The People's vindicator., 1876-06-03
Public Meetings.

privileges as dear to the heart of free d
men az life itself almost, and one '
thew would not relinquish for untold f
amounts Of gold, one the law "nquah-
fiedly grants them, and expressly for
bids it's Infringement. The meeting to- {
gcther and interchanging of thoughts s
and ideas on all the various questions,
is cnnobling to the human mind, and
lifts one from the every day hum drum
life Incident to 4 dull monotonous
country existence, and points out to
him beauties unseen, aud gives feel
incs unfclt before. A man after par
ticipating in snch an assembly and
forming an integral part thereof, re-
turns home generally wiser, If not
better man.
He naturally feels kindlier to his
fcllow.beings, lis benevo,encc has
been proportionally increased, and
his charity stimulated to noblor deeds
and higher aims, There is self
satisfaction about him wsfioh '.f's of
Il uay ~c., rrr",, aud he naturally
finds himself wishing to experience
another such time, and meet again
those congenial spirits which afforded
him So much nna'loye0 happiness.
He, after leaving such u gathering, is
prond to look any one in the face, for
no IS conscious Of having done or
heard uothins to lower him in his
own estimation or that OF any one
else, and he proudly walks the path
of Yectitule. confident in himself, aud
fearless of repoach. Such feelings
are worthy the envy and desire of
rich aud poor, high or low, or that
Of any one claiming the sympathies
of bis fellow. mortals, or asking the
harmonious appreciation Of mankind.
Just 50 pleasant and agreeable as
these feelings are after the above cx-
perience, are those on the contrary,
, disgusting and degrading, self.pollu'
s ting and debasing when other assem-
, hlies have been attended, where the
: vilest passions of tho human heart
| have been aronsed, calling forth all
t those bitter and acrimonious feelings
8 which it is the part Of civilized man
}. to learn to curb and keep within
u bounds, and under complete suffice
0 tion. He cannot walk away from any
y such assembly with that proud and
t lofty step that he should, but ht
: skulks, fearful to meet his kind, lest
!, in his face he should see reflected his
o own distorted and hideous looks. NJ
It joyous sympathy makes him hunt hi
associates, bnt there is an irresistible
desire to free himself from the com
panionship Of those he is now certain
}. are not the friends they profcssed t.
: be, nor the proper persons to giv'
Il him that instruction he knows ant
R feels he 50 much needs. There is II,
IS kind remembrance in his heart, an,
{. he receives summons to attend an
10 other such meeting with fear ant
d dread, aud could he but reflect ant
b panse to ask himself whittier sucl
things were tending, and what mus
e inevitably he tho ti"ality of such pro
n ceedinss, he might possibly decliu
if appearing amid such storms Of human
}. passions and whirl.winls of human
!. hate. But alas! the ignorant an'
h. thoushtlcss continne on their way
]. little needing the road they are trav
!. cling, until they are lost in i'm
!. prenetrable darkness
,e What man elevated above the leve
TO Of the brute the slightest particle
ID could content himself in listening
re- such indecent and slanderous speech
10 es rs were made at the Radical meet
,e ing held on the outskirts of our tow
te on last Saturday, where one of tn
g, speakers, after it was asked, and an
ID swered satisfactorily, that there wer
ne no ,chite men on the ground. eyes,
in said the speaker, ''they may attac
d. and kill one Of us by coming in gang
to Of forty or fifty, but the cowardl
IN hounds dare not meet us man to maj
o. in fair and open fight" Now v
i'll think that every negro on the groun
|le who listened to sncl' a speech, guilt
r. of an act Of self.degredation, for MOI
1t. reasons than one in the first plac
d. they know very we'll that nobody d
). sires to kill them or in any mann'
We seeks their lives, nor would any OF
is do them bodily harm, and in the 81
II, cond place they are perfectly awa'
Oh that no one fears to meet the speak
or any Of his set, whether in "fa
to open fight" or any other manner tn
he he might desire, which fact b
u been fully proven by subseqne
90 events. sufficient to brand tho abo,
it named speaker as falsi6er, and m
q liciOus distOrter of truth. AnOth