Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1863-03-26
From the Weekly Western star.
ANOTHER oATECHIsM.

this place, you will be good enough to
publish the annexed "Shorter Cate
ckism"?
Who said that all men are created
equal?
Thomas Jefferson, the father Of
Democracy.
Who gave negroes the right Of suf-
frage in New York?
The Democratic party.
Who presided over the convention
which gave this privalege to negroes? ?
Martin Van Buren, a Democrat.
Who after ward elected Martin Van
Buren President OF the United States?
The Democratic party.
Who married negro wench, and by
her had mulatto children?
Richard M. johnson. good Demo-
crat.
Who elected Richard N. johnson
Vice. President of the United States?
The Democratic party.
II President Van Buren had died,
and Richard NJ. johnson had become
President who would have become the
Democratic mistress of the White
House?
This same negro wench.
Who made the negro citizen in the
State Of Maine?
Ah overwhelming Democratic ma
jority.
Who enacted similar Law in Massa-
chusetts7
An overwhelming Democratic major
ity.
Who gave the negro the right TO
vote in New Hampshire?
The Democratic party.
Who permitted every colored per-
son owning two hundred and fifty dol
lars in New York, to become citizens?
A General Assembly purely Demo
cratic. r ID es1t.E
Who repealed the laws Of Ohio,
which required negroes to give bond
and security before settling in this
State? ~.r
The Democratic party.
Who passed Law BY which, ia
Ohio, the negro is placed on the wit.
ness stand alongside Of the white mani
The Democratic party.
Who voted for a bill in the Ohio
Legislature, repeating ALL laws making
a distinction on account of color in thi;
State?
George E. Pugh.
Who afterward elected George z
Pugh to the United States Senate?
The Democratic party.
Who voted in the Constitutions
Convention of Ohio against provision
to prevent negroes coming into this
State?
Rufus P. Ranney.
Who voted in the same Convention
to permit negro children to go to th'
same schools with white children?
Rufus P. Ranney.
Who supported Rufus P. Ranney fol
Governor of Ohio in 1859?
The Democratic party.
/ Who decided in the Supreme Cour
of Ohio that mulattoes had the right Il
vote?
Reuben Wood, a good Democrat.
/ Who. after the decision. elected Reu
ben Wood Governor of Ohio?
The Democratic party.
Who refused, in the State Conven
ton Of 1880, to remedy the evil estab
lished by this decision?
The Democratic party.
Who voted for a resolution denounc
ing slavery as q curse to the country
and avowiug the wish to see IL finally
erodicoteds
The Democratic State Convention o.
Ohio.
Who refused to concede the right tC
establish slavery in all the territorie:
. of the United States. and by such re-
fusal broke up the Charleston NationaI
Democratic Convention, and thereby
brought about the Shareholders rebel
lion?
The Democratic delegates IN said
Convention from the North.
But it ought to be said as an offset
and in extenuatien Of the shove, thai
the Democratic party Of the North be.
gin now to show cheering anxiety fol
the preservation of the blessed institu
tion of slavery-are ready to excuse
the rebels, and charge the borrid
crime OF treason, to the pesky abolition
lists of New England, and as basis fol
the reconstruction Of the Union weuld
kick ont the Yankees and concede tc
the slave holding rebels Of the South
the right TO carry slavery not only
into all our territories, but also into
every free State Of the North. Such
at least / understand so be the pro
gramme of Vallandigham in his recent
speech in Congress, which ali good
Democrats believe TO be the greatest
achievement Of the human intellect
and to announce doctrines worthy of al
democratic scceptation.
Neither should it be forgotten thsl
the Democracy now exhibit perfect
horror at the idea OF white man being
compelled to work in the same county
or State with atres negro. but still are
perfectly willing that he should be
brought into immediate competition
with a sfavs.negro. Because, you see,
the Democracy fear the negro may I'M.
der-work the white man. but the slave