The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-09-28
Negro Suffrage.
The following article, from the New
York Express, has the ring of the true
mafnl

The following article, from the New
York Express, has the ring of the true
metal:
| There has been, and there yet is an in
/ timation, in one of the city Democratic
Journals, that negro suffrage is an open
Issue with Democrats, and that man car
be Democrat and vote to degrade the
white laborer Of the North to the race
and caste degradation Of the negro. There
never was greater mistakc-for the
greatest of all issues between Democrats
and tho Republican oligarchy is that Of
negro suffrage. II is about the only issue
for tariffs. and about everything else, dwin.
die into insignifcance when compared
with It,
The oligarchs and monopolists of the
North-the men for three hundred per
cent tariff bountIes-are rcconstructing
the South, so as to use the negro vote
there, to force the consumers Of the North
to keep UP their tariff bouuties. Hence
the five monarchies. aud all the tyrannies
CONNECTED Herewith. The Democrats OF
the North and West are dead against all
this, and united on II too,
The question, here at homo, IL, as on
our own soil, when confined 10 our own
State, of but little practical importance 10
us, right hcre-but Of the greatest prac-
tical importance to us elsewhere, and Of
the greatest theoretical i'm mportance every
where. The Democratic theory and prin.
ciplc is, that this is Democratic govern
ment Of white men, made for white men,
and exclusively for white men. Hence
We have ever carefully excluded the Indi-
an from suffrage, nay, wo have extirpated
him, and universal suffrage for the negro
was an idea secuted by the fathers Of the
republic, who in the Federal Convention
compactcd not only TO deliver him up as
slave, but to have him represented only as
slave.
Oar fathers made no provisions for tax
ing into their co-partncrship government,
the Cherokees, or Greeks, or Iroquois, or
Scnecas-tribcs powerful in their day,
while they created Il government exclu-
siTely for white men. They never in
tended to share their partnership with
these Indians. any more than with the
Chinese or Japanese, our own Pacific
ocean neighbors. The land was made
open and free for Anglo Saxon. Tcuton,
Celt, and for all the Latin races-in short
for the Caucasian, never for the African,
or Mongolian, or Esquimaux tribes or,
men, whom, We are now embracing in
masses in our just acquired Russian pos
sessions. The reason that this govern
ment Of white men should be kept for
white men, is. that the white man alone
is capable of selfgovernmont, and alone
can maintain a free government. No
other races have ever maintained such n
government, or ever can. The white
man is the superior man, the dominant
man, over the African, the Mongolian,
the Esquimaux, or other species of men,
and was designed aud destined By God to
be SO. All attempts of our race to share
government, and our society with the in
ferior races of men, IN Hayti, Jamaica, or
Spanish America, here, in America, or,
in Asia, or North Africa, have been de.
structive of both races. Amalgamation is
death, both TO white. negro men. or Mon
golian men. Equality and fraternity
with these lower races is against the will
Of God, and God Furnishes By the destruc-
tion Of both races all these violations of
His Holy viii.