Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-08-10
MISCELLANEOUS.
From tho Toledo Blade.l
N A y Ii n

HOLD A NATIONAL CONVENTIONAL ONCE,
TO DEFINE THE POSITION OF THE PARTY
Upon AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.
Posi- OFFIs, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,
(Which is in the Stait NV Kentucky,
'.- '. July IL, 1857.
In castin my eye carelessly over the polit-
tikle field, wich Seward and me do every
sixty days, think kin spy into the hori-
zon bud wicli is swcllin into a most hope
full flower, 1t Is sptedin itself into hurri-
cane wich threatens to sweep away the IA
brick of Ablishnism and purify the politti-
kle atmosphere The Radikle party bev
bin at last forced to adopt the legitimit end
in Nv their sooicidle principles nigger suf
frage-and from that the DimOkrsy, ct they
are wise, will snatch a triumph litrally from
the jaws NV death. We HEv EN- Now In
Ohio that question is to be voted onto this
fall in Moo York and Michigan it's raisin
breeze in ther convensliuns, and in Penn
sylvania, lllinoy, and Indiana, it cart be
long put off. It's our best holt. The proud
CaucasEun wich votes the Dimocratic tikit
hez no objeckshun to bein jossled by the
niggcr in the rush to pay taxes, but his
lawty sole recoils at the idee Nv bein ell
bowed by him at the polls. Besides, the
Dimecratic voters don't want the ballot
given to any other lower class. 1t would
make undoo competishen. Ez remarked,
WE'VE GOT EN-. Wat the Dimokrisy want
now Is to so handle this delikit subjck ez
to make the most Nv it.
The great trouble with the party is that
there is no uniform style nv meetin this
question, On the main question we ure all
agreed. We all oppose nigger suffrage. -
Its part and parcel NV Dimokrat's nacher
to oppose .nigger suffrage. The leaders Nv
the party opposed it at the beginnin, for
seein how the ballot wuz abused by their
followers they trembled for the Republic ef
it wriz entrusted to the hands NV any more
NV ekal capassity, and the masses Nv the
organization opposed givin it to the niger,
becoz that one privilege, and color, wuz ali
that distinguished em. Its pecoolyarity
NV unregenerated human nacher that It must
alluz bear down on somebody. The poet
seq: sH.-.-
Even the lice hev smaller ones to bite EN-,
And they still smaller ones, ad infnitum."
Fortunately, the Dimokracy hev the Mig
ger for their smaller lice. The sturdy yeo-
lnanry felt it to be soothin thing to find,
wunst each yeer, that in wun thing at least
he wuz sooperior to sumboddy, and so it
will he so long cz there is Dimokracy.--
The true Dimokrat promotes hisself not by
liltin hissclf above the level onto wich he
finds hisself, but by shown some wun down
to Il lower level, and eZ ther wuznt anybody
else on this continent wch they Good git
hold Nv, the niger wuz, long ago, selected
fur that purpose.
The great trouble is we oppose nigger
suffrage now from too many stand pints--
Some oppose it on the skore uy the inleri-
ority NV the Afrikin, but that never wuz Il
popler idea with our people. They may
hev assented to it, outwardly, but in their
own minds they objected. "Ef," seq a reli-
able Dimokrat to hisself, ''ef that's the rool,
WAT IN THUNDER is TO BECOME wv MEl"
Likewise the idea Nv onftness, wich 9th
ers Nv our apossels advance. They can't
read nor rite." shreeks injoodishus cuss,
speekin to Il audience two-.hirds NV wich
go to him reglerly to reed ther ballots to
em, and who, when they sign promissory
notes, put an Y atween ther first and last
names.
Another speeker quotes Noah to en-, and
boldly assets that the Niger is the de-
scendant Nv Ham, and that be is the identi-
kle indiviijle which wuz Gust by Noah but
he runs agin the fact that the rest NV EN-,
wich is in Afrika yet, hev managed to
dodge the cuss, ez they aint servin ther
white brethren, aud them wich wuz brot
here to be chrischinized hcv busted ther
bonds, and are jest about ez Tree, SO far ez
servitood goes, ez anybody
There is, ez have showed, all these con-
tiictin ideas that work agn us. Therefore,
| want a Nashnell Conycnshun. want q
convocashen Nv the lights NV the party, to
set forth authoritively why We oppose mig
ger suflrage-t0 Civ reeson for it, that all
our people may act together, ez do other
well-reglated machines. Let w cum toge-
ther and ishoo our manifesto, that we may
know precisely the pertikeler line Nv argu-
ment to pursOo.
shel be at that convenshun, and hev
made up my mind wot platform to lay
down. she go back on Ham, Hager and
Onesimus-I shel turn from the inieriority
idea and take the broad ground that THE
NIGGER Is A BEAsT-TuAT HE Amt MAN
AT ALL, and consekently he hez no more
rites than any other animal. | put my foot
onto him by authority of the decree that
unto man wuz given dominion over the
beasts-that we are men and they are beasts
Ell they admit the first proposishen, they
will the last. / shel assert boldly and brod
ly his ondtnis to mingle with US becoz his
tizzikle structure, his muscles, nerves, fibres
bein different, 60 to show that he wuz NV a
different origin and Nv lower origin.
shei plant myself on the stoopepjus yet sim
pie proposishen that the Almity made him
probably, but at different time and for q
different purpus, wich shel show 10y ctin
the color Nv his skin, the length NV his foot
the shape Nv his head, and sich other mat
tiers as l kin git together in time for the
convenshen. fHI
Nv course this doctrine will meet with
objectors. We have few thin skinned Fer
fessers' Nv religion, whose piety service in
! our ranks heznt quite obliterated, who will
say that these dogmas undermines tht
Christian religion, ez it destroys the doctrir
| Nv the unity Nv the races onto wich ortho
| doxy is built. To this / shel answer that
sposin it does, wot thenl Nv wot compa
rison is any religion Orthodox Dimocra,
hez to triumph Nv the party Wot he,
Dimocrisy to do with religion, any how p
1t hez never permitted it to mix in its polly
tix. Dimocrisy bleeves in keepin Church
and State ez far apart ez possible. eol
| Shood the Ablishnists pint to niggers
wich reed and write, should say to. o.wnns
that there is different degrees Nv instink-
that ez one dorg hez more instink than ano
ther, that so one niger hez more than ano
ther and then shood wind this answer uI
hv akin him .HSir wnod uon fnrca von,