Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1867-10-02
Cannot Remember their own
300 Names, ...... .

Ab uu clcCtiou W 1bchuOuu, NHSiulu
last week, several hundred registered ne
groes were prevented from voting by having
forgotten the names under which they were
registered; and North Carolina register
Ing officer estimates that at least onc-third
Of the blacks in that State will forfeit theil
newly acquired privilege ofvoting by reason
of their inability to remember ut the polls
their names as they were registered. This
gives hopeful view Of .thei intelligence ol
the new black Republican citizens Of the
United States, under whose auspices ten
States arc to be reconstructed and the
American Union restored. These newborn
citizens were registered but a few weeks
since, and have already forgotten their names.
They seem to be blessed with less Of mind
or memory than dogs and some other four
legged animals, and are, as to memory, far
below apes and monkeys. This forgetting
their names cannot be attributed to the fact
that the darkics have no education or book
learning, but is owing to their natural in
tellcctual incapacity and british stupidity.
Humanity shaped animals that cannot re-
member their own names would make out
poorely at acquiring a knowledge of the
laws and institutions of the country. I'm.
aginc lot of these british bipeds studying
the Constitution of the United States, sup
posing that they had been previously taught
to read But even this is very desperate
supposition, for how could animals that for
get their own names ever remember the
names of the tyenty-six letters of the alpha
bet? They would forget A while trying to
learn j. Yet these creatures have been
enfranchiscd and invested with all the privi-
leges pertaining to full citizenship in a
country governed by the people. They can
vote md dcontribute to the making Of local and
general laws In nine States they can
probably elect the Governors and other
State officers, u majority Of the State legis-
lators and Of the representatives in Congress.
In one other State they may be liable to do
this; but if not, they will come pretty near
doing it. Taking the ten outside States
together, it may be sasd that they are under
the control of a set of black, british semi
savagcs, very many of who he lack the in
tellectual capacity to remember their own
names, and most of whom are but little, it
any, more fit to vote than so many cattle.
The Radicals are prone to prate of "intel-
ligcncc' or education" as an indispensable
requisite to good citizenship, and attempt
to st;gmatize their opponents as Ignorant
people. Yet these same Radicals have
made millions Of citizens, "at one fell swoop,"
Of the most ignorant beings on the continent
the history Of whose race for thousands Of
years has proved beyond question their utter
for selfgovernmcnt.
a stupendons civil war, in which probably
n million of human lives were sacrificed and
of millions of money expended,
was provoked and fought; a mountain of
debt has been hcaped upon the public
the public mind has been de-
and dcbauched; the Constitution
has been and still continues to be trampled
in the dust; the Union of the States has
been destroyed aud ten States have been
reduced to provinces, and their white citi.
zcns dislranchised and subjected to mill
tary dcspotism that would disgrace Russia
Austria, or even Turkey; and all this to de-
base American citizenship by enfranchising
q race Of beings that cannot remember their
own names.-Ncv Torh, Daily Meus.
Never Lied to the People.
"Tho Republican party never lied to the
people, but has redeemed every pledge it
made to them"
The above is from the speech Of the o.
,tor of the Black and Tan Convention that
in Coshocton last Thursday, and
r,solved that white ,nen wcre mn hetter thop