The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-09-30

themselves constitute the Government,
and set t!iat Hoyernnent is regarded
as, and perhaps is, the most liberal
in Europe Yet the great mass u
that population have no more to do
with Legislation than have the cattle that
browse on England : green meadows.
Free institutions cannot be more surely
ovefthrown than by the degrndatidh n
the ballot nebase suffrage aud it will
be either abolished altogether, or eontroll-
ed, Us in Great Britain, BY corruption.
It is a fact suggestive If. rejection. that
those cominnnitics Which have IN their
-nfidst the smallest number Of negroes.
are the most s. strenuous advocates of negro
suffrage. Thus Massachusetts. with her
nine thousand colnred population, leads
the van as the champion If hlack citizen
ship But isit fi5t strange that Tie negro
should shun his sincere and synlpaihizine
friends in Massachusetts and seek . home
among the people ef Maryland and yir-
giuia, who are repTes euted as his worst
enemies Is fllerc not something sineu-
lar in the fact that New EheLind. with
all her disinttrhSted hilaat4irepy, with
vi her frp,ernal ragard for the sable
son of Airiea, had ace5rling 70 the
census q lSGh, only twenty-tbree thou
sand and twenty0ne aegrocs, witia white
population IF nearly tw9 anl half nil
lioasf While the slave State IF Marv-
land. with . white population Of less
than half a million, had population Of
seventy four thousand seven hundred and
twenty three fj'es negroes and. Indeed.
thar census shows that ,Sew England and
all the free Western States. from Ohio 10
the Pacific contained five thousand. four
hundred ndtwenty- fawer free blacks
tltaa the State ef Maryland alcna And
Virginia, with her white population Of
less than nine hundred thousand. had
iifty-four tl1usanl three hundred and
fhirty-three free blacks; while Massachu-
setts. with a white population Of Eve
hundred aud eishly-one thousand eight
hundred aud thirteen, had only thirteen
hundred and fiify-s;x free nearoes Why
is this? How are we 10 reconcile the
conduct of the black ryan in siinnnins
his white brother Of NeN Epgland. who
is 50 full of words IN expressing his fra
isfnal love for him + ii the instinct
IF the colore1 man which teaches him
that the men ef New England are not
his friends--ihat theydo not wish 10 serve
the eolorod man, but to be served by hiln
That il the negro wishes for Kindness
and happy homes. that he must seek them
elsewhere than on the icy shores Of New
Engiand Or. will it be said that the
black man cannot endure cold climate
Ii such he tie iact, then it Is proven that
he il not the equal Of the white man. 70
whom all climates are nhse. The sturdy
New Highlander, the hardy sons OF frozen
Norway and Denmark. form prosperous
colonies. in Texas, Mexico aud brazil.
while the mercurial children Of sunny
France for centuries have been establish
,etlin the Canadas end they are aeknowl-
edged to be the best guides employed
Aniid the snow drifts Of the Rocky Noun
ta;ns.
But does this Declaration df Indcpend-
Ienee, fairly construed, mean that all men,
without regard To race. are equal? To
interpret q doubtful patt If any instru-
ment the intention Of the writer must be
'ascertained it must be. considered in
connection with its contents--thatis is, with
reference TO what pracedes or follows the
doubtful clause or sentsnce, the true
meaning of which is sought to be ascer-
tanned. aud the clause Itself must be con
sidered with reference to the subject
matter treated of. s1eN b 3s7a8 )
Tho Z Declaration" clnnmences by say.
ing, that when it becomes necessary for;
Ione people to dissolyc the political bands
which have connected Them with another
people decent respeet tol che opinions
.of raulzfnd reqlires1ltllat they should
declare the causes WHICH iInpel them to
Now, to what one people
docs theR Declaration refer, when It says
that a decent respect for the opinions of
mankind requires tlat they ishould declare
the csuses whichimpelthem toseparation ]?
The, States were occupied bysa white. a
red and black people-does the expires
Hsicn' one people refer to the White,
black and red people, -er to only one! of
them ?o7IIad the negroes Of the Colonies
any political relations with Great Britain !?
No !. for under the authority of Great
Britain they were bought and sold as
property Hence the negroes we're not
ID part Of that people who dissolved the
political bands WHICH united them to
England. Was the position of the 1ndi-
ans, IN political sense, different from
that of the nesrces? No because the
British Govornn1ntst regarded the Indians
as mere sayages, who were to be cleared
away with the wolf and the bear. Then
as it was neither the Indians nor the
negroes who dissolved the political bands
which united the Colonies with the
mother country, it must have been the
whites who did so. But this is rendered
certain from the fact that.the Colonists
were the direct offspring from Great
Britain, while the other races had differ
cnt origins and neither the Indians nor
the negroes were represented, directly or
indirectly, in the Congress which publish
led the . Declaration" Hence, then, it
is Conclusive that the word "people" was
used in that instrument In special sense,
to mean white people, or the European
race from which the eolpnists sprung.
Again, the clause of the e Declaration"
already referred to, says, !. descent res
pect for the opinions of mankind, requires
that the causes which, lead to the separa-
ton should be made known Now, the
word g mankind taken in its general
sense means the whole human family, but
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