The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-08-07
The DIsiiaeiion God has Made
Sc.Nes-Col0rS.

Inc New OK olate ltlgnts oocletg tIahS-
mittai, last w,sk, to the Constitutional
Convention of that State memorial against
negro suffrage. We make the following
extract from the memorial:
To the Honorable the Constitutional Con-
vention of the State of New York;
The undersigned, committee appointed
by the State Rights Society Of the city of
New York, to present 10 your honorable
body memorial in opposition to striking
the word white" from the State Constitu-
| ton, beg leavetO present to you the grounds
upon which this action is based.
| The society which we have the honor to
represent adopt the principles OF Thomas
| Jefferson in their true puroort and mean
ing. The rights of man are held to be
natural and iaalienabla, derived from the
Almighty Creator as part OF his organism.
! Government, therefore, can grant no rights
to men, nor can 1t justly take any away
II finds men as the Creator made them,
and il should leave them as it finds them
| Il can not Justly create distinctions where
the Creator has made meme, nor eau i. Justly
ignore those which the Creator has made.
The Office of government is to discern, IT
possible, the laws of nature, and seek to
make those pervade the laws of the land
1t confers nothing. II takes nothing away.
As has been truly remarked by an eminent
iurist of this State, now no more, The
most perfect human laws can claim no high
er merit than that they have followed ma
ture" ...
If this fundamental principle, then, be
the basis of true government, how Impor-
tant it is chat those Of our citizens WHO
have been deputed to fix the organic law OF
a Commonwealth, embracing the Interests
Of four millions of human beings, should
fully understand the 6amlnds and require
ments Of Natures laws!
And what are they? We see, first, that
the human beings who make what is term,
ed State, or body polite, are divided
into iifferent sexes. The very TACT tina.
the re is difference is absolute natural proof
that there must be 4 different legal relation
to correspond to the natural difference.
Whatever Nature intends for the same du
ties and purposes is made alike. The har'
DIV and robust frame of the man make him
the natural defender and protector 0f the
woman, whose Trailer physical organization,
combined with the duties OF maternity which
Nature has imposed upon her, render her
equality with mau an utter I'M pos ilblllFy. =
She cann,t b. his equal, tor she Is rot like
him. Equality, throughout nature, is sy.
uonymous with likeness of SPECIES or organ
ization. The utter absnrdity OF rights OF
,, citizenship for women is shown from the
fact that she can not fulfill its duties.
That negro has never shown any capacity
for government In his own country he has
never invented even an aiph lbet or adopt
ed one. and We. for six thousand years he
has heen surrounded with civiizatl0n, -
When brought to thu continent aud instruct
ed, he has, whenever, left to himself, re-
lapsed toward barbariSm. Nature did not
make him the eg lil of the white man. there
fore he can not be incu lei IN the same
government with white men without vioat
ing her laws. Government ial the negro
negro, aud it II ou'd adapt its laws to Ma.
lures fat Inc pt,'itn Ii We follow Ma
ture :, distinction OF seces, We are bbuat to
follow Natars's distinction of races. AN
,o]tite men are created equal, is the maxim
of MIR. Jefferson in its true intent anH
$ meaning for to ASSERT that white men ant
/ negroes were created equal, would be to as
!. sert the paradox hat they are alike
r The groun, of opposition to striking tn
n word white from the State Constitution
e therefore, rest upon the broal principle
Il that negro Is by nature unequal to the whit
: man, and therefore can not have a right to
/ the white man 8 equality. As Government
- therefore, can confer no rights upon an
i one, only guarantee those granted by ma
e ture it follows that any attempt to engraf
l. negro suffrage on the State is wrong, and
t. carried out is violation OF neutral rights
IT But beyond this there is another, an,
Y even more mighty question. Equal Cit
e. zenship with the negro involves social anna
vt gamation, the mixtIre OF blood, nd al
1T we aware what this means in all its lengtl
r and breadth? Many people fater then
nf selves that politic"l equality does not IL
n vove social equality. But they forget thG
We in republican country citiz -nship is sove
as eighty Every voter is sovereign, an
" the official is his servant. Shall it be sa
Id that the sovereign can nor associate wit
his serrant-that that the representati,
is greater ,han the principa2 Unquestio
ably, II negroes are entitled to equal ciflzrl
ship with whites, they are entitled to equa
We ty in all re-pects-in the {aoon, the .,ote
n the drawing room, the legislative hall, Il
=, judges bench. There may be dislinctio
Y" in social intercourse founded apon the SAIL
'e rules they. apply to white men, but no n
of gro can be ex led solely because of b
zee being negro. ,,
~ ~ Are We prepared for this? D. we cou
w prehend that am .lgamaton is social deaf
nd Do we realize that modern investigate
an has demonstrated that muiattoisIn IS b
h. brilism, and that bybrIdlsln is anmhlatic
~ Are we willing to see our cOu
>" try go the way OF the mongrel repnDll
~. sonth OF us, where this violation of nature
distinction of races has been worked out
iC utter decentralization OF the pelpl!, WI
sunk in degradation, disease and fifth na
st uraI to hybrid populations, are utterly i
50 capable Of sef-governmen?
eS' Let us not fancy that we should be
n exception to this rule. The principle Of II
lat gro equality fixed upon our country and a
cepted by the people, we should have init
:. duced AN element of decentralization III
,n ~ our politics which woul eacn year increa'
laS until not semblance of republican ins'i
lae tions sufficiently corrupt, but here wol
ag- be race to be the shuttlecock of politician
hn- who never have and who never can co
ac- prehend the principles of civil and rsligio
'sG liberty. Unless Government Can con-
''. " noIbing for him. n..
*** Profoundly convinced that the go
ave of our country requires that the elect
en- en- franchise should be securely preserved
nc the hands of the white race, the undersigr
rls, rl, TOR reasons above stated, aud for many O
VIII ers that might be urged, earnestly beset
CI mre the Constitutional Convention, for the
ne selves and in bchalt Of the society they r,
:nd y: resent, to confne the .affrage solely to ?
't"- sons of pure white blood. But if . maj
ity of the Convention snail M zee fit to
this, then we most respectfully urge thai
tells would be the duty of the Convention
INTO submit in elaiite clause to the peol
bar. the question whether the word ''whi
80 shall be stricken out.
lem K. G. HORTON,
der IQHN MIMALIY.