New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-04-30
III. Bssbrs of Man.
question.

I, is burning shame that we, Of Inc parry re-
nroved az Ar;s,ocra,ic should be compelled to de-
send agains. party falsely pretending TO be Demo
cratic. the Equal Right Of All Men TO voice In
framing and directing the Government to which all
are held amenable and in making the laws which
all must obey. Every syllable put forth in pala-
ton Of the denial of Political Rights to any class or
race il in truth much Justification of all the tyran-
ny and cruelty by which innocent blood has been
shed and misery wantonly inflicted since the world
began. Every opponent Of Black Suffrage in effect
declares the Declaration Of Independence an inpu-
dent lie and oar Revolutionary forefstbers base, IN
grateful rebels recent Convention Of the CoIored
Men of this State set forth their claim OF Equal
Rights in an Address, from which we copy few
passazes having all the eloquence Of Feeling and
Truth: viz:
ave claim that there is DO confederation whatever
in existence account OF which tne ooious pIoscrP
ton Of which we complain. should De continued Inc
want of intelligence, misfortune and the crime OF
others which urged against Us does Dor now
exist, Again The deseendaHt' o. 'ore % me ear.
lest s<ttleTs NJ The STAT We can trace our ancestry
back 10 those Srst penetrated the almost impeneus
Bile forests that then lifted their high and stately heads
i'm silent grandeur the skies. When the vast and
trackj.as widerness that had alone answered TO the
fierce roar OF roaming beast or the whoop OF the
wild native spread itself before the earlier settlers
fathers among tDOse VINO, Win kiDcWy HhHie
muscular arm forth humble that wilderness in
ii, native pride Since that time our fishers and we
ourselves have lent best strength In cultvatpg The
soil 10 developing It's vast resources and contributing 10
lis wealth and importance. Those who the least
uuanted the history of the State cannot but grant,
that this respect we have contributed more than our
proportonate part.
demanded It will thus be seem we have ever been pre-
senr and active Not ouy IN TINES Of peril has
aid been called for aud s71c.s as promptly 9,ren
When the country It's interests its best and cher
isbed rights and institutions have been as'aed not un
avainey have been looked 10. When the shriIl
trumuet call of Freedom heard amid the mountains
and rocks and along the rivers OF the North. and
reply heard from the broad fields and
Pine forests OF the South; when the whole country
aroused by the justice Of British policy arose as one
man the maintenance Of natural and imprescriptoie
rights dark browed stood side by side with bis
farrr fellow citizen, with firm determination and indom
liable spirit During that memorable connct IN severe
and trying service did they contend 7or those principles
nj uberv act forth In the Declaration OF Independence
which are not partial local applicability but which
pertain alike 10 every being possessed OF those high and
exalted Endorsements that oistiosuish humanity.
Their blood ia mingled with the soil OF every battle
field made glorious by Revolutionary reminisceDce
and their enriched the most productive lands
of the country Ia the late Of 1872 our people were
again called upon TO defend their country. The spen
did naval achievements Lakes Erie and Champlsin.
were owing mostly the skill and proves Of coored
men, The fame of Perry gained at the expense Of
the maDged bodies and bleeding veins oil our disirsn
chised people Not Internationally Is it owing to them
that Americans of the present day can recur With plea
sursbe emotions and pride ofcountry to the bateheds
OF Plnttsburgh and Sscketts Harbor.
"We dmericsns. We born In no foreign cline.
Here where behold the noble rivers. and the rich
fields and the heathfuI skies ha, may be called Amer
here, amid the institutions thht now surround
first behed the light OF the impartial sun. We have
not brought up under the Influence other strange
and uncopgenal political relations In this
respect we profess TO be American and republican,
With the nature features and operations Of our govern
ment we have been familiarzed from youth and Its
democratic character 10 sccordant with the How OF our
feelic gs and the current of our thoughts
Rights have an existence, aside from conventional
arrangements or unnatural partalires. They are OF
higher origin and purer birth. They are iuterable
from the settled and primary sentiments of mans ma
,ure The high dgniies and exalted tendencies Of our
common humanity, the original grounds from which
they may be deduced Wherever being may be found
endowed with the light Of and in the exercise OF
IL. various exalted attributes that being Is possessed of
certain peculiar rights the ground Of his nature.
81 We base claim upon the possession of those
common and yet exalted faculties OF manhood. WE
ARE MEN. l. Those sympathies which find their nstu
channel and egit and healthy exercise in civil
and political relations, have the same being and nature
in that they have In the rest of the human family
Those yearnpgs and ougings for the exercise OF poiu
cal preegaves that the product OF the adapedne's
of mans social nature TO political arrangements, strive
with irrepresslble potency within from the fact Of
our dlsranchised condition prevalent and unreasoua
bic of caste and the operation OF laws and statutes
not proceeding from. yet operating upon u.s. g. Those
and wrongs which naturally become the por
ton of disfranchised class and gather accumulated
potency from an increase and ntenseness of prorcrp
tion naturally and legitimately revert TO ue From
possessing like sympsthies for civil and political opera
lions with others and like suscepuolites for evil when
nature 10 numbered in any of ts Legitimate exercises-on
the ground OF humanity. do We claim equal
and eutire rights with the rest of our fellow citizens
All that we say here with full sympathy from all
connected with the history Of country the nature OF
It's institutions the spirit OF its Constitution and the de-
signs and purposes Of Its great originators
For vested rghts Tor peculiar privileges for no
extraordinary prerosntvss. do we nsk We merely put
forth our appeal for republican brthright. We wish
to be something than political serfs and slaves We
Declaration oflndependence. We acquiesce In the
timen, that Governments derive their just powers from
the consent of tho governed And ssy 10 injustice
OF the aggrieTed character either 10 deprive OF
jus, aud legitimate participation in the rights OF the
State or 10 make bear the burdens and submit TO its
euactments when all Its arrangements. plans and pur
poses are framed and put into operation utterly regard
less of u.s. in their incpient state than II we were
entities but which, in their prsctcalopcrs,ion act upon
us with destructive tendency. eat away our soul and
destroy our life We ask for living manifestation OF
belief In the above doctrine know already TOO much
Of It's dead letter"
What genuine Republican can read these pas
sages and no, blush for the Country in which such
appeals pass UNDECIDED
Important from California.
By Overland via Mexico
SAN DIEoo Jan q, 1876.