Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-08-07
the GKR0NefRg
Written for Ii. Toledo Blaa. ]
PosT OFFICE CosFEDRIT K RoADs, I
(which is in the Staff NV Ky.J
,JuIv IL 1851

u II, 1901.
In castin my eye carelessly over the DO.
Hticle field, wieh Seward and me do every
sixty days, I think l kin sry into the hef-
lion q bud wich is swellin into q most
hopeful flower. 1t is spredin itself into a
hurricane, wich threatens 10 sweep sway
the fabric Nv AblIshnism and parity the
POlitikle atmosphere. The Radikle party
hev bin at last forced TO adopt the leglti-
mate endin Nv their sooicidle principles,
niger suffrage, and from that the DIM
ockrisy, ef they are wise, will snatch 8
triumph litrally from the Jaws Nv death.
We heY EN- now. In Ohio that question
is to be voted onto this sallAin Moo York
and Michigan its raisin 3 breeze in their
Conversions; and in Pennsylvania, Hi
noy and Indiana it can't be long pua Sff.
Ez l remarked, we've got en-. Wa Be
Dimocrisy want now Is to so h1kdle this
deikit subJ1k ez to make the most nv it.
The great troIblea Of the party is that
there Is notnifcrtrr style Nv meetin this
question. On the main question we are
all agreed. We al oppose Niger Suf-
frage. It's s part and parcsfuy Dino
krat's nacher to oppose niggar suffage-
The leaders Nv the party opposed it at the
beginnin, for seein how the ballot WIZ
abused by Their followers they trembled
for the Republics eff it wuz entrusted 70 the
hands Nv any more ekal capsssity, and the
masses Nv the organization opposed givin
it to the Niger, becoz that one privilege,
and color, wuz all that distinguished EN-.
It's q pecooliarity Nv unregenerated hu-
nan nscher that it must alluz beat down
on somebody. The poet sez:
Even the IceheT smaller snes to bite en-,
And they still other ones. ad inhnitnm.S
Fortunately, the Dimockrisy hev the
nlgger for ther smaller lice. The sturdy
yeomanry felt it to be q so0thin thing 70
find, wunst each year, that in wan thing
st least he WIZ sooperior TO sumbodY, and
80 It will be so long Is there Is q Dim0e.
risy. The troo Dimokrat promotes AisSelf,
not by liffin hisself above the level onto
witch he finds hisself, but by shown some
wun down to s lower level, and ez> ther
Rpzn't anybody else on this Continent
wich they Good git hold NV, the nigget
wuz, long sgo, selected for that purpose.
The great trouble Is We oppose Niger
suffrage now from too many stAHd-pi6ts.
Some oupuseit on The skore Nv the ihleri.
orIty nv the Afrfkin,- batthat-RersR-wuz
. popler idea with our pedpaA They
may hev aksentsd ID d odtaahdiE,Ihati in
thsr Own mindsth obiecasd.A ssR45 set
q reliable Dimokfat to hlsself, "ef mats
the fooA wei IN thunaeris to beeopeIuv
me?'' -IE
Likouassoth The iiasAs nv onftness, Wich
otheFsuF oar JspoEek sdysncs. They
can't resd no fit&s sbfeeztsreiAfeodhh-
US GUS, speekin tosa xaalese8 tAopshtsdI
nv wfch eDstO him regTstiy 70 reed Their
ballots TO en-, and who, when they sign
promnissory ndtSA putisn atEanltheF
first and last naness 2es58
Anuther sPeske quotes Noah to EN-,
and boldly sssernfthEt the Niger } the
descendant Nv Ham, aRd that hsh the
identikle indiy1ile gieh wuz Gust by
Noah; bat he-runs agin the fset that the
rest NV en-, WieA is In Afrika yet, heF
managed to dodge the cuss, ez they amt
serYin Their white brethren and them
witch wuz brot here to be- chRistianized
hsV busted theF bends, and are just about
ez free, so far e. sefyiteod goes -ez any
body. -. ~
Theirs is, ez IheV showed, all thesa con-
fietin ideas that work agin Us. Therefore
/ want q Nashnell ConVenshun. ! want
q convocashen NV The lights Nv the party
70 set forth ~authoritiFeiy why we oppose
niger sufFsge-to Civ q rees0n for IL
that ell our people may act tegeshSr, ez
do other well reglaied machines. Let Us
cum together and and ishoo q maaifes-
to, that we may know perrisely the per-
tikler line NV argument TO pursoo.
I shell be at that convenshun, and I hev
made up my mind wot platform to lay
down. Ishel 60 back IN Ham, HAger
and Gnesimus-I shel turn from the infe.
riority idea and take the broad ground
that the Niger is a-beastAthat he amt a
man at all, and consekentIy be hez no
more rites than any other animal. / put
my foot onto him by authority of the de-
cree that unto man WI given dominion
over beasts-thst We are men sad they
are beasts. IF they admit the first prop-
oslshen, they will the last / shell assert
boldly and ibrodly his oRkfnisf1 mlngle
with US beeaz bis hzzikleA steootme his
muscles, nerves, fbres, befn different, 20
to show that he WIZ w . different origin
and Nv q lower origin. ! shell plant my
self on the stoopenjus yet simple proposl-
shen that the Affinity made him, proba-
bly,, but ct g different time and fur n diff.
ferent purppns, witch / shell show by eitin
the color Nv his skin, the length NV his
foot, the shape Nv his head, and SIGH 9th
er matters as 1 kin git together In time
for the conVenshen,
Nv course this doctrine will meet with
directors. We heV q few tAln-skinned
perfessers Nv religion, whose piety serv-
ice In our ranks hezn't quite obhterHted,
who will say that these dogmas under
mines the Christian religion, ez it des-
the doctrin Nv tie unity Nv the "a
ces pinto witch orthodoxy is built To this
Ishel answer that sposin it does, wot
them Nv wot comparison is any relig-
ion a, Orthodox Dimokrat, hez to q TIL
Nv the partyi Wot hez Dfmocrky
to DO with religion any howl II hez
never permitted it to mix IN Its pollytix.
Dimocrisy bleeves in ksepin Church and
State ez far apart ez possible
Shood the Ablishnists pint TO niggers
who reed and rite, l shoed say to-wunst that
there is different degrees Nv instink-that
ez one dorg hez more instink than anoth-
that so one niger hsz more than an
other, and then / shood wind up this an
.wer by askin him, "Sir, wood 700 force
yoor dawter 70 marry 9 Niger, even Of
be eoOd rsed and wEitei1 Ihishhezh sllnz
lone gOodssersiees PestikslsEgef3peNa walk
aurridigsawsy before thsssistisas SeE an
u.s.
Ther 10 ems pint 4Eiehsiska stanPsrs but
One manrta Hhom.I nVfolded
his thsoEysssks2 messserHglS ypt1sgnz
sxOin 90 do with awnnlstieF who Ealz
lalf white and half blzek-Thah- man and
lalf beast-hAk instnks which dies with
half sole wiehsyuzs0 ubs saved
md fttstfer the skies cor lOstou When al
nulatter dies vat thsnf Dssa the half
oleuvtheha ls man drsgIthe instinkb Nv
he beast behind it in faslimpiRss lopsaided
into heaven, ~ does1ths instihk
Irag the sole into the limbo for animals!
sEf this latter idea be correct" sedahe, {