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shall have St. Domhigo over again. What were the horrors of 

 St. Domingo, and what did they come from ? They consisted in 

 a war of races, brought about, first, by the whites refusing citi- 

 zenship to the free colored people of St. Domingo ; second, trying 

 to re-enslave the blacks after they had been free. If we do not 

 insist, in the next Congress, on the clause of the Constitution 

 guaranteeing Republican Institutions to the States, and insist that 

 Republican Institutions require that no class shall be excluded 

 from suffrage on account of race or color, we shall probably see 

 torrents of blood in the South, and the colored people at last be- 

 coming masters of the Gulf States ; and yet I do not think we 

 shall be so foolish. It takes us a long time to learn to be just, 

 but we shall learn it by-and-by. 



Farmers of Massachusetts ! we have reason to be proud of 

 what Massachusetts has done in this war. The Old Bay State 

 has vindicated her honor. Nevermore shall any one speak of 

 leaving her out in the cold. And let us also thank the good God, 

 whose Providence alone has carried us through this awful strug- 

 gle, that Massachusetts, in her hour of trial, had at her head a 

 man so sagacious; so honest, so simple, with so much brain, and 

 so much heart — a man who never thinks of how a thing is to 

 affect his own personal interests, but only how it is to affect the 

 public interests — who never hesitates, acts at once, acts openly, 

 acts bravely — whose temper is perfect, who cannot be made 

 angry except when the rights of others are infringed — a man 

 whom I have known intimately for nearly twenty-five years, and 

 have never yet known him otherwise than wise, true, generous 

 and pure. His doubtful acts, when the time comes to explain 

 them, will be fully vindicated, and history will say, that no man 

 ever sat in the executive chair of Massachusetts, who has shown 

 more jieart, conscience, judgment and character, than John 

 Albion Andrew. 



And, in closing these remarks, imperfecC and inadequate as I 

 know them to be, I would borrow from the magnificent Ode of 

 Lowell, delivered at the commemoration of dead heroes, at Cam- 

 bridge, the lines in which he describes the power and majesty 

 of our country in this its solemn hour of victory over rebellion 

 and treason. If any of you have not seen these lines before, you 



