Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-08-06
THE WHITE MANS PARTY"
A DIFFERENCE IN DEGREE, BUT NOT IN PRINcIpL

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The Kansas Constitutional Convention has COM
plesed it's !abors. and adjourned without day. 1t
was eminently a Republican gathering, having
hardly enough Democratic members to even re-
tard its operations The labor it has accomplished
be it good or bad-the Republicans alone are re-
sponsible for. The Constitution it presents for
the consideration Of the people, is one which is
approved by the Republican leaders Of that Terri
tory, and so far as we are aware. has received no
condemnation from the party elsewhere.
1t will be remembered that when the Constitu-
ton of Oregon was before Congress in connection
with the question of the admission of that State
into the Union, the Republicans outside OF that
territory generally opposed its admission because
the Constitution of the embryo State forbade the
settling of negroes there, and Mr.. Thayer OF Mass.
and a few other Republican members of Congress
we're denounced in unmeasured terms because
they did not act with the party in refusing to
crown it as one of the full grown members of the
Federal family. The anti Democratic doctrine
that negroes had no right to settle in Oregon,
which was shamelessly proclaimed as a part of
the organic law of the State must. of necessity, be
repudiated by every honest mind that has learned
oven the A B c of human rights but the out
rage upon the colored man, which the Republicans
of Kansas have inflicted, through the State Consti-
sutional Convention, is the same 10 principle, and
no more to be justified by policy, or palliated be-
cause of The pressure of circumstances, than rob-
berry, OF any other wrong. ln fact, it rs robbery.
Robbery, judged by the principles of cur Declara-
ton of MISUNDERSTANDING viewed in the light
Of m,n's equal brotherhood.
II am a man." exclaims the negro, "and there
fore entitled to all the rights which pertain to hui
manity. These rights l received from God, and
If your laws and constitutions refuse to recognize
them, then are your laws and constitutions false
to humanity"
eff you are a man." responds the South. "you
are nevertheless of an inferior and degraded race
fit only to be q newer of wood and drawer of
water, my chattei slave"
"You go too far says Democratic Oregon,
"though tho negroes are greatly inferior to our cit
liens, we will not make them slaves. We don't
want slavery here; and as we don't want negroes
here, we solemuly declare they shall never become
residents of our State"
"Hold," says Republican Kansas, "you both go
too far. Although the negroes are inferior, that is
no reason they thould be held as slaves, or denied
q homestead settlement. Ours is the true ortho-
dox standard, ours the true Republican doctrine.
We don't want slavery any more than does Oregon,
and we don't much want the negroes either. We
have therefore abridged their rights of citizenship
denied them the elective franchise, and compe
them to obey laws they have no voice in making
So entirely are We convinced OF their inferiority
and so desirous to demonstrate it to the world
that while we permit an Irishman or a German tC
vote, no matter how ignorant or how degraded
provided he has been in America a few years, We
deny that righ. to the native born negro nc
matter how moral, how intelligent, or how wealthy
he may be-"
Robbery, robbery all Robbery of all hi,
rights for the South to hold him as a slave. Rob
berry of his right of citizenship, and his right tc
dwell where he will upon Code %footstool, for Ore
gon to exclude him from her soil. Robbery of hi.
elective franchise, of his Representative voice in
the govern ment, for Kansas to treat him as she has
done and this too, while her people were perform
their nominations before the altar of Liberty.
Truly has it been affirmed that the Republican
party is a Unite mans party and he who afirmf
that it is a party which advocates freedom for all,
ahuman rights party, either ignorantly ~falsifes, OF
else is an intentional deceiver. II never made
such pretensions. and if it had, its uniform prac
tiee would prove it an imposter.