New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-07-25

! courts, ana, ABOVE ala, puolic opinion ready
and anxious even to give you protection in
all your rights, liberties, and immunities.
| All this the Democratic party denies by its
history, its declarations, and by the votes of
its representative men.
But, do you say, "Is not their candidate
sufficient for us? '' / answer, he was not
sufficient for himself, and he will not be suffi-
cient for you. For the bauble Of a nomina-
ton to the Presidency at the hands of his
enemies he surrendered the treasures of a
life. Ifhe had not the manliness to preserve
his own fame, do you expect that he will
have the courage to protect your rights?
And now I turn to you, fellow-citizens,
who by ancestry, education, experience, and
| capacity are destined to exert a large infiu-
ence upon the fortunes Of your State and upon
the policy of the National Government, and
l ask whether YOU will content yourselves
with claspng hands over this bloody chasm,
which may widen and deepen until it becomes
an impossible barrier between us, or will you
decree that it shall be filled up?
When Louis Kossuth was in this country
number of clergymen met him in Philadel-
phia, and welcomed him by formal address.
In their address they quoted the passage,
ION earth peace-good will toward men,"
the meaning was "peaee on earth to men of
good WILL" A--~..---.
pass by the question raised by KOssuth,
and only say the declaration, AS interpreted
by him, is the rule in social, national, and
international affairs. Where there is not
good will there is not peace.
The election in North Carolina will be
taken by the country as an explicit declara-
ton upon this point by you. If you are, as
a State, of the opinion that the rights set
forth by the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
,f-o 70 Iof o;% ell. G., 4 4
fully enjoyed because they are right and
proper in the nature of things, then you are
in accord with the Republican party; but if
you believe that they are legal rights only,
destitute ofall moral foundation, to be avoided
and overthrown whenever there is an Oppor-
tunity, then you will properly sustain the
Democratic party, and vote for its candi-
dates.
do not ask you to accept our ideas be-
cause they arc entertained by a majority of
the people of the country, and certainly not
because they will inure to your advantage
but, in the nature Of things, the moody chasm
cannot be filled until fixed majority of the
South accept the doctrine not only that all
men are equal before the law, but that all
men by right are equal before the law.
The day looked for cannot long be post
poned in this State trust it is near. Once
the country accepted slavery. 1 am told, and
1 believe, that the thought of it is now BAN
ished from all minds, South as well as North.
Why not, then, Danish all injustice growing
out of slavery? Is not this the purpose of
North Carolina, and will she not declare her
purpose on the LIST of August next? Your his
tory bids me believe this. You first gave voice
to the purpose of the colonies to proclaim
independence; while under the power of
slavery you recognized, in an unusual degree,
iolNt nf ,tyn1n In old rIar
Of things you maintained system of public
instruction, and you yielded reluctantly to
the assaults upon the Union. These things
are known and the memory of them cherished
by the people of the North. If bitterness
once existed it has passed away. One act of
justice only remains to be done--the country
waits for the evidence that you heartily and
cheerfuly accord the full rights of citizens,
under the Constitution of the United States,
to all within your borders. Give this evil
dence and the bloody chasm is closed.
"A GREELEY RUMoR.-That Fred. Doug
lass is rapidly changing his complexion to
suit the taste of the white-hatted man of
Chappaqua. Who next? The cry is still
they come ."--Chronicle.
When Frederick Douglass shall change his
complexion, rapidly or otherwise, to suit the
taste of the white-hatted man of Chappaqua,
or the taste Of any other man, the Chronicle
shall have due notice of fact so important
to science if not to party politics. 1t shall
certainly not be required to depend upon
Greeley rumor for the information. There is
about as much danger Of change in the
complexion of the editor of the Chronicle as
in that of Frederick Douglass, though, unlike
the Chronicle, l have not felt called upon to
warn the public of the latter danger. But
laying aside this by-play, please allow me to
say that this Greeley rumor to which you
have given currency in your columns, like
most of the Greeley rumors, is groundless,
and it's circulation cannot i'm any way help
the Republican cause.
Truly yours for the election of ULYSSES S.
Grant and Henry Wilson,
FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
WAsHrNGTON, ID. c., July 18th.
Our estimablc friend will pardon us for an
allusiOn that was made only to show how ut
terly absurd are half the rlmOrs that are
daily finding currency through the columns
of the Greeley papers. The intimation that
| it was 4" a Greeley rumor" indicated the value
attached to it. Standing as he does in the
category with Gerrit Smith, Garrison, Beech
er, Phillips and other anti-slavery men who
passed through the fire with garments I'M
touched, we have no fears of his faltering
now in the crisis of the final struggle
Chronicle.
what the Ku.Kiux Expect Of
Greeley.