The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-06-27
Negro FItness for suHrage.

manifest Object to be attained. 1t is scarce
" possible, demoralized as the present age
seems to be, that it can be adopted by the
legislatures of three fourths Of the States
Even in the north negro suffrage has been
almost universally prohibited. Ohio by in
serting the word white" in her new con-
stitution, excluded all the colored races from
voting, and thus became a white mans
commonwealth. Have the negro equality
propagaudists, from Old and New England,
changed the opinions Of our people since
thew voted on the new constitution? Are
they now better prepared to receive the ne
gro as a social ana political equality than
they were thirty years ago? Has he risen
in the scale OF intelligence since then? Are
his llps thinner, his heels shorter, his nose
less flat, his complexion lighter, his wool
less crisp, or his odour less offensive? Is
the idea Of practical amalgamation, by the
in,ermarriage of the sons and daughters Of
the races, less nausenus and abhorrent2 We
think not, and if the people of Ohio, in
stead of the Legislature, could get Il vote
urou the proposed amendment, they would
show they are still in favor ofliving under
a white mans government, and opposed to
degrading the sacred right of suffrage by
giving it to an inferior race.
The history of the negro has been always
the same. When with other races, he has
never been a servant; in his own country, a
/ barbarian. Remains of his have been found
in the Egyptian catacombs, where he is pro
ven to have been a slave more than 5000
years ago, with the same head and features
that mark him now.
That he belongs to the human family, no
one will deny; nor can it be denied that he
belongs to an inferior type of that family
Why he was thus formed, is known only to
the Creator. 1t is sufficient for us to OBJ.
serve the great line of separation that d.
vils the races and forbids their conjunction
on the social scale, and the handing down
of hybrid life beyond FIVE or six generations.
No exhibitions of mental strength has
has been given by full-blooded negroes.-
Fred. Douglass is a quadroon, as was Down
ing, Of New York. Many others might be
named, whose talents have been credited tC
the black race, but were. in reality due tt
the infusion of white blood. This inferior
ity is so palpable and universal, that no one
can have failed to remark it. PhreuoIo
gists tells us that, generally, talent is dis
tributed among men in proportion to thu
rise Of brain. Craniologists assure us tina
the brain capacity Of the negro skull aver
ages ii cubic inches less than that Of tn,
white man. Here we have a physiological
explanation of the difference, in menta
strength between the races, which we ma.
reyerently observe, with thankfulness tina
we are white, and the intention that GU
PROSPERITY shall remain so.
1t is claimed by the abolitionists that tn
Queen Of Sheba was a negress. This W
doubt violently We are told, in the OF
Testament, to blush for our sins. Can tina
sufflsion, so beautiful when innocence b
r trays tie apprehension of a fault, or 5
conyicting when oyerspaading the face
guilt ever be apparent on the countenanc
Of the negro? St. Paul admonishes mer
not to let their hair grow long, and tel
them is is q shame for them to take !ric
in their flowing locks; Wills he tells Il
women. it is becoming they should we,
"oi's,'' y " ' 1"s
their halr long aS d covering "'u l'"1ui
; ornament, Surely he had not, In his min
he crispy, wirev wool Of the negro, Whe
n bo vro+o th;.l
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n ONt we ao"l'n;,i>'S ,olle ti"oon t my
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