Year: 1866

Three rouslng cheers were given for Gen.


eral Butler.


TheGeneral then argued at great length
the status of the rebel States and contras.


ted the Presidential and Congressional


policies.


THE EMANCIPATION OF ALL sLAVEs-REPRE-


sENTATIoE WITHOUT TAXATION.


Now, then, the emancipation of all the
slaves came. If we admit these South
ern States with their emancipated slaves,
without any amendment to the Constitu-
ton. it will operate in this way, that,
whereas, the master was not allowed to
| vote but for three-ifths ofhis slaves, now,
they being free, all are to be counted !;
and as, by. the laws made for slavery,
they are not allowed to vote, and the
master represents them, he will, as free
man, have fve-ffths of them, or the
whole.


Is that all2 Not quite. As told you,
by the old Constitution, he was to pay
three-ffths of the taxes, but now, they
having become citizens for this purpose
having become free citizens, for this pur-
pose their taxes are assessed on them
selves, and the original master shirks
three ffths of the taxtion so that, five let
him back with the Constitution unmend-
ed, he gains two-ffths in representation
and he personally gets rid of three-ffths
of taxation; and that is what l call rep
resentation without taxation. Laughter
and cheers.


TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.


We hear great deal about taxation
without representation. What is the
taxation We propose to put on these meni
We will allow them to be represented
when they are fit to be represented
Take the man who is shut up in the peni-
tentiary. He has committed some great
crime; therefore he cannot be represen-
ted. Therefore does his property escape
tsxationI By no means. And so with
these men. Until they get released from
the penalties of their treason and rebel
lion they can have no representation, and
they must pay such proportion of the
taxation as we choose to put upon them.
Cheers. And they ought not to grum-
bic at that, because we captured all they
had; We captured them, their rights and
their property.


REBELS NOT TO HOLD OFFICE.


The next proposition of Congress is,
that no man shall ever hold Office under
the United States who, having sworn q
solemn oath TO heaven that he would sup
port the Constitution of the United States,
thereupon went into the ranks of the
enemies of the United States, and fought
against that Constitution which he swore
to support. Voice-"That's it ;" cheers.
l agree that's it; and let US examine who
has any right to complain, for 1, for one,
am not quite satisfied with that. l will
tell you who has the right to complain,
because this is all the penalty. all the
punishment, that Congress proposes to
put on these rebels for this war that has
cost so many hundreds of thousands of
lives and SO many millions of money.


WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO COMPLAIN.


The bereaved father whose first born
sleeps in the swamps of Chickamauga,
the mother whose cherished one lies in
the hills of Gettysburg. or the wife whose
husband sleeps in the banks of the James
around Richmond; they have the right
to say to Congress is this all, all the
penalty that you propose for all these
murders, and all these, our losses, all this
loss of blood and treasure 7 Is it for the
men of the South, is it for their Northern
sympathizers, is it for them to complain
that these perjured men who have for
sworn themselves once, are by the act of
the Congress of the United States pre-
vented from having ever another oppor-
tunity to perjure themselves again p
Cheers.


NEGRO EQUALITY.


They tell you that we are in favor of
negro equality that we want to marry
the negro, or that the negro wants to
marry some of US, Well, let me tell you
that so far as this question of all the re-
suits of marriage, except form, the place
to find out about that is to GO South
Laughter.


But we will not discuss that. The
question IS of negro equality. Now, 1 |
am not one of those that are afraid of
negro equality, and for this reason l don't |
believe that the negro will be my equal
without he is my equal, and if God has
made him my equal, or my superior. then
| am coward to prevent his being so by
making any law. Cheers. "That is So"
And whenever you hear man prating
about negro equality and insisting that
the negro will be made his equal, let me
tell you that the man doubts little in
'ide of him whether the negro isn't the
better man of the two. Laughter and
cheers.


The negro will take exactly that place,
or which he is designed. He will take
hat situation for which he is suited, and
hat will not be in Missouri, Indiana or
ohio. .-..-


You were told, you remember, and
hat was the natural and inevitable con-
that if the war went on and
he negroes were freed that they would
,ome North and take all the labor out of
he hands of the white man. Wasn't
,ou told that over and over again at the
of the WARP The negro was
made free, and he has no sort of inten-
ion of going North.> Why2 Because
he sun shines there three or four months
n the year, and he has no intention
If coming in that direction at ALL
de had his home, his associations, his
,oof tree, humble as it was, his all in the
south, and to a warm cline he naturally
and l don't know but what
he master can oppress him down there
am not certain that you cannot put
wrongs and injuries and burdens enough
lpon him to force him North; but in the
Southern States if as free negro he has
MS full rights there, as in Massachusetts,,
Tou would see a stream of them oomin z
,ut of Canada longer than you ever saw
stream going the other way; so that
his question of labor has been an entire
ttempt to mislead.
The negro dosen't propose to do any
hing except to be let alone, and when
nan says that he requires this or requires
hat, he only requires to have fair play
nd equality of protection under the laws;
nd when in the series of years that are
oming he gets educated, and shows him
elf fit for any place, that place he will
lold, and all the powers of hell and De-
nocracy can't prevail against him; that
1ill be settled. Cheers.
change In the Fashions in


France.