New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-29

escaped from slavery. and had her little
child upon her breast, and oame to Your
house and In tho name of humanity begged
for shelter-in the name of famine asked
for crust-in the name Of thirst imrlored
you for one drop Of weter-H You had
one crust of bread. II you had allowed your
roof to shelter her from the blasts of win.
ter ono moment, you, in tho State of ILL
nois, under . Democratic Law, could have
been indicted, fined and imprisoned
(Cheers. A voice-"True.r True, Of
course it 10 true; know what talk about
daughter. Now, then, my friends, think
Of that. That was the condition of youl
country whom tho Republican party came
into power.
Let me tell you some more. We had here
courts of justice, and yet . white man
could 20 into the hut of the negro, kill his
wife, murder his children before his Dyes,
strangle tho dimpled babe in the cradle
and yet the man who saw it could not &C
before grand jury and have the murderer
Court and give his evidence before petty
Jury when the murderer was on trial. No
matter if he could have brought into the
coust the corpse of his wife, the corpses OF
his children, and laid them down, Justice
would take no notice of them: He could
not, in the presence of the dead, tell the
court who committed that murder, and yet
We called that justice. Did you ever know
how devilish mean We used to be. Aud
if the Democratic party ever comes
in power 1ha1 viii be just - mean
converted. believe, my friends, in Jus.
tice that 10 blind, but do not believe in q
Justice that il deaf. want blind Justice;
that 10 don't want the Goddess to know
whether you are rich or poor. I want her
blind, 20 that she can not tell whether you
are dressed in fine linen or covered with
rags. I want her 90 blind that she can not
tell whether you arc black or white. want
her hearing 90 acute that in spite of al the
olsmor of party and power she can hear the
faintest wall Of the humblest citizen who is
being deprived Of his rights. What more, my
friendsi have said on several occasions
that this devilish, this hellish institution of
slavery not only corrupted the courts, not
only corrupted the parties, but corrupted
even the churches, and when have said
that cry of indignation and horror has
come up from the great, pious Democratic
party. There 10 vein of latent ana hith.
erto unexpected religion and piety in that
old rock-rbbed, putrescent Democratic
party. suppose have done more than
any man ever did in the United States be-
party. Since have made these remarks
some of the Democrats have spared %
much of the time - they could spare be-
tween drinks in quoting Scripture. There
has been . theological outburst. never
had supposed that the average Democrat
would know . family Bible from . mud
turtle, if he had met It on the road. But
it seems that for endless years have been
mistaken, and that the Democratic party
always was and always vii! be the defend
ers of pure and indebted Christianity, to.
and rebellion, and of the right of one man
to euslsve and steal the labor Of another.
say that the institution of slavery cor
rupted even tho churches, or many of them,
of tho United States; and in many pulpits
preachers have stood and defended the JUS
tioe of tho fugitive slsve law, and many
preachers have stood up and told these
poor suffering slaves that tho only right
they had In this world was to work for
nothing, and the only pay they ought to ex-
poet lashes upon their naked backs, aud in
the next wofld-there being Republican
Being in power there-they were to get
yon to honestly and fairly give the Repob-
fican party credit for all these reforms.
want you to credit the Republican party
with preventing the extension of slavery,
md want you to give credit to the Repub
lican party for keeping the bloc dhounds of
the free soil of the great republic. want
you to credit the Republican party with the
of human slavery, "the crime
If crimes" compared to which all other
crimes seem to be virtues. IA voice, 1.-The
,um Of human villainies."l Yes. sir, as
John Wesley says: Tho sum of human vii
ainies."
hold in contempt, utter and infinite, any
nan that pretends to own another man; l
f another despise the man that wishes
o rob the cradle of another; despise the
nan that is not willing to "hold his own
ow" in this world. ("Thst's right."J OF
curse it's right. One step further. The
Institution of slavery corrupted the South
IN people and the Northern Democratic |
arty to that extent, that they would rather |
ee the fabric of free government fall into |
ternal wreck and dust than to see the in |
titution of slavery put down and wiped
ut forever. say that the Southern PEG.
this nation. I say that they went into
ebellion to preserve the institution of slav. |
ry-not to preserve their own liberty, but |
. preserve the right to take away the |
berries of other men; and in order |
} preserve the right to take away |
ne liberties of other men, the South |
m people waged the most cruel war |
nat has ever been waged by civilized |
eople in civilized times. They resorted to |
lore frightful cruelties; they resorted to
lore h0rrid instrumentalities than any |
ther nation has resorted to in 1000 years.
nd they did it, not in defense of their own /
berties; they did it not in defense of the
berties of their own people; they did it
OF in defense of their country; not in de-
,nse of their State, but simply for the pur-
ose of preserving the right to steal that
ANS child, and to make that man work for /
lem, bending his naked back in the burn
q sun; and that they should have the
ght to pay him with stripes of q whip.
Ow, the meanest thing about all this is
lat the Northern Democratic party sym
athized with the South-that the Northern
emOcratic party had not even slavery to
ght for, recollect that. I can understand
by man goes into the pirating business;
by q man commits forgery. can under
and why men steal their money. 1t buys
lem certain pleasures, and they are usually
70 lazy to work. And when the Democratic
arty had been out of power for long time,
ICY had no office, and they must have
can understand that. But l
,ver could understand why Q Northern
emocrat would 90 into partnership with
0l6vcuOlU0ES huU E0Uc1o-luo AdG l
r to have all the profits and the former all
10 disgrace. l make, also, this further
stinction: / can understand why men
emit into the rebellion. They had to in or
u to defend themselves. As they said, in
der to defend the institution Of slavery.
hey had to say it was right, and to do SO
ey had to poison their own souls. They
ID to distort their own judgment. And
ey did poison their own souls, and they
d distort their Judgments until they swore
at slavery was right. Then the rebellion
can see how hundreds and
ousands of men were rushed into it-hOw
70 whirlwind. Their mothers, their fathers,