Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-08-28
Equality.

On the principle that "birds of
feather flock together" the copper
head party is largely made up of the
narroW-minded, cold-blooded and more
heartless of men, who are happy only
in i~ndulging in groveling thoughts,
cultiyating base p~reiudices and redu-
cling themselves more nearly akin to
bsrbarous and snimslistic natures
With the catch-word, Democracy, on
their lips, while tyranny rules in their
hearts, they depreeate enlarging the
idea of human rights. They have no
faith in the old Republican precept,
that the blessings of government, ike
the dews of heaven, should descend
on all alike" but believe that govern
ment should be a mere machine in the
hands of the ruling class to extort
from the class ruled. Hence this party
of shoddy sristocrats. are troubled Just
as the tories of Great Britain are being
troubled, with the fear that an extern
sion of political equality and enlarge
ment of the elective franchise, will
interfere with their long held monopo-
ly of the Offices, privileges and emolu-
ments of government.
To compel men born and reared on
American soil, who are as truly Ameri-
can citizens as any are by birthright-
men whose only offence Is that they
are Loyal to their native land, and wear
a dusky complexion, such as their
Creator gave them-that these men
must be deprived of just rights, after
having been worse than robbed of them
for three generations, as long as the
nation stands, because a few proud, in
petty despots wish to rule over
them and the American people, is an
insult TO the enlightened civilization of
the age. There is a day coming when the
men who now advocate the continued
Acknowledgement of the blacks will be
regarded as more blindIy bigoted and
cruel than the forefathe-s who tortured,
ostracised and communicated men for
opinions held by them. Even in those
darker days men did not fear the color
of mems faces, but they did fear the
ideas inspiring their mind and the
words which they uttered. Give all
men but identity in thought on fun
damental principles, and one nation
might be safely composed ofall "peo-
pies, nations, colors and tongues"
But your modern copperhead is not
influenced by mind. Like a grey
hound he run by scent. He claims
that he is opposed to negro suffrage
because the odor of the black is often
siVe to him. Now their is compensa-
ton in this, for the copperhead can
~retaliate On the negro bYIbringing his
own salubrious carcass into range with
the negroes olfactories and if the
gentleman of color is not driven from
the field by the more powerful aroma
of the cop, it will only be because his
smelling capacity IS the less acute.
But, seriously, this is the staple and
only objection that the mass of copper
heads pretend to bring against black
suffrage. They 8 60 to the polls arm
in arm with the stupidest, dirtiest, Yul-
garest foreigner that ever crossed the
ocean, drink with him, est with him
and sleep with him, provided, always,
he votes the sdemocratic" ticket
Judging from their willingness to herd
with this class of persons. we have no
doubt that they would be equally init.
mate with the most abandoned negro
if they we're only in unison in politics.
1t is not that the copperhesd believes
that the Almighty has made him bet
ter than the negro, that he effects to
despise him, but simply because the
latter is too smart to become a tool in
the hands Of the former. In the South,
where the blacks vote, the democrats
in their resolutions refer 70 them as
"our colored felloW-eitizens." Just as
soon as they are allowed to vote in the
Northern States, these ong-nosed cops.
will discover that the black man natur-
distils otto of roses, and is a most
companionable individual.