Year: 1867

was IL VINO gave you the right Of
suffrage? ["The Radicals."1 On
the other hand, who was il that
enslaved you for generations, that
bought you and sold you, that sep.
arated husband and wife, parent
and child2 ["Tho Democratic par
ty."1 When you have answered
these questions you will know how
to vote. Cries of "Yes,p "Yes," :"
and enthusiastic applause.


Again, further on in the course
ofthis address they use the follow
ing language:


"We hope that you will not al.
low yourselves to be deceived by
their false philanthropy, Tmean-
ing the Radicals


"We have no interests which are
in opposition to yours. We favor
your moral and intellectual cul.
ture, and stand ready to aid you.
according to our means and power,
in the attainment of those means
necessary for the we'll being Of all
men"


When was it, and how was It,
that they aided you in moral and
intellectual culture2 When was
it that they used their means or
employed their property for the
purpose Of giving you education :?
[Shouts of "Never, never."1 In
the slave States they showed their
great desire for your intellectual
and moral culture by prohibiting
you by law from learning to read
or write; by making it a criminal
offence and in some States a Peni-
tentiary offence, 10 teach a colored
man, woman, or child to read or
write. ["That's 'so."] You must
live in peace, on terms of kindness
and justice with these people, but
when you come to bestow polit-
ical power, be sure to bestow it on
your loyal friends. GCrics of ave
will, we will, "and great applause. I
If those who have not been your
friends, and who have not been
loyal ask you for your votes, you
must tell them to show their faith
by their works, and you must give
them time to establish to your en-
tire satisfaction the sincerity of
their repentance. Applause


Now, / will tell you whore your
true interests lie, and you under
stand this perhaps just as we'll as /
do-frst, in cultivating love and
an absolute devotion to the Union
Of these States. II was the Union
that gave you liberty, and the Un-
ion alone can preserve it. You
must encourage and protect immi-
grafton from the North and from
Europe. You must encourage all
mon to como among your and whom
l speak to you | am speaking to
the colored people of all the South
You must encourage them to come
among you; to take up their resi-
dence with you. They must have
absolute and perfect protection for
life, liberty and property. Above
all, you must encourage education.
If this generation is able to do moth
ing but to educate their children and
prepare them for their duties in
life, it will have done we'll. The
intelligence, the education of your
children must stand to them in
place of capital, in place of posi-
ton, in the place of worldly advan-
tages. In the Southern States,
your late masters own nearly all
the property but the colored peo.
pie, by industry, by intelligence
and by enterprise, must win for
themselves large portion of that
property hereafter.


II remarked in the beginning
that there was a mysterious provi.
dence in all the events of this war
Starting out to establish slavery
and make it perpetual, and with
the declaration that slavery was to
be the cornerstone of the new
confederation, it has resulted in
universal liberty and the acknowl-
edgment of those great truths Of
the Declaration of Independence
that all men are created equal and
endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienable rights, and that
among these are life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness. A war for
slavery led to war against slave
ry. The attempt to mako slavery
immortal gave it its mortal wound
The continued disloyalty of the
late rebels after the war was over,
led to the necessity for raising up
new loyal population that should
sustain the Government The re.
lection Of the constitutional amend
ment offered in 1866 as o basis Of
settlement to the rebel States led
to universal suffrage in 1867
[Great Applause.l


And now the great example
which has been set by the Con.
gress of the nation in establishing
universal suffrage in the late reb-
el States must prevail with the
NorthernStates where universal sui
frage does not yet exist. When the
Congress of the nation has given
suffrage to the colored men of the
plantations, it can not be refused
to the far better educated and
more intelligent colored men OF
the Northern States. When the
Representatives of the Northern
States have by their votes confer
red suffrage upon the colored mon
Of the Southern States and Of this
District. they can not deny it to
the small number of colored men
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