The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-09-20
CHE ll,ll Campaign.
The Negro as a Voter.

Hon. JOHN A. BINGHAM in recent speech
thus disposes of the fallacious arguments
brought forward by the opponents of Man.
hood Suffrage; 4 80.
They undertake to alarm you with the
| plea that we are about to make, the "nis.
| ger" to use their nomenclature, equal to
white man. That is philosophical con,
clusion to arrive at. They might as well
undertake to say that men are, by law
equal to each other in stature. "Niggers
equal to white men, and they wind up by
saying, This is white mans Govern
ment" What blasphemy They might as
well say this is white mans planet, and
organize a Democratic association, estab-
lished for the purpose of cribbing and fat
tenning, and roasting and eating every hu.
man being oh its surface that is not white
man. / thought that in the middle Of the
nineteenth century it has come to be pretty
well known that this world Of ours was
not made for Cesar, but for man; that it be
longed, at last, only to the common Father
of us all, and to all his creatures who worked
we'll upon it. But these Democrats, the
elect suppose, of the universe of God
after conspiring to overthrow your Gov
ernment and mine, after cbnspiring for four
long years to annihlate your altar, and
scatter darkness and desolation over your
! hearthstones, after sending lamentaton
and death into the habitations of the pee.
pie OF the land, come creeping out of their
hiding places, aud saying, We are the De.
mocracy, the elect of the republic, the only
men, iu the language of the modest Vallan-
digham, who have brains, and should be
entrusted with the administration of pub
lie affairs, and especially upon the ground
that this is a white mans government.
| How would that pretense of theirs have
sounded in l776 when those grand old men
ass embed in convention at Philadelphia
and issued that new evangsl 10 the nations,
in which they declared that "al men are
created equal, and endowed by their Crea.
tor with the rights of life, liberty aud the
pursuit of happiness" Why, if Vallan.
digham had been there, he would have
stretched out his neck like crane, and
whispered like gibberiDg ghost in the ear
OF Jefferson, the father of Democracy, " Put
the word white in, so that it will read, all
white men are created equal" &c. About
that time that grand old patriot who
snatched the lightnings from the heaven,
and broke the scepter OF tyrants, Benjamin
Franklin, would have arisen in his place,
and in hisown quiet way inquired of Yul an
digham, j" Pray, Sir, how white ought man
to be before be has the right to liver"
Ii is white mans Government, is it
Every intelligent man in the country knows
that in l776, when they organized the first
constitutional Government for the United
States of America, the first point Of diff
Guilty between the then thirteen States, was
with South Cafolihiaj who was them as now,
possessed of the devil, when she arose in
her place in that Convention, and moved TO
insert in the articles of confederation, the
word white" as an essential condition Of
American citizenship. 1t was rejected with
scern and contempt. The representatives
Of three fourths of all the people of Amer ]
lea rejected it at that time. Go, look at
the record and you will find eight States,
embracing three fourths of the whole peO
pie of the United States, voting as q unit
that no such word should go into your Con.
stitutioB. Two States voted aye one State
was equally divided two States were not
represented, but if they had been. and had
voted solid for the terrible blasphemy. it
would not have altered the result. Nine
yearG afieryard they framed your match
less Constitutional Government at Philadel
phia, under the Constitution OF the United
States, and the word white ;" is, not in il.
The words natural born citizen are there
and the man is a natural born fool who does
not understand tnat the term "natural
born citizen implies that citizenship is .
birlhTight. 1t comes with man into the
world. lie has right to citizenship, no
matter what his complexioni so long as he
behaves himself well, upon the spot where
be had his origin; aud the man Who denies
il is merely monster When he comes
among you with his nOstrums you know
him to be q chest, peddler, who says
I" This is the genuine old Dri TcwnsehGs