Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-10-04
a FoggY Democrat.

IHe LehIstoWn DeuOcfal mas got SIN
gular way of proving and disproving facts,
being however inevitably governed by the
"nigger." Thus the Cincinnati resolu-
ton, which favors " free seas and progress
siye free trade" is construed as only mean
ing free seas-a construction so ridiculous
that we doubt whether any one who can
read English will be gulled by it.
Week before last it was willing to die
for non-intervention in territories. and last
week it was in favor of protecting (Which
is intervention horses, oxen, and niggers
By the by, who ever heard of Congress
protecting horses and oxen, or any other
property, except through territorial legis-
lation and if niggers are property like an
imals, is it not curious that they can legis-
late on one and not on the other?
In its anxiety to falsify well known
truths, it even alleges that our assertion
that there is not now and never was a
Christian marriage among slaves is untrue.
We pity the ignorance Of any one who
will make such bare-faced denial. "Mar-
riages' among slaves in all the Southern
States are subject to the will of the mas
ter He or some one else can perform the
ceremony one day, and the next sell the
wife one way and the husband another
The new master may again marry the
g wife to a new husband and the "hus-
band" to a new wife, and so on ad infni-
tum, and no indictment for adultery will
stand against either-neither are there
any laws against fornication and bastardy
among slaves in the Southern States. If
these are " Christian" marriages, it is time
for patent democrats to alter the New Tes-
lament to suit this new dogma of the Lew
istown Democrat, happily thus far the only
paper in the United States, with the ex-
ception of Brigham Young's, which de-
fends polygamy.
It's happiest effort, however, is made in
behalf of niger representation. After
quoting our statement that every five
slaves are good for three votes, so that the
man who owns that number in reality ex-
ercises the same prerogatiye as four white
men do here" the editor of that delecta-
bic paper calls it a" whopper"- every
schoolboy knows better-and then actually
proves our assertion by quoting the consti-
tutional clause that five slaves shall count
as three votes. That our readers may bet
ter understand this, We give some statistics
from the census of 1850. South Carolina
with population of 274,000 whites, has
six representatives in Congress, making
$4,000 whites, with 5000 or 5000 votes,
constitute district As the ratio of rep
is over 10000, it will be read
lly seen that even on an average it takes
less than half the number of votes there to
elect member of Congress than it does
here, where the colored population is
small. In some large slaveholding dis
.ricts the number of voters is as low as FIVE
5housand-more than thousand less than
both Mifiin and Juniata can poland
;hese FIVE thousand voters have an equal
voice and vote with the 10000 voters of
Lancaster county, or any other Congress
'ional district in Pennsylvania. Taking
nto consideration the fact that large slave
lolders have sons, overseers, and other
white dependents, we have no doubt more
han one district in the South is ruled By
dozen men as despotically as the Emper-
" of Russia rules his subjects.