Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-06-19

Tns advocates Of negro suffrage and nc>
gro equality vii no doubt soon raise the
question - 10 whether there arc any white
men. Mr.. Charles Sumner has sounded the
bu ,ls note In thi. direction. In one OF the
latest u the many black bills introduced by
I'm. he alludes to the Caucasian elemsn. Of
our country IS 40 called 'eaite race" Here
is ore Of tho two 81. tions In which this
nov, liy or ura Italics ours:
..S. crsvx 8. That any citizen who has
been lave, or 10 the descendant Of aBlavc,
or who .,oes not belong . tks % called
rhite race, that may hereafter be un!awfuliy
a-p,,.sd u his vote BY any person, may
MAINTAIN suit or suits, and recover dams
age oi snv suc pcrson IT. any District
Court Of the United States f'r the district in
which .uch =, ROT may he found.
.t.e TILL = - ordered Ia he printed
I, i~ 81 srly implied E. ON the particular
po,,ion of this section 10 which We have in
vi,-.i attention, tina. the "white race is re-
.arded very much in the same way in
wh;rh was cons,tsrcd the ''so.calle,l South
ern G nsedcracy." IL other words, they
A.,x III the Caucasian in such terms ~
clrall, lem .nsirAtcs that it 10 not intended
T.. r.. .,.niss h.S claims o. white man. but
Ind, u dcxc, ihe him by his own false and
...n.,a. ptc'cnsicns 10 . color, tho exist
II which, by the phsassology Of this
.r, rliaarv bill, Sumner show. he 10 un
cts admit.
Tome foundation VA not to be Lard fol
n, aud wicksslasss. who speak Of the
ace Is "so>caiieds" II We ars nol
r,.d to call the Anglo Saxon race white,
hrw shall ~e dcscsibe il : D3ubsless, SEN
n,r,s prepared TO maintain that the fifsl
ma, a woman we're negroes, and that thu
mites srs oil alliances Hence, not admit
,.e the fact OF their present whitencss O.
sn''e sncssssy, the denial IL revealed ~ N
grid by the employ mcnt Of such phras
as 80 called :" which plainly shows tina
- ne is taken with those who claim thu
they are white.
A. the proper time Mr.. Sumner will shox
mat ,hsss arc no wbits men, and that there
c,ulA. by no possibility, have been any =
that they are merely ''so>callcd." W,
adm, the correctness Of this theory rs far n
Sumnsr himself 10 concerned-far 10 be
live, that il there ever was white nan
who il. and ought to be negro, he 10 tina
man.
TmE New York Tribune says Of Genera
Scott that The was an old whig,' according
TO his own showing, though hs had 4 hot!
'atrsd Of a6elitisnists, and nth all hi,
=, -rl."g patriotism be had no sympath J
,i'h tue Republican party. In the election
Of 1880 he s,ded with the Bell and Ever. Il
iact.on."
How was it possible. Horace. for Genera
Scott to have "s,erliug patriotism" and ye'
have no sympsthy with the Republican
par,.' w san sec il plaiuly---have knows
It rycars tell It on oil convenient occa-
y. u.--~e d" not obtrudc it, because ex
pc fence teaches that men are more readily
AZ I satisfactorily convinced Ut fact b.
leaving it TO their discovery than by ar-
gang il INTO them half against their will. -
As he country 10 becoming c,svcstcd 4
the IDEA That men may be patriotic without
-. N ,,athy Wit, the Republics, party" v,
90 L. 10 leave them to sstiect,on. A lev
~ ~ rs more aud the fac will be univerUalll
al tainted.