Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-08-16
From tie Columbus { 0be) Crisis.
Negro Equality.

We are surprised to find in the recent Is
sue of New York daily paper, which has
heretofore been regarded as soundsy Demo
cratic, an article advocating the doctrine of
negro suffrage. Experience has taught us
that extremely few of the metropolitan Jour-
nais are to be relied upon in cases where the
promise of making a Inomentary sensation is
reasonably good; and it is probable We should
Dot have been surprised in this case had not
the journal alluded to been regarded as an.
exception to the rule. That State has the
right 10 confer tie elective franchise upon
the negro is indsputable, Just as they have
the right to conf, r it upon women and chill
dren if they choose but that they should do
so, even fur the purpose of correcting The
in Congress, is not only 20
part of the Democratic creed, but rcyciti.igIy
contrary toit. The negro is not the equal of
the white man. God nsyer made him so,
and thirty centuries have borne testimony
to tic fact that no human effort can make
him SO. The native condition of the negro
race is that of barbar .sm; it has been such
eJr thousands OF years, and will continue so
to the end ofresfsnning. Civilization has pro-
gressed everywhere butamong the Africans;
revolutions have effected some good to every
race but thatuf the negro there they have
halted because progress YVES impossible; re-
formations haze been instituted, but never
one that could elevate tie African, or make
the Ethiopian change his skim" The high
est degree of civilization ever attained was in
the condition of warranteeism in the south.
ern States, whereh his inferiority and subordi-
nation were recognized, and the government
to which he was subjected was made in &C.
coriance with these facts. In this condition
three hundred thousand pagan, savage ne
groes, progressed 10 faur millions of useful
domestic laborers. No race can Increase in
m abnormal condition; the fact that the ne
groes rapidly increase ina Slate Of seyvitude
in the South and decrease in state Of free.
dom in the North, proves that which no
amount Of fmaudlinphilanthropy and sentimen
tai sophistry can overthrow, This fact was uni
vsrsally recognizedin the country until with
in few years. and then was only denied at
the instisetion Of British Abolitionists. Phe
trainers Of the Declaration of independence
recognized the inferiority of the regro. To
say that they did not is 10 accuse them Of the
most contemplate and disgraoctul inconsis-
teucy and falsehood. Any other construction
of their Declaration is perversion and a
sander. This goTernnent' was formed by
white men and for white men, else the African
and the Indian would lave been invited to
participate in its formation.
The idea of conferrinc the clcctiyc franchise
Upon the negro, is modern notion. as absurd
as it is wicked and revolving. It is the fruit
OF besotted and ,rnzy fauaticism and not OF
political. foresight or genuine philanthropy.
The equality of the white man and the negro
involves their social equality, amalgamaiion.
mengrel race and a hybrid government, .
monstrosity, revolving to men and offensive
to God. Upon this one subject there can be
40 possible bubble By which the Democratic
party could or should seek 10 evade tine rugged
issue. 1t has been the custom of tho Aboli-
tien reyolntionists to attempt to justify all
their usHTpations and errors by some Demo.
cratic precedent, but upon this question there
is no hook or crook in the Democratic record
upon which to hang such precedent. 10 he
opposed to negro Suffrage in Ohio is to be
opposed to enforcing it upon the people OF the
Southern States for what would be disgusting
to us would be revolving to them. The Dem
ocratic party, being the oldest and puresl
political organization in the country, is op
posed to negro suifrage'and negro equality in
Ohio, in the Southern and in all the Stats,
on the principle of recognizing the distinc-
tion and the difference which nature aud Gcd
have made between men.