North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-09-16
NEGRO EQUALITY AND NEGRO
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. LOOK AT s.
-9s 10 i THE RECORD!- ssTra1e sa2


When Mr.. Seward, eighteen months ago,
gave passports to negroes as American cit
izensn-when, at the instance of Mr.. Sum-
ner, negro was recognized as Minister from
Hayt, and diplomatic intercourse was, for
The first time, opened with those who COM
mitted the St. Domingo massacre--when the
Emancipation Proclamation was issued un-
der the plea of military necessity" and
when negroes were enlisted and drafted, and
when they were styled by the President
American citizens of African DESCENT
successive steps were taken towards the ac-
complishment of a long -predomlnated, deep
design, ........
That design is negro suffrage, negro equal
ity and on the 18th of October next the
people Of Pennsylvania are to pronounce
their decision on the question.
To make tie issue clear and far, the De
mocracy have nominated Judge Woodward,
who, in the State Convention which framed
the present Constitution, advocated the in
sertion of the word WHITE" in section one
of the third article, which provides that
Every WHITE freeman of the age of TWEEN
ty one years, having resided in this State one
year. and In the election district where he
offers to vote ten days immediately preced-
ing such election and within two years paid
State or county tax which shall have been
| assessed at least ten days before the election,
shall enjoy the rights of an elector."
The Republicans have nominated Judge
Agnew, who was also member of that Con-
vention, and who strongly opposed the in
sertion of the word white" and earnestly
advocated negro suffrage, and Governor Cur
tin, member Of the Altoona Conference of
Republican Governors which urged the
Emancipation policy upon the Pre- sident.
The freemen Of Pennsylvania should ex
anime the record, and remember well that
the same men who have advanced thus far
to the attainment Of their purpose are the
same who brought the enormous pressure"
to bear upon him, to secure the Emancipa-
tlon reclamation, Of which the President
complained in his address to the Congress
men from the border States and to the Chi
cago Commtttee-the same who, in the
States of Massachusetts and New York have
permitted negroes to vote-the same men
with whom the I" National Union party" are
identified in Congress and at the polls, and
the same who cloak their Interior object un-
der the pretence of " military necessity"
They ascribe the fall of Vicksburg and
Port Hudson to negroes, forgetting the SER
vices of white volunteers. The next argu-
ment will be, Those who fight shall vote-as-
urning that negro troops are the equals of
white soldiers, and that negro voters are the
equals Of white treemen, That this is their
real design is certain. Let them speak for
themselves. They declared it once, and are
now carrying out their project in secrecy, by
gradual advances, to avoid suspicion and di-
rect opposition.
On the 10th of October, 1853, Abraham
Lincoln delivered speech at Beora, Illinois,
in which he used the following language:
" What L do say is, that no man is good
enough to govern another man UiLhoM the
others consent. l say this is the leading
principle, the SHEET ANCHOR of Ameri-
can Repu6kicanism. Our Declaration of In
dependence says:
1--WE hold these truths to be selfevident,
that all men are created equal; tha: they
are endowed by their Creators with certain
inalienabe rights that among these are life,
LIBERTY, and the pursuit Of happiness
That to secure these rights, Governments
are instituted among men, DRIVING THEIR
e
EREND." a.
=" have quoted SO much at this time,
merely to show that, according to our an
cient faith, the powers of Government are
derived from the consent of the rgoyerend.-
Now. the relation of master and slave is, pro
te'ato a total riotation Of this principle
The master not only governs the SLGUe WI h.
out his consent, but he governs him by set.
Of rules altogether different from those which
he prescribes for himself Allow ALL the
governed an EQUAL VOICE IN THE
GOVERNMENT, and that, and that only,
is self fgovernment.-HoWetpS Life of Lin.
coin, page 219. @
Again, in speech in Chicago, during the
last Presidential election, which We find pab
lished in the Illinois State Journal, the State
organ of the Black Republican party of H.
inois. on the 18th of September, 1856, Mr..
Lincoln said:
That central idea, in our political opin-
ion, at the beginning was, and until recently
continued to be, the equality of men, And,
although it was always submitted patiently
to whatever inequality there seemed to be as
a matter of actual necessity. its constant
working has been steady progress toward
the PRACTICAL EQUALITY OF ALL MEN:
"Let past difference as nothing be; and
with steady eye on the real issue, let us re-
inaugurate the good old central ideas of the
Republic. We can do it. The human
heart is with us; God is withus. We shall
again be able not to declare that all the
States, as States, are equal, nor yet that all
citizens, as citizens, are equal, but renew the
broader, better declaration, including both
these and much more, that allmaen are cre-
ated equal" r-. g--...- ... ....s-
Yet again, in his speech at Chicago on the
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