Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-09-06
Address to Colored Voters.

Address to Colofed Voters.
Mr.. 8. A. Neale, of Allegheny. Pa,
st shs meeting of the State Equal
Rights besgue recently held in Phlla-
deiphia, delivered the following inter-
esting 6ddress to the colored votefs OF
Pennsylvania and the nation:
FELLow-cirIzENs, In times of old, when
Ignorance a.! Superstition walked hand In
hand with Tyranny, and men forgot their snf-
ferings-the bitter pangs Of hunger-the
heart-chrushing agonies of outraged and
blighted firesides in the sigantiic conflict
with those leagucd uiniops OF the King of
Demons-when there was no TRUCE Den (no
truce Of Cod, for every day was desecrated
by the carnival of erime-n those sad
times, when the world was dark with sin,
and the face of the Eternal God seemed
turned away from the world. wherein Ills
Only Son, Jesus Christ, had made the
great Atonement, there came period
when the tide of oppression was rolled
back; as when tie Barons, with their loyal
yeomen and freed serfs at Runnymede,
wrested from King John the Magma Charta
OF English rights. AS il was a hundred
wears before the rights thus wrested were
guaranteed by staruary enactments, so now
we find history repeating itself for the Re-
publican party, like Barons ut Runnymede,
through the dread arbi;rament of war,
wrested from the South the Magma Charta
of Right, that released our race from
slavery more dehumsnizing than any sys-
TEN of bondage that ever cursed this earth
of ours; more debasing and cruel than
Jewish, Roman, or Feudal systems, because
of the double servitude of body and mind
in which il placed its victims. IL we follow
still further the unfolding of this historical
event, we shall find that the cause which re-
tarded the immediate disenthralment of the
serfs and which also enabled the great
Landgrayes to continue for years in posses
sion of the feudatory tcnures, by which
they claimed not only the land, but also the
ownership of every human being living
thereOn-to repeat-we shall find that the
cause was due to the weak, hsli-hearted sup
port the noble Barons and yeomanry recciv-
ed FIR I'M the serfs whose freedom they had
secured at Runnymede. And now, IN this
om day, history again repeats itself; for
the Republican party of 1876 that bestowed
upon Us the boon of emancipation IN 1868,
and of enfranchisem in 1870, though
still the recipient Of our fervent professions
of loyalty, finds as did the old English Re-
publican party, after the famous battle just
spoken Of, that our deeds do not square
with our words. Brothers We intend not
to arraign you before the bar Of public opin-
ion for your dereiictiOD in the performance
of sacred duty to the Republican party.
We know, alas too well the artfui subter-
iuges, the base and malignant methods re-
sorted to by the leaders of the Democratic
party to draw you from the allegiance due
to the great organization that rescued the
Government from the hands Of traitors, and
saved the nation IRON disintegration and
anarchy. By the most persistent soPhistry
and ignoble faisehOods, these Democratic
leaders have inverted all the rules of logic
and caused men TO grope in the dark amid
the bewildering mazes of aduiterated and
distorted facts RcsOrtIng to the non causd
pro cassa method OF reasoning, they have
charged the Republican party with the bor-
rible mismanagemeBt cf the Freedman's
Bank, when II is well known that that party,
had nothing to do, directly or indirectly,
with the cheating OF our people out OF their
hard-earDed means. They have charged
the Republican PARTY with being the Cause
Of the financial and industrial depression
that now rests like blighting mil-dew upon
every home and has mortgagei halt of the
landed estates in the country, when the
pitecLs but damning truth is known by
every one who has read the lesson of the
past that the Democratic pGrfy caaJed the
recent rGr the trar cgused the great nation
al dsbf, aud the debt edussy The sOrroufuI
,rGiI Of hard times 10 ascend 10 hsartn from
the lips Of strong but stoTring men snd ro-
mon. So let the Democratic party, which is
the great first cause of all our woes, receive
its just deserts. Let the sling Uf reprOv-
ing cUnscience-if it have a conscience
pierce its stony heart. Let the demon OF
Slavery, whose presence il evoked from the
internal regions, lash ard tear il to pieces.
This trick of putting thing for the cause
has had its day in politics. Now, and
henceforth, the world marches forth upon a
higher plane. The almighty truth, trailing
clouds Of glory, is coming nearer and nearer
to the ab0des of men, By the Lords right
arm, aiding the Republican party, the spell
iDg-boOk and the Bible are the textbooks
OF our race, and 10 lie can long misleai
them. The massacre at Hamburg the
butchery at Coushatta; the murder of in
offensive colored and white mel in the
bayous of the Mississippi, tell, IN thunder
tones, OF annihllation TO our race. These
far outweigh the-dastard conduct Of few
thieving Republicans who robbed the Freed
mans Bank, but respected our lives an are
helping us to get educated, and promoting,
In other ways, our interests in the busy in
dustries of life- Fellow citizens, we ad-
dress you as brothers, who have come up
with you through great fluctuations. Here,
in the early dawn of our country's second
century of Independence, within the portals
of the great city of Philadelphia, the cradle
of liberty, the city Of the bell that rang out
the first emancipation proclamation on the
Fourth of July, I756; here in this Centen-
nial morn when the earth, like heaven, is
beaming anG glowing with inefabIe beauty
here, where the nations of the wcric are
gathered, through their representatives. to
show the progress of the age in mechanics,
art, agriculture, and literature; here, where
the brotherhood of man forms its links of