The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-08-25
NEGRO EQUALITY.

NEGRO EQUALITY.
We have become utterly disguised with having
the CopperheAd and rebel sheets harp upon this
subject. If their editors were without ability if
| they were ignorant and knew no better than to
make such assertions as they do, we could bear
with them patiently; but when capable and talent
ed men publish such senselesS al ticles as those
we daily find with the above caption in the news
| papers referred to, silence upon the everlasting
subject ceases to be virtue. Yet we should neV-
ertheless tire at all these libeous specimens of con-
perhead Frevarlcaton with the contt nptuous ST.
lcnce they deserve, were they believed by no one
to greater extent than by their writers for they
themselves know that they are false But there
are those who see argument in the question, :. How
would you like to marry your sister to ngger?"
who discover some pith in the sarcastic remark
"Oh, We are all equal-a niger is just az good as
white man, and who are made to dread the APP
pearance OF a negro in the Presidential chair
Now, for the information 0: these misguided per-
sons we will state that the great Union party has
not in its creed any such doctrine as that of Me-
gro Equality" Although we have been patient
searchers tor a member of the Union party who
thought negro Was equal to white man, we've
never yet been able 10 mud such q curiosity He
lena Republican.
Previous to every election we find such ar
ticles as the foregoing in circulation among
the organs OF Republican sentiment. We
hear them on the stump; we hear them in
conversation. We hear charges of granting
the. ballot-box to the negro branded, as in the
above extract, az "libelous specimens of cop
perhead prevarication !" yet so deeply has
this idea of negro-sufrage, or equality be-
fore the law" as the more fastidlous please
IN avnraeq Il hanona ;ndoDtod ;nto 4I,o Dc
publican system, that even while denying the
existence of the will or intention, the doctrine
will expose itself The above extract would
lead reader to suppose the writer of the ar
ticle to be as hostile to this negro" equality
before the law" as any radical Democrat; and
yet, before the Republican" editor concludes
the article from which the above was taken,
We find him expressing his real opinions in
such paragraphs as the following:
$50 far as the doctrine of universal suffrage Is
applicable to the politics of the day, We may en-
brace our ideas IN one sentence "a black man
without talent, but with true, loyal heart is to
be trusted with the ballot rather than a white
man, loyal though he be, who has nothing better
to boast than that he is tainted with perjury and
is a traitor to his country"
Not having before cur eyes the fer of ever
seeing an African in the Presidential chair we
can freely offer him the ballot, tUheneuer he has
shotcn, in each indiUidu0l case that he has suti
sient intfiigcP to be able to knOtD hotU to use ID
Although belonging to an inferior race, the negro
is nevertheless man, and should haze a coice IN
the selection of lie pOtccr that should rule over
him."
Now, who is 1t that prevaricates? Who
blows hot and cold in the same breath?-de-
nying in the beginning that there is any dis
position to enfranchise the blacks, and yet
closing with the broadest avowal Of that right
and intention. What sort of an argument
can be maintained with politicians of this or
der What man, blessed with any reason
ing facnlty, can entertain any respect for
party which stultifes itself with so little |
shame? The Republican politicians might
enlist the respect of their opponents, at least,
by avowng their principles and sticking to
them, but this lodging logic only begets con-
tempt. Congress has shown the feelings of
the Republican party by its legal action dur
ing the past season. It has brought that
feeling home TO US by the passage through
the House Of the amendment to the Organic /
Acts of all the Territories, enfranchising the
This is the doctrine practiced. =
Why not, if you approve it, avow the appro- +
val in bold, straightforward manner?