New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-11-20

| uon. we would that we could by diplomatic
correspondence reach the heart and core OF
oppression in all civilized countries. and thus
stay the arm when raised to strike down
those whose only wish Ia to be free but we
would not have this accomplished at the eX-
pense Of our national honor. In our opinion
VIC have quite enough at home TO engage our
serious attention, without wandering over
creation to find business for diplomatic quilts.
We may pirate as we please about our
laws, Constitution, form Of Government, and
the like, Blu. history don't reveal n country
in which the laws are 80 little respected as
in our own.
| Instance the cold-blooded massacres all
over the South. Bands OF assassins roaming
over the country shooting, hanging, whipping,
manning, and the State and Federal authori-
ties standing by, if not powerless, at least
unwilling to intcrposc, for fear Of offending
those whom they otherwise would conciliate.
! OF late, only those who stood in arms
/ against the Government, and who to-day
| would inauguratc another rebellion are pre-
| ferred. Is it a matter Of wonder then, that
| these persons or their allies should be found
| foremost in the slaughter of persons whose
only fault is that they love their country:
We cannot rs individuals escape the re-
sponsibility Of our actions, and what is true
in this connection is also true as touching
nations. Other countries have ilourished rs
ours, and the same countries from the lack Of
national honesty, have gone to pieces like
potter's vessel.
Have We any assurance that we will escape
the fate Of others. when we are treading i'll
the identical footsteps:
What right, under present circumstances,
have We to interfere with Spain in her strug-
gle to maintain her authority in Cuba, when
under the shadow of our laws we suffer our
own people to be murdered and no effort
made to inhict speedy punishment upon the
perpetrators Of crime-the like committed no.
where else but in our own country?
Once upon 4 time, when Denmark Nesey,
Nat Turner, and John Brown stood at the
head of few followers in arms, justly too,
against such oppression as only Americans
could invent, the entire country like one
man was ready to march South, each man
with his coffin on his back, to quell negro
instruction, and no section was more willing
than the North to lend hand in crushing
out the last spark of freedom which lived in
the bosom of the negro.
Within few years we have, upon paper,
revised or reconstructed the character of the
Constitution, and, under its protection, Sc.
cured all without reference to color or previ-
Gus condition. We profess enough on paper
to render our land to its inhabitants as hap
pv place as was the Garden of Eden to our
first parents before they fell. But what
docs all this profession amount to when we
fail to make the application? Is it not from
a moral point of view, as much or more the
business Of Spain to see that we make our
people behave themselves and respect the
| laws, as it is our business to intcrmeddle
with Spain when she puts to death the enc
mics of her national peace? We suffered no
diplomatic Or other interference when we
hung John Brown and his friends; they were
adjudged to be the enemies of the Constitu-
ton, men who by their conduct had put
themselves outside Of all decent considera-
ton, and so we murdered them in turn to
appease the cry for blood. The expression
let US have peace" will deserve as it will
receive due consideration. when we learn to
conquer peace by pun!shing even to the
death all those who conspirc against the well
being of society, whose hands are red with
the blood Of hundreds to whom tho Republic
promised "life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness
TOUssAfNT.
r, The Eittos ec he St,o National Era and Cisisen:
WASHINGTON, y. c.
| Who gave to man the power to prescribe
who should. and who should not. become
intelligent and useful beings:
Did the black man ever give his consent
to become a slave, or to have his children
grow up in ignorance?
The white mans arrogant self-righteous
ness and tyrannical assumption Of unnatural
conditions should bring to his cheek the
blush Of shame for his responsibility in keep
ing his iellow-creature upon par with the
brute creation.
Upon what principle is founded O law
prohibiting any child from attending either
white or black school? The schools being
public, or sustained by system Of general
taxation, should be general in the applica-
ton of school funds, and tyranny takes the
place of decency and self-consistency in
those who discriminate at the door OF the
school-housc when any child knocks for
admittance.
Social equality is foreign to the subject,
and he who uses this sophism, is himself
Ignorant of the laws of society, and appeals
only to the animal passions Of his fellow
creature.
J. WEED COREY.
| From Arkansas.
PiNR BLUFF, ARK, Nov. 8, 1873.
To ne Eiitor ertas Nt,o National Era and Citizen: