The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-05-30
Democracy and it's Teachings.

The democratic papers have a
queer way of reasoning against Civ
ing the negro the right to VOTE
They cannot base their opposition
upon any correct principle. If a
man is required to pay taxes and to.
shoulder his musket and fight for the
country, should he not be allowed to,
vote? Democracy, according toits
Professions, would be bound to say
yes. But it says 10. Why2 Be
cause -"niggers'' would vote. We'll,
but if it is right to permit a man to
vote who is required to pay taxes
and fight for his country, why should
you care whether he is black or
white? Well, the negro is ignorant
he don't know how to vote. Is
ignorance a disqualification ? Is that
a Democratic reason for depriving a
free man of the right to vote p
Would you be willing to make igno-
rance disqualification for uAite
men !? How would you determine
whether man is ignorant or'not !?
The answer Of the Democrat to all
these questions would be that he
didn't believe that niggers ought to
vote--and that is the whole of the
argument of his side.
Now it is notorious fact, that
the Democratic party bases all its
hopes of.success upon the ignorance
of the people. 1t likes to keep them
in ignorance. No other party ever
ventured to cry out ''down with the
free schools" There is Demo
cratic Auditor in one of the most
populous counties of Ohio, who re-
commended officially that the free
school system be abolished. He
was honest in this. His Democracy
taughthim that educationis destfuc-
ton to the interests of his party, and
he said so.
!, The South was the stronghold of
Democracy,in former years. There
was no free school system in that
section. The Southern idea was,
that the laboring people should not
be educated, and while the arlstec-
racy there made no provisions fol
teaching the poor white to read OF
write, it absolutely prohibited the
instruction of the slave. Here was
Democracy full fedged.l But more
than this-those Democratic. gran
dees,s held and advocated the doc
trine. talked and printed it., that
slavery should not be limited BY
color. Poverty, not color, was the
test to be applied. Poverty and
slavery were to go together. They
maintained that the poor white mar
would be in a better condition en-
slaved than free This was. South
ern Democracy, andfth Democracy
of,the North, in spirit, is like unto
it. Both section of the party advo
Gated human slavery BothIopposet
emancipation. I lar -ti;sal.lal5 10 !
When, therefore, the Democratic
leaders of the North oppose Negro
suffrage, they1do SO because4of thei
hostility to efery measure which viii
improve and elevate the human race
These leaders profess reverence 70
the teachings of Jefferson, their grea
apostle Jefferson, in the gran'
4Declaration, avefred, that aolt me-
are ereotefe4ual.'' Did yoneverse
a Democrat eight it out on tina
Zine p Never. Democracy, as W
4 have it exemplified by the part
3 which.asBuines thenaialeg is no ffien
\ Of the maSses.of thepeople white o
1 oeofored.iq ft-rests all its eSpec ectttion
: tof supFe7Aacy1fpon fals6hood andde
| reception. 1t is theenemy ofpfoeress
ard of all else that would make mar
, kind better ana happier 1tiss onl
the prevalence Of prejudice and Is
inoranca that holds it together
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