Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1865-09-06

the Negro is to De DrougnG aIhOh8 yVU'
not to be protected like other people,
but to be taken into the bosom of your
families to associate with you on terms
of perfect equality, and finally to walk
up to the ballot-box and exercise a part
of that great power with which you are
clothed Of conducting and controlling
the Government Of your country. need
hardly assure you, gentlemen, that to
such state as this, and everything
allied to 1t, the Democracy can never
assent. We can never assent for many
reasons, one of which is sufficient, that if
we should, we would betray the sacred
trust reposed in us to be the guardians Of
the poor white man against degradation
and dishonor. With no unkind feeling
toward the negro race-not particle, or
at least with as little perhaps as that
which actuates most of the saints who
now claim so much-I say with no IN
kind feeling toward the negroes, must
say to them distinctly and unequivOcally
that a wise God has made you one race,
inferior in every particular to the race to
which we belong. We can not give up
our pleasant places to you, nor can we
surrender that God-given right entrusted
to our hands, to govern these pleasant
places with wisdom. I do trust in God
that not only the negro race here but
elsewhere may progress and be elevated
as fast as possible-rnay attain, as far as
possible, all the happiness this earth
affords. I wish them well in every par
ticular, God knows, but can not sur
render the trust reposed in me to 7indi-
cate this Territory and these white men
by white mans Government. Gentle
men, let me add one word in this same
connection. For many years past, as
you are we'll aware, we were obliged to
stand upon the proposition that the
South, where negro slavery existed by
State law, that it was their business
that we had no rightthrJugh the Federal
Government or otherwise to interfere
with their affairs that was necessity OF
our position; the absolute and uncon-
trollable construction which we placed
upon the Federal Constitution and upon
the Constitutions of the States, that each
were supreme in their spheres. You are
all perfectly aware at what cost we done
this. You are all perfectly aware that
with this disinterestedly volunteering to
protect the Constitution of the country
from invasion, by insisting that these
men could not make their crusades upon
the slave States, we were driven into mi
uorities over a great portion of the coun-
try that otherwise we would have had
with undisputed sway. L thank my God
that that time Is passed, that we have
come to time when we can 60 back to
the point we occupied twenty-five years
ago, and can stand and devote our entire
attention to the yindication Of the just
rights of the great laboring masses ofOur
country. These men for whom We have
done so much, who ought to be grateful
to us for what we have done, have beer
) far otherwise. They picthed into re.
bellion and staked their negroes upoT
, the issue, as a gambler throws his pawr
r into the game. They have lost. lie
> the negroesgo. Applause.
After some remarks touching Genera
Cox's evasion of the questiOnsput to him
Y Judge Ranney took his seat.