The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-11-10
s.,n, Paul, Friday, Noy. 10, Uses.

saint Paul, Friday, Ney. 10, isss.
b, The .ixhss q 90 Negro.
;" 1t is charged that Il is emily prejudice
against the negro that prevents the white
man from giving him equality; that al
admit his righSto equality. &c.
Now It ts natural to admire TAR
play, masnani.ity and Justice. We all
adnsire these qualities. We shrink from
acknowledging ourselves unjust or unfair.
We would be insuhed if accused OF cheat
ing, defrauding or Withholding 3 right
from q fellow man. We are willing to
give the negro every right he is entitled
to. We would scorn to be unfair to him
in any particular, or to amy other man. :"
iii be works be should be paid for it. The
couss should allow him process to compel
the payment to him Of every due. The
laws should protect him in life, libetty
and the pursuit Of happiness. - They
should shelter him in every natural right
as fully as thy shelter the white man. For
this is right, it is humanity, it is justice,
it is religion. We have no prejudice
against the negro to prevent Us from freely
according to him all his rights. But the
riqhs to pote1l Where did he get thatR
1t is not natural, but political right.
It il a sovereign right-or . right OF SOW
ereignty. 1t implies gooerwifsg posoe''-
for the sovereign people who enjoy the
political right Of voting are the governing
po.oer in our country. In Europe It is
only allowed 70 kings and parliaments, with
few exceptions. In Eagland, the freest
country in the world, it is extended to the
people under certain Limitations and with
certain qualifications. But in England all
white men do net vote. In America, by
the Federal Esw, 1t is limited universally
to native white citizens who have served
q probation of twenty-one years, to for
eigners who have lived here five years,
and in some States it is still more limited
by property qualifications. :
If it is Q nataral right that all are emit
tied, to because all are equal, why is it
that ten million white women have not
this right as claimed by Mrs. SwIssHE1M,
ANAH DInKINsoN and others. Are they
not "peone, and does not the Constitu-
ton cay thrt f.all powers not delegated to
the Federal government are reserved re-
spectively to the States and the people
thereof"a Are all these "people >
wronged and outraged because they have
not the right Of suffrage-the sovereign
/" power of the ballot .. re ~ ~
Does any Republican feel his bowels OF
compassion moVing for these white wo-
menf They hase Tar more to complain
Of than the n4gro Mrs.. DR.. HARRzxr Z.
HUsr pays her taxes in Boston regularly
under raeas benapse it is "taxation
without representation" sea nj .aoo
Mfs. SxnssHnx complains because wo-
men are MT even entitled to their own
wages, and cannot sue and recover them If
married. They cannot sell their own
lands without the consent Of their lozds
and :. masterA" as che terms their hus-
bands They are imposed on by oombina-
tions Of smamfactmers and merchants,
who compel them to work twelve and ff-
teen hours per day in New England for
. their bare yictnals and clothes, and no one
claims that they should shave the ballot
to protect themselves.p1 ! ,su YES
q,i We are asked, sis the mere color of the
skin to guage the rights of the American
gpeoples" We answer by asking, is the
mere sec of the American people to guage
their rights We deny that the. negro is
entitled to the right Of suffrage He Is
certainly entitled to no more rights than
the foreign white man, or the native white
woman, or the native minor who must
serve his 81 years. He is an exotic in this
land. 1t is not his land, whatever may be
said to the contrary. This land is par ex.
oellence the white mans by discovery and
conquest. The negro was rescued from
the heathenism and cannibalism of his
native savage state, and bis race has been
amply compensated for this wrong by
being to-day civilized and christianized,
and made free at an expense of the blood
and treasure OF his white friends, involv-
ing hundreds of thousands of lives and
millions OF debt, which must tax and bur.
den US for years to come He is citizen
of the United States, possessed of every