The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1866-06-06

from them tor years; Of Union soldiers
shot dead; the wives Of Union soldiers
dishonored; the orphans of Union SOL
diers given over BY the State without
mercy, to the cruelty oftheir cod-blood,
ed masters OF houses burned, and fields
laid waste, and property destroyed; of
men and women lashed. padded, i'm
prisoncd for life, and hung for paltry
ofenses by due process OF law; Of human
beings-citizens of the United States
carried into the open market place. aud
J under the shadow of the Constitutional
amendment, sold, enslayed for torn OF
years, or for life?
"For Gods sake" cried the human
lty of the nation, ''for decency's sake,
let us put an end to these abominations!'
Congress heard, and answered. "For
the sake or the coIoredpeople' l object"
responded the President; !'for the sake
Of morality, for the sake of religlon, |
forbid this as an effort on the part of the
radicals to legalize amalgamstion IN our
midst, to compel white men to marry
black women and the reverse"
l should pass by this whole silly and
disquietng argument, If argument it be,
in response to the plea for equal civil
rights for American citizens, were it
only still and disquloting; but it is, in
addition, so wicked and abominable, aud
its results so evil, as to demand the
ccnsuro and indignation of the world
It'll the old argument-oId as sin
confronting just demands by appeals to
ignorant brutality and petritied prejudice
Andrew johnson knew full well, no
man botter-that civil rights have more
to do with social equality than his policy
has to do with the principles of sound
morality and righteous law.
stand a woman,-diatranchiaed by
the State, incapable of sitting on a jury,
or of beng tried bya jury of my peers,
ranked by the law with black people,
children, and idiots; ciyily, immoasur
ably the inferior Of the voter who first
helped to make President, and was then
made President himself C!ylly, say,
in point Of law, | stand immeasurably
the inferior Of the voter who first helped
to make President, and was then made
President himself. Ciyily, | say, in
point Of law, stand immeasurably this
mans inferior, Yet / speak the words
oftruth ard sobcrnoss when | say, that l
do not believe any amount ofequal
degradation, OF civil rigths withheld and
wrongs inflicted could ever reduce me,
or any other respectable woman, to the
social level of the mtn capable of making
the speech of the 22d of last February.
Beyond this, Andrew Johnson knows,
without the telling, that it was the
tumblng down and not the building up
process that gave to Is a race OF mixed
blood: that it was the Withholding, not
the granting of human and civil rights
that worked the dishonoring ofthe black,
and the degradation Of the white race
in America.
"Negro equality, indeod!' exclaimed
Andrew Johnson, on the 9th October,
1864, in the city OF Nashville "Negro
equality, indeed" Why, pass any day
along the sidewalks of High Streets,
where the great slavc>owners more
particularly dwell, and you will see as
many muIatto as negro children, the
former having an unmistakable rcsem>
hlance to their aristocratic masters"
1t is civil wrong, not civil rights; the
degradation, not the elevation; the South |
not the North the fire-eaters, not the
radicals; it is the slavery propagandists
and sleayeowners Of the South; in brief, |
Andrew johnson and his friends, not
Congress and his enemies who introduc-
cd, defended, maintained, and extended |
the blessing Of amalgamauon in our
midst.
Iprotest l against the President of the
United States using the influence OF his
high office to strengthen cruel and
unrighteous prejudice already existing
against poor and defenseless race. l
protest against the Chief Nag gjstrato of q
Christian nation pleading for and deten>
ding feeling that finds outlet in cruel
ties unapproachcd and atr cities unparalleled
in the annals of the world. Said the Norfolk
(Va,) Post last Fcbruary;-- There has been
no such manifestation orjoy and jubiation in
the eouth since the route of the Federal army
at Bull Run as that intor' Ing us of the Plcsi-
dents veto of the Frcedmcns Bureau bill"
Hear at the same time the Richmond Eaqu.
irer declare: "'ro get rid of strife we must get
rid of the negro. There is but on alternative.
We must reduce The negro to slavery or we
must exlcrminate him." So declaring, it was
suppressed by General Grant and restored by
tho President Of whom it soon af'er wrote;--
ale Ia our tried and lnithfl friend hc pyorts