Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-04-26
Northern Love for the South.

We published last week som9 extracts from
the speeches delivered at tho meeting Of the
Union League in Philadelphia, to show the
intense luminosity the radicals Of Pennsylvania
cntertaia f,r their fellow citizens Of the South.
AS supplement thereto we publish to day
| samples OF tho letters received and read at the
meeting 10 New York, Wednesday night, 10
oolcc: funds for the destitute cmieraut negroes,
and which letters were received with rounds OF
applause:
Mr.. Wendell Phillips says ~ havo 10
words to defcrb5 what [ consider tho inpor.
lance Of your meeting. OnY two paths are
open to the coored man of the South. Ooe is
TO resist and protect themselves against iotcler-
able oppression by arms; the other is to leave,
ono halt of them, their homes, and teach their
oppressors justice by tho severe lesson of SUI
lcrpg. Leave the tyrants and DULLES to till
their own soil or starvo while they do nothing
but wrong and rob their laborers. Without
laborcis The southern acres asS worth nothing.
Even the southerner will come 10 bis senses,
or, if he never had any Sense, obtain some,
when be is starved. trust the North will, as
10 Kansas days. organize and help open chan-
nels pnd contribute means for large emgra-
ton from States ruled by thieves and cuttbroats
Wit know 20 means of getting their bread OK.
ccpt by robbing their neighbors."
flr William Lloyd Garrison Gays but,
gracious God is this widespreadog escape
ment from uncomfortable wrong and outrage TO
be treated as simply furnishing an occasion for
the exercise Of benevolent spirit toward our
suffering fellow creatures ? IF they are deserv.
ing CT tho deepest administration, what shall
be said OF those by whom they have been
'pcclel, melted out and trodden under foot =
II there is scope for tender pity on the oue
hand, is there not also for intense moral in@g
patton on the other? No such stress of cir.
cunstancas should have been possible under
The Ams1lc3n government; nor could 1t baye
occurred if we had lad such government,
worthy OF its 1ame,its pretensons and It's claims
TO universal allegiance. But so lar as the
South is concerned it is practically non existent
in the matter OF securing life, liberty and the
pursuit. Of hapI iocss' to all who dwell Oh its
soil as natural and lawful right. There con.
spiracy and u5urpation successfully bear sway.
In all the late rebel States there solrcely cXis.E
single legitimate State administration; for no
election has been permitted without being COD.
,roIIed moro or less by fraud, Intimidation and
Isalessuesa. The two senators from South
Carolina, at Washington, Hampton aud Butler.
arc occupying seats to which they were not
honestly elected, and their faces should become
crimson every time they enter the Senate.
IF they had their deserts, instead of presenting
their trszsn vsages in the Capitol, Hampton
would be 10 the penitentiary and Hamburg
Massacre Butler lying 10 grave Of intamy,
according as crimes are adudged and punished
10 civilized community. The political party
now lmidIy claiming to BIO righlfully 10 the
ascendant in both houses OF Congress owes its
supremacy solely 10 the support Of solid
South, made such by terrorism. fraud and
nurderous violence, aud by that solid South
it is ruld as atjtct|y az vas ever plantation
slave uuder The lash Of slave driver. II is
cloar, therefore. that the battle Of liberty and
equal rights is to be fought over again, not in
party sense 10 the ordinary use Of that term,
hut by tho uprising apd consolidating OF a 10y.
al, freedom loving North. overwhelming 10
numbers. determined 10 purpose, ilViucib!o 10
action and supreme 10 patriotism based upon
impartial justics and an all embracing citizen
shin ~