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"MY POLICY !"
SCATTCINO ANALYSTS OP THE
"PRESIDENT'S PLAN!"
MHS ANNA T.. DICKINSON'S LKCTUIUi!
One of the largest and most intelli
gent audience of the season assembled
at i lie Academy of Music last evoning
to listen to Miss A E. Dickenson's fine
iduress, known as "My Policy." Miss
Dickinson came upon tliu stage at a
' '
quancipu-io o ciecu, her appearance
I. . ., f 1 ... I .1. ..
nemg uic sign oi proiuugeu ana eutiiu-
siastio cheers, Mr. U. II. Ncdless, in
'
simple and eppropfioio language, in
troducod lier to the audience. Miss
Dickinson spoke with more than ordinary
fervnr. rind v.-ns Ii-fniiflntlv intnrrnnlfld i
.. l J "F
with hursts of loud applause. She had
a thoroughly appreciative audience, and
her address, in every respect a most suo
oessful one, was the subject ol hearty
congratulations among .her numerous
friends and admirers, We herewith
publish her speech in lull :
"Monsieur D Conway somewhere
tells the story of a young cavalher, who
at a ball became enamored ol a mask.
no wiiowea ncr irom group to group.
from room t-) room, the mask Still el lids
lug her pursuit, till alone, far Irom the
music, tho light, nud tho crowd, in a
dark and solitary chamber, ho unmask'
ed his with a kis, discovering somc
thing, what his quivering lips never
could be brought to describe, but n
creature ndl ofllesh and blood, and tin
iiterahly loathsome to behold.
So, twelve months ago, in ihe midst
of the music of triumph, and glare ot
victory, this gay young oovallier of a
nation stood enamored in a mask, which
it endeavored to clasp in its arms: and1
hold as its b :-i beloved. It followed
this mask, whithersoever u led till away
from the light, the triumph and rejoin
tug of victory away in the gathering
gloom of doubt, and (ear, and lot boding
the mask has f'alhn Irom the lace m the
tVhite House, revealing something bo
terr'ble and hideous that our lips fail to
describe what our yes are compelled to
heboid.
Twelve moths ago, a man standing on
tho grave ot a martyred President, stop
ped to his place and assumed his power.
A nation bowed to the earth with unutx
ernble grief, listened through its sobs,
and watched through its tears, while
this, man gave to it and the world a prom
ise of his future career.
A promise to annihilate Rebellion,
uproot treason, and bring to swift judge
ment conscious and leading traitors.
A promise to maintain the policy of
his illustious predecessor, which policy-
was to bestow amnesty on the masses
ot white Uebel, and suffrage on the mas
ses of loyal blacks.
promise that loyalty should be lion-
ored and treason ma le odious.
A promise that so far as he was con
cerned, all men should havo a fair start
and an equal chance in the race of life.
A promise that merit should bo re
warded without regard to color.
A promise that traitors should take
back seals in the new Union circle, and
that loyal men whether white or black,
should control its destinies,
A promise that the cause of the peoplt
should be upheld against their oppres sors
against the spirit of caste, aris
tocracy and slavery.
A promise that justico should bo es
tablished, equality secured, a..d freedom
maintained.
How have these promises been kept?
Shall we answer ! There is a French
provi :b to the effect, "When the saint's
day is over farewell the saint."
I charge this man with the breaking
of every promise, tho non-fulfillment ot
every pledge, the falsity lug of every dec
laration ho at that lime mado.
1 charge him with betrayal of trust,
with degradation of oflicx, with desecra
tion Of power.
I charge him as an enemy alike of
his parly, his country, and his God.
What has he given us in exchange for
Lthese promises, those pledges, and these
oaths? Has his step kept step with the i give him the farce of a trial, that will
march of tho people? Has his heart I release him, acquit him, fail to condemn
ami conscience been enlightened yot I him, or condemn him to Exeoutive olem-
further with the heat and. conscience of j ency and pardon,
the nation ? Has he advanced with the I "Tho pardoning power should be us
onward sweep of the republic? In brief cd most slowly and sparingly. We
has he given us something higher, must not forget that what may be mercy
nobler, and better in exohange for that ! to tho individual Is cruelty to theStSte."
he offered us a twelvemonth ago? Let Thus said Andy Johnson a year ngo j
tho grief ot his friends and tho rejoicing then pardoned nil, save a few executions
of his foos answer. Let tho insolence of issued pardons for the expected till
Rebels and tliu mourning of loyalists
answer. Lot t ho renewed spirit of trea
son South, and the outraged indignation
of tho North, answer, Let the Presi.
dent himself answer, as he tells us that
in exchange 'or all this he has given us
that a1 amenable and rotten thing "My
Policy."
It is useless now to recapitulate the
acts of almost a . year ago useless to
speak of the steady 'growing doubt and
pain of the people through the mouths
r.i. ,.. i . .
ot the summer and autnm following his
ala-.t!on to
Vet it w!is those
I
acts ot li:u. his unili'an .it ihiai liinn ilmt
i.ij .... ,u i .. i . j ' t
i lam slrong the lound .tions and madu
secure the cornel- stem! upon which was
npresred the edifice that threatens the
welfare, security, and even the hate of
the nation tot-day.
Had ive not then withheld our hands,
his hands would have been powerless
for evil. Had we noi, said, "Wait,'1 he
would have had time to consummate his
iniduiiy. Had we not slept with the
harvest of the war under our cure, the
enemy could not have stolen in and
sowed tares. Slept! My friends we
are awaio now I
oani one io y.i oinwen. winie no was
, Bghtina for the liberty of all Eneland
'Jt thou wort to meet the Kiiigin battle
what WOUld'Bt th'ou do T" "11 the King
Quid meet me in battle " was the reply
'I should kill the King," Because 1
believe the President of the republic to
day to bo the greatest enemy of the re
public, I would have him politically so
slain that for him there should be neith
er need of prayer nor hope, of resurrec
tion, Politically I Bay, physically, he
need have 110 fear. It-is his old foes,
not hi old friends, tln party to which
he has gone not that from which he has
deserted, that breeds murderers and
light with the weapon of assassination
a weapon not to lie used on so faithful
and 'devoted a servant.
Andrew Johnson lins declared, "Ho
who is mt for me i -. toiM ire ; l e who
mi porls hiy policy is my friend, he w ho
opposes it is my enemy." II this were
all, it would be little indeed, but be has
declared further, "lie is a U'liun man
who sustains my Union restoration poli
cy, and none other." It behooves us
then to look to this policy, standing as
tho touchstone by which every man's
loyalty in the land is to be tested to-day.
Months, nay years ago, Congress
passed a confiscation act by which lead
ing traitors should be compelled to re
pay somewhat to the nation of the losses
they had entailed on it through the war.
A confiscation act which Andrew John
sou declared to be too lenient and len
der by half. Leading and com-coius
traitors must be punished, said he, their
lands taken awry, their social power
broken. The land thus confiscated tilled
by li e freemen, enriched by their toil,
more valuable than when they fell into
our hands, Andrew Johnson has rcstor .
ed to their old Rebel owners a premi
um set on treason by giving more than
was taken away.
"No man shall be qualified for power,
nor bo able to take oath of office, who is
not also able to take the test oath of
present and past loyalty to the United
States," said Congress, "Who is to do
this work of restoration 1 Certainly not
tliu Rebels who havo fought, or those
who have given aid or influeuoo to the
Uubel cause,'' responded the President
then ran with swift feet to appoint Perry
and Johnson, .Sharkey and .Marvin.
Governors, Judges, Collectors, olliciais
innumerable, not ono of whom could
take tho oath, nor Stand tho lest Con
gress and himself had prescribed.
"Treason is the greatest of crimes and
must receive the greatest of punish
ments," said Andrew Johnson ; then
signed the death-warrants of a few hired
cut-throats in Washington, and turned
to grasp the hands of Lee and Stephens
Floyd, Toombs, Johnson, Morgan and
Beauregard 1 turned to watoh the great
criminal, traitor,and assassin, till the first
flame of indignation had burned itself
down, till it was no longer possible to
try him by a tribunal that would mete
him out justico, till it was allowable to
they count by thousands1 Pardons in
such numbers that the Executive arm
was too weak, or unsteady which was
it? to sign his name thereto, and a
stamp was u-ed instead. Pardons so
liberal that counterfeiters and criminals
in the North rejoiced thereat, and men
who never existed received absolution
for crimes that they had never perform
ed. He is tho loyalist, says the President,
who assents to shcIi acts as these hff lS
tho traitor who opposes them. Let tho
whole North cry, as one man, "I de
nounce them, I ojiposo them; I do my
Utmost to counteract their evil effects;
and, if this be tremon, make tho m9st oi
it."
But tho Presideifs polioy which is to
stand as the lest o loyalty, has found
other developemejts than those devel
opemonts so rare so strange, so mar
velous "That v.-c who tow behold these pres
ent, days,
Have eyes to wilder, but lack touglies
to praise."
Dcvclnpementsii the shape of speech
es so lofty, and Site papers so just, that
the good taste, the.ntelligeiice, the loyal,
ty, and morality o( the world are alike
astounded thereby.
Speohes, clmraoprizod by so delicate
a modesty, so finei humanity, by such
an utter ahsoenoe i'self, by so complete
an ignoring of th upright vowel that
standeth in tho alphabet botwen II and
J, that it seems erti-1, not to say brutal,
to even mention Andrew Johnson in
connection liiereivih.
Speeches so grafcmatieally correct, so j ,,ltemPWnoe, the cruelty, tho oppress
choice in words, I elegant In' diction, ion ot ne ra'lioa,a 1111(1 Congress. 1
so keon in invecti so i
t-lii ate
in sar
so sub
caini, so it-
uisite n rhetoric
I'uhe in eloquence, hat it betokens har
dihood indeed in lis man not to say
woman 'who woifi! dare essay to crili
else thorn,
Speeches so elovned in tone, so faith
ful in principle, sopevoted to truth, so
grateful to the paly that, made, so de
nunciatory to the party that opposed
him, so tender to oj.l li lends, so merci
less to old foes, BO (narked in apprecia
tion of chai ael or,' so statesmanlike in
statements, so cotrtcnus to the people
and iheir represenktiyes, so apprecia
tive of his own and . her high offices, so
noble and beautiful, t!4: they will hence
forth stand unapproanble nnd alone
Words ol mine tail M do them justice.
Let silence, then, cxwst the apprecia
tion which language 1 inadequate to
convey.
I do not intend to a into any extend
ed discussion of the I'uaous vetoes ot two
of the most impoi'tanjsills ever passed
by emigres.!. The staqlnciils Used there
in are so obtrusively False, and have
been so overwhelming refuted, tho ar
guments are to m.aifpily weak, and
have been so repeated destroyed, that
it seems useless to devtc further timo to
them.
Andrew Johnson pofcably know bet
ter than any other ma why he gave his
assent to the Frecdnws Bureau Bill
before it had passed to; ordeal ol Con
gress, and rejected lhaaino bill when it
came up to him for linl decision.
Was not every oojjopablo feature
of the bill as plain hfore him w hen it
was read to him Blowlf clause by clause
by Generals Howard ad h'iske, as when
it lay on his table unirhis eye, an act
of Congress.' "Tut hat bill through
Concress and it shall ieMvtlititrlu receive !
my signature,'' said It to the one "1
re ject the Hill and vilihohl my name
Irom it," said he to lliiOthcr.
"Il is a war measure Bud wc are nt
peace. It can only Mtolcruted as a
military necessity, andiitj war is ended."
Three .days tht rcaltcr f.nits the deelara.
tlon, "Tho first bill M more than a
year of time to stand, Ai endures for a
year aftet tho close ofilejwnr, and the
war is not, yt eudul I huvu not yet
madu an official doclarMMi of peace."
We are at war we H at peace. I
have not yet declared Closed peace
war war-peace as ltuIU tho whim ot
policy or the President "Consistency,
thou art a jewel" ti-fiter a President.
"I am afraid the CuiUltuiion will be
trampled on j it declaim fiat a criminal
shall bo tried by njuryiff his peora in
the district in which thjerimo is com
mitted. This bill is iuieflunee of such
position."
The President knov.iliftterthnn most
men, that so far from lie ,""', or any ol
its rlgteous acts, this 0 neluded, des
troying the Constituli d the laws,
wc, through them, hurt been engaged
in establishing laws and their forms in
places where all law has for a generation
been persistently overthrown.
"I demand that every man be tried by
a jury of his peers," says this bill. "1
Stand 00 the everlasting foundations, on
the Constitution itself. Until this plain
provision ol law and justice is complied
with, I shall stand between thu people,
lour millions of people, and the nniusl
and illegal oppressions of unconstitution
al laws and wicked men."
Ah, but the expense ! tho expense !
the frightful expenditure.! $11, 745 000
oaiioci tor I $12, ouu two for the nation
to spend for freedom and justice seems
to mo but, a slight onset to the $145,000
000 spent in the past to introduce slave
ry into tho tingle stale of Texas. Au
drow Johnson did not object to that
his sense of economy has largely increas
ed since 1846. They say, however, that
people grow mean and mercenary as
thoy grow rich. Mrs. Cobb's agency
may stand responsible for this change of
front in the matter.
Besides when the condition of affairs
in every Southern State is fairly repres
ented by Arkansas, the last report from
which shows that the Bureau is feeding
.IOCS white people to "(17 colored, it
tu. ..(.. I. . ...
luigiiv Buiuiy ue nssunioa mat mo ex
I penso is to be borne rather for the
supporters of "My Polioy" in the South,
than for its oppoin nts.
"What matter?'1 Fays the President
"It. is ncl for my opponents I care; it
is for the black people I havo a tender
I regard I would save them from the
would nave these people protected,
but it. must not ba by the, North, it
must bo by the civil power of the States
wherein they live" "Agreed," cried
Congress, and replaced tho military;
bureau by the Civil Bights. "It will
not do, it must be accomplished by tho
States themselves. "This is no better,"
responded the President, and returned
tho bill to their hands. A man once
came to iho Slliek Abdaibm to borrow
of his possessions A rope- "I cannot
lend it," said the Shiek I have broken
it to tie up n treasure of land." "A
treasure or land: impossible!" cried hi
wondering nud incredulous companion.
"Oh, friend," replied the Suiek Abdal
lah, "Knowest thou not that any
reason in sufficient unto him who does
not wish to lend a rope to his neigh
bor?" Andrew Johnson's assertion that the
treedmen of the South are protected. by
State law that the best possible feeling
exists between them and their late mas
ters that tho Rebels ot the South are
more truly their friends than the loyal
ists of the North that they are almost
on nn equal with the whites- that com
petition enables them to demand and re
cetvo their own pay for service rendered
that they have full and free right ol
looomotion, of contract, and of work,
these assertions, I say, remind one of
tho story told of a certain Scotch divine,
who was trouMod by n congregation
afflicted by a sort of moral cbliquily
through, which th y saw everything
crookedly and distorted. Ouo Sabbath
morning coming into his pulpit, and
opening the Bible, to find his text, his
eye ftllghed on the words of tho Psalmist,
'I said in my haste all men are liars."
faking off' his spectacles and putting
l''em down by the book, and looking
iround his congregation with a signifi
cant glance, he ivpcut'jd the text, "I
said in my haste, in my httste all men
are liars." "Gin ye'd ben here, David
ye'd said it at your lalslire mon,'1 Head
ing son.o State papers, nnd listening to
some politicians, one is very apt to say in
one's haste that. State papers and politi
cians are greatly given to living. Head
ing these State papers, and listening to
this politician, onu is very apt to say it
at one's leisure.
While thesn bills wero under dlsOUSS
ion, eyery wind that blew Irom the
South was heavy with tho sighs and
groans of a Buffering and wronged hu
manity; every flash of the wires gave a
glimpse of tho charncl house ot the
South, wherein this humanity was being
tortured every report that lound its way
into a Northern paper was freighted
with a record ot horrors and abomina
tions indicted by our enemies on these,
our faithful frlendl and allies. What
need to repeat tho dismal story of men
worked through a season, then driven
out with their families to starve; of tho
children of loving parents toru from
their arms and sides, and bound out
from them tor years; of Union soldier
shot dead i the wives of Union soldiers
dishonored; thu orphans of Union sol
diers given over by thu State without
mercy, to the cruelty of their co'.d-bloodetter, every speech, every report that hits
td masters; oi houses burned, and liehls
laid waste, and property destroyed of
men and women lashed, paddled, im
prisoned for life, and hung for paltry
buses by duo process ot law: of human
beings citizens of the United States
carried into the open market place, and
under thu shadow of the Constutiona'
amendment, sol'd, enslaved for a term of
years, or for life?
"For God's sake," orted the human
ity of the nation, "for decency's sake,
let us put an end to these abominations!"
Congress heard, and answered. "For
the sake or the colored people' I object,"
responded tho President; I'f'ot the sake
of morality, for the suko of religion, 1
forbid thi - as an effort on the pai l of the
radicals to legalize amalgamation in our
midst, to compel white mon to marry
black women, and tho reverse."
I should pass by this whole silly and
disquieting argument, if argument it be,
in
response to the plea for equal civil
tights for American citizens, were it
only still and disquieting) but it is, in
addition, su wicked ami abominable, and
its results so evil, as to demand the
oenaure and indignation of tho world.
It is the old argument old ns sin
confronting just demands by appeals to
ignorant brutality and petrified prejudioe
Andrew Johnson knew full well, no
man better that civil rights have more
to do with social equality than his polioy
has to do with tho principles of sound
morality and righteous law.
I stand a woman, disfranchised by
the State, incapable of Bitting Oil a jury,
or of being tried by a jury of my pi ers,
ranked by the la w w ith black people,
children, and idiots: civily, Immeasur
ably iho inferior of the voter who first
helped to mako President, and was thou
made PresidtfPt himself, Civlty, I say,
in point of law, I stand immeasurably
tho interior of the voter who. first helped
to make President, and was then made
rresiaoni nitnscti. uivny, i say, in
point of law. I stand immeasurably tins
man's inferior. Yet I speak the words
of iruth and sobornoss when I say, that I
do not believe any amount of equal
degradation, of civil rigths withheld and
wrongs inflioted could ever reduce me,
or nny other respectable woman, to the
social level of tho nnfti capable of making
the speech of the 22(1 of last February.
Beyond this, Andrew Johnson knows,
without the telling, that it was the
tumbling down and riot the building up
process that gave to its a race of mixed
blood: that it was tho withholding, not
the granting of human and civil rights
that worked the dishonoring ofthe black,
and tho degradation of tho white race
in America.
"Negro equality, indeed!'' exclaimed
Andrew Johnson, on tho 24th October,
1864, in the city ol Nashville, "Negro
equality, indeed!" Why, pass any day
along the sidewalks of High Streets,
whoie tho great slave-owners more
particularly dwell, and you wall seo as
many mulatto as negro children, tho
former having an unmistakable resem
blance to their aristocratic masters "
It is civil wrong, not, civil rights; the
degradation, not the elevation; tho South
not the North; the lire-eaters, not tho
radicals; it is the slavery propagandists
and sleaveewnerj of the South ; in bi ief,
Andrew Jobusop and his friends, not
Congress and his enemies who introduc
ed, defended, maintained, and extended
the blessing of amalgamation in our
midst.
I protest against tho President of tho
United States using the influence of his
high olb'co to Strengthen n cruel and
unrighteous prejudice already existing
against a pom- and defenseless race. 1
protest against the Chief Magistrate of a
Christian nation pleading lor and defen
ding a feeling that finds outlet In cruel
ties unopproaohed and atr cities unparallbled
in tho annals of the world. Bald tho Norfolk
(Va.) I'osi iat Februaryi 'Them has been
no such manifestation of joy and Jubilation in
ths t'outli since the route of the Federal army
nt Dull Run as Unit hiliir in,; us ol tiic 1'icsl
dent's veto of the Frosdmon's Bureau Mil,"
Hear nttlie same time the Richmond A'tiJM
Irw declare: "To et rid of stril'u we must get
rid of the negro. There is hut on alternative.
Wo must reduce die negro to slavery or wo
' must exterminate Mm," Bo declaring', it was
suppressed by General Ch ant and restored by
I (be President, of whom it soon after wrotet
"Hu is our tried and faithful friend, ho exorts
himself to Ihe utuiott of his p i wer in our bo-
! halt, lie dofumls our rights, au.l devotes alibis
snprglestd our interests' Wo arc safe."
Tbon feeling safe, hcing sire of their triend'
these men fell tooth and hail upon tho hapless
Victim of their hatred and thu President's
policy. Every Statement, every record, eery
found it:i way to paper or print, North or South
goes to prove t!.ut; from the moment the posi
tion of tho President was fuirly and fully
understood in ttteSoutk, t'i display of cruelty,
thu persecution of the froedmen has fright
fully increased and Intensified, I solemnly
bollevo, as I make the tremendous charge that
had Andrew .lohnaon matntatasd the position
bO assumed tWolVfl montha Attn, tlm innaannm
of Memphis would have been bapoasttdei that
hill for tbe favor he basSbOWO thu spirit of
caste, rebellion, and slavery, and thu insults
he ha i heaped upon tho patient and helpless
blacks, humanity would not have appalled as
it was through those Ihiee days of cruelties so
abominable and atrocities so hideous that tho
pcu refuses to write, the tongue to speak, or
the ear to listen, to the talc.
i i) , because I believe I am compelled to
Bay that 1 would pray for thu rocks to fall
upon and annihilate me, rather than stand In
the plaoo ol the President of the United S atos
when the Ureal AI-ister maketh inquisition for
tho blood of the slain In the streets of that
city ofTbnnessee. My friends, let us consid
er this seeiiu well and carefully, for Memphis
Is but a type of the spectaclo the Whole South
will present If tbe troops bo withdrawn, tho
civil power re-eBtabnsbed, the .Rebels onfran
ohl: d, the black loyalist disfranchised, tno
Stales restored to their old basis, in a word,' if
tho President's policy ba cstibllshed in gov
ernment. Never eonlil these bo a more over
wli timing refutation of the President's theory
that tho ballot would superinduce a war of
racos and the consequent extermination oftho
blacks, than In tho recent, riot at Memphis.
Hoes any oiu suppose, it thoso blacks
had a fair opportunity to defend them
selves by Ihe ballot, if the authorities
and city officials had aught to gain or to
lose by some thousands of their votes,
that these outrages would havo been
tolerated for an hour ? Snlf-lnterest is
stronger than hatred. If black votos
could hurl them from their places, they
woi id sou that tho blaok voters wore
proteoted, their friendship gained, and
their ballots secured.
ATI history demonsti-.itpi that ono ba
man being never is safe in the hands of
another. When Emperor Nicholas was
told that his oharacter was as good as a
Constitution to bis people, "Then' said
ho "I am but a lucky accident," and of
a surety such lucky accidents do not
abound in the South. The only seenri.
ty for the welfare of tin so people, aud
consequent peaco of the republic, is by
gran ling to all its citizens absolute erjuali
ty before the law, and, as De Tocquoville
has somewhere said : "I know of only
two methods of establishing equably in
the political world. Every citizen must
bo put in possession of his rights or
rights must be granted to nouo."
A war ot races, forsooth ! Why,
what is this of which tho President talks?
The argument was worn threadbare in
the service of slavery, by more cunning
and subtle tal Iters than he. betoro ha
had acquired even the alphabet of sip.
prosslou,
A war of races ! Does tho President
remember that black men voted tinder
tho Articles of Confederation, and at tho
ratification of tho Constitution in 1789,
m every Slate save South Carolina ?
that ill the Congressional legislation for
thu Territories, treedon, not color, was
tho only tost ot citizenship, up to tbe
your 1812? That it was tho boast of Mr,
Badger, of North Carolina, and John
Hell, of Tennessee, that they each took
their seats in tho Unitud States House
of Representatives on a majority of black
votes. Docs tho President remember
that blaok men voted in Maryland until
1838. In North Carolina until 1835.
In Pennsylvania until 1H38. And that
In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New
York, and some of tho Western States,
they vote to-day ? Has this anywhere
superinduced a war of races? The
President is "fond of declaring that he
treads closely in tho footsteps of his mar
tyred predecessor. Does ho remember
what Mr, Linoolofi sail shortly before
his death, in conversation with General
Wads worth "If I grant universal ami,
neaty I shall oreate universal suffrage I"
1) jcs any one tor an instant suppose that
our good dead President devised in his
kindly hear tbe horrors of a war of races
thereby? Does the Presiden remember
what one Andrew Johnson said in Nash
ville on the 24th ol October, 1864?
"Rebellion and slavery shall no longer
pollute onr State: loyal men, whether
while or lilnck, shall, alono control her
destinies! 1 speak now as one who
feels thu world to bo his country, and
all who love equal rights his friends!"
Did Andrew Johnson plpn, when he
ipoke these noble nnd heroic words, to
entail upon his own State the misery of
a war ot races f I trow not. I appeal
from February and May, lNfiG, to Octon
her, 1804. f I appeal from "Philip drunk
to Philip sobor."
A war of races ! Who will begin it