The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-09-03
Negro Equality UnbluSlaingly A.
vowed.

II the rickety craft which carries the Black
Republicans ever weathers the head land Of AZ
RIGA we are much mistaken. We have good
deal of sympathy for some Of the crew, who
have been entrappcd into this "Flying Dutch
man. sort of voyage but not bit for Chase, the
Vanderdecken of the party. He and his Off
GERS have resolved that the ship shall weather
the African land or go to pieces upon the lee
shore. 1t would ease her to edge off towards
America, but Vanderdecken has sworn that it
shall not be DONE "She shall weather the
Cape, by -, or sail till the day Of Judgment"
The metaphor we have used is strictly true
ofChase and the leading men of his party. Lo-
rain county is one of the great Republican
stronghods. Next to Ashtabulait possesses the
greatest influence ofany county in the Reserve,
the section which dictates the policy of the Re-
publican party, and dragons the unfortunates
of other portions Of the State into abject sub
mission to the most lanatical and revolving doc
trines. Negro suffrage and the complete social
equality of the negro is the favoritc dogma of
those Republicans, and they are resolutely bent
upon compelling its reception in other sections
of the State. The resolutions of their party in
convention pronounced in the most unequivocal
manner in favor of the doctrines. Their mem
ber in the Legislature moved to strike the word
''white" out of the Constitution They con-
troll and direct the black Republican party; and
and are determined to make it the means
Of the Africanization of Ohio. Policy
restrains them for little while and this they
avow. Public sentiment is not yet so abased as
to tamely suffer the unparalleled outrage. But
they bide their time. They are every day fam
iliarizing their supporters with the contemplat-
ed design and its odious results Chase wants
it acknowledged that colored people ought to
have rights and privileges which they have not
now" This was his avowal in his Aate speech
at Cincinnati. The negro men own the State
Journal, body and soul. They have made the
Editor put himself on record in this wise: Gas
far as the right ofsulfrage or any other right OF
citizenship is concerned, he (the negro) should
be placed ON an equality with the rest of man
kind" Finally, the new recruit, the latest and
only acquisition of the party. in this campaign,
finds it necessary to give in his unqualified ad-
hesion to the negro suffrage doctrine, and insti-
tute comparisons between white men and ne
groes to the declared advantage of the blacks.
The sentiments Of the directors of Black Re-
publican party, the Western Reserve abolition
lists, should be understood by the people. They
are substantially embodied in the language o.
one Of the speakers at the late ratification meet
ing in Lorain County Mr.. Washburne, lead
ing man among them, said:
ale didn't care fig if the pesky Democrats
did call him negro worshiper. If said he
because stand up for the equality Of the ne
gro, socialy and politically, with the white man
they call me negro worshipcr, let them do it.
As for him he should persevere to the,end."
The position of Ashtabula is still more bold
and aggressive. The great law giver of the black
Republican party, the old man truculent Josh
/ tia X, Giddings Of that district, long ago declar
ed that he looked forward to the day when the
negroes Of America would rise with British
arms in their hands and oyerwhelm the whites
From all this the conclusion is inevitable, thai
The white men who vote for Chase and his Col
leagues, will concede that nineteen out Of TWEEN
| ty Of themselves are no better than mullattoes
and not half as good as ''ace-of-spades' negroes
| Statesman.