The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-07-04

upon which popular government is
founded. 1t is unsustained by the
political history of mankind. 1t is
ia return to the exploded doctrine OF
tire divine right of castles and here
ditary nobility. Were the rights OF
the sansculotte equally safe in the
hands of their hereditary tyrants
What cause had they then to over
turn the throne of the Bourbons p
Were the Alpine shepar.ls equally
secure under the guardianship. OF
the Hapsburgs I o w by then did they
storm the QuadralateralI Are the
liberties of the Celtic peasant better
guarded in the exclusive keeping OF
the British Parliament, than in theil
own hands What motive then eA.
listed for the Feilian uprising against
the projections Of the Hanoverian Gy
nasty': Or, why arc the operatives
OF Manchester and the cotagers .o1
England clamoring for the exten
sion of suffragel Is not the en-
lightened justice of Exeter Hall al
enduring guaranty of the rights
and liberties of these humber peo
pie =? The keen anguish Of their op
preston does not permit them tc
think so. Yet these people are o.
one origin and one race with theil
toppressors. Can sense of justice
coupled with uncontrolled discre
ton, constitute a more parmanent
or enduring guaranty of impartial
protection to distinct--aye, infer
ior? The witnesses of limbs scar.
red by the fetters ofrecent servitudt
must disappear; the bitter recollec
ton of inhuman vagrant laws must
be forgotten: the spirit which dishon
ored the name and furnished thu
glory of Ohio by the bar5arous en-
actment Of the black code, must bt
purged from human nature, before
it can 1e assumed that power, unit
ed with unrestrained discretion, vii
cease to be abused.
The people Of Ohio are enlighten
ed, magnanimous, and just The
sun IN his circuit of the globe shines
not on nobler type of manhood
yet not ten times has he completed
his annual course since it was dis
tinctly proposed and strongly urged
in her Legislature, by the representa-
tives Of powerful party, to revive
her black code of infamy. What the
past has attempted, the future may
accomplish, as interest or caprice
or ambition may direct. The exis
teuce of discretion implies the power
to abnse it, whenever the motive
shall prompt. 1t is vain, then, tc
contend that the rights, and persons
and liberties of the African, are as
secure under the protection Of pow
ers Welded exclusively by Caucasian
hands, as if restrained by his owl
right Of concurrence or dissent.
But the assertion that enlightened
justice sufficiently guarantees the
rights Of the negro, has this virtue
1t is a full concession that he pos
sesses rights which, from their ma
ture, ought to have the impartial pro
lection Of just government and equa
laws. No reason, then, can be urgeG
why the same enlightened justice
which comedies him the right, not as
well concede to his own hands the
power, in common with other men
of making that protection secure
permanent and enduring.
1t is objected that this reasoning
leads to universal suffrage, irrcspec
tive of sex? If this were so, the
reasoning would not be weakened
or its conclusion destroyed But il
lts Governments are instituted fol
the reciprocal protection and mutua
defense of those between whom thu
ties ofnature are insufficient to insure
justice and prevent oppression. Th'
family is the primary element int
which all popular government re
solves itself. The ties nature, tn
relations of consanguinity, the en-
dearments of parental and filial af
fection, are, as a general rule, suf
ficiently strong to secure the who'll
power and vigilance of the famil,
head in guarding the interests ant
protecting the rights of it's mem
bers. s'it.t' s9l
The existence of the family rela
ton being SO universal, embracin.
v 'ithin its multitudinous arms the in
df viduals Of the race, with few ex
cepe ions, the exercise of politica
powe rs by and through its repre-
sentati We head, is an adequate guar
anty ag ainst the enactment of dis
criminath rg laws injuriously affectin,
them, into whatever condition O
situation OF orphanage or widow
hood they m. ~ pass. The tender
ness of patriaa "chal regard will no
fail to provide for their protectio
and care, in the contingency of hi
being removed. 4Nnecesslty for UNI
versal suffrage, til. ,refore, does no
exist.
But between the din. Verent heads c
families, and more e. specially be
tween the different races and nation
Of men, these ties of natn re have II
existence. Theirs are the relation
Of rivalry, ambition-antas onism
may be, tending rather to the elevs
ton of the one, where uncom role
power exists. by acts of injush ce t
the other. Hence the necessity
popular government that the rig. III
and interests and liberties of all t.
races and nations ofmen composilr,
it, be represented in the creation
exercise and control Of political pow
ers, by and through the impartia
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