Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-09-29

by nonAcE aREELEY.

. | ny VI DlAly Thousand persons NuOily VI
:. partially Of Negro blood in all the Free
{ States, perhaps five times that number
b AS the Christianity Of our day, even the
q worst of it, recognizes these dcspScd PART
n abs as having souls to be saved or lost, it is
not necessary to conceive it that they are
human bongs--a portion Of that great fami-
ly OF Man which, our Declaration Of Inde.
pcndence asserts, God has created equal and
endowed with certain iualicnable rights
among which are life, liberty, and the pur
suit of happiness.
These Blacks are not an attactive as
t they are not iavoritc class They have ereat
/ faults, ms all degraded, down-troddep tribes
r orraccs have, aud always have had. Wbn,
{ lsraellte OF amy age would be lkoyto re-.
S gard with complaccncy an account, ,!by one of
) PharaohS hlStOrlOgraphCrs of the descend
) ants of Jacob as they dwelt in the land of
! Goshen in the earlier prime Of Moses
Q The Blacks among us are often yicions
lndolent, dissipated, as too many Whites
are likewise, without half their eycnse
The blacks are too generally ignorant what
f have been and are their opportunities for
learning They are vicious but how de-
fcient their inducements to virtue con,pnred
with those OF Whites They are groyelipr
in their tastes and appetites what is their
Indictment to nObleneSs and self-denying cf.
fort Let him do his best, and let that be
the equal of mans best, and what can the
, Negro achieve The world is full of di,con-
tented, unhappy, Respondent Whites but
which OF them, in the very agony of this
despair, ever wishes himself u Negro
Can any Christian seriously doubt that.
if Jesus OF Nazareth were this day on earth.
and New York his abiding place, he would
regard with Indignation the Treatment of
this curshcd castc--its rigorous exclusion
alike from fashionable churches and from
, fashionable hotels, save in some attitude
which hespeaks their deSpied Condition 2
a Suppose the Savior Of Mankind shonIl Wv
!. some miraculous interposition, be permittetl
q to preach in Gracechurch, or Trinity and
should there see notorious libertines in the
social and swiuders in the commerci,I world
. occupying seats Of HONOR while humble
saints guilty of dark skin where either shnt
" out or rirdly confined to the "negro pew.
:, would not that arrangemcnt he likely to find
i o place among the topics of His discourse
: But the Christ of the poor and the lowly
, does not preach and is seldom preached in
such costly and sumptuous edifces-had He
done so, it could not have taken John Jay
ten years of steady, resolute struggle to Sc
cure 10 the single congregation of colorcd
Episcopalans in this City its clear coustitu-
tional right to be represented in the Diocesan
= Convention. Only in spirit, and in the uni
versal applicability of the great, universal
truths He uttered while on earth does He
now say to the oppressor and his parasites,
the advocate Of Mans inalenabc rights
= and his hackers, "Inasmuch as ye did it
: unto one of the least of these my disciples,
ye did it, unto me-" Let US consider, ther,
in the light of eternal piaciple, the present
attitude of the organized, embedded Chris
tianily of New York toward the people of
color provideutially among u7.
= There are in this city some three hundred
: Christian churches while from its presses
= hardly less than twenty PrOfessedly Christian
periodicals, are stately issued, Those
churches, those periodicals, necessarily exert
a very great influence over the opinions,
the acts of perhaps One Million Voters.
u A large portion of those voters are called
to vote in November directly on the ques-
= tion-'Shall Black men in this state hold
c and enjoy the Right of Suffrage on the
u same terms with White men or shall they
alone be denied voice in making and
c modifying the laws which they must obey,
/ and in choosing the rulers by whom those
d laws are to be enforced ? Can there be
= any serious doubt as to which is the essen
y TALLY CHRISTIAN side in this contr ovorsy
d A Black who transgresses any law of
!, the State Of New York is held at least at
c rigorous account for that transgreSSon as
o though he were White. Let him steal or
il forge, or main, and a White magistrate
d will speedily issue warrant for his arrest,
&c a White policeman or deputy sheriff arrest
C him. White prosecutor nrraign him,
6 a White Judge try him, White jury
C find him guilty, and q White turnkey lock
1t him MP and set him to work for the state.
,r Whether he have or have not rights which
c, White men are bound to respect, he will be
H. most impressiyely taught that they have
sr rights, aud that he cannot help respecting
OF them. For all purposes of responsibility
g. to law and punishment for violating il, he
IS is regarded as rational, capable respon-
a sible human being Why not for the cor
relative responsibilities and privileges of
le citizenship as well r.. 81 .a.. U.
re Bat the case is too plain for argument.
i'd not because they are ignorant, or vicious,
It or in any manner incompetent, bnt because
N they are Black 'To this complexion the
is whole matter inevitably comes at last. An
p irreproachabe loafer, an incorrigible drunk
. en- vagabond, habitual rowdy and law-de-
IL fyer, and ten thousand keepers of policy
q offices, brothels, and gambling houses and
le grog-shops these if White, as they
N mostly are-are unqucstioned voters; while
the most exemplary Christian, if at once
ul poor and black is disfranchsed. Aud a
,e great majority of the Christian churches
v. periodicals, the Christian professors of ouI
ID city, raise no voice in remonstranee agains
ID this fragrant injustice and wrong !
/ At our ensuing election, those Christians
st who believe that the Glden Rule applies a
5h clearly and searchingly TO voting as to rul
er ing, trading, or any other exercise of ouI
ID volition whereby our neighbors are or maj
n, be seriously affected, are required to vol'
For or Against abolishing the Property