The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-06-28

aud their POSTERITY forever. -STE-
PuEN A. DoUGLAs.
superior discipline OF Negro Sol
diers.
The advocates Of negro suffrage, in
their efforts to prove negro soldiers equal
or superior to the whites, dwell with great
emphasis upon the ready submission Of
the negroes to military discipline. Their
argument runs aboutin this way: The ne
grpes yield q, more ready and complete
obedience than the whites, therefore they
are susceptible of more ready aud com
piste discipline: disciplined the strength
of au army, therefore negro soldiers make
better army than whites.
That the negro soldiers have been the
pets aud favorites of the Secretary is we'll
kno@nls They have had all the esoft
things all the cheap glory; they took
Richmond after the whites did the fight
ing; they have been pufed, fattered and
praised by the Administration and all its
adherentsy it has, therefore, been both
very natural and very easy for them to be
obedient.
But a few days since the favorite corps
efsthose favorite troops utterly broke
down and destroyed the basis of so many
fdlsoms panegyrics When ordered to
I. H { &
embark for Texas, these tractable+ obedi-
cut, well disciplined heroes mutinied, and
fatty refased to 60. They loaded and
capped their pieces, and defed their Off
GERS or any body else to take thom against
their win, They have not gone yet, and
whetherthey will or not is yet to be seen.
We publish elsewhere foll'account of
the sdisgfacefui mutiny.
win the Abolitionists continue to praise
thelnegro soldiers for their disciplined
Will they still maintain the superiority Of
negre troops over whittier They have never
dared to claim for the negro a high degree
Of. courage or Of intelligence, but they
insisted that superior. discipline more
than supplied the place of these. But
here awe find these shining examples o.
implicit obedience and unquestion.ng dis
cipline in one minute becoming wild
mob Of mutineers.
Es The Abolition State platform il
the most eonsummate piece of demagogue
ism ever presented tothe people. Th,
manner in which the endorsement of ne
gro equality is covered up is simply dis
honest. They resolve to maintain tn,
priueiples of the Declaration Of Inde
pepdence. Now it is we'll known that tn
chief feature of that document, in tn
eyes Of an Abolitionist, is the clause pro
claiming that tall men are born equal,
which, bysa construction never intende'
by its authors, they maintain means ne
gro equality with the whites. &
Thus by plain deduction their plat
fprp, like those of nearly every othe
boayssof Republicans which has met 0
late, is decidedly for negro suffrage an
negro equality; yet SO artfulIy have the
worded it that wherever this doctrine ma
be distasteful the strict letter of thei
resolutions will allow them to evade it.
This is disgraceful in party claimiu
to have fifty thousand majority in til
State. One Of two things is certain
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piles, or they are afraid to let them b
known.
Their platform, however, is constructe
ia perfect harmony with their antecedent
They expect, as heretofore, to gain th
votes of the people by deception.
THE CRoPs.-There never was tin
when the croakers were not heard, and
usual this seasen they are clamorous
bull frogs. Yet, after all, nature is kir
10 us. The promise of an unusual vie
is. quite favorable Along the counts
bordering the central line of Illnoi
wheat, corn and potatoes never look,
better. On Tuesday of this week we sa
Ia Madison County fields of wheat with
"a day sor two Of sufficient maturity for Il
reaper. Late rains have enlivened Il
whole tier OF counties, along ihe ran
between the Alton and Terra Haute al
Ohio aud Mississippi Railroads. An u
tu;ual b-ea6 tn of land has beon planted
corp, and although it is somewhat bac
ward, yet it is Of good color, and und
the reyiying influence Of late abunda
rains will spring forward 5withIa coleri
opIlpost, apparent to the naked eye.
Sl,1-ialfetd (W } STATE Register. l6th.