The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-10-24
Pleads for Universal Amnesty
and Reconciliation.

very is dead, and if every man in this
afy were to undertake to revive it, they
nor revive 1t in good many years.
Is no more possibility that it should
sVSed. than there is that the thousands
aeh VINO died for our country should
70 life and participate in our present
sg'es. 1t Is not only dead, but you, or j,
Aay one who should now be called to Of
must take solemn oath to obey the
ltltlon, which forbids its ever being
'AoiIshed. Wen, then, / say slavery
uead, nobody expects it ever to come
N again, and there is no reason why
Nq should quarrel about slavery. No
ef now We regarded it In the past, it is
practical, living issue now. Now.
llese questions being dead, closed, as
y out of place as is the question
.agf thlS country shall be dependent on
y Britain or independent-for that was
ltvlhg issue-these questions being
- INSIST that they shall be buried. /
.aat we shall no more undertake to raise
up, out shall 20 forward to living
SGohs, and the first is that all the white
r. VI THIS country shall be enfranchiSed,
= al tue black people are. Applause.
0'ght OF that long before you were
sad, impartial suffrage; j said let
-aAe thiS country one again, and be-
.aat The judgment of this country now
4l' ulat VAS wise conclusion-notm mere
aghahlmous-magnan may be
n odt TINS was a practicable, statesman
ygheiusion, not to Kill the people after
N4 was over, because we had killed
- Nhlle the war was going on. But
'tefe are whites to be enfranchised !;
~. ~, are 10000 people in the State of Ar
~ ~ olsffanehised to-day; they are men
FlOPeftF' and their property is wasted
,A' men, who have no property. just as
4 property in New York city was squan-
@ 0! ring robbers for years, till the
pc rose in their might aud drove them
: ASK that the American people give
- y mpathy and their generous support
'ue people of the South, who for seven
.@4s nave tried To do their duty as citizens
s.Oted to their country. We hear of out
- Where there are ten or a dozen men
M Iieu Ia them, but in great States there
0een heard of no outrages. You have
,' E heard OF them in Virginia; there are
AZ .tt kiux there There are none in Flor
j There are none in Mississippi; none in
-1s'aha or in Texas. Then, say, let us
y eall these men, this people. to us to
y item. We are brothers you and we
Y Warred, we have been opposed to each
WI and fought, You for slavery and dis
~ and We for emancipation and union,
We fought, not for our part of the coun-
@iohe, but for the whole country. Our
! I'oSe, was to make all men in all parts OF
country free, and our cause was that OF
1oh and universal freedom. Now. then
le up and enjoy these privileges; take
~ stand with US. and enjoy every good,
Salhe Is we have. It now seems 60 me
= ms Is not merely magnanimity, but
= sinanlike policy, what the country now
e0S; aud when we have got that, we will
Isiaer many questions of the day about
l.eh we may differ-tariff, banks, rail
aus and so on. As we differed in thu
- we may differ again: but the ilrst o
questions is the emancipation of all tn,
;.se men of the country, so that they shall
NY equal rights with the black men o
, !, country That is the question on which
'eand as candidate.