Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-08

ed support on both sides while depositing thoi
votes, and whose only political principle seemed
to be injustice to the negro. We know whereo
we affirm, for we stood at tho polls all day, doing
our best for Equal Suffrage.
The moral effect of this defeat of Justice anC
equality will DO to fix more deeply in the publi
mind the popular contempt and scorn with which
te rights and feelings Of coiored citizens are ie
gorded, and invite their brutal manifestation
wherever the colored man appears. For when mel
degrade and Cypress the weak, every act of tina
character tends to strengthen the malignant motiv,
which incites to such action. The vote on tn,
property qualification is in its nature a re.afirma
ton Of the slav~ery.engendered contempt for tht
rights OF black men, and is q fresh license 10 al
who arc mean enough land their name is legion
to insult the man Of color wherever they meet him
They are men who are brave enough to trip up 9
man on %crutches, push a blind man of the side
walk, or fog a man when his hands are tied, but
too base and cowardly to contend with one who has
an equal chance Of defense with themselves. The
black man, excluded alike from the jury box and
the ballot box, is at the mercy of his enemies.
The blow is a heavy and damaging one. Every
Intelligent colored man must feel it keenly. 1t
was given without any rational cause. No decent
man could assign a motive for his vote against US,
without casting bis eyes to the ground, or looking
up with q blush Of mingled shame and m~alignity.
Not even the desire to stand well with the South
could be pleaded. All knew that the election of
LINCOLN would destroy all the conciliating power
which this new injustice to the negro might exert
in that quarter, SO that even this base and con
temptible motive could not be pleaded. No, it
was an act of unmitgated pride and prejudice, in
tended to deprces and degrade a class which, Of all
others in the State, need the ballot box as o means
of solf'clovation and popular regard. Had the
colored people been a large and powerful body in
the State, it might, with some show of reason,
been contendod that they would become CONTROL
ing if allowed to vote on equal terms with others
but any ~pretenso of this kind would have stamped
the ohjector as u fool. Every body knew that the
scattered colored population Of the State, voting
wherever their interest or conscience might lead,
would in no vice affect harmCully the policy of the
State. We do not even wiring from this vote the
poor consolation chat any body was afraid Of our
influence or power. The victory over US is sim
ply one Of blind ignorance and prejudice, hardly
less destitute Of manly intelligence than the kick
of an ass. 1t was the vote of drunken Irishmen,
and ignorant Dutchmen, controlled BY sham DEM
ocrats, whose Democracy consists not in equal and
exact justice to all, but in the right Of brute pow
Or to trample upon the weak and defenceless.-
We saw the kind of men by whom the deed was
done in Rochester. They were the tools of the
negotiating Democracy of this city, many Of
whom would sell :heir votes for a glass of whiskey.
1t is impossible to feel degraded by injustice from
such q quarter.
But what will the colored people aud their
friends do now that the day has gone against
them? Will the question Of Equal Suffrage be
allowed to sleep? We trust not. Our opponents
need hope for no such thing. Our cause 10 just,
wise. and proper, and must not be dropped. We
were defeated rather by the supineness Of cur
friends, than by The strength and activity Of our
enemies. We were overshadowcd and smother ed
by the Presidential struggle-over laid by ABRA-
HAM LINCOLN and HANNIBAL HAMLIN. The black
baby of Negro Suffrage was thought too ugly to
exhibit on so grand an occasion. The negro was
slowed away like some people put out of sight
their deformed children when company comes
We were told by some Of our Republican friends
to keep still-make no noise they would do the
work. Now, the fox is out Of the we'll, and the
goat is in it, Cunning dogs, you are not done
with US yet. We are going to follow you as the
woman followed the unjust judge. You must and
will eventually settle this question, and all others
in respect to the cOlored people of this State, in
harmony with tho great principles at the basis of
the American Govcrnment-the p%roIessed princi-
Piles Of the great Republican party of the State
and nation.