Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-07-12

the popular current has set steadily in favor
of Free Soil and Free Labor, the prejudice
against and dislike Of the negro race, has
grown with the growth of the Nation. This
state of feeling may be and doubtless is in.
human and unchrstian; but it exists, and
must be considered and allowed by the
statesmen who are hereafter to rule this
nation. The Anglo.Saxon race, to which
we belong, in no quarter of the world tole-
rates any of the inferior races. They must
submit to be enslaved or perish. Witness
the American Indian, the negro. the abo-
rigiDeS of Australia and Van Dieman's Land
the New Zealander, and the Kafiir. The
Hindoo alone, of the inferior races that have
come under the domination OF on Anglo.
Saxon power, has been preserved from ex
termination or slavery, but the reason for
this exception is to be found in the fact
that Englishmen were not encouraged to
settle in Hindostan or own land during the
continuance Of the power of the East India
Company.
"The pride of race has preserved its pu-
rity, as the Anglo.SaXon never tolerates the
half breed or the mulatto. Hence, toe, the
superior value of this great people to colon
ize The Latin races readily mixed with
the Indian and the negro, and the result has
been what we see in Mexico aud Sou h
America.
"While this unfortunate colored race oc.
cupics the country with u.s. there will doubt.
less always be parties who will sympathize
with it and insist upon equal rights being
accorded to Blacks and Whites alike; but,
as in Illinois, they will he few in number
and flourish ouly in those parts of the
North where negroes are scarcely known"
Before discussing the above, let us
carefully separate its truths from its palpa-
ble errors or bold, baseless assumptions:
That whatever votes were cast for Equal
Suffrage should be mainly cast in the North
ern Counties, is no wise remarkable. Those
Counties are strongly Republican in politics,
while the South is intensely Democratic
Northern Illinois is almost wholly settled
from New England, or by men of New
England stock from New York, Ohio, ETC.;
while the Southern Counties are largely
pcopled from Slave States--Nirginia, Ken
lucky Tennessee, etc. But no evidence is
given, and | am confident that none exists,
restricting the negro population of Illinois,
mainly to her Southern Counties. On the
contrary, the last census will show that
many more of them reside in Cook county
(nciuding Chicago than any five Southern
or Democratic Counties.
Still there is partial-only partial
truth in the statement that Equal Rights to
Negroes have most champions wher negroes
are least known. Massachusetts and Rhode
Island have many more Black inhabitants
than Connecticut and New Hampshire: in
the former States, Negroes are allowed to
vote on the same conditions as whites; in
the latter they are net. New Bedford and
Worcester are widely known as conspicu-
ously Anti-Slavery among the cities of
Massachusetts, and these have more Black
inhabitants, proportionally, than almost any
other cities of the Free States.
The truth which underlieS THE WOrldS
statement is this: In Northern Illinois, the
great majority vote for cherished princi-
ple-Equal Justice and Equal Rights for
all; in the Southern Counties, they vote
against despiscd and degraded caste,
which they have known, for the most part,
10 a serve condition. The Poor Whites OF
the Slave States have little TO be proud Of;
and by SO much the greater is their exhult'
alton over the fact that they are not ne
groes. The baser and more degraded the
White anywhere, the greater is his pride of
caste-his anxiety to have some one else to
look down upon. If he is neither honest,
nor sober, nor inte lligeut, nor thrifty, nor
respected, he is the more proud of his
technically-wbite skin, aud the more tena-
cous OF the patent of nobility into which he
construes it. Hence the overwhelming
Democracy and negro-bate of Southern Ill
inois, aud of many other sections. No in
telligent politician need be told the fact
that the most overwhelming votes in this
State in 1860 against Negro Suffrage were
cast at the Five Points, Corlaer's Hook and
other notorious dens of debauchery, squalOr
and crime. . t
1t is partially-only partially true--that
"the recent popular demonstration against
Slavery as political power is not prompted
by any kindly feeling toward the African or
sympathy for his woes" The whole truth
imports that this, like all other great popu-
lar movements, is impelled by variety of
influences and motives; that one man is
Republican because he does cherish kindly
feeling for the Black man, and does sympa-
tbize with in view of his manifold oppres.
sions; while others vote the same ticket
mainly to keep the Wild West unaccursed
by servle labor, therefore substantially free
from negroes, Others may be impellcd to
vote the same ticket by still different con.
SideratioRs; but to deny that "any kindly
feeling toward the African" underles the
Republican movemant, is to defy facts with.
in the range of every ones observation.
But the broad proposition of TIE World
that this confessedly inhuman and unchris'
tian "negro. hate" which we have found by
no means universal here, is an antpathy
that runs in the blood, is too aagrant.-
1.-The Anglo Saxon race" says our contem.
porary, in no quarter Of The aoorld tOlerates
any of the inferior races" The writer need
look no farther than the British West Indies
to be convinced OF his enormous mistake.
In Antigua, the chief justice is (or lately
was) full blooded negro, who was slave
less than thirty years ago: he may be seen
holding courts, with Whites whom be has