, 1859-09-09
Political.

/ THE MASSACHUSETTS AMENDNENT-THE
! GERMAN rLACED BELOW THE NEGRo.-MaS-
sachusctts has decided that foreigners shall
not vote until two years after they shall
Ihaye been naturalizCd 1t is said that Yer
mont, State which the Black Republicans
delight to call all their own, intends TO out
do Massachusetts in this business, and make
the time five instead Of two years. We
| persume the Black Republican States gen
orally will take up this matter, and will
continue to improve upon each other, rs to
the length Of time thot shall claNse after q
! foreigner becomes q citizen Of the United
States before he shall he llowcd to vote !;
and, by the time this tide Of reform shall
reach those Northwestern States, in which
the Black Republicans have the ascenden-
cy, they will extend the time to tweatgorc
gears, according to the terms Of the oaths
taken in the Know Nothing lodges about
five years ago, 10y all the Black Rcpubli-
cans Of Illinois, and by at least three
fourths of the rank and file. We com
mend this subject to the careful considera-
tion of those Germans in Illinois who have
been humbugged by the cry Of 'Slave Oil
1 garchy," bleeding Kansas" &c, into the
support Of Black Republicanism. Massa-
chusctts, the mother Of Black Republican
ism, allows negroes to vote, but denies that
privilege to the Germans, for, at least, two
years after they become citizens, and if the
Germans of Illinois go on assisting their
enemies, they may live 10 see the day, (not
far in the future, when negroes here will
be placed over their heads, and put in a
position to hel their white enemies to vote
away the privileges guaranteed to them by
the Federal Constitution. 1t is the nature
and spirit of Black Repubicanism to place
the negro above the foreigners. Give it
the power and it will DO in every State
what it has done in Massachusetts. Let
the Germans Of the Northwest reflect upon
the matter.-ChicagO Herald.
THE ONLY SAFE PARrY.-"I,et the mon
grels howl y So exclaims the GettysJHygI
Compiler, writing on the conduct of the
Opposition. 1t continues The country
will continue to depend upon the old time
tried Democratic party to uphold and pro-
tect the Constitution and the Union of the
States, as iu times past. In the language
OF the son OF Henry Clay, the Democratic
party is the only organization lohich has the
l0iH aud The pOcoer 10 Prescrrc Ae Cai0n from
diSSolatiOp.
MORE BLACK REPUBLICAN IMBEcnHY.-I
A number of Black Republican newspa-
pers of Connecticut can stand the misman-
agement and mal-legislation of their party
no longer. They are pitching into them
in most refreshing manner The Win
sted Herald (B. r. says: "We confess
we are ready and willing to see Demo
cratic Legislature in Connecticut-if all
the republican legislatures must be like
those past three or four years ~
OBERLIN-So embittered is Oberlinism
to anything southern, that at enc time the
faculty and students resolved to use no
produce of slave labor-or course they cut
cotton and eschewed tobacco altogether
An ardent young student, deeply imbued
with this anti-slavery sentiment, happened
to think, one night, after retiring to bed,
that he was between pair of cotton
sheets, out he jumped, took blanket and
slept on the floor until morning. 1t was
rather a hard bed, but it was better to
rest little, and turn over often, than snooze
all night in the sweat Of q negro. Upon
waking up in the morning, he found that
the carpet, on which he slept, was half
cotton p 4
Bay- The doctrine of popular sovereign
ty is just this lst-Non-interferenc by
Congress with slavery in the Territories,
either to establish or prohibit it. I'd
Leaving to the people Of the Territories,
to manage it, in their own way, subject
only to the constitution of the United
States
We indorSe that doctrine. - Oregon
Statesman.
Our sentiments precisely.-ED. Pioneer
B6s- The Salem Adrocate gives the fol-
lowing accurate and concise enumeration
of Mr.. Buchanan's abors as President of
the United States:
He has accomplished everything he
proposed in the outset, so far as the pub
lie agencies have rested with him he has
conducted our affairs, both at home and
abroad, with prudence, sagacity, and an
eye single to the honor and welfare of the
nation he has preserved international
peace and domestic harmony through the
most perplexing difficulties and delicate
complications he has met every political
issue of the times manrully and honestly,
rejected all temporizing policy in dealing
with them, and firmly adhered to his con
yictions Of public duty, regardless of per-
sonol popularity and local prejudices. He
has upheld the integrity of the constitn-
ton, preserved the Union unimpaired, and
l will transmit TO his successor an example of
official purity and patriotism unsurpassed
in our republican annals lie has doue all
that an honest and able statesman could
do, in few eventful years, to carry out
the traditional policy of the government :;
and, on his own behalf, he asks of his fel-
low-citizens nothing more than to be per-
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