Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-07-26

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then that our Democratic friends viii
not debar eolored men from partieiPa-
ting in their political councils, only
provided they are favorable TO the
white element ruling this country"
Again sc are told that united devo-
ton TO- this. principle win 'eompletely
overthrow Radical misrule.'' We infer
therefore that the element now in
power is a black s'eIement." Yet it is
composed OF white men, The word
sswhite'' therefore as used in the call is
to be understood IN a relative sense,
and may refer to an element not white
IN coupIexiOn- Now as an American
citizen of Caucasian predictions we
Indignantly demand to know whether
the Democracy proposes to elect ne
groes TO office? Since the element
now in. power composed of white men
lis not white as understood by the
| Democratic party we want to know
whether it means by indirection that
black element may be considered white?
The thing may seem paradOxical but
not from a Democratic point of view.
There is such 4 thing in nature as a
white blackbird and there is such a
/ thing in modern politics as a Demo-
cratic-State- Rights Uniou-SecessiOnist.
Why may there not be also such
thinu as a ic-black-white ele-
men,? And ifsnat is what this call
+ drives at then we have discovered the
secret blade, with which it is meant to
make a covert stab at the ''pure Caucas-
/ ian race.'' The call is signed by En expe-
rienced lawyer who we'll understands
/ the plant uses of language, & we would
/ like to know why he has thus ingeni-
ously expressed himself if not for some
mysterious purpose? The language
awakens suspicious to say the least,
and we appeal to Democratic judges
whether they do not lead in the dlree-
/ ton we have indicated?
Now we warn the Democracy Of Del
aware county not to be bambOOzled by
| those who assume to be its leaders
! We point to the Chicago, Times, Boston
| Post. Milwaukee Sentinel and other
standard and trusted Democratic jour
nails which have suddenly and unac-
countably vaulted into the dark gulf
OF negro suffrage, eadeayoriug to drag
after them the Democratic party, and
pointing to these examples we call up
/ on the Democracy of Delaware to take
warning. Be not deceived nor permit
/ yourselves TO be sedUced into support
/ of a scheme to establish negro voting
and Office holding by technical trick
IF you are called on to oppose these
things why is it not so stated? It seems
to us it certainly wOald have been
in campaign like this unless you are
/ expected to favor them.
But grant that we are mistaken in
| these suspicious what enormous diff
/ cuItes will arise at the outset to en-
barrass the actions of this convention,
what puzzling questions to disturb its
councils! Unless the view we have
1 taken is correct then it must be that
none but "pure Caucasians," that is
''white" men can be admitted as dele
gates. The credentials required will
therefore consist in being ''pure eau
casiau7 that is, in being white The first
business in order then wilt be the ap-
pointment of a committee on geneaIogies.
There will also be necess ary an ethno-
logical committee to determine ques-
tions of race. For how can it be deter
mined that any one is a pure Caucasian
or radically swhite'' unless the matter
be carefully and scientifically investi-
gated? Mr.. Mungen in his speech in
Congress has appealed to this sort of
thing as a test for voting and why
should not the same test be applied for
admission to the Democratic caucuses /
Aud if it is not applied vigorously what
is to prevent those eaucuses, from some |
times entertaining Africans unawares i? /
For if there is anything more uncertain |
than all things else in this mundane (
sphere it is the lineage and genealogical !
extraction of human kind As SAKE
says:
.-Of ali the notable things on earth.
The queerest one is pride of birth,
Among our fierce fDemOcracfe'!
A bridge across a hundred years,
without prop to save it from sneers-
NogeVen a couple Of rotten Peers
A thing for laughter. fleeFs, and ieers,
Is American aristoeracy.
English and Irish, French and Spanish |
German, Italian, Dutch and Danish
In one conglOmera1iOn
50 subtle a tangle OF blood indeed,
In finding the circulation!
depend uponit my snobbish friend.
Your family thread you can't ascend,
Without good reason to apprehend
You may md 1t WstEed at the farther end
By some plebeian vocation ..
Or, worse than that, your boosted lin e
May end IN a loop of stronger tWine
That plagued some worthy relation .
And what ifit should end in a-welI
in a 'sniggerl" Imagine the geneaIog-
ical committee or the ethnoIogieaI COM
mittee after due examination of dele
gates credentials reporting that after
tracing his lineage back to the fiftieth
generation they find among his blood rel
atives a South Carolina member ofCJon-
gress and a-wen stranger and worse
things have happenedl But imagine the
effect in a convention of fspure Cauca-
slams" of such a report as that! And
suppose such an investigation has to be
made IN reference to everv delegate, as it
surely would be if all are to be seated
on a purely white basis, what bicker-
ings what strife would arise about this
mans fOrty-ninth cousin, and that
mans fifty-ninth tincturei But we
forbear to trace the picture farther.
We wait for developments hoping to {
see the ''pure Caucasian and 'white !
theories practically Illustrat- I
ed and beau tifully applied. Meanwhile {
Radical AGisrule'' calmly awaits her
destiny. h
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