Year: 1866

sheathed. Every citizen of Massachu-


sets should have the constitutional


right to teach the colored people of


South Carolina. Education is not all.


We can't get rid of Jefferson Davis,


er of the FIVE thousand poisoned chal-


ices of the Southern people. We
can't get rid of this hatred of igno-


rance. What are we to do ? Put in


the one hand their prejudices, and in


the other forty-acre farms, with Yam


kee ingenuity and the black mans la


Dor, aud the latter will triumph. Now,


the South cannot be invaded with the


elements of immigration, and as long
as that is true, reconstruction is inn


possible. The true plan was to have


left the army in the South, and trans
fer the North to the couth. The
army has come home but the men


must go back. The South needs


money is desolate and poor The


North stands eager to give it, know
ing that there is either one hundred
or two hundred per cent. on her capi-


tai, If the South will let her invest
her wealth there. But the South


makes it impossible, and the Southern


States remain desolated. The South
visits Washington and says that if her
Representatives are not admitted she
will check the wheels of Government
and bring about reputation. Then
she will withdraw from the Govern
ment, and defy the nation to borrow
money to put her down. Congress
and the President are against us
Where are the men in Congress who
led us in 1864 and 1865? They are
silent, because they are afraid to in
'vite 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 equality. 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 f; the nation is
still struggling to be a unit we gain
by half inches. while we seem to gain
by feet but the tide is not to be
checked. Let Congress enact, aud let
tho full swing of the war power con-
tinue. Mr.. Phillips alluded to the
laws Of Mississippi, in relation to
binding out negroes, and said they
were only slaves. He continued
Some men call this incendiary talk =
but talk otherwise 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
destin"d 20 70 q 90 down, with the banner
When history writes the rate 81 INC
nation il must say that absolute justice
was the only cnro for the national
hurt. The cause of nationality for
the future rests dpon the negro. -
Book education is indispensably nee
essary for the race. 1t must be
brought under the guidance and iilflu-
ence Of Northern journals. The
South said that the dead weight of
the poor white and the negro should
be the basis of Southsrn oligarchy
and this conviction must be removed
from the Southern mind. The re-
bellion 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 country where
every man is man before the law.
Lowell had said MAKE man and
let him be-" and that was the senti-
ment 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 np like China and japan,
against the educational influences OF
North. Massachusetts must not be
debarred from going down there to
speak as they may choose to do
Congress has the constitutional right
to carry the school house wherever
the ballot has been set up. Suffrage
is forty times better than that antigua
ted symbol Of education, Harvard Col
lege. Applause ] Ballot-boxes must
be scattered over the land The ma
ton can not put away jeff Davis
or Governor Aiken with his Ignorance.
They must be accepted as necessary
evils. Labor must be- harmonized in
the South by putting a Yankee, with
a full head Of brains and 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
as the tide. of emigration from the
Sout to the West continued reconstruc-t
ton would be- impossible. Brains and
capital must 60 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 TIC lllnOlS, TttOnctiuetiou WO"i'
soon begin to come. But the South


will not let her do so. Politics and


fidence aud that snag," the Supreme
Court, will not let her do it. No man


knows which door we will get out of,


but all the elemental forces are be-


hind us, and with the ballot, the


school house, and the sword, the work
of reconstruction must go on. That


is the only way in which it can be. Of


fected. Congress feels weak. 1t


means well. 1t does not intend to


quail under Presidential dictation,


but the people should continue TO be-


lieve that there is only one safe way


to settle the question, and that is by


holding the sword of revolutionary


right over the South Without doing


that, all efforts at reconstruction must