The West Virginia journal. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1864-1877, 1865-11-29
"NigSer Equality"

Senator Wilson, Of Mass, made many
excellent speeches throughout tho State
Of New York during the canvass, but
We have not seen anything in them that
plcases us better than this extract from
his speech at Little Falls. He addressed
himself to the chief bugaboo that now
haunts the Democratic mind, as follows
"Our country" said that illustrious
statesman, John Quincy Adams, " be-.
gan its existence by the universal cman.
cipa,ion Of man from. the thraldom Of
man" Amid the darkIiug storms Of
revolution, America proclaimed as its
living faith the sublime creed Of human
equality. From out the rolling clouds
of battle, the new republic, as it took its
place in the family Of nations, pro-
claimed in the car Of all Humanity that
the poor, the humble, the sons of toll,
with hands hardened by honest labor,
were tho equals, the peers, before the
law, Of kings aud princes and mobiles.
This declaration Of the rising republic
in the New World was an Inspiration to
the champions of popular rights in the
Old World, and hope to the people In
whose hearts still fingered the dimlJ.
remembered accents Of liberty. To men
crushed in struggling for the rights Of
humanity, the proclamation of the self,
evident truth that all men are created
equal, and have an inalienable right to
Ife, liberty, and the pursuit of happi'
ness, has been for two generations q
living faith, that would illume their
darkeued pathway to liberty protected
by law. Eighty. nine years after the
proclamation Of the sublime creed of
human equality, which has been an in:
spiration to humanity the wide world
over, our ears are paincd and our souls
made sick here in our own America With
the brutal and vulgar outcry Of "nisger
equality" Here in Christian and Re
publican America, every effort Of patri'
oti.m, liberty, justice and humanity, to
lift the burdens imposed upon poor
race by centuries OF slavery-every ct.
fort TO instruct the intellect darkcned
by years Of oppression-is stigmatlzed
by tho brutal and vulgar demasrgulSm
Of America as "sniggcr equality" Mig
ger Equality!" Whenever | hear a
man, Born in this land, educated 10 these
free schools, taught in these Christian
churches, instructed in these varied In.
dus,rics, prato about "nigser equality,
/ accept it as q confession that he in
stincti1ely feels that the negro is bis su'
perior, aud demands legislation to make
him his inferior. "Niggor equality +
It i, the language of brutality and vul'
earity. No gentleman 10 America
pratcs about "nigger equality" The
creature that is SO base a, to do so must
be, and is, vulgar fellow. Ho may
live in a fue house; be may dress iu the
rarb Of q gentleman; but a noble or man.
" septiment never dwelt iu his bosom.
II remember on one occasion WHOM o
Senator was addressing tho Senate. and
indulpiug in calling negro nigger,
that Mr. Seward turned. 10 me. and said,
"that ma D will never be President, the
people always mean to elect gentleman
for President, and the man who spells
negro With two g.s can never DO Presi.
deot:" He;;iis Snlsar fellow who raises
an outciy about "nigger equality" and an
be is a poor, pi.iable creature who fears
it. Uldef lust, humane and equal laws,
NO man should look up to any one as