It is nothing against this reasoning that all men who vote are not good men or good citizens. It is true that they fought side by side in the loyal cause with our gallant and patriotic white soldiers, and that, but for their help,--divided as the loyal States were,--the Rebels might have succeeded in breaking up the Union, thereby entailing border wars and troubles of unknown duration and incalculable calamity. Request Permissions. "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage" in The Atlantic Monthly, 19 (January, 1867) Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876) My Escape from Slavery (1881) . The young men of the South burn with the desire to regain what they call the lost cause; the women are noisily malignant towards the Federal government. Anaphora. But of this let nothing be said in this place. 112-117. He is a man, and by every fact and argument by which any man can sustain his right to vote, the negro can sustain his right equally. They are too numerous and useful to be colonized, and too enduring and self-perpetuating to disappear by natural causes. It may be traced like a wounded man through a crowd, by the blood. Yet the negroes have marvellously survived all the exterminating forces of slavery, and have emerged at the end of two hundred and fifty years of bondage, not morose, misanthropic, and revengeful, but cheerful, hopeful, and forgiving. A character is demanded of him, and here as elsewhere demand favors supply. or will you profit by the blood-bought wisdom all round you, and forever expel every vestige of the old abomination from our national borders? The answers to these questions are too obvious to require statement. endobj These facts speak to the better dispositions of the human heart; but they seem of little weight with the opponents of impartial suffrage. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Is the existence of a rebellious element in our borderswhich New Orleans, Memphis, and Texas show to be only disarmed, but at heart as malignant as ever, only waiting for an opportunity to reassert itself with fire and sworda reason for leaving four millions of the nations truest friends with just cause of complaint against the Federal government?
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