The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-09-26
CHARLES H. LASGsroN SUPPORTS
AZ 8 LINCoLN-HIS RECORD e.

Charles 81. Langston is negro, one of the
"visible admi1ture," who under the decision
of Jacob Brinkerhoff, is entitled to vote aud
all the privileges of an eleetor. The same
Langston was one of the "Oberlin Rescuers;' -
in whose behalf Brinkerhoff delivered his ssdis-
senting opinion, pronounced him free OF all
liability for his forcihle resistance to the Con-
gtessional laws. of the United States, while
under. conviction for the same under the deci-
sion of the District Court of the United States.
He is the same C. H. Langston of whom
young John Brown, a son of cold Ossawata-
mie Brown" in letter dated Andoyer, Ashta-
bula county, o., Sept. 2, 1859, referring to
the Harper's Ferry raid, wrote as follows
ssMr. G. Fl. Langston will do all he can here y
He is the same Langston whom Copeland,
who was executed with old John Brown en-
the I'd of December, 1859, saw in Cleveland
just before leaving for Harper's Ferry, and of
whom Copeland says in his confession, che
Langston) knew l was coming mn to join
Browns company"
He is the same Langston who said in
speech in Dayton on the 1st of August, 1860:
"The whites brought the African race here,
he said, for their convenience, and made
slaves of them; they had toiled for two hun
dred and fifty years; and now most of those
who do not desire them kept in slavery want
ed them removed to Africa or Central Ameri-
ca, and colonized. This was unjust, and he
would not leave this country. Here they had
buried their forefathers, and they would not
be driven away from their ashes; this could be
depended on. God hid brought tie colored
tolss here for a great purpose; 1t aeas the des-
tiny of the uohite and black races on this coati-
mert to AMALGAAiATE, and out of the
union was to grow the most mighty and per-
feet people the world ever knew. We can't
escape this destiny. The blacks would furnish
to the common stock the bone and muscle,
and the whites the intellectual stock! And
together, the amalgamate would present per-
feet nationi
Amalgamation of the white and black peo-
pie of this country was the certain destiny of
the races, and the crowd before him was an
earnest of the "teginning of the end''-all
shades of color were to be seen. White blood
will tell among the blacks! [Atthis sally any
amount of ivory was displayed.] I'm more
than half white, said the speaker, and amt
ashamed of it; your descendants addressing
the whites) will be half black, and they won't
be ashamed of it! In ono hundred years the
people of this country will all be of one color.
The color of the Africans is not perfect, for
with them are all shades; the complexion of
the white race is not perfect either, for there
are nearly as many shades among them as the
Africans; but when, in the Providence of the
Almighty, His purposes in the creation of the
black and white races are answered on this
continent, Gas they certainly will be- all will
be of one color, and then they will be perfect.
This will be the fruition of true Republican
ism.
In regard to this speech, the Dayton Ga.
zette, August Sd, said:
''The Address of Mr.. c. H. Lapgston, part
of which we heard, was able and' Interesting,
ahounding in sharp points and witty sayings"
Empire.