The Placer herald., 1865-09-09
From the Columbus (Ohio) Crisis.
Negro Equality.

W . are surprised to md III the recent is
sue Of New York daily paper, which has
heretofore been regarded as soundlv demo
cratic, an article advocating the doctrine Of
negro suffrage. Experience has taught us
that extremely few "t the metropolitan jour,
nails are to be relied upon in cases where the
promise of making monetary sensation is
reasonably good aud it isprolable we should
not have been surprised in this ease had no,
the journal alluded to been regarded as an
exception to the rule. That State has a
right to confer the elective franchise upon
the negro is indispu'able jus. as they have
the ight TO confer j, upon women and chill
dren # they choose; bu, lha, they should do
so, even for the purpose Of correcting the
representation in Congress, is not only no
part of the democratic creed, but revoltnoIy
contrary to it. The negro is not the equal
of the white man. God never made him So
and thirty centuries have borne testimony to
the fact that no human effort, can make him
SO. The native condition of the negro race
is that of barbarsm; il has been such for
thousands of wears, and will continue so to
The end Of reckoning. Civilization has pro-.
cressed everywher4 but among the Africans:
revolutions have tfected some good to every
race but that OF the negro; there they have
halted because progress WAS impossible: rs
formations have been instituted, but never
one that could elevate the African, or make
the "E,hi"pian change his skin" The high.
est d, gree of cvi'zaion ever tanned was in
the ondtion of warranteeism in the south.
ern states. where his nieri"rity and subordi'
nation were recogniZrd, and the government
10 which hs WAS subjected WAS made in nc.
three hundred thousand pagan, savage ne
groes, progressed to four millions Of useful
domestic lahorers. No race can increase in
An abnormal condition.; the fact that the ne,
groes rapidly increase in servilude in the
Souh and decrease in a state of freedom in
The North. proves that which no amonnt o
mau'llin philanthropy and sentinel soph sry
"an overthrow. This fact was universally
recognized in the country until within few
years, and then was only denied At the insi
CATION If British AboIiti"nists. The trainers
of the Declaration Of Independence recoc-
"ized the inferioritv Of the negro. To say
that they did not ia to accuse them Of the
most coniemp,ibls and disgraceful inconsis.
tency and faI-ehnod. Any other construc.
ton "f their Declaration is perv. rson and
\ SANDER. This government WIS formed by
white men and for white men, else tho Afi.
can and the Indian would have been invited
| to participate in its formation.
| The idea comforting the elective franchise
upon the negro, is a modern notion. AS ab.
surd as it is wicked and revolving. 1t is the
fruit of besotted and crazy fana,icism and
not OF political foresight or genuine philan.
lhropy. The equality of the white man and
he negro involves their social equally. anal
gama,cn, mongrel race and hybrid gov.
eminent, monsirosity. revolving to men
and offensive to God. Upon this one SUBJ
j-rt there can be no possible qubbls hy
which The Democratic party could or should
seek to e.ale the rugged issue. /, has been
the custom of the Abolition revolution ist &
to al,emp: to justify all their usnrpations
and errors by some Democratic prsce.l4n,.
but upon this question there is no hook or
crook in the Democratic record upon which
to hang such precedent To hs opposed
TO negro suffrage i" Ohio is to be opposed to
enforcing it npon the people of the Southern
States for what would be disgusting to US
would he revolving to them. The Demo.
cratic party, being the oldest and purest 20.
litlcal organzalion in the country, is opposed
to negr" suffrage and negro equality in Ohio,
in the Southern and in all the States. on the
principle of recognizing the distinction and
he difference which nature and God have
made between men.