Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-08-22
Negro Voting.

The New York TriJmc the leading Re-
publican journal the United States, thus
discourscs of Negro Voting:
"a distant correspondent writes to
learn what is the fact Us to Blacks voting
in our State. We unswor-If negro
owns $3.50 worth Of real estate, free and
clear Of incnmbrance, he can vote the
same as a white man; if not, he hls no
right Of suffrage that "white men are
bound to respect"
ave regard this discrimination as sim
ply atrocious. Ira property qualification
is right, it ought to be imposed on all as
like, not merely on those who have the
least property and the worst chance to
obtain it; if negro has no soul, and no
political status but that Of thing, his
owning pile Of dirt cannot rightfully
give him'any. In any light, the present
rule is wrong and indefensiblo.-
eve shall have chance this fall TO
vote down this anomaly, and we ought to
doit. Let US abolish the property quail
fication, and give the poor blacks an equal
chance at the polls with their richer
brethren. They are but handful any.
how, and cannot do much harm if they
try"
If there is one thing more degrading to
the American people than another, it is
the fact that a powerful party exists i'll
our midst which, or a majority of which,
is willing to sink the proud Anglo-SaXon
and other European races into one com
mon level with the lowest races of man.
kind. 1t seems absolutely wonderful that
any sane man could advocate such unjust,
illogical and unnatural self-abasement.-
God has not ordered the distinct divisions
Of the human family which now exist,
without some wise purpose. Races were
manifestly intended by Providence to re-
main separate and distinct as were the
several species of the brute creation. The
wonderful difference in physical and men.
tai organization of the several races was
evidently designed to prevent the exist
ence Of mongrcl stock. Mongrels are the
accursed Of nature. No nation of half
breeds ever has continued to exist OF
ever can. But what has all this to dc
with negro voting? Simply this: If the
equality of the negro is acknowledged,
and the political rights Of the white man
are shared with him, mongrel race must
and will follow. There are now some
5000, 900 of Africans and mixed breeds in
the United States. These persons if free
would soon distribute themselves over
the country, North and South. The pro
portion which would fall to the lot of Hi
nois could not fall far short of $50, ,0OO.-
AZ the lowest calculation this population
would cast onG-girh fHc Whole cote of the
Satc! Now let any sane man imagine
the result Of such state of things Sup
pose it existed now, and the negro popu-
iation had the command Of thirty thou-
sand votes in Illinois, what scenes would
we be compelled TO witness Does any
human soul doubt that demagogues would
be found in abundance, to court and smile
upon the noble African race, for the sake
of 10000 votes in a single State? Does
anybody fail to see tho cringing and bow
ing for the German vote, by the very same
men, who five years ago denounced them
as krout eating, Hat-hcaded, Suabiau
Dutch? And yet the negroes are more
numerous than the Germans, or Irish eli
ther and would have more power in elec
tions than either.
Can, we repeat, any sane man doubt
the result? Would we not see our polite
kid gloyed gentry, who now draw their silk
stitched birthstone colorcd kids, so heartily
to drink lager with the Teuton, bow low and
gracefully "a he handed tho accomplished
Miss Dinah into tho carriage! Wouldwo
not moderate our admiration for the chill
dren of the Rhine when we could get
two votes to one, 10y singing pWans to the
rich tropical color and still richer perfume
of the children OF the sun W Would
we not see in our band WAGONS, on cleo
ton days, the soft-ilowing curls Of fCongo's
daughters, waving in the wind, side by
side with the ilaXen locks Of the maids oil
Scandinavia? When we came to repre-
sent emblematically the States of this
Union by om daughters in flowing white
would We not be induced to put the coat
of arms of every sixth State upon Tho
budding bosom ofsome fair daughter from
the banks of the Niger? We may smilC
at these things now, but as certain as the
waters of the Mississippi flow to the Gulf
this must be the result Of this "ncgrC
equality" and NEGRO voting" doctrine
Could such time arrive, does any mar
doubt the gradual but certain amalgama
tion Of the races, and that tho land 0
Hancock and Washington would becom
the home ola race of mongrels? AnC
yet such are the doctIins preached by th
most prominent advocates of Abraham
Lincoln for the Presidency. When viii
this insane negrophobia cease?
HS51A gentleman, in his oagerness at tn
table TO answer a call for some apple pie
owing to the knife slipping on the bottom
Of the dish, found his knuckles burriet
in the crust, when wag, who sat Just az
posite to hlm very gravely observed, Will
he held his plate: "Sir, I'll trouble yor
for bit of pie while your hand is in !"
D@pWoman has many advantages owe
man one Of them is that his will has n
operation till ne is dead, whereas her
cncrally takes effect in her lifetime.