The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-01-28

Chlnese expedition will be ready to sal
IN April next.
Negroes versus White Men
A republican member of our Leeisla.
ture, now sitting at Columbus, has Of
fefedla resolution to inquire into The
propriety of SO amending article S. se,.
tion l, Of the State Constitution, as to
provide that no alien shall have the
qualifications of an c~lector until after
the expiration of one year from and af.
ter the Issuing of final papers of natu-
ralizatibn, which proposition received a
decided majority in the Senate, which
is overwhelmingly black republican
An6ther member of the same enlightened
pdrty has moved to strike out the word
white in the following clause of the
Constitution: a'7i 50 sof'ss"}t oi
Sc etion /. Every WHITE male citizen al
the U nited States, of the age of twenty. one
years, who shall have been resident Of the
Stale one year next preceding the election and
of the county, township or ward in which he
r. sides, such time as may be provided BY law
shall have the qualifications of an eleetor and
be entitled to vote at all elections" .a,
These two propositions are favorite
measures of the black republican party
in this State, headed by Gov. Chase.
They are the basis of a proposed com.
promise and armistice between the know
nothipgs aud black republicans. The
idea is, that Sam will consent to let
Sambo in, provided Hans and Pat are
kept out. Such, at least, is the bid
which the negropholists make. That
the American party is willing to degrade
its color and race, and to defame its an
cestry, by consenting to this stigma on
them, We shall only believe when this
infamous proposition is formally accept
ed by them. -
The foreign born citizen, who has re-
sided in this State five years, who has
become Unidentified with it's society and
business, who is the social equal of its
native citizens, who may sit at the same
table with us, who marry our daughter
or other relative, who may be our part
ner IN business, u agent or confidential
friend-cannot exercise political rights,
though a naturalized citizen, until he has
been here six years; while the fugitive
negro slave, from the south, who may,
for adj we know, have been born in Afri.
ca, is to be invested with this right in
twelve months after he escapes into the
State. In other words, the African is
to. enjoy special privileges over the
European ; he is to be the pet, the IA
%vorite, the darling of the freeborn white
descendants of the European races of
this continent. We have no patience to
examine this proposition, in reference to
its policy, its danger, its effects upon
the material prosperity of the country,
upon the State, III attracting thither all
the free negroes of the south. We are
content to place before our readers its
more serious consequences 10 the degre-
dation of our race. These bold and
impudept movements present, too, seri-
u food for the consideration of those
foreign born citizens who have been de-
luded into the ranks of the party from
which these degrading propositions pro-
ceed. 1t is vain, as well as base in
them, to imagine that the effects will
only fall upon those who come after
them. IF this discrimination against
the European born citizen is just aid
right, and is so recognized, it will justify
further discrimination agaiEstthose who
stood in the same attitude. but who, by
the neglect and omission of our prede.
c~essors, have been allowed advantages
over their c%ountrymen who may come to
the country hereafter. Concede once
the justice or legality of a distinction
between citizens of Ohio. with reference
to the place of their birth, as you do by
adopting this resolution, and it will be
equally just and lawful to discriminate
against those born abroad, who have
previously acquired citizenship. A ma
tive white or back man may be invested
with the right to hold office, or exercise
other franchise, after one years residence
in the State, while he who was born
abroad, though a resident and citizen for
a quarter of a century, might be exclu-
ded from the right of holding Office, or
other valuable rights, entirely, or, at
least, after a very long residence. In
fine, just what the know nothings prac-
tice, it is proposed now to legalize-to
taboo and degrade the naturalized citi
zen with the additional wrong and in
suit of placing him, in political rights,
below the African. Such are the scheme,
aim and design of the party which, at
the recent election, secured the vote of
a large class of naturalized citizens,
a~vowedly to promote the cause of free
dom, and strike the shackles from the
negro, but, as it has turned out, really
to degrade themselves below the objects
of their misplaced sympathy and pity
Cincinnati Enquirer.