The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1872-04-26

IN New Orleans, i shOuld De relieved OF
that duty and should goto Kentucky
and see what was the feeling Of the peo-
pie in that respect. Thereupon he re-
called the order Of General Halleck, and
sent me on a secret mission to the Ken
tucky Legislature which was then in scs-
sion, 10 ascertain what would be the sen
timent of the leading public men of Ken
lucky il such proclamation should be
issued. / went to Kentucky. The Legis-
lature was then in session. The Senate
and House of Representatives adjourned
and invited me TO take the hall of the
House of Representatives, whrh did,
and spoke upon those issues. This
speech was reported by, and published
in, the Cincinnati Gazette of August,
1862 ] have not the original speech be-
fore me, but have pamphlet edition
Of very nearly the precise language which
| used ON that occasion, modified only so
Us TO suit the occasion rs a lecture, which
was called upon to deliver before the
University of Albany, New York, in
February, 1863, extracts from which !
will now read:
"The President and the Republican
party leave slavery in the loyal States
where they found it. We have never
claimed any political power to abolish it
there. We have claimed and exercised
the power to abolish it in the District of
Columbia, in the Territories, and in all
places of exclusive National jurisdiction.
This isglory enough for any ndmistration.
The proposition to compensate the slave
owners in the loyal States, who shall lib
crate their bondsmen, is on our part mag
unanimous and patriotic. Iapprovc the
policy, and urged the justice and ex-
pediency of its adoption upon the Repre-
scntatives Of Kentucky in the hall of the
Representatives in August last 1t is for
them to adopt or to reject the proposition.
"But, whether for or against the proc
lamation and the scheme Of emancipation.
the loyalty of my native State have
never doubted. \ hereditary slave State
herself, she has ever made slavery subor-
dinate to the higher interests, reconded
by the Constitution and the Union
Whatever opinion she may have of Re
publican policy, there she stands, and
there she will ever stand. Besides. were
she less loyal, she is not less wise, for she
knows that the way to save the slavery
of the South is not to join the rebellion,
but to subdue it; that, with peace, the
military power of the President closes,
and the whole right over slavery survives
in the States themselves"
This speech was reported in the Gin
cinnati Ga,ette, August, 1862. Now here
| stand once more, not only upon uncon-
stitutional law, but as a man speaking
for the President of the United States,
and for the Republican party. The peo-
pie Of Kentucky yielded to my argu-
ments and consented that slaves should
he treated as prizes of war, or any other
captured property, and boldly and gal
lantly stood by the Union. Then to have
their privileges violated, and slavery
abolished without compensation not only
contrary to the usages of all nations, but
in express violation to their own pledges
to the State, places me in a false position
before the world, which can only be re-
instated by repudiating the repudiators.
CAUSES OF OPPOSITION OF THE RADICAL RULE.
But ! come now to the practices of the
Radical Grant managers Of more gen.
eral nature. You allknow, men of KeI-
lucky, what sacrifices have made for
the liberation of the blacks. Believing
that slavery was in opositiCn to the avow-
ed principles of our republican govern
ment, the laws of nature, and the expe-
diency, ! have not rested content until it
was abolished. and all men, of all colors
and all nationalities, were placed upon the
broad basis of equality before the law.
| have never professed, nor will now
for any personal or partisan accomplish
ment profess, to love the blacks more
than the whites. On the contrary, will
but follow the instinct of every rightly
constituted individual when | say, l love
my own race as well as any other race.
cheers And do not hesitate to say
further, felloweitizens, of color-for some
of you | see here-that distrust, and
you may justly distrust, any man who
processes to love your race better than
his own. cheers.
THE MISSION or THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
CLOSED.
For all which ! have contended has
been achieved, and you are placed upon
the broad basis of equality with every
other nationality in this vast Republic.
The mission of the Republican party
has been accomplished, 1t was no part
of the Republican programme, as an
nounced through their leading men and
by their Conventions anywhere, that
the blacks should be placed above the
whites. Have ] uttered such senti.
menty And because | would raise our
own race to the same equality to which
we have for so many years We have con
tended, We are denounced as renegades
from the Republican party The times
call for plain speech.
IN FAVOR on ANXIETY