The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-09-21

Chase to the United States Senate, and
repealed them all 20 that from that
time until now, we have had TO laws,
so far as believe and know, creating
disabilities on account Of color, except,
it may be, the "visible admixture,"
law, passed in 1859, which was after
ward pronounced unconstitutional and
repealed There is an evident incon.
sistency in the law, as.t now stands,
but as the people seem TO be satisfied
with it, and, as I do not see that any
thing would be gained by agtating
the subject in the next Legislature, !
do not propose TO disturb the existing
state Of things, should | be elected 10
the Senate.
NEGHO SOCIAL EQUALITY.
As to "negro social equality" I pro.
pose to just let every body do as they
please about choosing their associates
| expect, az heretofore, to prefer the
white race for mine, and have no fears
that shall be compelled to choose any
other. But if the negro insists on be-
ing made socially equal with any Of
my constituency Of the copperhead
persuasion, and will obtrude himself
into your parlors, eat at your tables,
and marry your daughters, l shall
vote for no law to prevent or punish
him. As you make your bed so you
shall lie. If the negro is only kept
from being your equal by legal disa
bilities, then they ought to bcremoved
at once. / can not believe that Genl
Cox's theory of the repulsion of the
races is always and every where true;
and especially does it seem to me not
to hold good with the Southern wing
of this new Democratic organization.
For it is said that in the city Of New
Orleans where there is colored pop
ulation of seventy thousand, there can
scarcely be found child OF African
descent, in which there is not "vsi-
bic admixture" of the repulsed race. |
sincerely hope that this attraction Of
races may not affect the Northern
wing of the moo dispensashun, though
there is at least one notable instance in
our region of the State.
THE NEGRO soUTH--REcoN OBSTRUCTION
AND SUFFRAGE.
But what of the negro South E? i
am willing to give my judgment for
what it is worth, l do not believe
they have sufficient capacity and in.
tellgence to exercise wisely the cleo
tive franchise, and would not grant il
to them. But in justice to them il
must be said that it would be far bet
ter TO entrust the sacred right to them
now, than to give it to their former
masters, who have lived upon tbeil
toll, and despoiled them of all thei,
rights. Give me the man with an
!. honest, loyal heart and a black skin
in preference to one whose soul il
blackencd with perjury and treason
and whose hands are yet wet with thC
blood of my countrymen, though hl'
skin be whita as snow. Nay, 1 pro
test against these murderers of my
+. brother, for the only crime of uphold
ing that flag which ought to be deaf
to all our hearts, now and at once, be
ing put in possession of all the rights
and privileges which they have for
, foited by their crimes, l am glad
that it is only an experiment.
l commend to the perpetrators o
the Morgan platform the logic of tina
D member of the Mississippi Convention
, who said, IF we are still in the UnIol
t then we are all traitors, and have for
, feited all our rights, including tn
right to live"
The so-called secedod States are still
> in the Union; no act Of the people cal
, take them out; but they have destroy
ed the State Governments. These mus
, be put in operation by the Genera
Governmot, and there can be no vo
r ting at all until the machinery is Sc
in motion by the superior power. lie
2 this be done cautiously and wisely
t and all will be we'll. Let time and th
logic of events, rather than the mum
! Der and stringency of the oaths, deter
> mino who is to do the voting; alway
/ remembering to begin with loyalty.
) But l do not expect all the member
of the Union party to adopt my view
; of negro suffrage. 1t can not be deni
{ ed that there is difference Of. opinion
D upon this subject. And the question
. is, whether we, who have stood togeth
er in the darkest hours of our history
9 until we triumphed together, sbal
t now basely desert each other, ant
show that, though we were true t,
the country, we cannot be true to our
! selves and each other.
g Upon the question Of suffrage, allow
: me to suggest that there is q great con
trariety of opinion even in the North
v ern wing OF the Democratic party
}, My opponent and competitor in tn
canvass l have no doubt honestly an,
f conscientiously believes that foreigner
ought to remain in this country a
: least twenty-one years before the!
t should be allowed to vote; while ther
J. are many of his supporters who JUS
e as honestly believe they ought tovote
:, at farthest, on six months probation.
+ On this whole negro subject 1 agre,
d fully with an editorial in the Dall,
G Cincinnati Enquirer Of the 18th Of las
July, and which was copied and in
dorsed by the Hamilton True Tele
I graph Of the 9th Of July, and which
v now read from the Enquirer:
r "Nothing that God has made shoul,
ri be- contemned. The man who despi