The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-09-26

Ere1efencetcto Lneir flSnI. nave
read all.aheir speeches that Icould
find, and Iwant some Democrat to
give me a reason why,a negro should
not vote They al say they are
kopposed to negro, suffrage Some
turn up their noses and say the ne
gro is not man. There is a gen
tleman. in this. State, Col. Mungen,
who insists that.th negro does not
belor q to the human species. p I
have never seen any evidence of
that, ysa They are men, the. same as
syousand / are.; They are black, that
is true but if they were not made
by the hand of God / Would like Mr..
Mungen to say who made them, A
voice, s.the devil u .a.,s...-..s-ss7,sv...a
The devil did not exist at the tim e
men weres first made; the devil
found d~himselfin the position Val :
landigaamis ihnow.o He was once
a respected angel in heaven, but, for
his tumultss and treason there, the
Archangel Michael heayed him over
the battlements three miles intohel,
and he has been there ever since
( Now I want to know Iwhysa a white
man is entitled to vote? The white
people in this country did not have
the Fight to vote before the revolu-
ton How did they get it , They
got it by having themselves reeog-
nized as free people, and by being
Fcitizens of the United States, which
was an. Independent government,
that all lowed.the citizens who were
taxed to vote You do not vote be-
cause you are white. You cannot
find it in the Constitution. nor in the
Declaration of Independence. You
got this n ght@tU vote because you
were part OF The government ofithe
United States4zfor thafreason and
Ino other. -, -
Iad dtWhen,th United States became a
government, tell me some Demo
Ecrat-and / call upon Mr. Valfandig-
ham or. Mr., Pendleton-tell me, then,
| how pany negro es that were free i'll
this country were se2cluded from the
ballot box. 10Y ou Democrats can
name but one State that did not all
low negroes1to Eots when the indei
pendence of this country, was -declar-
Led. Every solitary one but South
Carolina and Virginia allowed them
ito vote: the very States that rebelled
against the government. / General
Jackson received theirsNotes when
he was elected the9 last time, and
you teH meito day that citizens OF
this country are. not entitled tevote.
They Were oaHowed to vote under
! tire doctrines OF j eferson,. under the
| do Grimes of Adams, under the doc
trines of. Washington, because they
were, freemep,. and, were citizens of
theiUnited, States, paving taxes and
doing duty the same as you and |
do. Fhe negroes that were free
fought il, the revolution, in the war
of 1912, and they were entitled to
vote. But this prejudice has grown
because of slavery, because in the
South they were determined that
there, should be no free persons of
color. They put them all into slav
cry, and in some of the States they
absolutely, sold free people into
slavery, if they would not leave the
State, in order to make them all
slaves. There is where the preju-
dice originated, and such poor truck
ling men as this man Nallandigham
could not, see. any virtue in the
Northern people. Nobody was a
gentleman unless he belonged to the
Southern chivairy. The Democrat
eic party says the negro shall not
vote, that he don't belong to the hu-
man race. Nobody but fool would
say that he is not a man, and / shall
not discuss any such proposition.
The man that would say that before
an intelligent court ought to be a
shamed to show himself any where
Ion earth, because be would be nlal-
'k3d as as ass everywhere he. went.
| Laughter. 80 60.
Well, now, if we go into the
question Of color, let us see how " e
will be situated. It amt because he
lis asnegro Ethat you won't let him
vote. but because he is black. In
thesState OF OHIO, some years ago,
YOU had a Democratic State Gov
ernment, and the Democracy Of this
. State decided that man had only
half negro blood in him and one
half white he might vote Now, ]
d want the Democracy to tell which
side voted, the white or the black
4 Ehey gave him "a full vote. Well, il
you don't allow him to vote because
he is a negro, but, allow the white
man to vote, let Us carry the princi-
pie out. We say black man. shall
not vote because he is black. Them
who shall vote? Why, white mar
} Well, who is a white man! If he is
his skin must be white, his. hail
{ tmustbe white, and his eyes must be
livery light blue, osmake him a white
} man: Laughter. If he has blacl
hair, and black eyes and skin, all 0.
the same piece like Aouri humble
: servant I don't know how [ wouIt
;. .tbs~ablesto vote. Whye2s Because
( lhave gotablack eyes and black. 3hai
therefore,, resemble a negro tha
much. If you can not let q mar
:. -.Ivote1 because he has gotta black skin
YOU haFe'the same right to 'Tefus,
ms vote because | have got blacl
< eyes, and you have the same righttt
say q man shall not vote because h,
: has a curly head, and there are lot
!, / Of white men who-have curly heads
V TEen,. If you say a man shall no
:. vote because he has a black skin ant
: black hair and black eyes, what will
/ you do with a man who has red head
r Laughter, What tribe does. he be
i long to? Icould not tell. to saw
D my life. Now I will tell you m,