Equality or Trouble by L. D. S.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 11, 1866

Equality or Trouble.

By L. D. S.

[Bro. WHITE: The following I clip from the Maine State Press, thinking perhaps that it may be of interest to the readers of the Review. L. D. S.]

We find in the oration of Rev. Alonzo H. Quint, at New Bedford, the truth forcibly expressed of the great principle which must and will prevail in the great struggle now entered upon, to restore to their old domination in political power the traitors who sought to crush out our nationality:

Our flag, when it rustles in the wind, sweet music, says nothing about race, nothing about color, nothing about property. It never complained because an Irishman bore it with the gallantry of that fiery race, nor because a sturdy German kept step to its march. It never blushed because a black man carried it at Wagner. The ring of our muskets was never sullen because a black man fired one. Our bullets never stopped to ask who bit off the cartridge. Our bayonets never lost their temper because a black man obeyed the “charge!” Our nationality, like the fire of our guns, means perfect equality before the law, and the ballot is the bullet.

To this great principle we must come. Before the clear light of truth all differences must be swept away. There are to be yet, in the eye of the law, no black men, no white men, but only men; not freedmen, but freemen. Unless this is done it needs no prophet to see that trouble is yet to come.