The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-07-01
The Powsr Of Preindioa


The New York World Is Democratic pa
per. The Democrats claimto be The champions
OF State Rights. For four years past those
who have opposed the war and held back kom
obedience to the demands of loyalty, have
never ceased to talk OF State RqbCs, and we
had come to believe that on ~etis idea, il no
other, they stood immovs5ly, to be crowded
from it by no pressure, to be frightened from
1t by no ghpst whether black or white.
But~we were mistaken. We find them
ready to clear this rock at a single bound. and
Z abandon the States to sure and inevitable de-
struction; to allow all the big fish to eat up
the little ones; and this comes of prejudice
and ''nigger on the brain.p Here il n,ra-
graph clipped from the World by the organ of
negro phobia in this city, and by it 'commend-
ed" to the especial consideration" OF the
Press: 81 wee g qf
III the negro suffrage men of New England
insist on the principle, let them accept lis log
zeal consequence. II every man in The United
Sta e' black or white, is to be made the politi
cal equal OF every other man, according to
the Declaration of Independence, then il
must no longer take six New Workers TO count
as much Ia the Senate, and in amending the
constitution, as one Yankee. If the Declare.
uon 81 Independence makes the black man the
political equal Of the white, 1t should also
make white men in the different States equal
to each other" d~~'
Inc design OF the wise men who framed the
Constitution, in allowing to all States equal
power IN the Senate, irrespective of aggregate
population, was to protect the small States
and prevent their being oyerridden and borne
down by large States like New York and yjr-
GINA 1t was the cornerstone of the State
Rights edlhce but the Democrats of to dav
In their adherence of equal rights. In their
strange infatuation in favor of negro slavery
In their unmitigated dislike OF Justice and
right, are willing to tumble into chaos all the
checks and balances wisely provided BY the
fathers, to preserve the rights Of minorities.
70 prevent Consolidation of power, and to pre-.
serve the independent identity Of the several
STATES was madness ever more profound?
Ithappens, however, that before the modern
DemocratS-at present the synonym OF des
pots-can abolish and blot out the wise distipe-
uon referred to,in order to crafty = M lionant
spite against New England and tho ID a
Yankees" they have got to change az 49,
stitutlo Of the United States, by the concur-
rent consent of three-quarters of all the st...a
and SO long as ne-third of the States on,s.sr
Of New England would suffer more BY such
blotting out than would New England herself
there is small danger that the Empire State.
even should she lapse into the barbarism Of
copperheadism, will be able carry out this
latest manifestation of Democratic regard IN
for State Rights.
Such suggestion as thatoi the World only
shows how thoroughly every idea OF genuine
Democracy has died out of the present Demo
cratic creed. Instead Of being planted on
equal rights, universal freedom, exact justice
ana extended suffrage. what now calls itself
the Democracy, inscribes upon its banner as
Tue chief article offs faith, restriction OF suf-