White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-04-18

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Abolitionists and anti-slavcry men, free-eoil-
crs and Republicans accepted ~ . vital, anima-
ity. Accepting the doctrine that emancipation
was the duty Of the master snd the ngnt Oh the
slaves and that il was the iluty of the nation to
prohibit and abolish slavery whenever !t had the
power. they petitioned Congress to Performe tnat
work in the District of Columbia and in the
Territories.
They maintained, when sasaiIed, the sacred
right of petition and the freeslom OF speech.
They opposed the annexation Of Texas, BY
which it WAS sought to prevent tne aoon1on oi
They struggled to prohibit slavery in free ter
ritory won from Mexico by war.
They resisted with all their power the opening
of the free Territories Of Utah and New Mexico
to slavery, and the surrender of thonsands OF
seunrr miles Of free soil to slavehOlding Texas.
They opposed the enactment of the fugitive
slave bill and the unholy compromises Of 1850.
They sternly resisted the releal OF the Missouri
compromise, which had secured hundreds Of
thousands Of square miles to free labor, and for
free laboring men.
They denounced the border ruffian invaders Of
Kansas, their unholy legislation establishing
slavery, and their inhuman slave code.
They pronounced the Lecompton Constitution
"the product of fraud and violence"
They denounced the Ded Scott d'csG. by which
il was proclaimed that black men had no rights
white men were bound to respect.
They exposed the delusiOns of squatter sbv-
er-gnty, and denied the right of slave masters to
take their slaves into national territory and be
protected by national authority.
They steadily and sternly rejected. when men-
aced by rebellion and civil war, the Crittenden
compromise, by which the nation, by irrepealable
constitutional amendments, was to recognize sia-
very south Of the Missouri compromise line, al
low slave masters tn take their fetteresl bOndmen
African descent of citizenship and suffrage, and
deny to Congress the right to abolish slavery in
the capital of the nation.
When the Republican party came into power in
1861 it iniexible adhered at the risk of civil war,
to the principles it had ennncated for impartial
liberty, and against the aggressive and dominating
influences of the slave masters.
1t made free slaves used by the rebels for mill
tary purposes.
II forbade officers to return to their masters
fngitives coming within the lines Of the army to
seek the protection If the national flag.
1t abolished slavery in the District Of Columbia,
and made the national capital free.
II annulled the inhaman, cruel, and degrading
Black Code Of the District, and provided that col
ored men should he tried and punished in the
same manner the white man was tried and pun
ishel
1t gave its colored people the right to testify IN
the courts of law, to ride in the public convey
anccs, to educate their children, to vote, and to
be voted for.
1t prohibited slavery in the vast Territories of
the United States and saved them from its chains
and whips, its auction blocks, and its blood
hounds.
who came within their advancing lines
1t repealed the cruel and bnmiliatng Fugitive
Slave Act and brought to close its inhuman
and dastardly slave hunts.
II recognized the nationality of Hayt and Ii
IBERIA. which had been so long and 50 wickedly
withheld by the slave power.
1t enrolled black men, and wcaponed their
hands to fight the battles of their country.
1t gave freedom to the slaves who joined the
armies of the Union.
soldier.
1t struck the word white from the military
laws, and made black men portion of the ma
tiOnal militia.
1t prohibited the barbarous and barbarizing
practice of furnishing Ofienses by whipping in the
reconstructed States.
1t abolished and forever prohibited the system
of peonage in New Mexico.
1t entered into treaty stipulatiOns with the
British government for the final extirpation of
the African slave trade.
1t made the coast-wse slave traffic illegal.
1t gave black men the right to testify in the
courts of the United States.
1t gave suffrage tn black men in all the Terri
tories of the republic.
1t sustained Abraham I.ncOln's proclamation Of
emancipation that gave freedom to three and
half millions of men, women and children.
1t forever abolished slavery throughout the
land, by the adoption of the 18th Amendment.
1t created the Freedmen's Bureau for the pro-
lection and education Of the eniancipated bond
men.
Ii secured to black men the full and equal bene-
fit If all laws for the protection of life and pro-
perty by the civil rights act.
1t made colored men citizens of the United
States.
1t secured, by the adoption Of the 14th Amend
ment, equal protection to citizens in all the
States.
1t steadily opposed and defeated the policy of
President johnson. which would have left colored
men completely helpless-a degraded caste of serfs
at the merry of their old masters.
1t removed unjust restrictions, and gave to
coored men a common right in the public do
main, till then withheld.
1t gave suffrage to three quarters of u million
of black men by its measures of reconstruction.
1t gave, by the adoption Of the 18th amendment
and the laws to enforce it, suffrage to black men
throughout the United States.
1t has given by the law to enforce the 14th
amendment and its execution, some measure Of
protection to the cOlOre race against the lawless
and mur,lerous Ku-Klnx Klans.
Each and all of these acts secure, or tend to Sc
cure and guard, the personal liberty, the equal
rights and the equal privileges Of the African
race.
BY this grand series Of acts the Republican
party has given personal freedom and equality to
all the coOred race, and is seeking to secure law,
order, peace, education, and general develop
ment. Can a Republican forget this record Of
brilliant deeds and of glorious achievements,
which have won the approval of conscience and |
reason and the admiration Of liberal, progressive
and generous men the wide world over!
Will not the men of the African race especially |
cling with deathless fenacity to the organization |
which has achieved for them results to compe- |
hensve, far-reaching, and enduring!
Can eolored citizens ever hesifatein their choice |
between the Republican party with such re-
,orl of beneicent deeds, and the Democratic par
y that has, for forty years, with sneering and |
name, and ennobling measure designed for their
freedom, Improvement, and elevationi
The Washington correspondent of the Boston
Globe writes gossiPy letter about the probable
nominees of the Cincinnati Convention. Hesays:
8. TLo -Srh ant CHARLES |