodye arnsze1nent, was
permitted to epeak in cou1se OF lectures: Il
was hardly, har1y believed that it could be
tolerated, and the next year he went further
ssl nd introduced Wosn. =. ana noH ',-sd ~d
nan, but to coloreI Senator Of the United
States. When you SO 10 the Rocky Noun
tains you sec the lowest tier Of the geanlte
that makes the very base Of the globe, ahoot
the raco tbat lay loweet in the catalogue
shoots its peak up into the great council OF
the nstion. Some Of Us doubted whether the
black race would quite realize promptly aad
usa economically this great power Of the
| franchise. Men said they arc N imitabe
| Of a forgiving mood, and through the
| avenues Of these generous virtues, the
intrigue, and the corruption, and the
leslotism Of the old regime will enter and
only make them cheats- But even Willie We
spcculated, while ve directed our glass down
the arcna, VIC found that they bad put one
Lieutenant Governor into the chair OF Louia-
lana, they had put one Justiee on the Supreme
Bench Of South Carolina, they Ind crowded
every Southern Legislature with \ score, or
and, finally, to thow that they meant to give
us at least . specimen OF the true cross in the
National Government, they gave us Senator
At Washington, aA one Of the drops OF the
% tan hoy las got fc1 dollars extra, he gosa
down 10 Plymouth and buys reel or supposed
fragment Of Plymouth Rock, and then wherever
he travels aud meets the Yankee race. frou,
here TO the Golden Gate or Canton, he shows
the eymbol Of their birth-plaes- To-day
present you with true embodiment oi
Southern reconstruction, veritab'e piece
Of tho true croea Of America'a future. Gen
tlemen, show you the Fifteenth Amend
ment in flesh and blood, tho incarnation o1
this last proud step in the nation's progress
Unexpected and undeserred, hu1nblng oul
facrs in the dust, We acknowledge this un
deserved success. In 1861 both Houses oi
Congress almost By unanimous vote plelset
themselves that in this struggle of block
against rebellion in arus, the nation wouft
sovereignty and assai1 the system which Wa
plotting against our people. Gettysaurg ami
Appomastox dashed that covenant with death
: that agreement with he'll, to pieces, AMI
here stands the result. hut. gentlemen, VI
have only learned the multiplication table
VIC hare only got as far as vulgar fractions
Stewart had not laid up forty millions when h
learned that two and two make four. Til
el,1epd Seotcl.msn had only got the tool b
!, | which he should become the money power o
It /. a proud hour. 1t is = great epoch, It i
the contamination Of. tie grandest cr1.sad
which tho world has secn sincethe days Of It
ther. We arc too near to measure yet tn
majestic slope OF this grand culmiuating SUI
> cess Of the Saxon race learning to do.justic
= | L. &l.& hnta nd 4n91. taa1 n1
after all, it is only the multiplication table.
is only the recognition Of another truth. y
G lift our h1o1s tanE1emen, into the face Of IL
l. vcrld to-day, aud repeat, With something. {
: pride, the sublimo pledge Of our fathers th'
:, all men are crested equal Ilcy said it III 4
! | mir, SO many years ago, they Were nveting u
d caains Of this very race whose enaancipatio
y VT. now rejoice over. We put the same gre:
\ Truth, which aided guarantee At
= more explicit wording, into the constitution {
4 | the milton. I. is there. But the only one
e tio,. il for this generation and the next to a
j. ly il. With intiuite toll, 1t vast expense vii
!: such a tac1icc, OF blood, scaling tho chart
y with FIVE hundred Thousand graves. we ha'
y y made il true OF the negro. With whit cost.
Io what toil. how much blood, with what se'
n sacrifice and devotion you will mako il truc
Is tie Indian aud the Chinese remains for Il
le ncx1 twenty -nine years. We summon you
tia. tounit. we welcome you to that crunad
=. the stamping ont OF another line OF rrejudic
70 and eulafgng the national henri, wheu. vi
4. 4 trse Christianity and real civilization,
r shall know fltls nothing Of racc before t
law, and when that is done we shall have
= right to rejoice. nut only that this one sic:
r. r. race has taken it's place aIaong the reeoguiz
rs clements Of cisit and political life with 4
hut wc shall 60 further, and enact that in !
crfd Law America has her t11et, and hencefo!
knows no distinction among races that G
created with one blood, with equal rGhts
fr Li,,, st.1 1+ek<.-- tho t.Aass,ss ss>I~ss~-