The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-01-31
Bingham ON ..Biaspnemy.,,

Bingham ON ''AsiLsphemy.'
p The following sentence ocsar Ia Dins-
ham speech as published in the Cadiz Re
puJlioan of last week. In speaking of Mr..
voorhees, and the Democracy, Bingham
says:
"Yes, his party we're for eqnal and exsct
Justice to white men, uttcrlns the hOrrid
blasphemy all the while that his Is Cor
o1neHt Of tclIite men."
It's a "horrid" blasphemy is it, Republi-
can friends, to consider thisa ,ehte mans
Government? Your Representatire so de-
clares. His actions indicate that he believes
this. JJaci mans Government, as tis
speeches and all the measures he has pro-
posed has been for the black man. Hurrah
tor the Hack mans RfpresmIntite. How
is your constituency, John2 They should
be black men, too. Bingham has taste
about color" He is not believer in
white men. But men who believe that
white men hare permanent interest in thi'
government should be careful how they nc,
with party electing men who hold Bing
hans sentiments as their Representatives..
We suppose that the following PROPOSE
tions will hardly be seriously disputed l.
That the Government was made by white
men. Q That they made it for themselves.
The first is fact which may be very readily
learned from political h story and tradition ;
the second has the same testimony for its
support and is pretty clearly set forth in
the preamble to the Constitution In re-
spect to the original design of tho Govern
ment of this country, State and National,
there docs not appear much documentary
ground upon which to dispute that they
were made exclusively by white people, for
the proper use and behoof of themselves
and their posterity; nor is there'any reason
for the opposition that the founders and
framers Of government in the United Stat 9
contemplated that those decendents of theirs
and Of their constituents, for whose benefit
they were constructing institutions, were to
remain white people. .....
In tho old politica masonic agitations,
which prevailed in several of the States thir-
y or more years ago, there was class of
persons who, although not profssscd mem
bers Of the Masonic order. attached them
selves to the Masonic side in politics and were
more bitter and rancourous than the Masons
| themselves. They were sort OF political
ticket t-of-l leave men. ready to demagogue up
on any side that wonld pay for their scrvi-
ces; and were popularity known as jack Ma
sons, from the fact that they were under
stood to be about as inferior to the true as
| tfc ass is to the horse The day of the
jack-M Mason is past, but We have his moral
equivalent in the jack African, whose pride
and glory is that he can out-negro the ne
gro, and give him any amount of distance
in the start. The exterior difference between
the African and the jack African is greater
than of old between the Mason and his par
asite; but there it, nevertheless, an entire
| equivalcncy; the wool which clothes the
head of the one is stored away in the brain
Of the other; and the shade whichsis upon
the countenance of the former, reappearsin
a dark cloud upon the understanding of the
| latter.
The Government of the United States
was not founded upon any theory Of liberty
nrthe opposite. It was founded upon fact.
| The liberty, as its founders understood it,
Eexisted all they had to do, and all they in
tended, was to devise institutions to give il
expression and perpetuity: The facts We're,
| a white people accustomed to. local self gov
ernment, holding in a state Of domestic ser,
yitude persons Of another race and of .
widely different character, seeking the means
for the collective ma nifrstation o. theil
ideas and condition. The members of the
! subordinate racc were not within the politi
cal circle. The Government was not %
them nor for them. They were not rocogni
zcd as political entities; and partically arc
not so to this day. The Government is ye
a white mans government. The transfer
oft to the African has not taken place, in
whole or in part; and the question is still tt
be tried whcthor the proposed alienation i
to be consumatcd. 1t is true that the jack
| African is in high authority in the State
and the experiment is being tried of run
| ming white mans government upon ne
gro principles. The wool clings with NOR,
than fraternal fondncss to the brains OF oul
statesmen; and, like malignant shckinah
1 the fog of Ethiopia has settled down upor
4 their understandings.