Litchfield enquirer., 1865-09-07
Litchfield. Conn, Thursday, Sept. ?, 1865
q Down with the Nigger.

cratic, anti-nigger, State rights, Jeff Davis and Mrs. Surratt, peace and pardon party. In pre- paration for this task, we have perused the ar :, guments of the anti. negro suffrage press with the greatest care, and are prepared, We believe, to lay before our readers the strongest and most patent reasons W y they should not vote to make the nigger superior to the white man. In the first place. then negro suffrage is opposed by that principle of our party that has found expression in the maxim :: the negro has no rights that the white man is bound to respect It would show most Imaginable :ncredulity in us to ques- ton the wisdom and justice of this most sage and humane sentiment. It is laid down in the creed that negro, no matter how patriotic, sor Intelligent, or respectable, or honest, or wealthy, has no rights and the reason is as plain as the nose on your face,-because he is black. He may even have ten drops to one of the purest democratic blood in his veins. but the one drop of African taint will put him un- der the ban. The meanest, most lunatic, and most treacherous white man in the conservative ranks, is better nor the best nigger in the coun- try. That is plain. sa,.,g s.@a.
 Then, we are opposed to nigger equality The negroes are getting the best of us in this matter. They have already attained an equality and in some cases, superiority, in intelligence. good many of them own equally as much property, are equally respected. and are equally peaceable and neral with the most blood thirsty of us peace men. We have worked by the s.de of them, have been to church (the few of us who ever attend churchl with them, and our Southern brethren have kissed them, and hugged them, and cohabited with them. All this of course is right and sensible, but the idea of placing them on a political equality with us is absurd, it is degrading. AS clear as mud. .q f.ssss. E.tr .5s t,.,r..., .9a.. ',s
 Another reason, and a good one, why negroes have no right to be electors, is because they are such orderly scoundrels that they seldom place themselves under the penalties of the
 
 anyway. Every body knows that the jails are full of good democrats that our courts are crowded with prosecutions against them, for theft, and libel, and robbery, and murder, and treason, and of course we are supposed to know what statutes are most conservative to our 'peace.' It is one of the first principles of free government-that the people should be permitted to make their own laws, and it is de- cidedly cheeky for these stupid blacks, for whom there is so little use for laws or the jais, | to ask to have any control over either You understand that, do you not ., .,', Y. .,5 5,. | Again, if negroes vote, they will have to pay taxes. Now, we pretend that We are unfavor- able to high taxes. but we are not. More men have opposed this 'parracidal war and this abolition administration and voted the straight peace ticket on account of the high taxes such war imposes upon the people, than for anything else and if the taxes had been twice as great, good many more might have done the same thing, and some of us would have been elected to office. No, the negroes shall not-mast not be taxed. But more powerful reason still. and one that appeals to the heart of every lover of his country, is the result, which will surely follow, that negroes, if they are made citizens, may sometime be applicants for office. Now, we have not one of us had an office worth con tinental since we can remember, and we do not propose to divide our chance with any nig. ger Guess not. We. have spent all our sub stance for the last four years to no effect. We cannot carry the election in half-dozen states, we have not a member of Congress in New England; but we hope to ring into power some- time, and when we do, we shall have men enough to fill all the offices. Just give us half a chance, and we can divide the spoil without any colored help. That's so. .6e eST -4 Furthermore, tho subject is of too little im- portance to occupy one minutes notice. If the negroes in Connecticut were large and in fuential class, they might possess some claim upon our sense of justice but contemporary tells us there are 'only fe,o thousand of them, and what rights have only few thousand G'- Let not the peoples party disgrace itself by having anything to do with such an insignifi- cant natter s8s. s4s Ais4h. y.5fi f,s8 .rr- | Again, we should advance cautiously upon any such important experiment. This is no less than proposition to amend the constitu:. ton of our State to make electors of an ell tirely new and unsophisticated class ;; to stuff our ballot boxes with 'jnigger votes, We say to 'stuf our ballot boxes,' for the same con temporary quoted above, (from which we have obtained nearly all of our present democratic views) states that there are many thousands of them in the State. Horrors! many thous. ands' of these vicious animals to be let loose upon election days. ss 95rs. .g5.,.. ,T l And every one to vote t1A abolition ticket,
 too There's the rub.' live could only. make
 them believe that we are their friends that we kept them in slavery for their good that while i've spat on them, ana ieered at them, stamped ] upon them, hunted them with hounds. and nrav. l ed for their destruction and damnation.. . we , loved them, O! so tenderly, z as the father loyeth his son, &c. if we could only make