The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-03-05

parlor to him, and no, isv canld ogsn kis
.parlor to any other ElsSi. 4 The sacaial
isiglts, the social position 0f % man, d.
pend upon himself, They Ase tssE EresA-
Hated by law and tho 1a1N tthnb iilsi
lthat there shall be soatA xe{ats ions be-
feweeh the Whites and black ihooApist tent
with the proper relatS iona oE those two
races, is the friend of nsitt0f. He ID
the enemy of both races, In my jitdk-
ment, the colored people will &e satieli6a
if you assure them that you win give
them just laws, fairly Administered. Do
this, and then the outside adventurer
cannot turn their votes against you. Let
the colored men understand that the le-
| gis!ation of your State is not being car
| ried on to make few mon rich at the
expense of the great body of the people.
Appeal to the colored men to stand by
you in your fight for honesty, for JUS
tice, for integrity and for equol laws,
and that appeal will reach his heart as
readily as it reaches the heart of the
great body of the white people. Idon't
want you to consider what have said as
the expression of man who is we'll in
formed on the subject. I have never
been brought into close contact with CO.
lored men to any considerable extent. I
don't know much of their habits; I don't
know much of the influence brought to
bear upon them, but do believe that
the men who have known them from
childhood up-the men who have been
their friends~in times past-may, by a
proper course. restore that influence in
themselves which will enable them to
secure the colored voter for the good Of
your State and for the good of the coun-
Tat fha ,z-o>1sl,koI or
the men of Louisiana be brought to bear
You ask nothing that is wrong. You ask
that You shall be taxed only for the pub
lie good, and that when the taxes are
collected, the money shall be expended
for the pnblio good, and that the corrupt
tide of special legislation shall be stop
ped. We have much to accomplish
What is it we intend? That the Union
shall be perpetual, that it shall rest on
the Constitution, and that all the rights,
privileges and prerogatives of the State
shall be maintained forever under that
government, and that the National Union
thus supported by States clothed with
ali their rights, will be The temple in
which freemen shall worship forever to-
getiief.
What do we wish to accomplish? No
thing that is wrong-everything that is
right. We wish to establish in the United
States equal laws and just taxation
These we must have This plunder of
the State and national treasury is becom-
ing universal. There must be a return
to spirit of honesty in the public SER
vice, both national and State. There is
o power greater than that of law. Daniel
Webster, in one of his beautiful orations,
when the question was agitating the
heart of the world, what treatment Rus.
sia would extend to Kossuth, and whe-
ther Russia would demand the return of
that patriot when he was under the pro-
lection of Turkey, said there was q
power mightier than the earthquake
more terrible than the rumbling of the
storm-the judgment of mankind.
Let us, North and South. unite now
for the purpose of maintaining the insti-
tutions of our country in the spirit in
which they were established by the great
men who founded this Government.