Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-19
The Republican Convention To-

IConvention, III fhls CITY, 20 4nom1nabe q.
State Ticket aud to adopt sundry reso1u-
ltions. AS to who their candidate for Gov
Iernor will be-whether one of the countless
lmediocrities spoken of in that connection.
Ior, ,whetherla man with some pretensions to
lShility-is a matter of small concern. He
wEH be defeated. 1t will be made his duty
to undertake to convince the White people
OF this State, that history is false; that sci
ence bears erroneous testimony, in their al
Ilegation that the White Is the superior OF the
Black race, and that the brain power of the
two rscesls Identical, notwithstanding era
niology steps in and establishes the fact that
the average brain capacity of the White race
is greatly in excess of the average brain
capacity Of the Black race Tie testimony
of travellers in Africa is concurrent that the
Ipeople of that country are barbaric heath
ems, and that not vestige is to be found in
that Country that furnishes the slightest
foundation forthe belief that at any period
there prevailed higher state of civlliza-
ltion. Added to this, we have conclusive
Testimony that missionary labors have been
labortive; that soon after The withdrawal of
missionary influences, those that show
ed symptoms of improvement relapsed
into barbaric state. Conclusive to
a point that does not admit of controver-
sion is the fact that in the West India Is
Hands, where African slavery was abolish
ed years ago and the Government thereof
given over to the Negroes, the productions
of the country, in consequences of the in
Idolence of the Negroes and their want OF
governmental capacity, has dwindled into
insignificance. Everywhere, left to them
selves, the Negroes, if they had undergone
some improvement and civilization, are
sure to fall back into their normal state of
barbarism and infidelity. This is attrib-
utable to their deficiency in brain power.
1t may be said that at one time the White
race. or the mass of it, occupied a low po-
Esition in the scale of humanity. 1t is so
said by leaders of the Republican party
Iby those who claim to.be progressives and
profess to have mission imposed upon
them to make equal that which the Creator
evidently designed should not be equal. If
twill please them, admit it; and what does
it prove? 1t proves that this White race,
which the Republican State Conven-
tion will to-day solemnly resolve is no
better than the Black race that burrows
and lives in squallor and nakedness, know
ing neither God nor Christianity in Africa,
is an equal of the White race. Grant that
but few centuries ago the White race was
in slavery and in degradation. By their
superiority-by their similitude in brain
power to the Almighty-they sundered
their chains they set up Governments for
themselves; they enthroned for their
worship the true God; they took the
wilderness and subGued it; they disem-
boweled the earth, and brought thence it's
treasures; they traversed oceans and dis
covered new worlds; they cut great canals;
they built railroads; they invented the
engine, giving it life-like power; they
caught the lightning and made it passive
and swift messenger; art and science and
literature and Jurisprudence and medicine
they have cultivated to perfection. They
relapse not into state of vassalage and de-
graduation. Their aspirations are onward
and upward. Does this not prove its SUI
periority !? ~ = Sr EE p
Never in the long ages that have elapsed
since man was first put upon the earth, did
the Negro race do anything of kindred
nature. If equal to the White race, they
would long before this have given to the
world some unquestionable evidence of
that equality.
And yet, to-day, it is the purpose of the
Republican politicians to proclaim, in eff
feet, through their platform and by their
nom nations, that this great White race
that has done all that has been done in the
cause of civilization, is no better than the
Black race, which has not yet done one
particle in that direction.
1t passes belief, almost, that body of
men ostensibly representing large White
constituency could so far become subserv
lent to fatal delusion as to do this thing.
Ten years ago, although predicted by Dem
ocratic politicians, the people did not and
would not believe that ever in this State
would there be found formidable politi-
cal party, that could so far lose its self-re-
spect-that would so outrage the White
race-as to declare, as they will to-day de-
clare, that history, that science and that
everything that establishes the superiority
of the White race over the Black race,
should be put under ban in Ohio as insult
Ing to heaven and as unworthy the age OF
lvanced civilization in which we live.
These Republican politicians may calcu-
late Alright. Perhaps the majority of the
Whites in this State will agree with them.
They agreed with them that the Constitu-
ton In the time of civil commotion might
be disregarded; they justified the suspen-
sion of the right of speech and the free
dom of the press; they have quietly sub
mitted to the wholesale plundering of the
Federal Government by Republican Off
Gals They have seemed to sanction every
wrong upon the Constitution and republi
can government if represented to them as
essential to the preservation of the Repub
lican party. And for the sake OF the Re-
publican party they may be willing, at the
dictation of these Republican politicians,
to vote that they are no better than the
Negroes; but we will not believe they will
do any such thing. Partisan as they may
be, we are sure that they yet have pride
of race, especially when the records of
their race stand out conspicuously as Sec
ond only to creative power ITSELF If it is
true that they cherish this commendable,
and to be commended. pride of race, then
will the work that the Republican politi-
clans shall do in Convention to-day be re-
pudiated by the voters on the Second
Tuesday of October.
Democratic NOmin atiOns.
The Democracy of Coshocton county at
their nominating Convention on Monday
last, presented the following admirable
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