American citizen., 1876-09-30
BLACK ~. q 4 n9R NJ. D.

BLACK ~. q GARRaxLD.
In compliance with our promise
! in the last issue Of the CITIZEN, we
present to our readers the f0lluwing
extracts from Judge Blacks recent
'etter to Hon. JAS. A. Garfield, IN
reply to his late speech in Congress.
| Do not fail to read these extracts
if you want to see . puritan and
hypocriie, sf tho Massachusetts
stripe, handled i'y the ablrst politi-
teal writer in America:
THE WAR oF THE PHARIsEE,
But the Absiitionists wanted q
war for the destruction of the Union,
for the overthrow of the Cunsiitu-
tior, for the subversiou OF free gov
Fcrnmenr, and for the subjugation
Of the whole country to that "higher
law which imposes no res. raint
upon the rapacity aHd malice OF the
ruling power. To such q war the
national conscience was opposed.
The soul Of e~ery respectable officer
in the army and navy revolted at it,
and every virtuOus man i'm private
life felt it to he an anspeakable
outrage. TO those who doubted
before, the disaster of Bull Run
made it plain that the war could
not he successfully carried on nn-
.ess II was put upon principles con-
i-tent with the asages Of Christ~n-
dom and the safety of our own in
stiiutions. Therefore, it was that
on the 2ed July, 1861, Congress.
with almost perfect a0animify, pass
ed \ resolution through both houses,
declaring in the most explicit words
that the war should be conducted
to preserve tho Constitution, and
not to revp.u'ienixe it. l give you
here the words of the resolution it
self from the Congressional Globe,
p. 223:
Resolred, TAat che present d-p,or-
able civil war has been forced upon
The country by the disunionists of
the Southern States, now in arms
against the Constitutional Govern
ment, and in arms around the CAPT
tai; that in this national emergency,
Congress, baI,islIing all feeling Of
mere passion or resentment, will
recollect only rs duty to the whole
country that this war is not waged
on their part in any spirit Of oppres-
sion, or for any purpose of conquest
or suhjugation or purpose of over
throwing or interfering with the
rights or established iu -titutions of
rhose States, but to defend and
maintain the supremacy of the Con
stitutiOn, and to preserve the Union
with all the dignity, equality aud
rights Of the several States unim-
pai'ed and that rs soOn an these
objects are accomplished the war
ought TO cease"
COnfiding in this assurance Demo.
Gratis from every Norihern State
rushed to the front by the hundred
thousand the border States of the |
South gave in their formal adhesion
TO the government and our great
military leaders drew their swords !
with alacrity in support Of the free
to which they had
shown their fidelity so often before.
With what base perti,ly this
solemn pledge was broken I need
not tell you, for this speech shows
that you know it well. Yon ex-
pI essly declare that SO far ff,m sus-
the government you revo-
lutiOnized it. Instea of u war for
the Union, you Claim that it put
the States OUT of the Union, and
you had a right to keep them our
as long as you pleased or admit
hem to their places on any terms,
however degi aiding, which yOn
choose to dictate. Instead of res
ioiing the supremacy of the Con.
stitutIon all your politicians held,
md SO far ~ l know from their
D. ;c declarations still hold, that
he victory of the Federal forces
abolished the Constitution not only
u the South but in tle North, and
therefore they were not bound tU
'bserve its limitations, either ia
heir legislative, judicial or execu- |,
i've measure. Inst cad of bringing
lack the States with their rights
according to your J
'ramise, you crippled, enslaved. !
ubjugated and disfra nchispd them.
instead of using the war power for ,
he inst and lawful purposes to
rhicb you were pledged, you cOn- t
erted it into black Republican L
ID to put the rights of all the peO- e
lie permanently under the feet Of t
- unprincipled party. &
/ submit ibis part of the case to
our consideration. I ask you to Il
nv whether you can find in the j
hole history of the human race Y
mother instance of similar p+rfidy
u sale 50 large. The baseness q
{ the Massachusetts authorities i'm 1,
cling the surrendered P-Ino1s r