The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-11-16
Negro Equality.
BY NON. G. l.. vAL1AND1ouAM.

on thIs tnut dOd mas created barrier
between tho races and what God has
put asunder man has not power to bring
together Those marks have indicated
may be the semblance of that which is
within to denote that ineapacty Tor com-
bining that race and mingling it into one
with ours, and for that reason there
ought to 30 no'attempt to raise the negro
to political or civil equality lie is
man rs ycu are-I don't say he ia u broth.
er. rLdughter1 lie is n man-Gcd
made him n man-but it follows not that
He made him Of the more elevated race
by no means. Yet, as member Of the
human family he is entitled to all the
protection that the alien has for the five
years following his arrival in this coun.
try, or as much longer as he sees ct toI
live here without becoming a citizen-as
much protection by law az your wife has.
as your daughter has, neither Of whom
can vote or hold Office GiYe him these
same rights. would give them TO him
and / would give to him another right,
WHICH has been denied TO some Of us
the right to trial by jury and the right to
testify in courts. would give him al
fair trial when accused Of an offence, and
convict or aquit him according to the
laws Of the land. But the question oil
political rights lies far deeper This
country was settled by white men, and
developed by white men, and the impos-
sibility Of mingling these races, the ut.
ter failure al such attempts of the kind
as have been made, il sufficient argu.
ment against the proposition now before
the people Of this State. The negroes
Of Hnyti ara wiser than their Republ.
can brethren Of the United States. The
negro in HAyti has forbidden the white
man to vote or Lold office, and Sambo is
right. He understands the laws which
govern tho human family better than
those who preach negro equality here
lie IS IN the vast majority there, and
white men are in tho minority. He
knows the white man ought not to be al
lowed TO mingie on terms Of equality with
him, and hence all Office holding and all
suffrage are confined 10 the negro there.
| recognize the superior wisdom Of this
| am in favor Of negro equality and nc.
gro suffrage 10 Africa, but | am opposed
10 il ia the United Stutes / am oppos.
cd TO allowing the white man TO hold Of.
fee or vote in Africa, aud am opposed
10 giving those privileges TO the negro
hero. But Africa il the neg.o's country !;
this Is ours that's the difference. The
question is now presented by the Rcpub-
lican party Of Ohio 10 introduce negro
. equality aud negro suffrage by striking
the word "whitc" out Of the State Con
s.itdtion. Thus at last il has come. The
vol il now at your doors. | recollect
when, few years ago. We proclaimed
that that party was drawing toward this
, very doctrine, how VIC were met with
contradictions aud deuials the lie was
r thrust into our teeth, aud we were de-
nouuced as slaudcrers As late ns two
. years ago they bitterly denied it. Why
! Abraham Lincoln, whom some hcatheu
men, quite pagans, are not willing to
r worship as god (and they have iilustri-
Gus examples Of that sort Of work now
Abraham Lincoln, proclaimed in 1858.
| not as mere temporary matter Of poll
! ey, but he gave as a reason why there
| should aud could be no negro equality in
this country-no negro suffrage and no
! negro Office holding-that there was a
. physical distinction between the races,
which forbade that the negro should be
/ The equal Of the white man. William
Dennison, lately Republican Governor Of
J Ohio, denounced universal emancipation
in 1862, during the war-at tho end Of
! the FIRST year Of the war, when they
wanted soldiers to enlist under pretense
: of fighting for the flag, and not for tho
J negro. He denounced not only cmanci-
r patton, bat negro suffrage equality, and
: proclaimed that il was not the intent or
purpose of the Republican party TO advo-
cate or carry out either. So, too, the
f present Governor Of the State, General
{ j. ID. Cox-a scholar, man of reflection,
! a man WHO thinks upon subjects before
E he speaks or writes about them; man
: who studied this particular question, and
who has the courage to speak his mind.
! refer to him in these terms because he
: deserves it, not for any mere partizan
purpose, though when provoked, two
! years ago, to speak of him in plain An
2 glo-Saxon yernacular, on account of
{ talsehood in relation to myself, so did.
: All that is passed, and refer to him now
: for these qualities for which he is re-
markable. He has declared in letter
!. addressed to that place called Oberlin-
: you have all heard of that place, I sup
: pose-in letter to the Oberlinites he
) takes ground against this attempt to
t equalizc the races, politically and socially.
say socially, for there is the philosophy
of what referred to moment ago. If
. you would bring the races up to an equal
: ity, you must lay aside all distinctions
: which are founded upon race. There
must be intermarriage and general ming.
ling of the races. am aware that it
{ does not follow because my son or your
f son belongs to the white race, no shall
: therefore be at liberty to marry the
!; daughter of any white man on the conti-
) nent. Nevertheless they are equals as
> to race, and when they do not marry it is
: because of some other reason than that
| which prevents whites and blacks from in
. termarrying. It is utterly impossible that
| there should be negro equality in this
country, consistent with order and harmo-
my and peace and quiet in the community, j
5 unless you accept the negro as your equal
! socially as we'll as politically. They must
marry and be given in marriage as a re-
suit Of that political equality from which
) social equality must necessarily come.-
j The silly talk about Democrats being
/ n . = \ ~