Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-06-27
Plain Talk to the Democracy.
EMANCIPATION AND NEGRO EQUALITY AS VIEW.
S.. ED BY COLONEL FoRNEY. F.. r...a

EMANCIPATIoN AND NEGRO EQUALITY As VIEW
ED BY COLONEL FoRNEY. ~. .r....-
Correspondence Philadelphia Press.l
In the campaign that is about to be open-
ed against the Administration and the war.
powerful emphasis is to be laid upon the
empty accusation that the friends of Mr.. Lin
| coin favor unconditional emancipation and
negro equality. Contemplate as this accus.
alton is, it is frequently repeated by men who
in their heated partisanship, forget that they
are intelligent and reasonable beings. As
usual, the name of Democracy" is to be in
voked as a cover to this arrant dcmagopue-
ism. In other days, before the people of the
United States were educated by a great war.
which overturned old expectations and des.
troyed old theories, such advertisement"
as this might have passed current. But un-
less our masses are indeed sunken into the
deepest slough of ignorance, this attempt to
scduce them INTO wrong paths will be fear
FULLY avenged. | have a very low estimate
of the leaders who bulied and coaxed the
majority of tho Democrats of PENNSYLVANIA
into the support of Breckenridge in 1860 and
who, with all the treacheries and corruptions
OF Buchanan revealed to their eyes and ears,
refused to denounce these crimes. The
bloody harvest of the seed thus sown, should
admonish them against another experiment
upon the supposed credulity Of the American
people. ." 'IO0' -"
The men in the free States who advocate
unconditional emancipation are very few in
numbers. In the Republican party they do
not number one in five hundred. There is
not traitor any where who does not know
this to be true, even as he repeats the re-
verse. AS to negro equality, still more
conclusive reply might be made to this silly
ialsehood. The practical amalgamationists
are not in the free States. The most infuri
ated Abolition fanatic rarely carries his free
thought into free love. 1t is only in the at
mospherc of rebellion that negro equality. in
its worst phrase, has been accepted and illus
trated. The social distinction between the
races OF white and black, in the free States,
is as broad and clear as it is in England and
France, where, in the face of laws that make
no distinction as to political right. the one
preserves Its relations wholly independent of
the other.
But why continue reply to an argument
not even believed by those who make it?
This war is productive of great and new
issues. While it adds to the responsibilities
OF the Executive, it reduces the reliance of
the demagoSue upon popular ignorance, and
to this extent reduces the weight of these re.
sponsiblities. II seouM lace been morse for
sIare'y Y treason had taken up arms aqoinst
Democratic iostead Of Ct Rcpublicun admin
tst!Mtton. Then the ingratitude of the slave
holders would have been more kecnly felt
and more merciessly punished. The Demo.
Gratis, who clamor for compromise now, and
are blind to the atrocities of the rebels, in
that event would have discarded everything
but the sword, and believed anything but reb,
{. humanity. Mr.. Lincoln's Administration
is doing only what that of Mr.. Douglas would
have done, and less, had Douglas been cho
sen President. Results hare sa,liy prerea
Mat i Brechinridge had been elected, four
gears a'o"ld haretound the free States wih-
ont country sare tint achicA mas controlled
by tho institution Of slaee,y The rebellion
OF lS6l-G2 is the voice of the devil proclaim.
ing that, in the event of the election of Breck
lnrldge in 1860, FOUR YEARS MORE WOULD
HAVE FOUND Us A SLAVE MONARCHY!
These are plain lessons. They need no
historic to adorn and no witnesses to con-
firm them. They are facts, and facts are
better than history.