Address to Congress on Women's Suffrage - Quizizz End of preview Upload your study docs or become a member. %PDF-1.4 For terms and use, please refer to our Terms and Conditions A nation might well hesitate before the temptation to betray its allies. Strong as we are, we need the energy that slumbers in the black mans arm to make us stronger. Is Ireland, in her present condition, fretful, discontented, compelled to support an establishment in which she does not believe, and which the vast majority of her people abhor, a source of power or of weakness to Great Britain? If these bless them, they are blest indeed; but if these blast them, they are blasted indeed. Bassett, Ebenezer D., 1833-1908--Correspondence, - It only asks for a large degraded caste, which shall have no political rights. Can that be sound statesmanship which leaves millions of men in gloomy discontent, and possibly in a state of alienation in the day of national trouble? In a word, it must enfranchise the negro, and by means of the loyal negroes and the loyal white men of the South build till a national party there, and in time bridge the chasm between North and South, so that our country may have a common liberty and a common civilization. This evil principle again seeks admission into our body politic. It was a war of the rich against the poor. This evil principle again seeks admission into our body politic. Women's rights, - National interest and national duty, if elsewhere separated, are firmly united here. Richardson family--Correspondence, - The answer plainly is, they see in this policy the only hope of saving something of their old sectional peculiarities and power. They who waged it had no objection to the government, while they could use it as a means of confirming their power over the laborer. Masses of men can take care of themselves. Your donation is fully tax-deductible. We have thus far only gained a Union without unity, marriage without love, victory without peace. We have crushed the Rebellion, but not its hopes or its malign purposes. 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. beware of what you do. Congress must supplant the evident sectional tendencies of the South by national dispositions and tendencies. Give the negro the elective franchise, and you at once destroy the purely sectional policy, and wheel the Southern States into line with national interests and national objects. Was not the nation stronger when two hundred thousand sable soldiers were hurled against the Rebel fortifications, than it would have been without them? Source: Source unknown. It must cause national ideas and objects to take the lead and control the politics of those States. It must cease to recognize the old slave-masters as the only competent persons to rule the South. We have crushed the Rebellion, but not its hopes or its malign purposes. It must cease to recognize the old slave-masters as the only competent persons to rule the South. King Cotton is deposed, but only deposed, and is ready to-day to reassert all his ancient pretensions upon the first favorable opportunity. Frederick Douglass Papers: Speech, Article, and Book File, -1894; Speeches, Articles, and Other Writings Attributed to Frederick or Helen Pitts Douglass, 1881 to 1887; "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage," 1881. Something, too, might be said of national gratitude. Douglass, Lewis, 1840-1908--Correspondence, - 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. . It is nothing against this reasoning that all men who vote are not good men or good citizens. a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate. In 1867 Frederick Douglass, noted abolitionist and civil rights leader, weighed in on one of the most contentious issues of the day, suffrage for black men following the Civil War. Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879--Correspondence, - Something then, not by way of argument, (for that has been done by Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens, Wendell Phillips, Gerrit Smith, and other able men,) but rather of statement and appeal. Men are so constituted that they largely derive their ideas of their abilities and their possibilities from the settled judgements of their fellow-men, and especially from such as they read in the institutions under which they live. Frederick Douglass Papers: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1846-1894; Speeches, Articles, and Other Writings Attributed to Union and liberty : powers of Congress in relation to the slaves, with a form of Celebration of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia by the colored people, in Frederick Douglass Papers: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1846-1894; Speeches, Articles, and Other Writings Attributed to Frederick or Helen Pitts Douglass, 1881-1887; "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage," 1881, -
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