The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-23
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next fifty years? Don't try to crowd
you will be proud of what we have
accomplished and of the fact that it
was the martyred president who gave
us the opportunity"
Edgar lin Speaks.
In his address Mr.. Tiff praised the
steps the German settlers of this coun-
try had taken to help nberate the
slaves and pleaded for justice In treat
ment of the colored people, asking
that race prejudice be banished in all
! dealings. Mr.. lifts address follows:
! "Fifty-two years ago today Lincoln
| issued his Proclamation Of Emancipa-
ton. Two hundred and twenty-six
years ago today, on September %,
town, Pennsylvania, issued the first
protest against the institution of slav-
cry. The German has always opposed
slavery, and our Civil war, the out
come Of which made possible the lib
! Grafton of the slave was largely par
ticipated in by the Germans on the
side of the Union.
| This is not an address on Germany,
but tribute to liberty and you can
never speak of liberty and leave the
| German out.
Lincoln was surrounded by enemies
at home and abroad. The two great
nations now trying to strangle Ger
many made every effort to destroy
the American republic. They hated
| free government. They despised our
institutions. They put every obstacle
in the way of our progress. Gladstone
| favored the South and eulogized JEFF
| ferson Davis. He declared that the
! North was fighting for empire and the
South for liberty. The Marquis Of
| Salisbury said: 1.-The people of the
South are the natural allies of Eng
| land. The North keeps an opposition
shop to our business and Injuries our
trade" Other English statesmen de-
clared that the defeat of the South by
/ the North would be calamity to the
world l say here tonight, that had
| the South won, this would be British
| American and human slavery would
| have extended from the Ohio river to
South America, all under English rule.
English revenge for the loss of her
| American colonies would have been
sweet.
Napoleon Sneered.
Louis Napoleon emperor of France,
Succlc dC U.s. I1c uuucl IOOh, uAACl
| the influence of English diplmoacy, to
| set up monarchy in Mexico in order
that he might help destroy the great
| loyal North.
But the German adherence of
| slavery not only threw all German
| Americans on the side of the North in
support of Lincoln but the German
nation gave solid sympathy and gold.
The German people took up our bonds
literally.
| There were two hundred thousand
German-born soldiers in the Union
army. Ten thousand went out from
Indiana. The Irish, who abhor slavery
| in every form, and who have from the
earliest times fought valiantly for
| America, sent over one hundred and
fifty thousand Erin-born patriots into
the Union ranks, five thousand of
whom went from Indiana.
$50, in celebrating Emancipation
Day, let us remember that emancipa-
ton, like the quality of mercy, is
twice blessed; it blesseth him that
gives and him that takes Let us re-
member that when we give others
liberty we are building stronger the
ramparts of our own liberty and that
when we deny liberty to others we
are forging chains for our own bond
age.
Prejudice Still Rules.
Emancipation means setting free.
| We celebrate this day because Lincoln
! set four millions of slaves free. But
! we are facing the need of a higher
| emancipation, the liberation from the
! power of prejudice. So long as we
are influenced in our judgment of
others by prejudice, racial political,
| social and religious, so long are we in
| bondage. There is no law by which
we can compel another man to respect
us. There is no law by which we can
make any man render an unprejudiced
| judgment. No stroke of the pen or
proclamation of emancipation can set
! tie this. Man is his own star, and the
soul then can render an honor and
| perfect judgment, commands all light,
all influence, all fate. Our acts our
| angels are, or good or i'll, our fatal
| shadows that walk by us still
THE history of man is the story of
conquest and slavery The strong
have always tried to monopolize all of
the fruits of earth and control the
! masses in their very thoughts and as
pirations But in the very worst
periods nature nurtures some great
soul who is to lead the people to the
hill-tOps Of liberty. The most brutal
decade in American history is from
1850 to 1860. Slavery had reached its
acme as the sum of all villanies.' He'll
had bound the slave. now it poured it's
venom upon the Catholics.
Conduct Questionable.
Let us see. In a population of
twenty millions we had four million
slaves under the control of three hun
dred and forty-seyen thousand owners.
We cant understand how our fathers
could raise one hand in tribute to
human liberty and smite the slave
| with the other. We can't comprehend
how they raised both hands to heaven
and praised God for His divine bless
ing of liberty and then used these
same hands to rivet the chains upon
the bondman. No. And perhaps our
posterity will fair to understand us in
the things we are doing.
The Catholic priest and the church
| never refused absolution to the bonds
| man as we'll as the freeman. Bitter
prejudices were aroused. Catholics