Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-10-10
Negro Equality.


days. Negro suffrage, negro testimony, ne
Gro education, are the topics that they dwell
Spon longest and leave with the greatest re-
luctance. 1t is a new lead into the resour-
ces of popular prejudice, and they are I'M
nroyinr it with remarkable activity. But it
IL only Necessary to search the records to
exhibit their Inconsistency, both in practice
and argument; for instance
They contend that the reception OF negro
Testimony. the elevation Of the negro to po-
litical equality, and the education OF the
little blackamoors, tends to produce ANAL
gamation. ln Massachusetts negroes attend
the schools, vote as freely rs any body, and
are even eligible to Office nay, Il black man
actually did once sit in the Legls .ature,
having been elected as the result OF II Joke.
Now for the fact: the census shows small
er mulatto population, as compal ed with the
total number of negroes iii the State, than
anv other State in the Union. Now compare
these facts with the state of things III any
slav eholdiug State, and we, think you Will
make a discovery. Farther: If the Pro-
Slavery Democracy are so radically and nat.
urally hostile tt every thing savorlng OF ne
gro equality, why have they never proposed,
in Massachusetts,, to change this state OF
things?
In New Hampshire negroes possess the
same privileges as in Massachusetts. They
were conferred and have always been assent
ed to by this self-same party, which, until
within two or three years, has had almost
uncontested control of the State.
,. In several Southern States negro testimony
is and has long been received, and where
this rule was not established by that party,
as has generally been the case, it has always
been acquiesced in by them.
In New York every negro who possesses
freehold of $3.50 can vote. The privilege
was conferred by the Pro-Slayery Democra-
cy, and the discrimination in favor OF the
rich nigger and against the poor niger Is
due to their Democratic proclivities.
In Louisiana free niggers vote; they vote
in a body for the Democratic ticket; and
they are led up to the polls by Democratic
Jemagoeues. who electioneer them and herd
with them for the sake of their votes. SO it
would be here. The ignorant and the cred
hlous are the easiest deluded by Democratic
demagogues, and if the niggers of Iowa were
possessed of the right Of suffrage, not only
would they vote the Democratic ticket, BIZ
Ben. Samuels would be the first man to hug
a Buck Niger who had vote to give.
Farther: Negro equality Or inequality Is
not the question. 1t is Freedom or Slavery,
as natural and constil utlonal right: a
umestinn which affects all men, the white
Niqoer interest and the White Nan's interest,
respectively, as a practical question, 1t is
this very party that is laborng tc ex' end
and establish the former over ali the fresh
and virgin soil of the nation, while the Re
publican party demands that it shall be Sc
cured and sacredly preserved for the advan-
taee of FREE WnrrE LABOR! Who Will deny
that that is the practical question, and that
the relative position of the two great parties:
And this party that is trying o ga her lit
tie fresh strength by a pitiful and baseless
appeal to the niger prejudlces. is the p'rty
:. that is moving heaven and earth, employing
the army of the United States, overturnlne
the Constitution and Illuminating eZtra-Judl
cial opinions to render the Niger Interest
paramount over all the wide territory OF the
nation, and to either drire ont free white
labor or reduce 1t TO an equality r'th Mo'
of debased and seruile Niggers More
please to remember that it was this same
partv, also, that elevated to the Vice Presl-
dency Dick johnson with his Black Wlfe
and Mulato Daughters, and that never
ceased to honor the first prominent citizen
of the Republic who sought to give practical
force to the odious doctrines Of Amalgama.
tion by taking an African as the partner Of
his bosom, and endeavoring to Introduce
their progeny into Washington society :
Gate CITY.