The Indianapolis daily herald. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1865-1868, 1865-11-13


The Rfpuiiican- arr sensitive over Ia.
negro riot er rebellion ia Jamaica. They are
afraid Il win operate unfuorably upon the
cau-c OF negro suffrage: and. hence. the saga
cion. arl abe editor Il the .IoHraaf .oeks "a
parry the faree = Il by showing that white
men raise mCh,. and. therefor. because mon
sre guilty Of riots i no argument against
mems voting.
Moh-. riots and rcbellions ar produced by
various causes. They may arise from relig-
iou-, moral or political hate. innamcd by the
friction Of repeated appeals from the tongue or
the press. They may arise from wrong aud
outrage, pcrpctrated or threatened. For ex-
ample, Catholic Churches used 10 be burned
from political and religious hate; the foreign
voters used 70 be mobbcd NJ the polls by the
Native Americans and Know Nothings for
the samo reason; % liquor dealers
have but lately been ruined by tempe
rance mobs from moral hate, and Demo-
erats are every year brutally treated from
partisan hatred and lust Of political power and
plumber. ON the other hand. Wat. Tyler's
mob was 0ceasioned by outrage and oppression
on the part Of tax-githerers; and the draft
riot in New York was excited by apprehend-
cd fraud in the turning Of the ..wheel Of
DEATH and the fact that the ri..ters were 10
be forced into a war, then being carried on in.
directly for purpose denied TO be enter
tanned when the war was commenced. The
Journal will recolleet how much dissatisfac-
ton was occasioned Throughout the army and
country when the real purpose Of the war was
disclosed; and nothing but the feelings Of bit
terness the war itself had engendered carried
the Administration past the difficulty. This
is admitted by the Republicans; indeed, IL is a
fact Of general notoriety. Said General MAR
TfNDALE, radical, in late speech in Boston,
Il tell yon that the Presidential pol
ic! was born in the war, that it did not ex-
iSt before the war. At the beginning of the
war we were battling for the Union, for
authority Of the Constitution. We were to 60
no further. Ne rent .for,card to this wdr
nth only hair our principles Inscribed upon
our banners and when the other half of the
Republican principles were disclosed the plain,
common people thought il was a fraud and inn
position praoticed on them; and that idea, in
connection with the supposed fraud in the
manner of the draft, whereby the rich escaped
at the expense Of the poor mans blood, ocea-
stoned riot. Plain people will think that
the Government, a. well as themselves, ought
to be governed by honest principles, and IT
spect law. But we have sufficiently explained
the origin Of riots, inasmuch rs the Journal is
assuming the riot argument to meet q point
we do not make, viz: as to the qualifications
of the negroes for suffrage. We do not ar
que this point, except, perhaps, irciden-
tally Ii is not the main ground of our
objection TO negro suffrage in the United
states. Indeed, the more intelligent the
negro becomes the more dangerous he becomes
as voter in our Government. The Jamaica
rebellion and its atrocities are not used by us
so much for proving the want of sufficient in
telligence in the negro to cntitle him to the
right of suffrage, as TO demonstrate the deadly.
inextinguishable hatred of race entertained by
the blacks toward the whites, and the danger
Of creating relations between the two races,
which may he calculated to stimulate that
hatred, and place the blacks in situation that
would better enable them to use it to the white
mans destruction or detriment. What we OBJ
iect TO is associating, Mexicanizing the whites
and negroes. To bring the negro into con-
test with the white man, NJ the polls, for poll
cal power, would stimulate the hostility OF
race, and give the black man more opportunity
10 make il effective, and breed such perpetual
civil war as constantly exists in Mexico and
other States south, in which political priyi-
leges have been extended to all races, however
inimical they may naturally be to each other.
This is our objection to going into political
partnership with the negro. Give him civil,
not political and social equality.