Year: 1866

mltted she Will check the wheels OF
Government, and bring about repudia.
ton. Then she will withdraw from the
Government and defy the nation to
borrow money to put her down. Con
gress and the President are against US.
Where are the men in Congress who
led US in 1864 and 1862 They are
silent, because they are afraid to invite
opposition at home. Congress is weak.
1t is our duty before the next election
to teach the masses that it is our right
and duty to hold over the South the
power to promote education and equal
ity. The war, however, is constitutional,
and under that power Congress has the
right to see that the nation is saved.
The war is not over; the epoch is not
ended the nation is still struggling to
be unit; we gain by half inches, while
we seem to gain by feet but the tide is
not TO be checked. Let Congress enact,
and let the full swing of the war power
continue. Mr. Phillips alluded to the
laws of Mississippi, in relation to bind


ing out negroes, and said they were
only slaves. H continued: Some men
call this incendiary talk but talk 9th
erwise and you lose the benefits of the
battle. If the people meant that their
children should win the battle, when
they meet in the field again they must
go down, if they are destined to 60
down, with the banner of absolute JUS
tice waving over them. When history
writes the fate of the nation it must say
that absolute Justice was the only cure
for the national hurt. The cause of
nationality for the future rests upon
the negro. Book education is indis-
pensably necessary for the race
1t must be brought under the guild
ance and influence of Northern jour
mails. The South said that the dead
weight of the poor white and the negro
should be the iasis of a Southern oil
garchy; and this conviction must be re-
moved from the Southern mind. The
rebellion grew out of one idea, that
the word republican, in an American
sense, meant the absolute freedom of
every citizen before the law. One thing
had been settled, and that was, that
this country is a country where every
man is a man before the law. Lowell
had said: "Make man and let him
be" and that was the sentiment of the
idea out of which the war came. The
nation has a right to protect schools
forever even down to New Orleans.
South Carolina must not be shut up
like China and Japan, against the edu
cational influences of the North. Mas
sachusetts must not be debarred from
going down there to speak as they may
choose to do Congress has the consti-
tutienal right to carry the school-house
wherever the ballot has been set up.
Suffrage is forty times better than that
antiquated symbol of education, Har-
ward College Applause. Ballot
boxes must be scattered all over the
land. The nation can not put away
jeff Davis or Governor Aiken with his
ignorance. They must be accepted as
necessary evils. Labor must he har
monized in the South by putting Yam
kee, with a full head of brains and a
pocket-full of greenbacks, beside the
negro and the poor white. That having
been done, jeff Davis may whistle in
vain TO the end of the chapter. As
long rs the tide of emigration from the
South to the West continued recon
struction would be impossible. Brains
and capital must go back to the South.
Civilization alone can perfect the great
work of reconstruction. The South
knows her need. Sherman has
turned her over forty miles
wide and she knows and feels
her desolation. If Massachusetts,
would empty her products on the
Alabama as she does on the Illinois, re-
construction would soon begin to come.
But the South will not let her do so.
Politics and finance, and that "snag,"
the Supreme Court will not let her do
it. No oman knows which door we will
go out of, but all the elemental forces
are behind as, and with the ballot the
school house and the sword, the work
of reconstruction must 60 on. That is
the only way it can be effected. Con-
gress feels weak. 1t means well. 1t
does not intend to quail under Presi-
dental dictatioE, but the people should
continue to believe that there is only
one safe way to settle the question, and
that is by holding the sword of revolu-
tionary right over the South. Without
doing that, all efforts at reconstruction
must prove a failure. Any man who
supposed that the transition State had


closed is mistaken. The nation is still
struggling for its life. The lash is still
being used in the South. The slave
oligarchy still insist upon ruling the
nation. In conclusion, he would ime
press upon the mind of every aboli-
ZIONIST that the revolution is still in
progress, and must be fought until the
nation is securely fixed upon the foun-
dation of absolute justice. ToCongress
he would say, if you can safely remain
in session, remain so forever, but when
eyer you act, and whatever you do, see
that the nation is saved