The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-07-25
IsNegrO ENualitY.''


Don PIatt in his Findlay speech thus
diseourseth upon the great scarecrOw which
always overlooks the Democratic corn
field:
But-the cry that browns out all others
is that of social equality. We are charged
with an attempt to put the negroes on
footing Of equality with the sensitive, re-
fined and superior AnglO-SaxOn race. 1t
is grievous charge. It pains us beyond
measure to think we should be open to
such an imputation, Our principal diff
Guilty is to know precisely what is meant.
The laws governing social intercourse are
self-enacted, and lie outside any other in2
huence. I make another my associate and
companion II I find such other agreeable,
and in turn am subject to the same in
fuence. ALI the be-it-enacteds eveEcrowd-
ed into a statute-bOok could not force Mrs.
Jones to call on and associate with Mrs.
Muggins, unless Mrs. Jones was so dis
posed, and then she has to get the consent
of Mrs. Muggins. Old Hickory, who made
nearly all obstacles bend before him, broke
down ANONYMOUSLY when he attempted
to force a certain lady on the social recog-
nition of the families of his Cabinet. And
Louis Napoleon, at the head of the heaviest
despotism of Europe, backed up by mil
lion of bayOnets, cannot make the old no
bLeSSe of France associate with him and
yet we are told that if our Constitution is
so amended as to admit negroes to the
polls, we will be forced to eat with ne
groes, work with negroes and sleep with
negroes, In word, that political equali-
ty means social equality. How absurd.
Let me give you a familiar example,
Mr.. George II. PendletOn is a gentleman
of high social culture and refinement. He
has arrived at the proud eminence Of being
the one gentleman of the Democratic par
ty. Well, learn from the press that he
resides in palace, called the Bowler man.
sion, and is surrounded by all the ele-
gances of modern social refinement. Now,
when Mr.. Pendleton gives an entertain
nent, does he, like the man in the parable,
go out into the highways and byways OF
the 18th ward and fetch in the Irish patri-
otic citizens he probably addressed the day
before? Certainly not. My friend George,
and am proud to cali him my friend,
would be justly astonished were the rag
ged paddy-wack voters, his political equals,
to invade his lawn and pour in at his door
to claim social recognition. My hOnOra-
BILE friend would properly call in the police,
and fOrcibly eject the Irish equality.
We are told that if we repeal a certain
constitutional law the negroes Will assO-
ciate with US. Let us look at this for a
moment. It means that unless restrained
by law the negroes will associate with US
Not that we will associate with the negroes
We are the superior race, and hold the
vantage grOund-we need no law to re.
strain us. The cry means this, ifit means
anything. Well, when it comes to that
want each fellow to speak for himself
We, of the Union organization, shield our.
selves under the law of God that makes
the distinction between the races, and are
so well educated and refined, we feel in nc
danger, and ask for no statutory prOtec
ton. If our Democratic brethren, how.
ever, find themselves differently situated
and feel that they are In danger of negroes
assoeiating with them, why we will pass q
law prohibiting the negroes under heavy
penalties to so encroach on the poor Demo
Gratis. believe this fear to bereal. 1t ha:
been working on our friends for years.
am told that in your town here a we'll
worn banner appears in every Democratic
procession, waving about the heads of {
wagon load of girls, which reads: "Oul
fathers will protect us from negro hus
bands" Now this means that if negroes
are permitted to vote they will go about
marrying all the little Democratic girls il
the country. This would be a terrible
state of affairs, and calls loudly for proven
ton.
We cannot very well retain the wore
white in the Constitution, for that, afte
all, is only an indirect way of meeting tht
evil. 1 tell you what we will do we viii
pass a law prohibiting the negroes assOci
ating with Democrats and marrying Dem
ocratic girls. Let any man, or set of meh
who feel their danger-let my worthy
friend, for example, the editor of the Dem
ocratic organ in this Countrywide, judginI
! from his editorials, is in a periIous condi
! ton, sit down and address a petition to tn
next Legislature, setting forth that he is il
danger from negroes assoCiating with him
or that some negro woman threatens hin
with an eIopeTnent, and ask for protection
and pledge him my word Of honor W
will pass a law prohibiting the negtOe
from assOciating or sleeping with him.
our Democratic friends will admit tina
they are so sunk in the scale of social re
! finement, or that the negro has so far ad
vanced that there is danger of their min
Cling in social equality, we will give then
no end of law for their better protection
But not till then: