Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-09-26
SPEECH of GO OVERNOR BAKER
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| A T CINCI1NN1II.
! Governor Baker Of Indiana made pow
erfal speech at Cincinnati oe the 10th inst.
to an immense audience. The following
is only portion oft, but it is all We car
find foom f0r today
These gentlemen, in the name of Democ
racy, ignore the principles of the Declara
of 1916, and willis. they pertinaciously in
sist that an inequality of rights rs between
i States IN tire Union is an impossihility
still maintain that here may be such al
inequality as between the men who com
pose such States, as 10 permit one race oI
men to deprive another race of men OF all
rights. Some men, according TO sham
Democracy, Rave no rights which other
men are buuid TO respect, and as in for
iner years, State rights are 10 be exalted,
that individual rights may be more effect
ually crushed. The basis upon which this
monsterouS theory is sought TO be main
tanned is as untenahle and illogical as the
principle itselfis wicked and c0wardy.
Mr.. Pendleton, for instance. i'm the plen-
itude of his inapproachahle superiority, full
inmates his decree whereby he dO0ms
millions of men and their posterity to per-
pctual inferiority, and then makes this sup
posed inferiority the ground of denying to
them equal justice and impartial rights.
These millions of men are too inferior TO
Mr. PendletOn to I've permitted to plead TO
/ the Jurisdiction of the tribunal which pro-
nounces this decree of everlasting inferior
I ity. and therefore, instead of impcaching
the decree, can only insist that The princi-
plies OF the Declaration of Independence
apply to all. interiors as well as superlors.
Mr. Pendleton says of this race:
"Thcy have different Blood and bones
and organization. They have different
tastes and capacities. 1t is not a mere
difference or climate, or sun, or birth, or
education. or color. 1t is an inherent and
radical difference of race, of blood. of iu-
tellect, of capacity, which, no training can
efface, no association or habits Of disc'p-
line can eXtinguish. God made them diff
ferent; man cannot make them the same or
equal"
| Now there is an authority entitled to
nearly as much respect rs any opinion of
Mr. Pendleton that says God hath made
OF one blood all nations of men for To dwell
on all the face OF the earth and hath de-
termined the times before appointed ana
the bounds of their habitatiOn, but as-4'ir.
! Pcndleton declares that God did no such
thing. perhaps II would be unsafe to dis
pute his word, especially as the authority
just quoted SAYS nothing apout n difference
of hone. organization, taste and CAPACITY
which NJ. Pendleton assures us do exist.
The pretcnce then is, that. one race OF
human beings because it is inferior in some
respects to another, and because it differs
/ from that other. has no rights in human
society, except such As the superior race
MAY see proper in the plentitude OF It's
superiority To- dole out Ia the inferior.
! The Creator Of all things has made all
mahkiLd social beings and government is
Il necessity of the social existence. If men
of different races are separated from the
races to which thev respectively belong,
and are accidental > proyidenial y thrown
togcther, ihcs vii. affiliate and form Gov
ernment of som kiad.
/ Now, If there be a God who is the author
I of mans existence and idst and fishteo.ts
/ being. il it possible that he could create
I diff rent races or ulen. one inferior and an
other superior. and both possessing selfish
and sietul natures. and yet make the rights
which the weaker and ifcrior race shall
enjoy, depend upon the viii or the caprice
! of the superior race? Is God respccter
I of persons? Does he give the powerful
and the arrogant the right to Cypress the
weak and the lowly? Such an assumption
is dishonoring to God. and shows that the
man who makes it, ii he docs belong To a
superior race. must be an inferior specimen
of that race. If one man, or one race oi
men. is inferior TO or weaker than another.
instead of this being a reason for denying
them equal rights and equal protection, il
is inclusive in favor of equal rights and
equal protection. As the whole have no
need of physician. but they that are sick.
so the strong and The powerful have less
need Of protection, than they that arc
weak, and liable to be oppressed. Ii
equality of taste, equality of capacity, and
equality ef bone are necessary IN the en-
ljoyment of an equality of rights as between
/ different races, why does not the same
rule apply as between different individuals
of the same race: According to Mr.
Pendleton, there must be an equality OF
bone in order to an equality or rights.
The country has of late years become
familiar with muscular Christianity, but
Mr.. Pendleton is assuredly the father OF
osssous or bony Democracy. II political
rights are to depend upon the bony struc-
tures of men, how important Is it not, that
our inspectors of elections should under
stand anatomy and bone ology, if there be
such an olOgy.
This theory of Mr.. Pcndleton Is one of
the most Ingenious devices ever invented
for the accomplishment of the ends of
Democracy in the oppression of men.
Ii one man or one race of men desire to
oppress. or even enslave another, all they
have to do to justify the oppression or en-
sla,e,nent is tn show that the proposed
victims are deficient in taste. or not bOEY
enough or too bony, or according TO Gen
eral Morgan, unable 10 write poetry
| Morgan saws the ''darkics' can not write
poetry. What a pity.
To the dogma that there can be no such
thing as States in the Union with unequal
rights, there must be added the discovery
that there can be no equality of rights as
between individuals or races in the absence
of an equality of bones and poetic genius.
Before disnissing the bone question 1t is
due to colored Americans to say that what
ever Mr.. PendletOn has asserted or NAV
assert to the contrary, history will record
the fact that duringihe rebellion they proved
their possession OF one kind of bone which
was entirely wanting in the Democrat
ic party during the same time. | mean, ol
course, backbone. The colorcd men
showed their possession of it by fighting
for the Union and its government; the
Democrat party as organized in the North
showed the want OF il by speaking, writing
and resolving in favor of the rebellion, and
by sympathizing with those who were en-
gagged in its prosecution, but the spinal
column of the party was TO weak too carry
il to the front by the side of the fighting
Democrats OF the South.
Mr.. Vallindigham ssys, if The white race
have majority many country they may ex-
clude negros from voting. This is mere
assertion, and it is sufficiently answered by
an emphatic denial. But suppose The prop
osition is granted, does it not follow that
the converse Of the proposition is also true,
namely, that IL the colored men have ma
jority in any country they have a right 10
exclude the white race from voting.
Such rule would operate with great