The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1867-09-12

| purpose Of the Republican party 10 adj |
yocate or carry out either. So, TOO. the |
present Governor Of the State, Gen. J
ID. Cox--a scholar, man Of reflection,
y man who thinks upon subjects before
he speaks or writes about them man
who has studied this particular qnes-
tion, and who has the courage 10 speak
his mind. 1 refer TO him in these
terms because he deserves, not for any
mere partisan purpose, though when
provoked, two years ago, TO speak Of
him in plain Anglo-Sazon vcrnacular.
ON account Of ialsehood in relation to
myself, | so did. All that is passed,
aud refer to him now for these enal-
ities for which he IL remarkablc He
has declared in letter addressed
to that place called Oberlin--you have
all heard of that place, Isuppose--ini
that letter to the Obcrlinites he takes
ground against this attempt to et:ual-
ize the races, politically and socially
| say socially, Tor there is the philosophy
of what | referred TO a momeat ago. IL
you would bring the race up to an equal
ity, you must lay aside all distinctions
which are foundsd upon race. There
must be intcrmarriage and general min
Cling Of the races. ! am aware that il
does not follow because my son or your
son belongs to the white race, he shall
therefore be at liberty 10 marry the
. daughter of any white man on the con.
tinent. 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 intermarrying. II is utterly i'm.
possible that there should be negro
/. equality in this country consistent with
order and harmony aud peace aud quiet
in the community, unless yoa accept
: the negro as your equal socially, as well
> as politically. They must marry and
be given in marriage as a result Of that
!, political equality from which social
! eqality must necessarily como. The
silly talk about Democrats being afraid
their daughters will marry negro hus-
: bands, or their sons marry negro women,
? should be passed by with the contempt
it deserves, am speaking Of history
U and philosophy, and when l tell you
that political equality means social
c eqality with the negro, I only say what
! is proclaimed by Fred. Douglass, Wen
d dell Phillips, aud all the Pioneers Of
y the Republican party. Don't tell me
!, !, you can give the negro the right to vote
u aud stop there. The amendment which
l is proposed goes further than that. 1t
J implies the right to hold any Office from
= Governor down, aud il the system exists
u throughout the United States, then
: form President dowu The negro has
y already demanded fair division of the
u offices. They are asking to have ne
= gro put upon the ticket Tor Vice Presi
IS dent, and think that it is right that
l. it should be SO, and that men who have
D advocated negro suffrage should follow
IL out this doctrine to its legitimate con
le clusiou, aud not be ashamed OF Il.
'e You told " few years ago you wer'
u opposed to negroes having right to vot.
n or hold Office You are not opposed I,
le it now. but are openly advocating it,
10 To 1869, i'll should come here, ucet
a net be surprised to find you in favor 0
6, negro intermarriages aud openly adyo
70 eating them. From the progress, at
~ they call it, made lately, it is not To-
Is much to expect this. That is prccisel,
I'd what it means. IL may be small mat
s. ter to you hers, whore, don't suppose
y, there are fifty negroes in the county,
10 Bot down in the Southern countrie
u they number hundreds aud thousands
re aud il is matter Of some inportanc'
y to US. Again, down South IL is o
u great Importance. The negroes are il
nc a majority in somc Of the States dow
70 there, and under the system Of disfran
DO chising the whites, think they are i
US a majority in each of the eleven, ipclu
or ding Tennessee, Lock at the election i
y Tennessee. The Republican caudidat
g, is elected by great majority. How
: For shame, for shameful, 900 negroc
10 voting, and 5,000* white men disfrau
" chised. Il would carry any election
a. The next step, presume, viii be Z
nc disfranchise every Democrat in tn
OF North. We have the entering wedg
TO of !, already. Of course they won
q, say democrat when they 60 to di,
ed franchise US, but they will provide ths
pc every disloyal man shall be disfranch
lt sed, and then they viii 60 a step furthe
20 and say that every man who voted "a
~ Vallandigham in 1868, while. ho wa
rs; waiting aud watching on the border,