Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-03-23

Declaration of Independence as including
the negro as well as the white man. do
not think I misstats my colleague. He
thinks that clause of the Declaration of In
dependence includes the negro as well az
the white man. He declares, therefore,
that the negro and the white man were ere.
ated equal What does the Declaration
also say: eve hold these truths to be self
evident, that they are endowed by their
Creator With certain inalienaJle rights, a.
mong which are life, liberty, and the pur:
suit of happiness" If the negro and tho
white man are created equal. and that equal
ity is an analtenable right, by what author
ity is my colleague and his party going to
deprive the negro of that inalienable right
which he got directly from God? He says
the Republican party is not in favor of ac-
cording tb the negro an inalienable right
that he received directly from his Maker
Oh, no; he tells me to my teeth that they
are not in favor of that they will not obey
the laws of God at all. Their creed is to
take away inalienable rights. Well, have
found that out before, and that is just the
reason complain of them, that they are for
taking away inalienable rights.
II they will cling to the doctrine that the
Declaration OF Independence conferred cer-
tain inalienable rights, AMONG which, we are
told, is equality between the white man aud
the negro, they are bound to make the hui
man laws they establish conform to those
Godsgiteh rights which are ihalienable. If
they believe the first proposition, as honest
men, they are bound to carry the principle
to its Logical conclusions, and give the negro
his equality and voice III the Government
let him vote at elections, hold Offices, serve
on juries, make him Judge. Governor. C'Sen-
ator.") No, they cannot make him a SEN
ator, because the Supreme Court has decid-
ed that he is not citizen: The bred Scott
decision is in the way. Perhaps that is the
reason Of the objection to the bred Scott de-
cision, &at Negro cannot be Senator. I
say, if you hold that the Almighty created
the negro the equal of the white man, and
that equality be an inalienable right, you
are boundsto confer the elective franchise
and terI10ther privilege Of political elual-
ity Oh the NEGRO. The Senator from New
York stands up to it like man. His logic
drove him there. and be had the honesty to-
avow the consequence of his own doctrine.
That is to say. he did it before the Harper's
Ferry raid. He did not say it Quite as plain
ly to-day; for l will do the Senator from
New York the justice to say, that in his
speech to-day, l think he made the most
successful effort, considered as an attempt
to conceal what he meant, (Laughter.) He
dealt in vague generalities he dealt in dis
chalmers and general "details and he cover
ed it all up with a 7erbiage that would allow
anybody to infer just what he pleased, but
not to commit the Senator to anything and
to let the.country know that there was no dams
ger from the success of the Republican party;
that they did not mean any harm; that if
men believing in the truth of their doctrines
did go and commit invasions, murders, rob-
berries, and treason, all they had to do was
10 disatow the men who were FOOLS enough
to believe them, and they are not RESPONSE
Bile for the consequences oftheir own action !
Now, Mr.. President, wish my colleague
was equally as frank as the Senator from
| New York That Senator is in favor of the
equality Of the negro with the whits man,
or else he would not say that the Almighty
guaranteed to them an inalehable right Of
equality. My colleague dare not avow it,
lest the cld-line Wings should quit him
hence he is riding double on this question.
have no desire to conceal my opinions
and repeat that [ do not believe the negro
race is any part Of the governing element id
this country, except as an element of repre-
sentation in the manner expressly provided
in the Constitution. This is a white mans
Government made by white men for the ben-
eft Of white tnen, to be administered by
white mon and nobody else; and 1 should
regret the day that we ever allowed the ne
groes to have a hand in it's administration.
Not that the negro is not entitled to any
privileges at all on the contrary, I hold that
humanity requires us to allow the unfortu-
nate negro to enjoy all the rights and privi-
leges that he may safely exercise consistent
with the good of society. We may, with
safety, give them some privileges that would
not be safe in Mississippi; because we have
but few, while that State has many. We
will take care of our negroes, if Mississippi
will take care of hers. Each has right to
decide for itself what shall be the relation of
the negro to the white man within its own
limits, and no other State has right to in
terfere with its determination.
On that principle there is no ''irrepfessis
BILE conflict there isno conflict at all. If we
will just take care of our own negroes, and
mind our own business, we shall get along
very well; and we ask our southern friends
to do the same, and they seem pretty we'll
disposed to do it. Therefore, am in favor
of just firing broadside into our Republic
can friends over there, who will keep inter-
fering with other peoples business. That is
the complaint have of them. They keep
holding up the negro for Us. to worship, and
when they get the power, they will not give
him the rights they claim for him they will
not give him bis inalienable rights. New
York has not given the negro those iualien-
able rights Of suffrage yet. The Senator
from New York represents slave State. ac-
cording to his own Speech because New
York does not allow the negro to vote ON an
equality with white man. It is true, In
New York, they do allow negro to vote,
if he owns $3.50 worth of property, but not
without. They suppose $3.50 just compen-
safes for the difference between rich me-
gro and poor white man. daughter. y