Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-04-19
The Word White.

The Democratic mind has drawn
comfort, for years, from the reflection
that there was one class of human be-
lngs inferior to Democrats, In at least
one particular-the nigger could not
UOfe.
The frantic condition of the party
as - the last link is broken which
bound = the colored person to this
lower deep, is something awful TO look
upon.
The eolored man has been shut out
from our schools; in some States it
has been made a Penitentiary offense
to teach him even to read the word OF
God he has been taxed for the sup
port of a government which not only
gave him protection, but gave all its
power to his oppression ; he has for
ages been shut out from all advantages
Of whatever kind, political, civil or
social the higher walks of skilled
labor, the professions and the arts
have been closed to him every effort
that ingenuity could devise has been
made to degrade him, besOt his mind
with ignorance, and imbrute him yet
the moment an effort is made to place
in his hands the ballot, with which to
prevent himself from being misgoYeTn-
ed, the Democratic party raises the
shout-"The Radicals in favor of Ne
gro Suffrage ! A Niger better than
White Man Our Daughters to marry
Niger Husbands I"
(We would willingly leave such
Billingsgate to the privacy of the DEM
Ocratic journals, but even dirt must
sometimes be shOveled out Of the way,
in the work of OraUrnSa
Now, what do all these cries Of the
Democratic party mean, if they are
not a confession Of lnferiority to the
cOiored race, measuring man by man,
as God created men What can they
mean, except that the Democratic par
ty-the 11hIte mans party, as they are
fond of calling it-fOstered by power,
and education Ito a limited extent),
and prejudice, and sustained by all the
influences of caste and pride of race,
Is afraid to come In competition, on
fair and equal terms, with the loWly
and oppressed race which has been
ground down by centuries of oppres-
sion to the level of personal property
IF the mere right to vote is suttle
lent to raise a negro above the level Of
a Democrat, and endaDger the celibacy
of Democratic maidens, is it not sufie-
lent proof that we have tarried too
long IN Citing a race of such noble
capacity with the elective franchise =?
IF the negro, disfranchised, uneduea-
ted. despised for generations, can by
this simple expedient be raised to the
pinnacle of superiority to the noble
Caucasian, the favorite Of government,
educated at the expense of the peo-
pie, and idolized by all, does it not
show culpable injustice and impolicy
in any government, to keep such a
people down another day
We are discussing this question now
from the Democratic standpoint.
We believe in our inmOst soul that
the white man is the equal of the col
ored man, and able to compete with
him successfully on equal ground.
We deny that the giving of the cleo
tive franchise to the negro will make
him better" than the white man.
We feel willing to trust any Of our fe-
male friends to decide the question
for themselves whether they will mar
ry colored men or not. We have no
fears that the foundations of society
will be broken up, or our political sys-
tenn suffer a shock, or anything except
the Democratic party be destroyed, by
placing cOlored men upen a political
equality with other men.-CoJun1bats
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