Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Smith-Week-1 Title A name given to the resource This Week in Reconstruction, May 1-7, 1870 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bryce Smith Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 1-7, 1870 Description An account of the resource This week in Reconstruction the collapse of the Virginia Capitol, infrastructure projects, and social and legislative racial discussions and debates are at the forefront of the news. The large number of people crowded into the Capitol building to hear the results of a court case that decided who will serve as Richmond's mayor caused the Capitol's balcony to collapse, injuring and killing hundreds. Construction of railway projects was also prominent, since they strengthen the southern states' weakened post-war economy. Through the connection of previously isolated regions of the nation, large-scale cooperation and linkage of crucial know-how and resources will spread across a wide range of individuals and economies. Social and infrastructural developments propel new debates and legislation. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments exemplify such and therefore require enforcement nationally through the passing of bills. Consequently, blacks increasingly pursue equality under these protections by voting and demanding services granted to whites by businesses. Additionally during these two weeks of Reconstruction, the consequences and legal validity of actions made during the reign of the Confederacy were debated in Congress. The most significant discussion surrounds the selling of lands and repayment of loans due to the heavy impacts the precedents set by the final decisions made will have on individual wealth, property rights, and the overarching southern economy. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound At the ratification celebration in Philadelphia Frederick Douglass delivered a very lengthy speech, replete with advice to the new voters. From the concluding portion of his address we clip the following, which is very opposite to the state of things how existing in Richmond : " I hope that the old men here who hear me will remember that anything more than moral suasion to a difference of opinion, a difference of political action among colored ' people (but, my friends, I am not going to give advice, for we are in the position just now to revive perhaps more than we can dispose of in that line), but let me say that one of the first things that we colored voters have to learn is this : to respect to the fullest extent, to respect in each other, the right to a difference of opinion. " I hear some men say that if the black man, in this enlightened age, should vote the Democratic ticket let him be denounced. [Cheers.] Gentlemen I do not share that opinion at all. 1 am a Republican - a Black Republican [cheers] dyed in the wool- and I never intend to belong to any other than the party of freedom and progress [Cheers.] Hut if one of my colored fellow-citizens chooses to think that his interests and rights and the interests of the country can be better sub-served by giving his vote against the Republican party, I, as an American citizen, and as one desirous to learn the first principles of free government, affirm his right-his undoubted right-to vote as ho chooses. "What we have to learn is respect for the law everywhere ; it is not to lead and control the opinions of our fellow-citizens. I run a lover of freedom. I am a Protestant. [Cheer.] I believe in a free conscience, both religiously and politically. I go in for the first, second, and last, and I want you to do so too. " I am down upon any one who begins to question a man who is going to vote a ticket different from his own. That talk was commenced in the District of Columbia. Nothing! nothing ! nothing will tarnish our liberty in tri- country so much as doing that. We are to respect each other's rights." URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18700512.1.3&dliv=none&st=1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1870-05-12 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SmithBryce-18700512- FredDouglass'sAdvicetotheColoredVoter..pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource Fred. Douglass's Advice to the Colored Voter.