The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-28
SOCIAL, EQUALITY FOR THE NEGRO

SOCIAL EQUALITY FOR THE NEGRO
Fanaticism knows no middle course 1t is nothing il
not proscriptve Whether in power or out of power, II
is the Sometimes indeed, those who are anxious to
profit by It's assume to pledge IT to moderation
but the of all its action is violence and terror In
nothing is abolition the ally and echo Of ianatcism
consistent in its anxiety to elevate the negro to po
tical and social equality The spectacle of the suffering
whites of the great cities crowded into noisomc cellars
packed into hot and sitting factories roaming homeless and
breadess through the streets thrown out of en-
poynen by fires, others cast upon shores without
protector Others again without families friends and
all fit objects and OF that vice and disease which
like invisible fends walk in darkness spectacle
ike this creates more sensation in the minds OF
such men as Greeley Phillips and Garrison than if the
same number Of brues pershng for food in the pub
lie highways Phillips RUSSELL and other abolition lead
er said be enormously wealthy and yet their mo-
ney like their prayers only at the service Of those who
can boast of having colored skins
The extraordinary proof of the rapid advances Of
naticsm in this country be found in the late action
the wings of the Connecticut Legislature Connecticut il
will be recoected the State in which the Hartford
vention was held the wings have been prominent
in all these recent turbulent against the
ken MS mass are just as devoted the constitution as
the wings hostile to 1T indeed the Of the
wings of Connecticut have often heretofore given the
tage ground to the democrats and will do again, if
may decide from the recent evidence of naticsm
part of the legislature of the State The following para
graph from the New York Journal of Commerce expressive
of this new of the enemies of American nstt
tons:
"NEcno vorKss.-On Wednesday last the Connections,
house OF representative by vote of lis TO rs, (3 not
voting passed resolution to amend the State constitution
allow negroes to vote the terms white
men; also 06 TO 500 amendment prohibit any person
voting who read These proposed amendments
then ordered to be continued TO the next legislature
and published with the laws.
The Connecticut legislature driving large bushes.
session. either for good evil They have elected
regular built aboonst the United States Senate passed
a notification resolution two strings of anti Nebraska
lutions stringent prohbitoy liquor law, and what they
could towards amending the constitution TO permit
grocs vote, pRoHInIT WHITES VOTING.
Other things they have doubtless done, Of which
recoect authorize the speaker to nre ooored preach
opo, the sings Of hs house with prayer in
with white clergymen. In point of fact, believe the
godly prejudice against colorY"
II win be that the propositions amend the State
constitution to allow negroes vote and exclude
certain class of whites from voting prevailed by large
votes and that the final action in favor of most abhor-
rent doctrine preceded by other dongs only less vio
lent and startling If Connecticut can do as much as this
what may expect from Massachusetts, and Vermont
What may not look for from Rhode Island once more
thrown back into the Of federalism Abolition takes
courage from the denuncatons in New England of those
legislators that have voted in favor of the Nebraska bill
and proceeds in its eversh anxiety to hurry its schemes
IN IN he
already, see, declared in favor Of giving the
negro political equality with the whi,eand this too
granted in such shape exclude many white men from
the right of suffrage The sep tca BE- establish social
equality between the in Connecticut Everything
looks this The extensive sympathy felt and expressed
for the black the white by the abolition leaders the
revolving prominence given to blacks in all public
bages the efforts to set the blacks Of the South free even
at the risk OF the massacre Of the whites all directly adj
vocatedcan have but social aspect, and term-
nate IN the hdeous doctrine Of anal gomaiion. Happily
however it the publicity with which abolition proclams
its schemes that must finally defeat and destroy it
Whenever the American people have spoken upon the
issue Of allowing tho blacks to vote they have
in thunderones against IT, Tnstinctvey they anticipate
where II must lead and they wisely refuse concession
which, Ike all Others yielded 10 this foul and unnatural
conspiracy against decency and order but stepping
stone 10 other master evils And yet how strange Il i
that with these lessons in their hearts the people Of the
free States should allow themselves TO listen TO the
scandaous suggestions Of those bold bad men who rejoice
over every victory achieved In the North ne triumph no,
only aeainst the constitution only against the Union
but in favor Of new social sysisp which once begun
sure TO deluge continent ~ blood
Evidence of this he found on IN hands Neproo,
vote in few Of the States Of he Union Ohio yt ali her
alleged procviy In their favor has Indignantly refused
them this right Pennsylvania made their exclusion con-
situtional enactment Indiana neither gives them ,bi.
right but refused to allow free ncoo. to remain within
her borders, SO Of Illinois and Of Iowa. New York
though oveun with abolition agators refuses neqroe,
the privilege Of voting The is true OF New Jersey
while Connecticut herself formally repudaied an appeal 10
make them citizens by large vote at the baotbo.e
But s The scheme Of social equality between whites and
blacks Is not abandoned
Such Is the new, the almost public declaration of tho
enemies OF The constitution They demand not only the
overthrow OF political institutions but the destruction
Of the safeguards Of society and the inauguration Of the
worst practices 81 their hateful creed