Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-09-19

NcyrophobIa.
One would suppose from readingsthe
sham Democratic platform and hearing the
fulminations of Democratic orators against
'niggers" that our fair State was in danger
of instruction and revolution by them
The valiant knight of Virginia Democracy,
Mr.. Samuels, tonjures up from the ssvasty
deep'' Of his Imagination an embryo army
Of sable enemies to the State being taught
in our public schools, and forthwith levels
his lance against them, ready for desperate
conflict. The supreme Righteousness of his
position is apparent when it is known that
the last census Of this State shows colored
population Of only 27l-less than one hun
dred Of whom, perhaps, are children.
Against these one hundred defcnceless ne
gro babies, then, is to be waged this pro-
scriptive and e1terminative warfare. Mr..
Samuels, however, as our readers have been
already informed, does not fear the effect
upon his own high-born offspring by con-
tamination in the public schools with these
one hundred black squallers. No, indeed
They are not allowed to be disgraced by at
! tending the public schools. 1t is for the
ignoble ruzgus, poor mems children, herded
in the common schools, that he is going to
protect these schools from the invasions of
of young darkies.
The Chicago Tribune, while alluding to
Mr.. Samuels' canvass of this State, thus ia
cetiously remarks:
One would suppose that candidate fore
| ed to do battle with one hundred young mu
lattoes was in bad way, politically speak
/ ing that he was destitute o. facts and hard
up for slang. That we have not misstated
his lofty stand, We present the Virginia
platform as given in the Davenport Demo
crdt:
"Mr. Sanuels, in his speeches, expresses
great solicitude for the efficiency and purity
Of our common schools, that the poor may
receive an education, without having their
morals corrupted by association with the
children of negroes, who, like their parents,
are vicious, yul gar, and full Of nigger
SONGS"
| Think Of free born young Trishman trot-
! ting home from school s'full of Niger
songs - Stuff him with purgatory, fill him
with twanging psalms, immense him all over
in do1olosies, but never leopard his eternal
interests with the notes of "Uncle Ned.'-
Mr.. Samue!s, your mission is discovered. -
You are the appointed instrument to save
the youth Of Iowa from imperlling their
souls with the heresy Of cold Virginny neb
Der tire.' The Democracy Of Iowa are in
the greatest possible danger from the black
songsters on whom Mr. Samuels has opened
the campaign thus brilliantly. What care
they for the rebels in Kansas, while one
hundred niger babies are plotting treason
in their midst, and filling their own darlings
with unconstitutional E'nigger songs?" Sc
dition is rife in Iowa! Samuels 10 the res
cue
Mr.. Samuels pledges himself to veto any
law that may be passed admitting negro
children to the public schools The issue is
thus made up: One hundred infant darkies,
armed to the teeth with s'nigger songs
against the hosts Of Iowa Democracy, led on
by Virginia snob. We bet on the little
niggers.
Appropos to this subject, the Burlington
Hawkeye thus pertinently alludes to the
canal gamation" talk Of MIR. Samuels and
others of his party.
Is it then at home we are to look for this
danger Of an unholy and unnatural mixture
and corresponding deterioration Of the races?
Are the people Of Iowa in danger of loosins
the instincts of nature-the pride of caste
which marks the Anglo Saxon race, and Of
minging their blood with that of the lowest
of all the bireds? Are our young men en-
amored Of the charms Of Dinah, and our
young ladies casting their eyes upon ebony
Apollos and Othellos? Is this the rock up
on which, as State, there is danger of our
splitting? Is it from dangers like these that
Samuels would warn the people of Iowa !?
If so, we advise him to return and preach to
his friends and neighbors in Virginia, where
the races are yearly being mixed = the slaves
growing whittier and whittier with each sue
ceeding generation. Here in Iowa no warn
ing is needed. The love of the African is
not carried so far, nor made so practical.