The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1863-05-02
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TIE WAR UPON THE NEGRO.

The WAR UPON THE NEGRO.
Of all the compounds Of villainy and undis-
guised hellishness, We think Copperhead DEM
osrat to be the most perfect. Nothing is 80 low
but he will stoop to it to crafty the miser-
able instincts of his nature. Everything that
characterizes true manhood and the generous
soul are sacrificed to crafty his baseness. There
is no such thing as magnauimity in his soul.
Well regulated communities have upon their
statutes laws for the protection OF dumb brutes,
and inhicting penalty for such misconduct /;
90 that man Of passion may not vent himself
upon helpless creatures without incurring the
eensure of the law. Every body will at once
admit the pureness of soul that prompted such
An interest in the welfare of the lower creatures
given to man and all will equally admit the
Outstanding, civilizing influences of such
laws. They may be unconstitutional" mas
much as a man is not allowed to Go wrong, but
we are no: at all alarmed that this restriction
Ct human rights will give rise to any serious
revolution. We believe there is not in the whole
vocabulary term of reproach for men who hold
views supporting such laws. 1t seems. then,
that the protection of dumb brutes is a univer-
sally conceded necessity.
But mark the difference. We have among US
q race of men, placed here by the same Superin-
tending Providence that made all things. and
we are told formed in "the image of God"
There is distinction between two races in fea
lures and completion, but in all the attributes
of soul and mind both are fashioned alike. The
black race have enjoyed species Of life and
darkness, which will entail upon a white man,
reared under the same influences, like system
Of barbarism. Ignorance is the cause of all op-
preston; and thus, by the baser nature of the
white man. the negro has always been subject to
oppression. The darkness in which they were
reared has resulted in a system of bondage, the
principal features of which are cruelty and
wrong But the light of the 18th Century, whose
resplendent rays have pierced the darkness and
opened the way for advancing civilization, could
Of the most terrible conflict of arms that history
records. No laws have ever existed for the pro-
lection of this class of men; while, on the con-
trary, bartering in their flesh has been legalized,
with no law providing for their personal safety,
and in many places statutes have forbade them
the benefits Of the school, and in others all infor
nation has been kept from them. Cattle enjoy
the shielding Of law-why the difference:
We have been led to these remarks by the
recent negro riots throughout the North, all
evidently instigated by the rebel Democracy for
flammatory and highly exciting appeals have
been made by this class of traitors to the laboring
white men, making as their theme the competi-
tion of black labor and We are surprised to see
that there exists ignorance enough to cause their
efforts in part to be successful. An ignorant
rsbble have on several occasions assaulted black
men, to avenge some supposed wrong The De-
mocracy, wherever in power have made laws
that would disgrace He'll itself. forbiddine them
home within their jurisdiction, virtually deny
ing them the existence which God Almighty has
given them They persistently hold from them
all the advantages of civilization. What could
be more diabolical, or more repulsive to enlight-
ened humanity, than the action of the Democratic
Legislature of the State of Delaware They
have actually made a law fining negroes for
attending political meetings, and carrying fire
arms forbidding negroes TO preach or any
negro who leaves the State for five days, to
return under penalty of fifty dollars fine. or
slavery il the fine is not paid. Can any one
compute the blood necessary to wipe such injus
tice out? If there is no He'll for such wretcLes,
there is no encouragement to live an upright life
We want the School and Church thrown open
to the negro-we want nothing forbidden him
that will elevate him in the scale of humanity
And We further want just the rudiments Of
common sense instilled into the mass of the
Democraey-providing such q thing is possible
that the mean and contemplate prejudice,
which prompts all this persecution of the negro,
may be obliterated.