Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-11-28
A Black Ghost In the Demo.
cratic Camp.

Inc warren COUstStutloH Is "fornenst'
the Chicago Times in its support of Rad
icalism and negro equality" The Con-
s~tit.1tson SAYS that ''anything hat brings
the white race down to an equality with
the ignorant and unprogressive African
cannot fail to destroy our government" =
1t is strange that men will persist in
such nonsense as ~eharacterizes the editori-
sis Of Democratic newspapers concerning
the. negro. They are continually instiling
into their readers the absurd and baseless
idea that the Radicals of this country are
seeking to lower and debase the status of
the white man. They do not tell how,
but only make the naked assertion.
Perhaps this matter is worthy brief in
yestigstion; the more so because there are
some candid men in the Democratic party
to whom this subject is a great bugbear.
Wherein do the Radicals propose to drag
down the white man to the level of the
ignorant African? Do they propose to rob
the whites of the rights of freemen-
to lessen their religious, educational, social.
civil and political privileges? In no wise.
Ifsnot deprived of their present christian
izing and civilizing opportunities and
privileges, can the white race, or will it,
dete-iorate to the level of benighted Afri-
can ignorance? Do these grand cardinal
virtues lose any of their power for good by
being made open to the participation and
enjoyment of all mankind. Does Christi
aaity lose any of its all healing and regsn-
Grating power because ETHIOPIA stretches
forth her hands to Godi" According
to Democratic teaching the Christian
world becomes degraded by allowing the
dusky sons of Ham to an equal share in
the worlds Redeemer. That is a creed
worthy the darkest ages through which
humanity ever groped.
Does the free-born son of liberty sink to
the level of the slave the moment the
limbs Of the latter are unfettered? So
Democracy" teaches. It teaches that
the white Christian is degraded when the
black enjoys the same religion /; that the
white scholar, of cultivated intellect and
wide learning, sinks in the scale of prof
cheney if the doors of our school-houses and
colleges are opened to the blacks; that by
giving the black equal rights under the
law, you vitiate the white. Is religion,
intelligence, and liberty things of quantf-
ty to be consumed or totally exhausted by
human absorption? According to the
empty arguments of narrow-minded Dem
Ocratic editors, it might be inferred they
apprehended there was not enough for all
and to spare.
We wish to assure them that the Radi-
Gals propose to give all men an equal, fair
chance in the race of life, and if the olsen
thralled black can outrun the white Dem
oerat in the race, we bid him God speed,
and say ssthe devil take hirdmost-" The
Democrats would Cypress the black with
weights and n~inGrances, and thus impeding
his progress, denounce him as 'unprogres-
sive." 1t would close every avenue OF
learning to him, and then upbraid him for
his ignorance. That is Democratic j~usticei
The Radicals propose to apply the princi-
pie of the golden rule and impose no
harder conditions on the poor black than
they themselves are required to fulfL-I
Then if under equally favorable circum-
stances with the white, the black shall
demonstrate he has been endowed with
the more vigorous and fruitful intellect
he viii not be to blame; and if the white
race shall still maintain its ascendency.
for the same natural reason, no mortal
will be to blame. But we think the issue
viii demonstrate this fsct,-to quote the
language of the late Hon. JOSHUA R. GID
DINGs: @'That there are some ringers
that know as much as some Democrats,
and some Democrats that know as much
as some ''niggers-"