An avenging God cannot sleep while such things find countenance.

If you are not ready to be the Moses of an oppressed people, do not become their Pharaoh." Mr.Willard Saulsbury of Delaware made a brief reply to Mr.Sumner, not so much to argue the points put forward by the senator from Massachusetts, not so much to deny the facts related by him or to discuss the principles which he had presented, as to announce that "it can be no longer disguised that there is in the party which elected the President an opposition party to him.

Nothing can be more antagonistic than the suggestions contained in his Message and the speeches already made in both Houses of Congress." He adjured the President to be true and faithful to the principles he had foreshadowed, and pledged him "the support of two million men in the States which have not been in revolt, and who did not support him for his high office." Mr.Cowan of Pennsylvania, one of the Republican senators who had indicated a purpose to sustain the President, was evidently somewhat stunned by Mr.Sumner's speech.

He treated the outrages of which Mr.
Sumner complained as exceptional instances of bad conduct on the part of the Southern people.

"One man out of ten thousand," said Mr.Cowan, "is brutal to a negro, and that is paraded here as a type of the whole people of the South; whereas nothing is said of the other nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine men who treat the negro well." Mr.
Cowan's argument was altogether inapposite; for what Mr.Sumner and Mr.
Wilson had complained of was not the action of individual men in the South, but of laws solemnly enacted by Legislatures whose right to act had been recognized by the Executive Department of the National Government, and which had indeed been organized in pursuance of the President's Reconstruction policy,--almost in fact by the personal patronage of the President.