Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-03
AProgrcssiye Party.

gfSome of the Abolition organs confess 10
little soueamishness in regard to what used
to be called, in old fashioned parlance,
aamalgamation," but in these modern-im-
proyement times, styled "miscegenation."
These squeamish organs, however, are get
ting their stomachs in order to swallow the
dose, well knowing that what the radical
doctors prescribe they must take. They
may make some grimaces and wry faces at
first as the Republicans used to do, when
the radical Abolitionists ordered new
course of medicine and nursing for their
party. But tney VIM get accustomed
to ii, and declare that miscegenation is just
the thing to put down rebellion, and give
birth to that New Nation, which, Mr.. CHASE
on his last visit to Ohio declared, was about
to be born.
It is significant fact that the Admins
.tration journals are quite unanimous in
their agreement with HORACE GREELEY that
there is no natural barrier in the way Of
practical miscegenation- repugnance on
the part of white men and women to mar
riage with blacks but what is altogether ar
tificial and arbitrary. The radicals In the
Abolition ranks have carried their point in
other matters, and they will doubtless car
ry It in this. The widest notions Of the
old school Abolitionist are now taken up
by their modern successors, and put forth
as just and true principles of political ac-
ton. Amalgamation, for which miscege-
nation is but another name, was one of
those notions. It is, therefore, perfectly
natural that it should be cherished by those
who have come into possession Of all the
other goods and chattels of the old Abb
clifton party, hatred to the Constitution and
malice against the Union included.
Amalgamation or miscegenation Is but
the natural or necessary outgrowth Of the
doctrine of negro equality. This, too, has
come down, like an heirloom in family,
from the immediate predecessors Of the
present Abolition or Administration party.
That negro equality is part of its creed
leaders In the party have stoutly denied,
and some may be found still fool-hardy
enough to deny it; but the denial amounts
to nothing, when 1t is remembered that the
chosen Representatives of the party solemn
ly declared in National Convention at
Chicago, and put it upon record, that. it
was contrary to the spirit of our institu-
tions and subversive Of our frame of gov
ernment for the national authority to inter-
fere with the domestic institutions of the
separate States, and that they had no in
tention to attempt such interference. Yet
the same men cannot and do not now deny
that they are encouraging and practically
carrying out such interference and thus,
according to their own declaration, sub
verting and overturning the government
our fathers founded.
Gradually as the doctrine of the right to
abolish State laws and State institutions,
from alleged military necessity or other
cause, has become, without distinct ayowal,
the fixed doctrine of the Administration
party; 50 Is that of negro equality making
its way into the minds of men who have
imbibed like false political heresies which
they professed q few years ago equally to
detest, and stoutly swore they could never
embrace. tr'a igsi1seF