The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-05-23
Democracy and it's Teachings.
The democratic papers have a

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The democratic papers have a
queer way of reasoning against
giving the negro the right to vote.
They cannot base their opposition
upon any correct principle. If o
man is required to pay taxes and to
shoulder bis musket and fight for
the country, should he not be al
lowed TO vote? Democracy, accor-
ding to its professions, would be
bound to say yes. But it says no.
Why? Because "niggers" would
vote. Well, but If il is right TO per-
nit a man to vote who is required
to pay taxes and fight for his coun
try, why should you care whether
he is black or white2 Well, the
negro is ignorant-be don't know
how to vote. Is ignorance a dis
qualification Is that a democrat
ic reason for depriving free man
of the right to vote? Would you
be willing to make ignorance q dis.
qualification for White men? How
would you determine whether q
man is ignorant or not? The an
swer of tho democrat to all these
questions would bo that he didn't
believe that niggers ought to vote
and that is the whole Of tho ar.
gument of his side.
Now it is notorious fact, that
the democratic party bases all itt
hopes of success upon the ignorance
OF the people. 1t likes to keeT
them in ignorance. No other par
ty ever ventured to cry out "dowr
with tho free schools" There il
a democratic Auditor in ono Of tb,
most populous counties of Ohio, wit
recommended officially that th,
free school system be abolished
He was honest in this. His de
mocracy taught him that education
is destruction TO the interests Of hi
party, and he said 80.
The South was the stronghold o
democracy in former years. Their
was DO free school system in tha
section. The Southern idea was
that the laboring people should no
bo educated, and while tho aristoc
racy there mado no provisions fo
teaching the poor white to read o
write, it absolutely prohibited tn
instruction OF the slave. Here wa
democracy full hedged. But NOR,
than this---those democratic gran
dees, held and advocated the doc
trine, talked and printed it, tha
slavery should not belmited by col
or Poverty, not color, was tho tcs
10 be applied. Poverty and slave
ry were to go together. They
maintained that the poor white mai
would be in bottcr condition en-
shaved than free. This was South
crn democracy, and the democrac.
of the lIortb, in spirit, is like unt,
it. Both sections of tho party ad
vocatcd human slavery. Both op
posed emancipation,
When, therefore, the democrati
leaders of the North oppose negr,
suffrage, they do so because OF tbci
hostility to erery measure whicl
will improve and elevate the hu
man race. These leaders profes
reverence for tho teachings OF JET
FERsoN, their great apostle. JET
FERsoN, in the grand Declaration
averred, that "aH men are create
equal" Did you ever see a dcmo
crat fight it out on that liner
Never. Democracy, as we have !
exemplfed by the party which as
Sumes the name, is no friend Of tn
masses of the people white or col
ored. 1t rests all it's expectation
Of supremacy upon falsehood an,
deception. 1t is the enemy Of pro
gress, and Of all else that woul,
make mankind better and happier
1t is only tho prevalence of prcju
dice and ignorance that holds
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