Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-08
WHO ARE NEGRO W0RsHIpPERs,

WIN AXE WOKSHIPPERS
The present set ofBuchanan proslavery Democrats,
are vastly exercised in regard to what they term,
the negro equality doctrines of the Republican par
ty.
1t is true that they do not find anything in the
platforms of the different conventions Of the Re-
publican party, to justify their charges in this re-
gard, but nevertheless they persistently keep up
their cry of opposition to negro equality.
And since they seem to be so alarmed at tho
strides made heretofore by the darkey, towards
political and social equality with The whites, IL
may be well to see who have been the most active
in securing to the Negro such rights, rs be already
enjoys in Ohio.
BY the constitution Of Ohio adopted in 1902, the
elective franchise was confined to the ,phite race,
and in every part Of that instrument the darkey
found no foothold the State Legislature imbued
with the same spirit, passed a code Of Laws
against Sambo, commonly called the "Black
Laws,'by which, he negro was placed under very
many disabilities, such as an incapacity to sit as
%jurymen, to testify in any case against a white
man, was debarred from any participation in the
benefits of the school laws, or poor laws, and gem
orally was placed under a system Of complete and
absolute vassalage to the whites.
This did not suit tho consciences and tastes of
our Locofoco friends, and they set themselves to
work to place Sambo on as near q level with the
whites as possible. So at the FIRST convenient OPP
portunity the question was brought before q Dem
cratic Supreme Court, land, by the way, Demo-
cratic Supreme Courts are very convenient instru-
ments to carry out party purposes) who forthwith
decided that the word Uhite ,"-only meant ''not
a Niger" and that consequently, any person Who
had in his veins more white blood than black,
was a white man by the terms Of the Constitu-
tion, and this decision was followed and approved
by several Democratic Supreme Courts.
By this decision as we'll as by the individual
efforts of Democrats prior to and since the promul.
CATION of that decision, nearly sll the darkey race
in Ohio, we're admitted to o social and political
equality with the whites. But Notwithstanding
the decisions Of the Democratic Courts, and the
ardent and unwearied e~xertions of individual.
Democrats, there yet remained a few darkies OF
the old stock, who were still suffering and moan
ing under the tyranny Of the obnoxious Black
laws, and thereupon the Democrats having by q
coalition with the ultra abolitionisss, obtained q
party majority in both branches of the Legislature
went to work in lS49, and repealed the odious
Black laws, and there set the last darkey in Ohio
on a political equality with his white brother.
And having called o Democratic Convention TO
form q new Democratic constitution for Ohio, these
"nigger loving" Democrats were so fearful that
some future Supreme Court should interpret their
new constitution so as to exclude their molassos
colored friends from the political privileges of the
whites. that in order to ensure a continuance of the
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of the old constitution in this respect word for word
And in order to assure tile darkey of their deter
r mination to protect him not only in Ohio, but tc
remove his letters in other States, they in the year
1913 and every year afterwards for five years con
t s~ecutively adopted in their state conventions thu
{ following resolution.
T .'Resolved, that the people of Ohio, now as they
t always have done, look upon the institution o
o slavery. in any part ofMe Union, as an evil, ant
t that entertaining these sentiments, they will at al
n times feel it to be their duty to use all power clear
t " given By the terms OF the national compact, t.
= prevent its increase. and to mitigate and finally t.
I, eradicate the evil"
Compare this with the doctrine of the Republi
= can party, that while We ire opposed to the ezten
o sion Of slavery, yet tsat We have nothing whatever
to do. in either mitigating or eradicat,ng the evil
in those states where it already exists.
We appeal to a candid and discerning public
. whether If there be a party in Ohio, worthy of be
. ing reproached as 'nigger worshippers," "woolly
p heads" fanatics" negro equality advocates" i
T is not this same Democratic party, who have Sc
y long wallowed with the niger, that his odor is or
their breeths, his features stamped on their coun
o tenances, his wool in their teeth, and his nam'
everlastingly in their mouths.