St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-31
GRAND WORDS FROM BEECHER.
The Strong and Just Man Cleveland the
Impartial Servant Of the People.
Review of the Results of Emancipation
and its Consequences.

| heV1SW Oh Cnc results OF EInauclpdIiOn
| and its Consequences.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 30.-Henry Ward
| Beecher lectured to large audience here to-
night. In the Courier-J ournal tomorrow
Mr.. Beecher will say: LET me state ex-
phcitly my views of the past and present re-
lations of the colored people. First.-The
state of slavery in the South before the war,
with all its softening features, was evil and
only evil, both in its effects upon the blacks
and whites alike, and was, on the whole,
both in morals and in political
economy, exceedingly bad. A terrible price
| was paid for the destruction of the slave
system, but it was worth to prosperity hun
| dred times what it cost. Second, the putting
| of the vote into the hands of an ignorant
race, was an astounding event in political
history. 1t came not from the belief of their
fitness for suffrage, but from the convic-
! ton that it was necessary for
their defense. The tentative legislation
of some Southwestern states which under
the form of vagrancy laws sseemed intended
to subject the colored people to essential
slavery again, alarmed the North and led to
this defensory legislation. But
AUDACIoUs WAS THAT FAITH
in liberty and suffrage which led the West
and the North to give full citizenship and
political power to the emancipated.
The result has shown that the
colored people have not misused
that power. / must say that the colored
voting since the war has been fully as wise
as the white voting was before the war. The
colored people of the South, after becoming
| moi mischief
for they intended well; not their fault that
many of the as dodw 19dtC
RESULTS WERE EVIL.
1t was bad enough for the white citizens
to see late slaves led by foreign influence.
1t might be political necessity, but it was
not any the less a thing grevous ia
| be borne by their white fellow citizens. But
when emancipated were largely in excess of
| the white voters, it amounted in fact to the
subsection of the white people to the legisla-
| ton of the colored and in those states where
| legislatures were in power OF
the late slaves and where Northern
men, not always the wisest,
| led them on to foolish and wasteful legisla-
ton, increasing taxation and squanderng
| the results of it, plunging the state deeply
into debt by the unmerciful issue of bonds,
| it is not to be wondered at that something
! like
| REVOLUTIONARY METHODS
were adopted, aud that self-defense led men
| to violent resistance. Third, when at a
| little later period history no longer
under the influence of violent ard heated
passions, shall set in impartial judgment
upon this whole movement of the past quar-
ter of a century, two results will stand out
prominently:
| mt. 1,,of Of ell
lation, being industrious, orderly, humane
and PEACEFUL their great bravery when the
North made them part of the army; their
general good conduct when peace
was established, and their thirst
| for education as an Indispensable
condition of good citizenship. Their future
| NAV not be what we predict, but 1t will be-
suspicious.
second-The remarkable conduct of the
| white population Of the South hurled froH9
| political power, defeated in war, wasted ing
all resources, wounded in every HOUSEHOLD by.
loss of husband, son and father, all in j.;
! dustries subverted and to be refunded on az
new basis, and worse than all, to see their
late slaves changing place with the masters
and holding the reins of legislation under
foreign leadership.
| i. Is it wonderful that at such revolution,
| couvulson rather, Southern citizens often
mistook the way Of duty and that some
RUDE REMEDIES OF VIOLENCE
were practied; thse some counter methods
of violence were attempted. These things
are not TO be justified, but is 1t not now
matter of transcendent wonder that the evils
were so few and that the patience and self
| control Of the Southern people so soon re-
adjusted their whole industrial and civil
| economy
| / glory in history which with all its in,
frmities and blemishes presents to the world
the most notable instance Of the force Of
self-goyernment that has ever occurred in
history. On one or two points allow me TO
be explicit / do not think 1t wise that
whites and blacks
SHOULD MIX BLOOD,
vet it is their right and liberty TO do 30 ifr
thew choose. But il is 10 be discouraged on r
the grounds of humanity. The slaves are
free: they must come under the universal !
law. As to their social position, no legisla-
ton can put ignorance and knowledge on a :
level, Incidence and industry, virtue and !
vice, rudeness and refinement. The house
hold is To be
FREE TO CHOOSE Or REFUSE
its company; no obstruction should be put
in the path Of education All opportunities
for Development should be sacredly kept open
TO every class, every encouragement given
To industry, wealth, refinement and good
citizenship After that, society must be free,
so far as legislation is concerned, to
choose its own partnerships. And now
that q new era and REIMBURSEMENT Of all
national questions has been reached
am for the welfare Of an undivided nation,
and belong in detail TO that party which
shall best serve the interests Of the whole
land. / am not slave Of either. Party is
my servant. ] am not its slave. The ad-
IniDistration with that
STRONG AND JUST MAN,
Cleveland, at its head has my hearty support
and my full confidence; not because 1t Is
Democratic, but because It is national, pa
triotic and adapted TO the exigencies OF the
hour Should It fail in its national duty
shall still seek the honor and welfare Of this
nation, bat by another road.