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or the thanks of all persons in the city of Washington who sanction this violation of the rights of a race. I give this vote, not to offend this corporation, not to offend anybody in the District of Columbia, but to protect the rights of the poor and the lowly, trodden under the heel of power. I trust we shall protect rights, if we do it over prejudices and over interests, until every man in this country is fully protected in all the rights that belong to beings made in the image of God. Let the free man of this race be permitted to run the career of life; to make of himself all that God intended he should make, when he breathed into him the breath of life."

So there they had it, at the mouth of an educated northern working-man, who knew what man as man was worth, and the retiring senators, giving up the battle, wailed forth as follows:

"Poor, helpless, despised, inferior race of white men, you have very little interest in this government, you are not worth consideration in the legislation of this country; but let your superior Sambo's interest come in question, and you will find the most tender interest on his behalf. What a pity there is not somebody to lamp-black white men, so that their rights could be secured."

Mr. Powell thought that the Senator from Massachusetts, the next time one of his Ethiopian friends. comes to complain to him on the subject, should bring an action for him in court, and adds, with the usual good taste of his party: "The Senator has indicated to his fanatical brethren those people who meet in free love societies, the old ladies and the sensa

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tion preachers, and those who live on fanaticism, that he has offered it, and I see no reason why we should take up the time of the Senate in squabbling over the Senator's amendments, introducing the negro into every wood-pile that comes along."

Mr. Saulsbury closes a discussion on negro testimony with the following pious ejaculation: "He did not wish to say any more about the nigger aspect of the case. It is here every day; and I suppose it will be here every day for years to come, till the Democratic party comes in power and wipes all legislation of this character out of the statute-book, which I trust in God they will do."

All this sort of talk, shaken in the face of the joyous band of brothers who were going on their way rejoicing, reminds us forcibly of John Bunyan's description of the poor old toothless giant, who in his palmy days used to lunch upon pilgrims, tearing their flesh and cracking their bones in the most comfortable way possible, but who now having sustained many a severe brush, was so crippled with rheumatism that he could only sit in the mouth of his cave, mumbling, "You will never mend till more of you are burned."

Thank God for the day we live in, and for such men as Henry Wilson and his compeers of the 37th and 38th Congresses. They have at last put our American Union in that condition which old Solon gave as his ideal of true Democracy, namely:

A STATE WHERE AN INJURY TO THE MEANEST MEMBER IS FELT AS AN INJURY TO THE WHOLE.

CHAPTER VII.

HORACE GREELEY.

The Scotch-Irish Race in the United States-Mr. Greeley a Partly Reversed Specimen of it-His Birth and Boyhood-Learns to Read Books Upside DownHis Apprenticeship on a Newspaper-The Town Encyclopaedia--His Industry at his Trade-His First Experience of a Fugitive Slave Chase-His First Appearance in New York. The Work on the Polyglot Testament-Mr. Greeley as "the Ghost"-The First Cheap Daily Paper-The Firm of Greeley & Story -The New Yorker, the Jeffersonian and the Log Cabin-Mr. Greeley as Editor of the New Yorker-Beginning of The Tribune-Mr. Greeley's Theory of a Political Newspaper-His Love for The Tribune-The First Week of that Paper-The Attack of the Sun and its Result-Mr. McElrath's PartnershipMr. Greeley's Fourierism-" The Bloody Sixth "-The Cooper Libel SuitsMr. Greeley in Congress-He goes to Europe-His course in the RebellionHis Ambition and Qualifications for Office-The Key-Note of his Character.

No race has stronger characteristics, bodily or mental, than that powerful, obstinate, fiery, pious, humorous, honest, industrious, hard-headed, intelligent, thoughtful and reasoning people, the Scotch-Irish. The vigorous qualities of the Scotch-Irish have left broad and deep traces upon the history of the United States. As if with some hereditary instinct, they settled along the great Allegheny ridge, principally from Pennsylvania to Georgia, in the fertile val leys and broader expanses of level land on either side, especially to the westward. In the healthy and genial air of these regions, renowned for the handsomest breed of men and women in the world, the ScotchIrish acted out with thorough freedom, all the vigorous and often violent impulses of their nature. They were pioneers, Indian-fighters, politicians, theologians;