Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-09-08
BAD SHOWING FOR A ssUPERIOR RACE,

1t may be that the white men of Ohio will be
proud of the position which the recent pseudo
Democratic Convention would give them; but
we doubt it. We have heard great deal of
indignation expressed at the bare idea of
placing the blacks on terms of equality
before the law with the whites. The bare sug-
gestion that the negro might become competent
10 exercise the full rights and assume the respon-
sibilties of citizenship, has been taken as an in
suit to the Anglo-Saxon race. 1t was on this
ground that the aforesaid Convention deliber-
ately resolved that "the experience of four thOus
and years has demonstrated that the negroes
are not equal to aohSte men, and all attempts to
place them on footing of equality, politically
and socially, with the whites, ever have proved
and ever will prove failures" Here we have
the superiority of the white race, as proven by
| the experience OF four thousand years, posi-
lively asserted, and the confident prediction
made that call efforts made to qualify the
blacks for competition with the whites "will ev-
err prove failures" In other words, the inferi-
ority of the negro is too great for him ever to
be maintained beside the white man.
This view of the case ought to inspire the
superior race with great self-confdeDce and
no small degree of sympathy and pity for their
interiors. But the pride which the above named
resolution would induce, is seriously modified
by succeeding one in the same platform, which
protected against negro labor, it is "the duty of
the legislature to discourage negro emigration to
our Stdte' How is that? How is it that race
whose superiority has been established by the
uniform experience of mankind needs the inter-
vention of the strong arm of the government to
protect it from those who have always 'failed"
when brought into competition with it? Is
it true, after all, that the Anglo-Saxon is not
able to sustain itself in a fair and open rivalry
with the African? Or are the white men of
Ohio so far inferior to the average OF their race
that they need such extraordinary protection
from competition which has up to this time SO
uniformly proved its superiority 1t would
seem so, If we would accept the action of this
Convention as correct. Is this position one that
men conscious of their superiority would be
likely to take?
In the same platform we find another resolu-
tion in opposition to the policy of protecting
American industry against the competition of
foreign capital and labor The Convention
would place the subjects of Great Britain on
the same footing in this respect with our citi-
zens leaving the latter to stand or fail by their
own resources; but when it comes to the COM
petition of the down trodden, degraded negro
we must have special Legislation to protect"
the proud white population of ''our State"
against thatl We can get along with the best
Of our own race in the Old world without pro-
lection of any kind; but something must be
done whereby we may be protected against
negro labor!" OF course, we don't question
the right of the politicians who met at Colum-
bus on the 24th ult. to place any estimate they
please on their followers; but so far as the mass
of the citizens of Ohio are concerned we pro-
test against the gross insult embraced in the as
sumption that they need to be "prOteCted against
negro labor" Toledo Blade.