Emancipation and Emigration: A Plan to Transfer the Freedmen of the South to the Government Lands of the West - Couverture rigide

Alden, Joseph Warren

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1359361219 ISBN 13 : 9781359361219

Editeur : Palala Press, 2016

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Cambkidgeport, Mass., A tg. 13, 1878. t-:r Felloiv Citizens: If an- apolog for improving your condition were needed it ma be found in tlie fact that a large portion of the last forty years of my life was spent, and many thousand dollars invested, in the terrible conflict with the slave power. It is not necessary for me to remind you that the result of that conflict was your emancipation from American slaver by the Republican party, with such leaders and co-laborers as Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, Senators Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson, Rev. Joshua Leavitt, D. D., and Rev. Wm. Goodell, all of whom have now passed away, but whose life-long labors, with many who are still living, culminated in the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln in 1863. But it zs, as it seems to me, necessary to remind you that the Republican party of to-day is a very diflferent thing from then that your liberties and citizenship have now become the stock in trade of corrui)t politicians that your political rights have been bartered away for the promises of your old masters, which they never meant to perform when they made them, and for which they now substitute demands for your return to slavery, with the pecuniary interest of one to two thousand dollars in each able-bodied man left out; consequently when they shoot a man they do not lose that amount of investment in his bod. A mong the demands of the dominant race is the repeal of the constitutional amendments which made you citizens and gave you the ballot. .O fcourse they did not ask the Republican party to do it directly. They only asked them to put the political power of the nation into the hands of the Democratic party, and the second and third rate politicians now at the head of affairs at Washington were stupid enough to do it, for the poor privilege of occupying the White House for a short time.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1359361219
• ISBN 13: 9781359361219
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 54
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible