New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-06-13

of the North will honor Lee and Stonewal JACKSON;
did not say that. What did say was th Nth Gu
the time would come when Americans MOTIF as
well as Americans South would feel JUST p Iluo
the sOdery achievements and military cnul5a ~
of Lee and Stonewall Jackson, just as trusleu ole
late Confederates would learn to feel geheIouS
pride in the achievements of Grant ana Shernlan'
and Thomas and Sheridan. l said that or sOlhe-
thing very like it. Possibly you Are are not 81 w hurry
Take your time: can wait. can walt
THE NEW DEPARTURE
But, gentlemen, my voice fails, yet want to say
few words about the New Departure. lLaughter'I
When men are in bad fix reckon they had better
depart from it 1; and fully Justify those Democrats
who have determined to depart from the foolish old
business of running their heads against stone
wall. If were there should depart and think
il well for them to do it and since they do it, am
not inclined to crticise the manner too severely nor
to Judge them too harshly. / have made rule for
some time never to conjure up bad motive for
good action.
They are where they ought not to he they pro-
pose to depart and think they should.
Our Ohio friends do not take quite so charitable
view of the New Departure as do They say there
was a particularly rough character once who was
noted for violating the Sabbath, among other bad
deeds. But finally, he became converted, got
religion" and joined the church. All right One
day, gentleman came along and asked neighbor
Of his " Do yoq see any great change in N9ke e
go ont chopping Sunday mornings with his AK swung
his shoulder now he carries il under his coat"
Laughterl Gentlemen, | am very glad that the
Democratic party las taken off its shoulder the
which il has welded so many years in deadly hos
tlity to the rights of the COored am glad it
has put it under its coat; but hope 1t will think
better of il and put il back into the woodhouse and
meet the Blacks with open hands, saying We are
going TO treat each of you Just you shall deserve
to be treated, matter what is the color of your
skim i do believe they mean this--the most of
them. believe they mean hereafter to wear their
Democracy something more than skn-deep. At any
rate, shall urge and encourage them to do So
Fellow citiZens L would not make too much of
this New Departure. do not understand these gen
temen to profess any penitence for their past
warfare against the Equal Rights of Men. don't
understand them even to promise that they will
never renew that warfare. / only understand them
pledged to this extent: Theyadmit that the three
Republican amendments to the Federal Constitution
are part of that Constitution, and, while they
there, they must be obeyed. That | under
stand to be the extent of the New Departure, and
deem it worth good deal, SO long as they admit
that these Amendments arc in. shall feel pretty
that they not likely to get them out. shall
rest content that the rights of all men, being cit-
zens Of the United states, are safe under the garn
tees of the Federal Constitution.
Twenty-Five years ago. stood at the polls OF the
Nineteenth Ward of this city all one rainy, chill No
vember day Peddling ballots for Equal Suffrage l
cTat. Again in lSG0-nOt eleven years ago-l again
stool at my polls all day, and handed out the same
kind of vote, and do not remember that single
not take them but no Democrat would.
believe in Human Progress. / believe that men
rather wiser ana better to-day tnan tney were Il
years ago; and here is proof of it. 1t is not two
years since our first Democratic State Legislature
Withdrew the consent given by its Republican prede-
cessors To the XVIII Amendment and by party
vote so far as New-York could do it, they tried to
defeat that Amendment. Now, we have New De
parture. Was it not high timei think it was p,
strife concerning the fundamental principles of
Republican institutions. ! am tired of trying to
teach the Democrats the \, b. Cs of Democracy: l
rejoice to know that they have taken New
Departure, and tell you that when they have once
taken it, it viii be great deal harder to get back to
the old ground than to 60 on. Some one says, lsht
it going 10 put the Republicans ont of power
cannot tell immediately, think not Mr. Burke
well SAYS Confidence is plant of slow growth"
and think il will take some time for the people to
realize that they mean ths-some time for their own
folks to realize tia great deal longer to make any
Black man believe that they mean it,
don't anticipate any sudden change IN the reIa
five strength of parties because of the New De
parture Ultimately think, 1t will strengthen the
democrats. Then" one says, "yoa Will go out OF
power Yes, we shall some time, no doubt. If II he
my fate to go. out this moment and every
year of my life thereafter to be IN the
minority powerless and defeated / should still
thank God. most humbly and heartily, that He
allowed me to live in age, aud to be part of the
generation that witnessed the downfall and he
struction of American Slavery, Prolonged APP
Feliow-citizens, ! trust the day is not distant
wherein putting behind lis the things that concern
old injunction of the Bible: Speak to the
children of Israel that they go forward
i am weary Of lighting over issues that onght 10 he
dead-that logically Uere dead years ago. When
Slavery died, thought that we ought speedily to
have ended all that grew out of it by Universal
Amnesty and Impartial Suffrage -, AppIause.l
| think SO still; and, if the Demo-
cratic party concede Impartial Suffrage, the
Republican party will cOncede Universal Amnesty
il not it will have but rery short lease of power.
So then. friends summon You ali, Republicans and
Democrats, TO prepare for the new issues and new
struggles that Visiby open before In the times
not far distant, we shall consider questions mainly
fYIr al n,lt national
Observation-Disclosures Involving the best means
whereby our different parties may, through CO.
operation, or through rivalry endeayOr to promote
tine prosperity the happiness and the true glory of
the American people. To that contest, | invite
YOU For that contest would prepare you. And
So trusting that the blood shed in the past will be
sufficient atonement for the sins of the past and
that we are entering upon a New De
parture, not for one party, but Tor the
whole cOuntry-a departure from strife
to harmony, from destruction to construction,
from dcsolation to peace and plenty, bid You,
friends and fellOw-citizens, an aifectonate good
night Prolonged cheers and applause.