Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-11-09
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Senator .Wilson-who asspoken effect |
tyely for the Union cause and ticket at
Rhinebeck, Oneida, Cortland, Fonda and
Johnstown, during the last week-closed |
the canvass on saturday at Little Falls,
where he thus elucidated the chief Copper
head bugaboo;
.Our country said that illustrious states
man, John Quincy Adams, "began Its ex-
istence by the universal emancipation Of
man from the thralldom of man." Amid |
the darkling storms of revolution, America
proclaimed as its living faith the sublime
creed of human equality. From out the
rolling clouds of battle, the new republic,
as it took Its place In the family of nations,
proclaimed in the ear of all Humanity that
the poor, the humble, the sons OF toll, whose
hands were hardened by honest labor were
the equals, the peers, before the law, OF
kings and princes and mobiles. This de-
claration of the rising Republic In the New
World was an inspiration to the champions
of popular rights In the Old World, and a
hope to the people In whose hearts still
fingered the dimly-remembered accents OF
liberty. To men crushed in struggling for
the rightso of humanity, the proclamation of
the self-eydent truth that all men are cre-
ated equal and have an inallenable right 10
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
has been for two generations living iaith,
that would illume their darkeDed pathway
to liberty protected by law. Eighty-nine
wears after the proclamation of the sublime
creed of human equality, which has been an
inspiration to humanity the wide world
over, our ears are panied and our souls made
sick here In our own America with the bru-
| tai and vulgar outcry of "nigger equality"
| Here In Christian and Republican America,
every effort OF patriotism, liberty, justice
and humanity, to lift the burdens imposed
| upon a poor race by centuries of Slavery
every effort to instruct the intellect darken,
ed by years Of oppression--is stismatized
by the brutal and vulgar demagoguIsm OF
| Eoualityr' Whenever l hear man, born
In this land, educated in these free schools,
taught in these Christian churches, instruct
| ed in these varied Industries, pirate about
snigger equality" l accept IL as a con-
| fession that he instinctively feels that
the negro Is his superior, and de-
tnands legislation to make him his inferior.
Niger equality !" It Is the language of
i brutality and vulgarity. No gentleman In
| America pirates about "nigger equality
The creature that Is so base as to DO so must
be, and is, a vulgar fellow. He may live
in fine house; he may dress III the garb OF
gentleman; but noble or manly senti-
| ment never dwelt in his bosom. remem-
ber on one occasion when Senator was ad-
dressing the Senate and indulging in calling
A negro nigger, that Mr.. Seward turned
to me and said, "that man will never be
President; the people always mean to elect
a gentleman for President; and the man
WHO spells negro with two g's can never be
Il President.". He is a vulgar fellow who
raises an outcry about "nigger equality"
and he Is poor ptiable creature who fears
it. Under just, humane and equal laws, no
man should look up to any one as his SUI
perior, nor down to any one as his Interior.
The poorest man in the land is entitled 10
equality before the law with the wealthiest
citizen'of his country. His cabin may be
humble; but 1t is as sacred as the palace OF
the rich man. His wife may be clothed In
1 rags; but she is shielded by the same equal
Il law that protects the jeweled bride OF the
richest man in all the land. His child may
/ be a little barefoot boy, but he is the peer
| of the son of wealth and pride. Away with
the brutal, vulgar, wicked outcry about
"nigger equality" 1t was born OF the pit.
Send it back to its native depths. Renlem-
Der those other words that come to us from
the heavens "Inasmuch as ye did 1t unto
the least of these, ye did it unto me-" Walk
H the earth with your forehead to the skies
in the conscious dignity of the equality OF
humanity-that you are men whom God
made and for whom Christ died-aDd that
1 it degrades not, but ennobles him who lifts
up the sons and daughters of toll, misfor-
tune and sorrow, of all the races and Kill
dred of men. sl
The above we copy from the New York
Tribune of the 9th inst, with the Tribune's
preface. CHRIST, by electing to come into
the world through carpenters family,
sought, in his Divine mission, among other
things, to elevate and dignity labor. 1t is
somewhat singular that if the African Is
the equal of the White man, and, therefore,
entitled to equal political and social privi-
leges with White men In Governments
founded by White men, that CHRIST did not
elect to take upon himself the form of hu-
manity in Africa, instead of in a land of
White men, subject to the rule OF White
men. 1t is not even recorded in the New
Testament that any of the Apostles jour
neyed into Africa and there taught the doc
trines of CHRIST to people it is now held
to be brutal and vulgar, by New England
) Snobs, to treat as in any essential inferior
to the White race. M, s.,ir.1., a.. ..s l