Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-08-22
Negro Voting.
From the Chicago Times and Herald

From the Chicago Times and Herald.
The New York Tribune, the leading Re,
publican journal of the United States, thus
discourses of Negro Voting:
"A distant correspondent writes to
learn what is the fact as to Blacks voting
in our State. We answer-If negro
owns $3.50 worth Of real estate, free and
clear of incumbrance, he can vote the
same as q white man; if not, he has no
right of suffrage that "white men are
bound to respect"
ave regard this discrimination as sim
ply atrocious. lfa property qualification
is right, it ought to be imposed on ali as
like, not merely on those who have the
least property and the worst chance to
obtain it; if a 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 indelensible.
owe shall have chance this fall TO
vote down this anomaly, and we ought TO
do it. Let us abolish the property quali-
iication, 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 in
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 ordeied the distinct divisions
of the human family which now exist,
without some wise purpose. Races were
manifestly intended by Providence to res
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 mongrel stock. Mongrels are the
accursed Of nature. No nation of half,
breeds ever has continued to exist or
ever con- But what has all this TO do
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 Illi-
nois could not fall far short of $50 00O.-
AZ the lowest calculation this population
would cast onc,sirM Of the ,cholc Uote of
State! Now let any sane man imagine
the result of such state of things Sup
pose it existed now, and the negro popu-
lation had the command of thirty thou-
sand votes in Illinois, what scenes would
we be compelled 10 witness Does any
human soul doubt that demagogucs would
be found in abundance, to court and smile
upon the noble African race, for the sake
of 10000 votes in single State? Does
anybody fail to see the cringing and bow
ing for the German vote, by the very same
men, who five years ago denounced them
rs krout eating, hat-headed, Suabiar
Dutch? And yet the negroes are more
numerous than the Germans, or Irish ei-
ther, and would have more power in elcc
tions than either.
/. Cam we repeat, any sane man doubt
the result? Would we not see our polite
kid gloved gentry, who now draw their silk
stitched birthstone colored kids, so heartily
to drink lager with the Teuton, bow low and
gracefully as he handed the accomplished
, Miss Dinah into the carriage Would We
not moderate our admiration for the 'chil.
dren of the Rhine, when we could gel
two votes to one, by singing pmans to the
rich tropical color and still richer perfume
!, ,f Hol, nr ln .,
We not see in our band Wagons, on cleo
tion days, the soft-howing curls of Congo.
daughters, waving in the wind, side b,
side with the flaxen locks of the maids O
5 Scandinavia When we camo to repre-
sent cmblematically the States of thi
5 Union by our daughters in flowing white
would we not be induced TO put the Goa
, of arms of every sixth State upon th,
budding bosom ofsome fair daughter from
|, the banks of the Niger? We may smil
at these things now, but as certain as tn
waters of the Mississippi flow to the Cult
? this must be the result of this "negr
equality" and "negro voting" doctrine
Gould such time arrive, does any maj
doubt the gradual but certain amalgatna
: ton of the races, and that the land @
. Hancock and Washington would becom
t the homo offs race of mongrels? An
/ yet such are the doctrins preached by tn
r most prominent advocates of Abraham
f Lincoln for the Presidency. When wi
!, this insane negrophobia cease?
= REiyHA gentleman, in his eagerness at tn
! ! table to answer call for some apple ri,
owing TO the knife slipping on the bottor
of the dish, found his knuckles burrie
in the crust, when wag, who sat just q,
posite to HIM very gravely observed. Will
he held his plate: 'Sir, I'll trouble yo
for a bit of pie while your hand is in %
Be4-Woman has many advantages ove
4 man one of them is that his will has n
e operation till he is dead, whereas hei