Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-09-27
HIDING BEHIND THE "NIGGER."

HIDING BEHIND THE "NIGGBR."
William A. Wallace, candidate for the
State Senate, and Chairman of the so-called
Democratic State Central Committee, has
record which no man need envy. His vote
against allowing the use of the Senate Han
to Gov. Andrew johnson and eX-Gov. Joseph
A. Wright in March 4,-his speech and
vote against the Bill granting to soldiers
;he right to vote whilst in the Army,
part he took in the Clearfield 18th of Au-
gust meeting, at which, through the no
more men no more money theory. resistance
to the draft was encouraged ; and his gener-
al opposition to all measures of the lamented
Lincoln, looking to the suppression OF the
Rebellion and the maintenance OF the Gov
ernment, stamp his public acts as infamous
and disgraceful, and viii hereafter rank
him in the same class with Nallandigham,
Harris and Long. That man should feel
anxious to withdraw attention from such a
record. when he is candidate for re-elec-
ton, is not surprising. This Wallace Is at
tempting in way that might be well calcu-
lated TO succeed, were it not that the events
referred to are too fresh in the recollection
of every intelligent man in the land. We
refer, as a matter Of course, to his Address
to the people of Pennsylvania. In that
document he endeavors to force false issues
upon the consideration of the voters OF the
State. He prates about the ''habeas cor
''pus, trial by jury, the subordination of the
military to the civil power, free speech
and free press he stigmatizes the trial
and execution of the assassins of President
Lincoln for to no other could he allude, J
as murders by military commissions,
a nd threatens that ''the hour has come in
which they should cease ;" delivers short
homily on The Rights of States, and then
runs Of into long rigmarole about Negro
equality and Negro suffrage" The latter,
| William thinks are no longer mythical is
sue, but are part of the vital, practical re-
alities Of the present hour, and asserts
without qualification that nearly all the
prominent Republican newspapers of the
State have drotct0d themselves favorable
- to negro suffrage and negro equaltyf
| Fie, for shame, Wallace? How can you,
claiming to be an honorable, truthful man,
make such an allegation? A few ''promi-
nent Republican newspapers" have express
| ed themselves favorable to extending the
| right OF voting to the colored people; but
that any one in this State has '.avowed'
itself favorable to negro equality is false
hood which must have been deliberately
ana Intentionally insertedin your Address. y
The fact is Negro Suffrage is no issue il
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I Is. Tie Republican platform Is silent or
the subject. The Republican press does
not urge it as party measure. Why, then
does Wallace make such a great ado about
it? The answer to this question cannot ffai
to suggest itself to every rejecting mind
Billy" and the Democratic party with
him, has a record that is dark. He
wants to keep 1t out of view and the bes
plan which his fertile Imagination could
conceive, was to play the interesting game
of Dodging behind the Niger" So
| He turns about and wheels about,
| Aud does just so;
And every time he turns about,
He jumps Sambo -
His performance is decidedly unique
and if our readers have not, as yet. had the
opportunity of Witnessing it, they probably
will before the day of election But the
show, we opine, wont answer the purpose
for which it was intended.