Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1860-09-15
ARE THE REPUBLICANS IN FA-
VOR OF NEGRO EQUALITY!

Men may doubt it, as they please, tn
Republican party is committed in favor o
the doctrine of negro equality, and in ev,
cry State in the Union where they can OBJ
tain the power and place themselves be
yond the reach of the people they will re
duce that doctrine from mere theory t,
practice, precisely as they have done il
Massachusetts. 1t is useless for republi-
cans to deny the fact, because almost ever,
leader they have, and almost every leading
republican newspaper has declared, in sc
many words that the negro should be ele
waited to social and political equality
with the white man. Lincoln, in his Chi
cago speech, said:
Let US discard oil this quibbling abou,
this man aud the other man-this race
and that race and the other race being in
terior, and therefore must be placed in an
inferior misunderstanding our standard
that we have left US"
Lincoln here takes the ground that the
black race is not inferior to the white and
that the negro must not be placed in an
inferior position to that Of the white man.
Now read an extract rom the Boston Bee,
leading black republican organ:
If you will come here we will show
you, any day, our colored fellow citizens
riding in the cars on the same seat with
the aristocrats Of Beacon street and Ches
ter square, and neither the negro or the
white man appears in the least distrustod
or alarmed by the proximity. And as for
political franchises, we will lust inform
our friend that, in Massachusetts, black
mans vote is just as good and counts as
much as Mr.. Wlnthrop's Or Edward Ever
etts; and there are now no political disa
bilities imposed upon any man on accoun.
Of the color Of the skim
Then take an extract from the Hartford
(Conn.) Courant, an influential and lead
ing black republican organ;
"It is not at all impertinent to instance
the condition of the black man in con.
dition to permit the testing of the ques.
ton. Because Wisconsin is mean and
ehDugH W refuse 10 ailOW
q negro, however intelligent, to vote, it by
no means proves that the negro does not
deserve the privilege; nor because Wis
consin at the same time permits raw
lrishman and an ignorant Dutchman to
vote. who neither knows his own politics
nor that of his candidate, does it prove that
Wisconsin is ei!h jus, or wise in making
this arbitrary determination"
Now, let Us hear from Salmon P Chase.
of Ohio, who was a prominent competitor
of Lincoln for the republican nomination
at Chicago. Chase says:
:" embrace with plcasuare this opror-
.unity of declaring my disapprobatiou
with the clause in the constitution which
denies to a portion of the colored people
the right Of Suffrage
Senator Wade, another leading republi,
lican Of Ohio, comes up to the help Of
Lincoln thus:
:" loathe, from the bottom of nv soul,
any man who refuses to anything in hu
man shape all the rights and privileges he
claims for himself know no high, no
low, no black. no Whitehall are created
by one God, and all are entitled to the
same privileges
Tho committee on resolutions, at the
Ohio Republican State Convention, con-
clude their report upon the question Of
permitting the negro to vote and hold Of
fees, as follows:
The committee conclude their labors
BIZ submitting two resolutions, one recon-.
mendng an amendment to the constitu
ton, by which the elective franchise shall
be extended to colored men
The Ohio State journal, the leading re
publican organ Of that State, sustains the
recommendation of the committee by de
caring that
"As far as the right Of suffrage; or any
other right Of citizenship is concerened,
he (the negrn) should be placed on an
equality with the rest of mankind"
Joshua Giddings, who has been for sew
eral years past republican member of
Congress from Ohio, was member of
the convention, and liz speech in support
Of the recommendation of the committee,
said
"Ths negro is heavenly institution,
and it is God-like in man to elevate him
to an equality with the white
Mr.. Washburne, a republican Congress
men, says:
"If, because stand up for the equality
Of the negro socially and poiiticaity, wjth
the ,chite man, they cal me negro wor-
shipper, let them do it. shall persevere
to the end"
We might 60 on and give thousand
such extracts from the leading republican
journals and influential republican lead
ers, but these will suffice for the nrese nt
The republican party is as openly aad
squarely committed in favor of the doe
trine of negro equality as it is in favor of
=" freedom and free negroes Here and
there a republican may deny it or attemp.
to explain it away, but the fact stands out