The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-07-05

gro: but for the late war in which
we call the slave 20 our assistance :;
the relation between white and black
would have been harmonious, and
now, that slavery is at au end, and
the war is over, if we can adjust their
rights they will he very happy to-
gether.
ORIGIN OF THE CHIyALRY.
The relation of the two races SOnth
has been of the closest sort, and in
it, the one that We call the weaker
has so impressed itself upon the
stronger race, that the last has chang
ed greatly in its national character
istics. Do you know, my friends,
where our Southern brethren get
that warm hospitality-that high,
impetuous courage AMI dash Of chiv
airy we so much admire We are
told that it comes of their cavalier
blood, enriched and heated by trop-
ical sun. Well my friends, they have
cavalier blood, but they have no
tropical sun. | will not say as many
do, that the earlier colonies of Nir-
ginia and Carolina were convict set
Elements, and, therefore, the claim is
not tenable, for they might yet have
been filled with cavaliers. I never
could find anything in the character
of that class which untitled its mem
bers for the Penitentiary; on the
contrary, / find decided qualiIica-
tions for that place Nevertheless,
the earlier settlers of the Southern
colonies were not OF the sort claimed.
They were not desirable places OF
residences for gentlemen of refine
ment and cultivation, and were filled
up by sturdy sons, criminal or other
wise, of the lo-Saxon family, with
about as much of the cavalier in them
as in the veriest Yankee of New Eng
land. l will tell you where the
South got her chivalry. From the
negro and none else. They have
been born with negroes, nurscd by
negroes, played with negroes, work
ed with negroes, until they think,
feel and speak like negroes. And
from the negro they obtained their
tropical impulses and characters
tics.
You will mark that when one rises
above the level of the multitude and
becomes distinguished for great in
tellectual traits, he seems to go back
and take up the austere, puritanical
type common to New England
Take, for example, your truest South
erners, John C. Calhoun, jeff. Davis
and Stonewall Jackson, their three
remarkable men-and their cold, aus
tere egotism, animated by an indom-
table will, make them so like old
Osawatomie Brown that it is difficult
to distinguish one frOm the other
This is the real Anglo Saxon type,
but the great mass have been so col
ored by the negro that it is difficult
to realize that they belong to the
same race. Their very language is
the language of the negro-and l do
not refer here to the we'uns and
you'uns" of the lower and more ig
norant slass, but to the great mass
/ of their cultivated men and women.
Any one in the gallery OF the House
and Senate at Washington, before the
late war deprived us of Southern
representation, shutting his eyes
while some Congressman from slave
State was on the door, could well be
lieve he was listening to negro. i
never heard the great Henry Clay
but once, and then he spoke of the
Democracy as the "wah party in
! peace, and the peace party in wah.
Any one curious in this study OF lin
quail popularity can understand what
say by listening to our former Sen
ator, Allen, who caught the habit
from Henry Clay, or by hearing the
present Democratic candidate for
Governor, who caught it from Mr..
Allen.
! A celebrated naturalist once said
that -fr !, ga 4...t 70 ~nae-otnn6 nnnn
you must eat coon," and the South
to understand negro has lived on ne
gro until the harmony between the
two is complete. The negro is, in
fact, the father of the chivalry, and
now the Democracy North propose a
war between the two. 1t would be
unnatural, and until now, unheard Of
Saturn, We are told, devoured his
children; but here the chivalry are
called upon to devour their ances-
tors. But while | am talking to you
now, the bravest of the South, who
so lately led their columns to the field
are addressing their late slaves as
"our colored fellow citizens" and
inviting them to the polls. Having
lived so long politically on the votes
of the poor whites, they pass easily
to the votes of the poor blacks, and
put to shame their Northern allies,
who would disrupt the Union and
destroy the Constitution rather than
permit colored citizen to have any
rights.
QUALIFICATIONS FOR CITIZENSHIP.
a strange doctrine has come to be
entertained of late years In the
theory of SELF lfgovernment proclaim
ed by the fathers, we were told that
the safety of the Republic depended
upon the virtue OF the citizens. Now
we are assured that it depends on in
telligence solely. This is dangerous
teaching and gives up all We have
heretofore contended for 1t is the
corner stone Of despotism. when you
assert that the negro shall not vote
because of his low order of intellect.
The question forces itself upon us,
are all whites so elevated intellectu.
ally, that they can be trusted. And
| fear if we were consistent, large
number of our Democratic friends
would be disfranchised. The lofti-
est intellect among our opponents is
engaged at this moment in editing
the rural journals on their side, and
taking the efforts in that line as
specimens Of ability, fear the polls
would be closed against the editors
at an early day, and if the leaders
and teachers have scarcely brain
enough to run an overshot county
saw-mill, what are We to say of their
deluded followers ? Their right to
vote would be in eminent jeopardy.
Testing aside, | believe this low,
brutal cry of q white mans govern.
ment has lower origin than that.
At the South it meant government
Of the governing class and excluded