The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-01-26
SHALL THE NEGRO yoTE-

''Rump," on Tuesday l13th) show that
bya vote of 113 Republicans to A Dem
ocrats, they refused to lay on the table
a proposition TO giUe the negro the right
to cote. Thus it is settled beyond all
doubt, that the Republicans are deter
mined to force the right of the negro
to vote in all the States. The issue is
fairly made: to destroy the Constitution
Of Pennsylvania, which gives the white
citizens only the elective franchise, Is
the object and purpose Of the Republi-
can majority Of the Rump Congress-
We call upon the Democracy of Penn
sylvania to organize at once. There is
not q moment TO lose. Organize clubs,
organize societies. Organize at once in
every township. Call the people to-
gether who are in favor of the white
man, who are opposed to negro equali-
ty; opposed to the negro voting; OPP
posed to his equality with the white
laborer; opposed to the negro coming
into your factories, forges, mines, shops,
stores, mills, and your families, as an
EQUAL. Call together the mechanics
who are opposed to the negro driving
them out of employment and taking
their places at less wages. Call all pa
triots ond friends of the white race who
are opposed to bloody aCdr in every
torn in theState between the negro and
the white race, like it has been in ia
maica. Call the children, at proper pla-
ces, and teach them what will be their
fate, if the negro is to be their compan-
ion in schools, and drive them away
from the school house and take posses
sion and deprive them of education.
This, all these, must be done at once.
The issue is made. The Republican
party before tie last election told the peo-
pie they had no wish to make the negro
the equal of the white man, or to give
him the right to vote. This party de-
MED it was soon to be a question in
Pennsylvania. Now, after the election,
this dia6OlicaL and outrageous purpose of
the traitors to the a0hite race is openly
admitted. Let us meet the issue. In
form the public mind on the subject.
DO not hesitate as to time or place. Tell
the people III the town, in the store, at
church, at the depot, at the cross roads,
at the school house, at the wedding, at
the funeral, at the vendue, at the shops,
furnaces, forges, mills, everywhere, that
the Yankee is against the white man.
That NelC England is against the Union;
that New England is the cause of all
our trouble; that the Yankee is a trai-
tor to the white race; that the Repub-
lican party is in favor of the negro's
right to vote; that the Republican party
is determined to destroy the welfare
and happiness Of the white mans fam
lily, and to degrade the white laborer
and the white mechanic to the Level of
the negro. Write it, speak it, talk it,
call meetings, agitate the public mind.
Do this at once, or the white labor of
the State will be disgraced and degra-
ded- For the mechanic and laoorer, it
is question Of bread for bis family, of
pride in his race, of prosperity in his
trade and business. Mark the traitors
to the white man, and let the indigna-
ton of the white man face the Repub-
lican traitors to the supremacy of the
white race, and compel them to aDan-
don their treason, or 90 to Hayti, St.
Domingo, or Jamaica, and put their
own necks under the yoke of subjection
to the negro.-Patrj0t & Union.