M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-09-24

hostile communities. When such a
feeling prevails, the peace and well
being Of the body polite are no lon
ger within the control Of the just and
prudent, Of any party; but at the mer-
cy Of the first knave or mailman who
may be found to rush upon destruc-
ton fertile sake of anarchy. Thei
fires ofhate, so insidiously kindled by |
the enemies of the Union, burn low
at first but if not extinguished by
your efDrts in due season, they will
sometime burst forth in a general con.
Aagration. The Committee earnest
ly call upon you to stop that in the
green tree, which may not be stayed
in the dry. :, ~ ras'
The Comlnittee believe that upon
the success of the Democratic party
the preservation of our race pure and
intact, in Ohio, mainly depends
They proclaim, once and for all, their
unalterable conviction, in the grada-
ton ofraces. The white race ofpeo-
pie in the United States, like the an
cient Romans and the English, the
offspring Of the most intellectual, en-
ergetic, persevering and warlike va
rieties Of the Caucasian people, is
believed to be the highest type of man
yet developed on the globe. The Graf.
ty and savage tribes of this continent
withered at its nearapproacli, by rea.
son ofsome mysterious agency never
explained, but never by any barbarians
long withstooa. 1t supplanted the
French in all the vast possessions be-
low the Great Lakes. 1t elected the
former occupants Of the Northern and
Western shores OF the Gulf Of Mexico.
1t appropriated the coast of the Pacif-
ic from the tbirty.second to the forty
ninth degree of North latitude. 1t has
reduced to its dominion all the inter
mediate territory between the first
early settlements at Plymouth, and on
the banks of James River, and the
distant regions where the waters Of
the Oregon minglc with the sea and
beating back, all over the continent,
the mongrel descendants of the degen.
crate Spaniard, the Indian end the ne
gro, it marches on the broad path Of
Empire, reaching from shore to shore
ofboth Oceans, with laundering tread.
To keep this great superior race un-
mixed with the African, in Ohio, is
an Imperative duty you owe to man
kind large, Ge wpil as to yourselves
and your immediate descendants
Ohio, in the centre of tue Confedera-
cy and upon the borders of two slave
States cannot trife with this grave
question, as the States of the remote
North and East may do. The negro
element is and must be much larger
in your State than in Maine or Mas
sachusetts. Its increase from abroad
should be discouraged rather than in.
vited. The history Of the South
American Republics, of Mexico
and the Empire of Brazil, holds out
an impressive warning Of the abjeCt
degradation which never fails to over
take the white race tolerating anal
gamation with the negro. Nor doe
the history of the world furnish sin
Gle instance in which the politica
T equality ola large negro clement wa
established with the whites, but ther
followed amalgamation on the heels Q
, it with untold evils in its train. Th
, barriers of organized public sentimen
once broken down by the political en-
, franchisement of the negro, the grad
ual decay of individual pride and sell
respect soon ensues; the public sen
. timentis more and more debauched a
the relations of the races become NOR
intimate; and the social intercours
+ between them, which was, at frs
confined to the vicious and degraded
at last obtains throughout the con
}. munity.
The repeatedly declared sentiment
;. of the chiefs and leaders Of the r,
d publican party in this State, the avov
# ed determination of its candidates fC
!. Governor, 1t. Governor, and Suprem
!. Judge, and the recorded and reiteri
!. ted publications of its leadingjournal
!. in favor of establishing the equalit
v of the negro with yourselves, justii
i the Committee in cautioning you
IS interpose against their insidious d
Is signs, which, if accomplished, mu
h surely result in striking" Ohio o
Il of the great brotherhood of white con
e munities. 1t is your duty to frustra
e. their monstrous purpose. 40.
,. The Committee point with pride
't the firm and statesmanlike attituC
>. of the President and the Adminisrr
ton in reference to the affairs of kaE
le sas. The determination Of Mr.. b
70 chanan to use all his constitution
il power, to secure to the people of tt
al Territory the free exercise of their su
1t trages upon the adoption OF the Sta
n Constitution, meets the unqualifie
i approval of the whole National d
r. ,r mocracy, North and South. In Il