Year: 1867

He is MET AT MONTGOMERY, ALA, BY SOUTHERN


sPEAKBRs-vOTE OF THE NEGROES TAKEN AT


THE CLOSE OF THE DEBATE-THEY DECLARE


UNANIMOUSLY FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.


MONTGOMERY, Ala, May 12.-On the trip from
Wilson had the Opportunity Of looking into
the faces of white audiences If not a relief to
trains stopped for two hours at West Point,
on the Chatlahoochee river, which has become
historical as the place where the last engage
ment in the late war was fought. The earth
works were carried by General Wilson'S
cavalry after Lees surrender.


When the pref ence of Senator Wilson became
known the usual request for speech was made
and Mr.. Wilson asSented, for he rarely refuses
such request. He was conducted to q loft
alternately used for cotton storing and travel
ling theatricals, and there he held forth for an
hour to about two hundred whites and some
dozen blacks. He was catechized somewhat
about antinegro laws and customs in the
missed reform. Nothing offensive was said
done on either side, and the threat of condi-
tional conhscation was not limited at


ARRIVAL. AT MONTGOMERY, ALA


On his arrival in Montgomery, accompanied
by General Swayne, Military Commandant. he
was escorted TO the hotel by q procession OF
negroes, with music and torchlights.


Yesterday he addressed the people here from
the eastern portico of the State House. The
negroes were present in large numbers. The
coiored women seem as much interested in
politics as the men, and always attend these
meetings; do the children, all the way up
from babyhood. There were probably one nun



through curiosity to see and hear Wilson


MR.. WILSON'S SPEECH. ....
During the past years, he said, the people OF the
Of their children like rains for preserva.
tCn Of the life of the nation menaGed by gigantic
The people the Rebel States who had fought tor four
respec S@ SSt e Ss


eges Of the millions made tree Abraham Lincoln the
camatiOn Of emancipation, had & pledged before the
faith OF the country @ that the liberties Of these emSn
cipated bondmen should be maintained by the a9tho-
pledge made in a solemn moment of the countrys
history registered by the recording sngel lived In
resolved, come what might TO them, they would


He trusted that Alabama would put her govern
ment in tho hands Of men who would build upon the
Into the National councils men who would feel speak
Snd made tbeP ire country forever free country He
did not speak merely as partisan He believed that
ateS 5 rebellion Should take their places with one


6s Other III the OF ns great ana @
sectional objects and purposes; should disappear
ing the sublime creed Of human equality was the
party Of patriotism Of equal liberty; impartial jus;
development. During the twelve years Of its exist


It had carried the dag and kept step to- the music OF
the Union. II came Into being 70 preserve the vast
sonnSy SGiSf T:o Il lifted tSs country up 50 high IN
power n V9Or tnas IL eGmmanded m % i0 the
offepubllcan liberty all over the globe were ddotnE
and commencing her example. Whatever might
come, he had no doubt that the men who had
carried the country through the last six years would
hereafter for years 70 come control the policy and
direct the councils OF the republic. The who had
fou Rht against the country 70 maintain slavery and
sympathiEed with those who fought against the
try could expect hereafter to control the country
they had struggled to destroy The power of the
Southern States had passed away with their ideas.
The Government OF the country was passing rapidly
from the people of the ATLANTIC States, North and
who were radical radicals, He thought however
that within two or three years those states lately 10
Rebellion would be the most radical states OF the
Union, The needs OF states require many changes,
and much radical legislation. There would be here
a radical progressive party, and reactlOuary that
would linger among Che recoiectons of the past II
required little foresight TO see that the progres.
siVe radical reformatory men OF the late slave hold
ing States would control the future There those
who Thought that the Government OF the United
States and the people Of the North were Imposing
hard conditions upon these States.


He trusted God that the people of all these States
lately in rebellion would strive bury the bitter
memories of the past conflicts, enter upon q new
system turn their backs upon their fatal policies Of
the past and move on In harmony with the people Of
the loyal States. and that the men of the North aud
of the South, OF the East and OF She West bufying
OF sight the pTejudices and the pessons engen-
dered By the rrepressible conflict between freedom
| and slavery, would hereafter stand shoulder to
shoulder and contend only in generous rivalry for
united republic and for the equal rights and equal
privileged in and in fact, OF all the citizens Of
ADaRRmAnity VIII bless kRch eDeElss Nh