The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1860-08-24

on which tho Democratic speakers
Of this county delight to dwell, is the
negro question. They have negro
formula that they go through with
as regular ss clock work, and do il
up in style that would be no die
cledit to an organ. grinder and his
monkey. Not having argumentupon
which to rely, they occupy thsiy
,;.s~ "..J .niuso tbe;- -.ifencc, inl
making false charges against the
Republicans, such as that they are
in favor of negro cquality-usina
their own elegant diction, Cd tha
they are in favor Of marrying ne
grocs, eating with negroes, sleepin,
with negroes, kissing negroes" &,.
Such is the wool and web OF all ther
speeches; such is the burden OF Their
cnt and dry, stercotyped trade
Take away from them, this their
bogus political stock in trade, when
they como before the people, and
they would become as dumb as stat
ucs.
The citizens Of this county arc
well aware that these same politicians
have been harping on this same
subject for the past five years, pre-
dieting, all the while, that should the
Republicans succeed. ner'o eqnnlitx.
would be established, amalgamation
would follow in the train OF n host
of evils, arising from the cOmming.
ling OF the African and tho white
races. Well, what have these foolish
declarations amounted to! The Re
publicans have been in power, in the
etate, ever since, and what has come
to pass of all that these false seers
have foretold. Is not the social con.
d;tion Of the people as good to-day,
to cay the least of it, as when the
Democracy were in poweri
But while they are ranting about
negro equality and amalgama,ion,
where such things are entirely un.
known-never meditated, they have
not one word to say of the workings
of slavery, which their policy has
been extending into our free terrific
ry, and which has made Of the South
one mammoth house of prostitution
The last census shows, that in the
Democratic state Of Virginia alone
there are 10000 mulattoes. who
has been guilty Of amalgamation il
that state? Let Democrats answer
II Democrats have such All abhor
renee for anal algamation, how come
, these 60, 900 mulut,ocsl
1t is fact, moreover, observabl,
e in the case of all who are familiar
with the condition Of the colorc,
-. population in the South, tha. such {
thing as a full.bloodcd African, il
the greatest rarity imaginable. w,
viii venture the assertion. that ther,
will not be found one in fifty Of pur,
African lineage. To what is thi
owing. To the influence Of free in
stitutions, which Republicans favor
or to the institution Of slavery, whicl
the Democracy have been extending
= 1t is most Dptorious that the virtue
> and the chastity of the female slave
are at the mercy of the master. Sh,
! ia reduced to the condition of n chat
tel, and in this helpless and depend
ent condition. in not few cases, h,
makes her his concubine, and after
wards sells his own offspring, hi
own flesh and blood, with rs little
compunction as Northern Farmer
would his cattle.
II the African slave trade is no
revived, within fifty years it vii
be very difficult to distinguish in
point Of color, between master and
slave, so RAPIDLY is tho Democratic
institutions OF the South bleaching
tn: hitherto sable African. Do our
Democratic stnmpers have anything
to say in regard to the Visible adj
mixture" In the South, where it has
become almost universal, and where
it is not the result of marriage, but
what is far meaner, the result OF the
advantage taken Of uniortu- ate ie.
males by their brutal, licentious mas
ters, while held in the condition OF
slaveryl They can talk about q
manufactured story as to the mar
riage of some seventy blacks and
whites together, in Massachusetts
but never make mention of the thou
sands upon thousands of mulattoes,
qua!roons, and ostoroons, in the
South, whose color is prima facia
evidence, not only OF tho general
prevalence Of the "admixture of Al
rican blood" but of the influence of
slavery in demoralizing and de-
grading both races.