Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-06-26
Negro Equality.


In the course of speech in the House of Repre-
sentatIves, Gen Ashley of Ohio, himself Il pa =
I'VE oi Virginia, raked down the advocates of
Negro Equality after this fashion.
ana now, SIR what are the practical effects
of slavery, as exhibited in the working out Of
TINS much talked OF and nniTersally denounced
negro equality and auialgamation OF the races?
has not slavery corrupted the blood, to say noth-
ing OF the morals, of millions in the South? Ii
II mas not, whence spnng the octOrOonS the
quadroons, and the myrIads who are tinged with
the blood OF the dominant race, in every Soutl :
eih state! Sir, 1t Is IN the land OF slavery you
must look for amalgama ion, and that terri bic
degrading negro equality, which is inseparahle
from such amagamai ion. But for negro equal
lty All over the South, that must be nameless
| here, there would be no blue eyed, light haired
octoroons. the children aud descendants of Af-
rican slaves, IN every Southern city. and in every
ueiShuorhood, appealing the liberal, as we
see them almost daily here in this Capital ask
ing Tor aid to purchase their right to that which
God gave, not only tC them, but TO all the hu-
man race; the right to themselves. SIR, Than
Mormon Polygamy, about which even southern
representatives. protessed to be 50 Stacked this
crime OF Southern amalgamatIuu Is worse; Tor.
while the Mormon system Is voluntary and
must have the sanction of public Church or
dlnance and the full and unqualified assent OF
the first wife. and the children be entitled to
all Tie rights OF protection aud property which
this Southern system Is au involuntary, forced,
and revoItIng comet bInage, from which there Is
no escape, II the victim desires it, there being
no law TO punish the aggress0r. And sir the
oHsPrlng OF this criminal negro equality are
slaves. III there law to punish such crimes
tho testimony of slaves could not with safety be
admitted; Tor II such were the case aud the pen
atty attached should be the liberation of all chill
dren; as 1t ought to be, whose fathers were white
men, then Ilmot proysos and further opposi-
frIF, 70 .'..-g 1
with the people of the North. The institution
would fall by the fascinating g,aces and Sc
ductiye power of these black ducineas, before
whose irresistible charms the arIstocracy and
plebians Of the South alike appear to row.
''SIr, II Is only IN the land of slavery where
this crime IS tolerated. There it is unrestrain-
ed. There alone it is cherished; and if slavery
continues, II must become universal blight
ming and corrodIng the life blood of the nation
by eradIcating from the heart of man all love for
his own offspring, and filling the land " ith
slaves who children of the dominant race-
How trghtful has been the progress aud in
crease OF this desolatiHg and destroying evil
Sir, do you suppose there Is one Southern State
may, Que Congressional DistrIct-in all tie
Slave States Of his mon. in which slavehUld-
ers do not own and sell their own childreu?-
where they do not see them toll daily beneath
the lash OF a taskmaster, and see them driven in
in coffie gangs To the Southern uarket-their
sons 10 the sbanbles and their daughters to the
hells of Southern cities? Bus it may, and prob
ably viii. be claimed that these Octoroons and
quadroons are not the children Of the masters;
but that they are children of the poor whites
| care not, Mr. chairman, whose they may be;
the fact OF their existence Is evidence Of the
crime. and the further fact that the law makers,
who are always Shareholders in all the South
ern States. do not punish the crime by law as
they would If they desired to RESTRAIN II, Is Ger
talny a circumstance not very favorable tc .heir
own innocence.
| Isn't that right to the point?