The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-10-10
VOLUME Z.


and other klnureu "ouSoe"''
own party has an unfortunate "record Oh
those subject which cries out IN thundei
tones against them. That record they can
not escape or drive out of sight Lake
"Banquo's ghost" it will not ''down" at then
bidding. 1t stares them in the face from al
most every page of the national history. lr
nearly all the older States of the Union, the
Democratic party has at various times, in the
most clear unequiv ocal manner, affirmed and
supported the doctrine of "Negro Suffrage
and Negro Equality" 1t has asserted hun
dreds of times through its great lights and
oracles the political equality of the negro
race.n In all the New England States IN
the Middle States in Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina and many other States, the
srreat immaculate Sham Democratic party
has separately born aloft the barner OF Ne
gro Suffrage and Negro Equality What
say YOU at that, We Sham Democrats, who are
eternally barking and bowling like "gobllns
damned" about ':Niggers"
Had YOU not better clear your own
skirts of all connection with "Negro Equal
itv doctrines" before you raise the rogue'S
crv of stop thief! !" The greatest lights OF
our nation, your Jeffersons, your Madl'onS'
Jacksons. Monroes, Van Burens-not to
mention that fickering light, Frank Pierce,
have all affirmed the citizenship and potica!
equality Of the Negro.
The Democratic party framed the CenSti-
tutions of Maine and New Hampshire
Those Constitutions sanction Negro Suffrage
and Negro Equality in the broadest terms
and yet the Democratic party in those States,
led on by Pierce. Woodbury., Wells and
Clifford have always sustained those Consti-
tutions and s,rme to support Negro Equall-
ty - By the Constitutions of the other n.
E. States Negroes have the right to vote, sit
on iuries, hold office, (if they can get elected
lust as they have in New Hampshire and
Maine and yet the Democrat party, al
though frequently in power in those States,
has never once attempted to destroy that 'hor-
rid abominaton'' of Negro Suffrage! To this
day Negroes vote in those States, and the
Democratic party has never raised issue
against it. Verify, consistency thou art
jewell So Negro suffrage has prevailed in
New York, until very recently, with the APP
proval Of the Democracy : and so it has at
different times in New Jersey, Pennsylvania
and Delaware. In Maryland down to 1903
Negroes voted and exercised all the rights of
State-the State of Taney-the new Judicial
light that has Just burst upon the Sham De-
mocracy.
The Legislature Of Virginia in 1888 passed
an act allowing Negroes all the rights of 9TH
er men, and re-enacted the same law in 1876!
Soft seems that the" Unterrified Democracy"
of the ha7ghty and aristocratic Old Domn-
ion > in that day went il for Negro Suffrage
and Negro Eq quality. Negroes could go to
the polls and vote side by side with the great
lights of the day then, and nobody according
to history was hurt by reason of it" mira
ble dictu" Let GoRMAN, PENMAN, and the
Pioneer bear this in mind. 1t must console
them wonderfully. In North Carolina, too,
another proud Slave State, Negroes voted and
stood on precisely the same political footing
with white men down to the year 1886 -
And then in the Convention to revise the
Constitution, Negro Suffrage was struck out
by only five majority; and now there are
men in Saint Paul who voted side by side
with Negroes in that State, and saw Simon
Pure" Democrats do TIE same. Wasn't that
wonderful? Had GoRMAN, or SIBLEY, or
Col. ID. "A. ROBERTSON, seen the like, they
would have gone into "convulsions," and died
on the spot!
But said, JEFFERSON and other Demo-
cratic Presidents and oracles had affirmed
and endorsed "Negro Citizenship" and "Ne-
gro Equality" and will prove it. In 1907
British Ship-ofwar Leopard, seized and
1ed from the U. S. Frigate Chesapeake
'np'''s "colored seamen' who were then
Navy. President JEFFERSON,
:, =, "u' his Secretary of State,
through Mr.. MADIso
the outrage from
demanded satisfaction fo' 1 demanded the
the British Government, an, -,
return of these seamen Of "AfrlL
ON the ground that they were ''nat.
American citizens" That was the Gerry
guange used. Mr. MONROE, then our Minis
ter to England, demanded the reclamation of
these "colored seamen" of the British Gov
ernment, in which demand he stated that they
were "Negroes and native American citi
zens." The British Government refusing to
return these "colored men," whom Judge
TANEY says Chad no rights which white men
were bound to respect" the Congress of the
United States took the matter in hand at
its next session. A committee was appoint
ed to inquire into the citizenship of these
''colol ed seamen." That committee called OH
the Sc cretary of State, Mr.. Mi;qIsoN, for proof
as their American citizenship &C., and after
a caref nj examination reported 'that it had
been iqcontestaJly proved, as the accompany
ing do cuments will show that VIM. WARE and
JOHN SrRAHAsr, (the names OF the seamen,)
are ci tizens of the United States"
And that was Democratic Committee,
appointed by Democratic Congress, and
sustained, too, in its conclusions. There IS
{. Negro citizenship" Negro Suffrage" and
Negro Equality" for you, "ye Nisser
screechin 2, Sham Democrats" with ven
geance! 1t comes from the regular Demo-
cratic * MINT" too. There is no "Federai-
ism" about it, and no "Black Republican,
ISM" 1t was "Simon Pure" Democratic
doctrine, endorsed by JEFFERSON, MADISON,
and MONROE, and affirmed as such by an over
whelmingly Democratic Congress! And you,
modern Sham Democrats, who rave and howl
so fiercely about "Nigger Suffrage" if you
had lived then, would have endorsed this same
doctrine of Niger Suffrage" or Tox JET
FERsoN would have kicked you out Of the
Democratic Party.
And yet you profess to be the old Demo-
cratic Party Of JEFFERSON and MADISON,