The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1865-11-03
Away With Him !

away w ith hA"
Colorphob dies hard, and II must be ad-
mitted that its ultimate spasms are !augha-
able. as 1t stiffons into tho rgidity of re-
dnctio ad obsnrdum. Glass hatred finds
death itself sweet in comparison with con-
cessioDsor even compromise The Cbero-
kee Indian. turning up bis nose contomptu-
ously between two high cheek bones, sob
jecss to the incorporation of the freedmen
into his tribe" The State of Connecticut,
still enamored of blue legislation, thinks the
blacks good enough for battles, but not good
enough for the balot-box. The Rev. Gov.
BrownIow Is for instantly kicking every
emapcipated man, woman and child out OF
Tennessee. So II seems thut wherever
these dark foot. balls may land they will be
unpleasant to somebody; and, as there are
several millions of tbem--a good, solid con.
stituent part of the national population
under positive necessity. while they live at
all, of living somewhere, 10 occurs to us
that the readiest way of solving this i'm
pertinent problem is to put all those in
truders upon the face of Gods earth to the
sword. Does any chick en- hearted bumah-
itarian protes. that this expedient would be
wanting to some extent in benevolence
Bah who is talking of benevolence at all ?
We are considering something better
bread and butter, the peace of society, an
cient and respectable prejudices, the deli
the inhabitants Of Connecticut, the sacred
dignity of Caucasian demi, gods, the purity
of pews and oi theater- boxes aud of railway
carriages, and Of school and colleges, the
nice nobility Of the we'll born because they
are white. born, the traditional limita tiops Of
fastidious Democracy, the exquisite taste OF
porter houses and primary meetings, the
weak kuecs of nervous Republicans, the
susceptibility of the whole tribe of the
| Holiei than. Thou's! None of these arc
the men to find fault with our propositions
on tho score of cruelty. Why should they
be tender of lives which they are so ready
to make wretched The black is either q
man or beast If the former, he has q
right to live where be pleases; if the latter,
he is mere vermin. and no more to be toll
Grated upon the political than Ioatbsone To-
sects upon the physical body. We have
nothing but scorn for the logic which fain.s
at it's own conclusions. We have nothing
but contempt for theories which the holders
shrink from reducing to practice. We
shoot wolves, We trap weasels, We hunt
foxes, We kill pole.cats, We shoot crows,
we wage var of extermination upon rats
and cockroaches, and who calls our persist
cut hBu uUnGIIty CIucI ~ ID uut
, against the existence but the neighborhood
cally and remorselessly. Now, though the
farmer in Maine may care nothing for the
: wolves in Minnesota, and the householder
in New York nothing for the reaches in
Philadelphia, it is evident that, while wolve
Il and reaches remain, they must live some
IS where and trouble somebody. So it is will
;. these horrible blacks II Brownow had
y purse plethoric enough, and power sde
4 quate to transport all these trouLlesom
:. creatures somewhere, 1t is certain that b.
" could not carry them beyond the ultimate
l. reach of advancing white civilization. III
le merely temporizes. He merely rids bi
Is day and generation oi trouble, and be
IS queatbes it to posterity. He merely re
= lieves one locality at the expense Of an
If other. Our plan is more consistent IN,
, humane. If We cut the thioats of all th,
! blacks. wesever at the same time the gor
u dian knot We put the animal out of hi
misery, and We put ourselves out of ou
q misery. and all will be SERENE We do no
n preterd to be more pitfui than our neigh
" bors; brt we believe the coup de grace t,
/. be better and kinder than prolonged tor
ture, "the happy dispatch" tondersr tina,
deliberate worrying. IF this poor blacl
creature is TO be hunted from town to town
from county to county, and from State t,
it State, finding nowhere.a resting place, no
,f where compassion and succor. nowhere
,. home. nowhere escape from ingenious AM
!. unceasiDg enmity, the sooner he is release,
from an existence so execrable the NOR
!, fortunate will he be. Even if it should tur
~ out to be all a mistake. he can hardly b
~ worse off in the worst condition Of the futur
s life than he has been 10 this. With no fee
IN ing but that Of pity, and moved by the sir
a. cerests COMMUNICATION, We submit our pla
8. to the notice of the kline. heart ted and char
=. table, and recommend public meeting q
.. Cooper Institute to inaugurate the move
. ment-N. Y. Tribune.