Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-03-24
Negro Equality.

privileges from which white naturalized
citizens are excluded but they will be
more surprised when they read the fol-
lowing article from the Boston atlas, the
acknowledged organ of the Black Repub-
licans of Massachusetts,, edited by General
Schouler late the Republican candidate for
Clerk of the next House of Representatives,
at Washington. The editor says -
{" Is it proved or even rendered probable
that the colored race, if emancipated, could
not take care Of themselves We say it
is not, and to assert it as the Times does,
is simply begging the whole question. Is
IT TPRovED OR RENDERED PROBABLE THAT
THE AFRICANS CANNOT LIVE IN THIS
COUNTRY ON AN EQUALITY WITH WHITES!
WE SAY 1T Is NOT, and that no man
who asserts it has ever yet demonstrated
the truth of his assertion by any conclusive
reasoning.
d" 1t is not at all pertinent to instance the
condition of the black man as a condition
to permit the testing of the question. Be-
cause Wisconsin is MEAN AND NARROW
MINDED ENOUGH TO REFUSE TO ALLOW
NEGRO, HOWEVER INTELLIGENT, TO VOTE,
it by no means proves that the negro does
not deserve the privilege, nor, because
Wisconsin at the same time, permits A
RAW FRESHMAN AND AN IGNOR-
! ANT DUTCHMAN to vote, when he
neither knows his own politics nor that of
his candidate, does it prove that Wiscon-
sin is either just or wise in making this ar
bitrary discrimination Let us be Just
and sensible, as well as critical and patri-
otto, Mr.. Doolittle. The only fair test of
the capacity and disposition of the black
man to dwell, SIDE BY SIDE, ON
TERMS OF EQUALITY WITH THE
WHITE, is to take him where he does
enjoy that equality. Unfortunately there
is no place where this is the case to the
full extent, for prejudice does much, even
in the most favored localities, to opprcss
the colorcd man.
But suppose we take the free colored
men of Massachusetts,, where they are re-
spected and treated as citizens, and what
is the result! Why, we venture the as
sertion, without fear of successful contra
diction, THAT you MAY TAKE THE FIVE
THOUSAND NEGROES AS THEY COME, AND
A THOUSAND IRIsHMAEN IN THE SAME
WAY, AND YOU WILL FIND THE NEGROES
sURPAss THE IRIsuMEN OF BosToN IN
INTELLIGENCE, L, MORALITY AND INDUSTRY,
AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP, THEY ARE MORE
THRIFTY, MoBE ORDERLY, AND EVERY
WAY SUPERIOR; it is the same in the city
of Philadelphia, as facts will abundantly
prove. Now what right have we to say,
with such a preliminary lesson, that the
black man could not prove himself worthy
of freedom and citizenship"
1t will be observed that this Black Re-
publican organ speaks of the State of Wis
consin as "MEAN AND NARROW MINDED,
because she refuses negroes the right to
vote Reasoning from the same premises
~. ndi ~ "
minded, because like Wisconsin, she denies
the negro the right of suffrage.
Will decent white people, says the Bed
tord Gazette, bear this Black Republican
insult unresentcd We ask the question
we PUT IT TO THE SELF RESPECTING
AND INTELLIGENT MEN WHO HAVE HITH.
ERTo VOTED THE BLACK REPUBLICAN
TICKET-can any white man who BE-
LIEvEs HIMSELF BETTER THAN A NEGRO
cast his vote, in future, with party that
maintains that NEGRO is AS GOOD AS
HE? Are party ties so strong that they
will bind him even to a greasy Ethiopian
Let the ballot box reply.
On the appearance of the article above
quoted, the Cincinnati Enquirer, Demo.
cratic paper, took occasion to make some
structures upon the positions taken therein
whereupon the Black Republican .Atla.
replied:
" If you will come here we will show
YOU any day, our coiored .teAOV citizen
r7dtng an He carS on the same seat Vith
tie drisocrat Of Beacon street and Chetse'
Square, and neither the negro or the white
man appears in the least disturbed OF
harmed by the proximity And as for
political franchises, we will Just inform oul
friend that, IN Massachusetts, q Wach
man S Uote as just as good and counts juSl
as much as Mr.. WInthrops or EUere'ts
and that there are now no political disa-
bilities imposed upon any man on account
of the color of his skin"
Such are the practical results of Black
Republicanism, boasted of and heralded
forth by an accredited leading Black Re.
publican organ. And these results are at.
tributed 10 The fact that The Black Rcpub
Acan party wants negro Uotes for lis ca'adi.
dates, as they "cOunt as much as Mr.
| Winhtrop's or Edward Everftt'S." The
true aim of Black Republicanism is the
public plunder, and hence its efforts to give
the black man the right to vote.
Funeral of Hon. Lewis g. Levin