The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-10-02

why because they are incompeteBt.
Why arelbot white children allowed 10
yo.e? Because they are not competent:
If the Negro is capable of self-govL
ernment; if the white and black races can
live togetherop terms Of equality, then,
but not otherwise, is he entitled 10 all the
rights .ofa eiliEsno Move my country
men, let us consider this subject withsthe
sole desire of attaining the truth, 90 that
we may act upon itswithd the good sense
which should characterize q people who
believe themselves TO be capable Of self
governmental agei iaiiga4--llla ilju 10
sRhis question is severely practical. 5lu
our townships arewe willing to have me-
gro justices of the peace? In our courts
do .weifdesirei negro jurors and negro
judgssi2s And shall yelfollow the exau-
pie Of Massachusetts, and send negroes
to the State LcgislatureI2 ns And shall
Ohio achieve for herself the distinction
of being the, first State represented by Q
negro United States Senator Z Do not
laugh, my friends; but rather listen while
I read the ayoyal made by Mr. Sumner.
the Radical leader in the Senate of the
United States, on, the l1th day Of July
last, In the course of debate Mr., Sum.
ner said "There is, no doubt that under
the existing laws, there can be no texcln
sion on account Of color /; nobody is fol
that reason disqualified from the exercise
of any function, What is there to pre-
vent a colored person from being q Sena
tor Of the United States; pna who car
doubt that within, very few months y
will be our business to welcome colorei
Senator on this hoorl I can not doubt it.
Now, if it be true that the .negroe i
the equal, of the white man you ar,
bound in common honesty to 60 still fur
sher. Not content with negro voters, ju
rors, justices, Of the peace, and negr'
Senators, as promised BY Mr., Sumner
and Q negro Vice President, as promisec
by Mr., Wendell Phillips iyou must in
vite the negro to your table, receive hin
as the. suitpr Of your daughter, and afteI
while fondly caress your charming lit
tie mulatto grand children. Why not
Is not your equal entitled to be, q guesI
at your tablet. Is not the, equal Of ,the
father worthy Of being the suitor for lhe
daughters hand? Think Of this my
friends, aud when you go to your homes
chat the matter over with your wives atF and
daughters, ;..--t
Again ! ask you, my countrymen, dc
you believe that the negro 10 capable Of
self~govcrnment ? Let us test this ques
ton. Cal you give the name Of one
full-blooded negro author Of merit, in
prose, or poetry, in, history, or philoso-
ply, in the sciences or the arts ? I wait
for reply What rarne? None There
is not one name to give. Tell me the
pane Of one full-blooded negro orator
whose speeches outlived his generation
What name? None. There is not one
name to give. Did you ever hear Of a
fall-blooded negro who was noted for hi:
skill as an artist, or q mechanic Did
you ever hear, or read Of negro invent
or? What invention. Give the name.
Look over the long list Of national pat
ents for inventions and improvements in
machinery and. find the name Of one ne
groY None--not one. Having gazed
on that picture, let us look upon tbis;-
Who invented the printing pressy A
white man. Who invented the steam
engine A white man. Who first CON
quered the lightning, aud subjected it tC
human control2 A white man. Who In
vented the electric telegraph, and passed
through the ocean achaiu Of electric fire
White men. Who invented the steam
boat, the steam ship and steam car? 2
White men. ar .sfMa2lf19d iogijay'i
Bat il is said that the want Of superio
intelligence in the negro, d The results o
slavery. Not $50. His condition as {
slave was better than that Of his kin II
Africa Athenegfo slave ini Carolina wa
the slperiorof tliefnegfo tibg in Congo
for to a alimitcd degree he had improved
during his residence Of generations i,
Am erica!9 . !ll esuis s5ssI bnssrodi owl
a4tiwas not slavery but tanature whict
made the black man inferior totbe white
The Romans held slaves, ,obnt they were
white men made slaves by the fortune Of
war. In intellect, ID manhood, they were
the peeisof their conquerors, and many
of them we're distinguished as meuiCol
letters, and when mads free, and admit
ted to theirights Of citizenship, they were
the equals Of the Romans, in factyas vel
In name.o1a -'f pisleai sdf "a ,1i5s AL
Since the existence of bis race, ther'
never has beeba negro Historian; ; and II
all time wilt there ever be2 But thank
to the inscription ~ on the pyramids o
Egypt, tothe researches Of the archeolo
/ gist,' we can trace the negro back during
. periodoof four thousand years, and Al
he was in Africa then, so is be in Afric'
to-day---a benightcd savage, q cruel bai
bafian who makes n barter Of his owl
race and blood saHis Government is an,
always has been despotic and the abes
evidence that he is incapable Of self-gov
ernmeht is the fact that iha his natlv
country he never attempted its exercise
and his experiment in Hayti has been O
oscillatlUuJfrom anarchy idespotism.
II may bo d misfortune, butit is not
crime, nor even a fault for one race to1b b
inferior to another; but it, is . seriou
fact, a practical truth, which we, PED
| pie who claim to be capable Of sel-gov
etnneuty cannot safely disregard. ifls
\ Only two'gun shots distance separat
the coast of Africa from that Of Rurop'
and yet what o moral idfuity divides th
oue irointhe other From the cfeatio
Of It's iHhabitpnts, the greater portion
IL fr;eap has heani a,,nk IN anva q eiRm xsitl