New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-18

wrong. That is q truism; aud yet among us
Americans the immediatenes of the rule oi
the larger number is apt to ngender a belief
! that maiorities are almighty and irresistible.
This belief ia mischievous. partly because il
fatters the majority into a snse Of their infal-
| libility; partly because it dscourages from eff
fort those who disapprove & popular move
ment but are not sanguirs Of their power of
controverting it. 1t becomes you to be vigil
liant, when the enemy has so much vantage
ground. Give not sleep % your eyes, nor
slumber to your eyelids, til there is remedy
and improvement. A falseissue is made when
fatal concessions are claimed as the due of
bloody and violent men. You must make the
law too mighty for them. he Reform League
is asking for champions, br individuals who
can struggle hand to hand nth spiritual wick
edness in high places. Allof the professions
should supply such
The Rev. Charles w. benson advocated only
temperate men for office. In this connection
he read the following, whici he had obtained
from Commissioner Wells orthe previous day !:
"lS7l. The facts. Six hundred thousand
common drunkards in tln United States :;
81 SOC, COCOON spent every rear in intOxicat-
ing drinks; 1900, 900 people including women
and children, involved in misery by the la
bitual use of alcoholic liqur as a beverage
every year :. 200, 900 pauper made every year
by drunkenness 400 suicAes of drunkards
every year 800 murders evry year by drunk
ards 200, 900 orphans madeevery year by the
drunkenness of parents; l0po0 people yearly
sent to drunkard's graves; loo. 900 drunkards
sent to prison every yesr 10000 licensed
dram-shops; 100000 prisons employed in
them; $4O,OO0,00Q expended in preventing
crime, caused by drunkenness, every year !;
81 572 ,49l 800 paid every year for Intoxicating
drinks at dram shops"
Mrs. Able Kelly Foster said there was moth
ing to expect from the politicians in the way
of protecting lire liberty and property until
they reformed themselves, and were true to
their oath of office
Cora L. V. Tappan eulogized President
Grant.
After remarks by Vim. H. Butler and Geo.
L. Downing, both colored, w. j. Linton spoke
in favor of the Paris Communists, asserting
that they desired nothing but their just mum
cipal rights
Wendell Phillips recognized some months
ago, on this platform, the debt which the world
owes to those Parisians who are now branded
generally with the name of Red Republicans,
for almost all the steps of civil progress.
lGreat applause. Agassiz said the other day,
IN referring TO the balloon post sent from
Paris, that science owes more to France, espe-
Cisiiiy iHutnlnation, CIVIL enSt"
neering, medical science, and so on, within
the hast fifty years, or two generations, than to
all the rest of. the world put together The
same might be said for her in suggestions and
leadership in civil reform. And what meant
to say was that, while Louis Blanc and others
with him are wise men, and superior men, and
moderate men, they have behind them and be-
low them the vast crowd of brutaized and
morally starved Frenchmen, such as we shall
have twenty years hence, who never hold to
rule nor government, but precipitate their
leaders into difficulties, and mar all their
measures and render them abortive, aud who
will, in the end, probably force the return
either of the Orleans princes or Bonaparte to
the throne of France.
Mrs. Mott is opposed to war and force, and
therefore she thinks, and thinks logically, that
| am wrong in urging the execution of a single
man at the South But the South is to me ex-
actly what u horse used to be to Rarey.
would no more reason with it than he would
with horse. Rarey's method was first to
convince the horse that you could control him,
then conciliate him. If you reverse the pro
cess and try Cancellation first, he mistakes il
for cowardice. So does the brute in South Car.
thinks it weakness You anu 'n Do.~,aee
that half brute half man, the South Caroliniar
the typical South Carolinian and the typica
Georgian-that you can hold him, that you car
take him by brute force, and neutralize hi.
whole power, and when you have once done
that, it is exactly like Rarey's process. The
moment the horse gave up, he was as kind as
kitten. What | want Grant to do is to take
leaf out of Rarey's book, and teach the Soutt
from it. 1t will be the wisest lesson that Gram
ever took into his head to study. With regart
to Charles Sumner, it is said that he is imperi
ous arrogant and has not patience enough
Well, | don't suppose Charles Sumner is
saint. Luther was violent man Chatham
was naughty Pitt was quick-tempered Burke
was long winded /; but We all bow down before
their excellence, and can't find marble enough
to build their monuments.