The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-12-05
PopnIar DI.franchIsement.


The Columbus Crisis well says that those
Who advocate that worst of modern huribngs
miscalled impartial suffrage, as preimi-
nary to the reduction ofour social system to
the level Of fmongrelism, can have 20 inter
est iu the property and happiness of the
country, aud it is mournful instance ofthe
demonstration Of the times that so great
and dangerous an Innovation should be con-
templated upon no other grounds than that
of partizan success, and the spoils thereto
annexed. The Abolitionists favor 1t be-
cause they think they can secure he negro
vote, and thus obtain basis for their sec
tiopal organization in localities where il
does not now exist, and so by perfecting
their politicsl machine, retain the ascendan'
| cy which they now hold in defiance Of the
great majority of the people. Two or three
notorious sheets claiming to be Democratic
have recently declared in favor Of the hum
bug in the same hope Of partizan success,
though the stupidity of the latter PROPOSE
tion is too great to be worth considering. -
In many instances Abotionists claim to
favor it on the general ground of justice to
the negrorace, and that the negroes should
De admitted 10 social and political equality
as al abstract right, without reference to
the effect OF such change upon the coun-
try. But in no instance that We can now
recall has there been rational sensible
attempt made to show that the introduction
of the negro element would promote the
political, commercial and material interests,
or the social'happincss of the people, simply
because no, reasonable man can affirm that
such would be the effect Demagogues
who care for nothing but their own ad-
vancement, or fanatics who are utterly in
different as to the financial or social con-
dition of their own race, preach and howl
about negro suffrage as If it was an indls-
putable right belonging to the negro, for
the Withholding of which no just reason can
be given; but these people carefully refrain
from citing the examples of similar expert
ments to show that it confers benefit on
either race, and as carefully omit to refer to
those we'll known instances where the
equality they seek to introduce has been
destructive to the material and social inter-
ests of both races. In no country where
the mad project Of negro equality has bee n
tried, has it failed to involve the govera-
ment in ruin, and the people in the lowest
depths of degradation. The appalling
social degradation and political diSintegra.
ton of tue South American States are
fightful examples Of the effects of the
mongrelism which the Abolitionists, az a
mere political expedient, would now engraft
upon this country. The character is in
compatible with enlightened freedom and
the exerise of high political rights. Had ii
been otherwise, the South American States
would not be the seething cauldrons Of dis
cord that hey are. Had it been otherwise,
the negroes of the South would have long
since gained and maintained the thing Their
worshippers now seek for them.
The introduction of negro suffrage as ar
element in our politics can have no less de-
structive effect than the reduction of popu.
lar elections (already sufficiently tarcical) tC
mere mockery. Where the negroes art
most numerous and ignorant, there wOuo
they have the most power. In many local
tiles they would have complete cor troll, anc
such localities would speedily retrogate into
jungles. In others they would have enough
strength to be an element Of danger ano
confusion Everywhere they would be con
troled by demagogres of the lowest order
everywhere would they be an element oi
discord; everywhere would there be disgust
and danger, until the people, becoming
afraid Of themselves, would contemplate
with cGmplacency the establishment of 6
despotism that would do away with this
mockery of popular elections. This is tb'
real object of the oligarchsts who have thu
agitation under control. They want mon
eyed aristooracy, exemption from the bur
dens Of the Government, with the priviEeg,
TO draw their own enormous interests anr
blood money from the masses. They tea
that their own vast and shaky public deb
will some day become as burdens0me to tn,
working people as is the public debt Of En-
gland to her aboring closes, and then ou
laboring masses would be as ready to shak
1t down with their votes as are the poor o
England to shake off the debt which de
grades them and pampers their aristocra
cy. .-...,4 ..,t
One of the evils Of this monstrosity 9
negro suffrage is the prospective disiran
chisement of the laboring white people b
the introduction Of new qualifications. =
4 This whole Abolition revolution has been
revolt in the direction of despotsm a
against democracy, aud negro suffrage an
popular distianchisemcnt are essential t
the complete triumph of despotism. n. &
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