Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-07-17

It will be published in weekly INSTALL
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CONTINUED from last week.
It is the South. to which the term
Negro batting" is applied in the
speech deemed orthodox; although out
lawing by reiterated statute; interdic-
tion Of fire and water. prohibition Of
power to contract; liberty to work fol-
daily bread, must have been conceived
not to be "Negro-baiting." None can
say the right to work was ever denied
the negro in the South. While north
of the Ohio, he was not allowed TO work
or to live; in the South. he was not on
~ allowed but If it be preferred to 50
express it, constrained to work. For
him the problem of the unemployed
did NOT exist; for him the Poor House
did not exist; but the old age persior
did exist The roof over his head he
would never lack. I'VE hold you up
to the execration of mankind" the
North said to the South, for failing
to set free instsnter, race, not one
member of which we suffer to
come within our boundaries. We
visit you with anathema for failing to
impose upon yourselves an evil, which
we, by our constitutions, and laws in
pursuance thereof, declare to be in
tolerable for ourselves. No gloss was
then. nor has since been shown to make
the paradox seem reasonable the in
sistance on the rights of Man" for
the negro in the South; the denial of
every right of man for the negro in the
North, including the primitive right
and duty under Divine commanded
wo. k; the declaration of rights of man
for the negro in the South, where the
north had no right to interpose; the de-.
NAL of all rights to the negro in the
north, Were the north was absolute in
the premises. -
With these things transpiring in the
very year Of Lincoln's Proclamation,
how are we to account for the zeal to
destroy root and branch the common
wealths Of the South; because as was
said at the time, they would not re.
spond to the Divine Command; LET
my people go" Where coald "my
people" go? We must believe that in
giving their whole thought to the sins
of others the friends of 'thuman rights
left no time for their own.
What was the tenor and effect of the
proclamation issued in September 1862,
as necessary war measure? By this
in portions Of the country called rebel
!ious, slaves were made free, unless by
the first of January. 1868, said COM
munities ceased to rebel. Slave owner
ship was to be the reward of loyalty;
slave abolition the penalty of rebel
lion. On another occasion it seemed to
me relevant to ask: After this offer
had been made and rejected, who had
a right to say; that the South was
fighting for slavery, or Lincoln for
freedom?
Before single Border State seeded
the Morrill, tariff had proclaimed, that
the power to tax the plantations of the
South for the factories of the North,
had been captured as the booty of a
geographical preponderance. The way
to make the majority permanent was
to make it geographical. In the exc
cution of this plan their would be no
consent of the governed, but only the
futile fiction Of consent. Under forms
of law but by abuse of power would be
forced upon half the Union spoliation
by the other. The plan to legislate
with a geographical discrimination cali
ed on force to fulfill the office of con-
sent.
The saying attributed to Lincoln by
his admirers; that no man is good
enough to govern another man with
out his consent was repudiated in the
most important event Of his life It
| was Dean Swift the tory, who said
Government without the consent Of
the governed is the very definition OF
slavery" Upon this in a history late
| " published. the historian (Fletcher)
makes. this comment-'tQ Quite untrue,
when such government is for the good
of people unable to govern itself"
qualification accepted by this country
in dealing with Filipinos. To them, the
heirs of abolition have felt forced t.
say: Unfit as you are to govern
yourselves. You must be governed by
us, who by lawful purchase have &C,
quired dominion over you. We are
quite good enough to govern you with
out your consent. Providence and pur
chase have united to this endp' This
at least, is worthy of all acceptatioD
Liberty cannot be handed as Christ.
mas gift by any parliament to any PEG
pie. On the bill to make citizens Of Port,
Rico citizens of the United States, Mr..
Cannon. (of Illinoisl ON the 4th O
March 1912, said in the House; Il d
not believe. considering that they arr
20 degrees north Of the equator: con
sidering all Of the conditions with Haiti
San Domingo, Central America an,
elsewhere, that they are competent fo
| self government. z On May 18th, 191;
Mr.. Sherwood (of Ohio stated in til,