Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-07-26
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We have tried waiting long enough,
and we have waited in vain.
Then again, there is another key
education. | am a believer in the
broadcast and most liberal education
of the people; and | was sorry when
for the first time in twenty-five years
revisited the South two years ago
not to have found more evidences of
the extension of school-houses than
on the occasion when was there be-
fore. Let us see school-hOuses aris-
ing on all hands, and let us see them
visited by all the children of the
community, getting the benefits of
an education.
hope much from the business de-
velopments of the entire country.
! find that the interchange of trade
and commerce between the North
and South, will go far towards, in
time, remedying this great trouble.
But it must not be forgotten that
there were full and generous business
relations between the North and
South prior to 1861; but that was
in itself no remedy for the evils that
fell upon US.
Another thing from which l hope
much is from the decay of bitter feel
ing, which, regret to say, still ex-
lists in the South towards the North.
You charge the North with having
that feeling tow ards the South; but,
gentlemen, you are vastly mistaken.
1t does not exist. The North simply
contends for fair play, and 1 chal-
lenge you as honest men whether
our proclamations and prayers in
the past have not been in behalf of
life and liberty and law, no matter
who was benefited by it. But there
are things taking place that make
us feel that the old sentiments are
not dying out, as they ought to
have died out. | think that this
country would have more confidence
in you than it has to-day, if the flag
of common country had been per-
mitted to wave at a recent Virginia
celebration rather than to have had
the stars and bars far outnumber
it.
Let us be candid about this, gen
tlemen. These things cannot longer
exist in this country. The stars and
the bars cannot be worshipped in
this land any more, and ought not
to be Haunted in the face of any citi-
zen. say to you my fellow-citizens,
that you cannot afford TO mass in
serried columns men in gray uni
forms as you have Just done in this
country. 1t is not needed in say
ing this l do not ask you, am not
foolish enough, or blind enough, or
weak enough to ask you TO forget
the tender relations that existed be-
tween you and your comrades in the
past. That, no man asks or desires
/ could not ask any gentleman to
forget the men that fell fighting by
his side in a common cause, whether
the cause was right or wrong. / do
not appeal for that. There is much
chat you can do, and can see and feel
Co which will respond amen" or
be silent.
But / must enter my earnest and
solemn protest against being told
that we need a new North, when the
relics of the dangerous South are vet
Haunted in the face of the Republic.
Applause on the Republican side.
| have often listened with more
than rapture to the eloquent words
that have fallen from the lips of that
representative of old Erin who hon.
ors this House with his presence; but
it panied me this morning to hear
the eloquent gentleman from New
Jersey Mr.. MCADoo] shout "Liber.
ty, liberty, liberty" TO rally the vo
tiers on both sides of this Chamber
against the passage of law which
only seeks that liberty may live il
this country. | could not but thinl
of the words of Edmund Burk,
when my friend made his eloquent
peroration:
Ny vigor reIents pardon something to tn
spirit of liberty.
My feelings take that charitabl,
form for Il moment.
But then | could not but feel that
poor, blind John Milton anticipated
the rallying cry of the gentleman
from New Jersey, when he said;
License they mean when they cry liberty. -
Applause on the Republican side.
And he again reminded me of tn,
last words of Madame Roland, wheI
on the scaffold she cried:
Oh. Liberty. Liberty how many crimes ar
committed in thy nameg
Applause on the Republican side.
All, gentlemen. you may cry liber
ty, but in the States from whenc
many of you come the words O
Goldsmith, whom my friend of pure
celtic blood should reverence, tn
great author of ''The Deserted Vii
lage" and other beautiful themes
that reach the hearts of the poor
whether Iblack or white, are but to,
true.
Laws grind the poor. and rich men rule IL
few.
That is the liberty that you, III,
eloquent friend, appeal for at thi
hour when you oppose this bill.
In conclusion, | will quote the Scot
fish bard, in connection with the e.
forts to pass this law; mean tina
simple bard whose heart never faile
to beat for the poor, Robbie Burns
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