Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-09-26

from which your ancestors came for tn,
enjoyment of equal rights
The coicred man born in Ohio, is JUST a
much sii American citizen as is Mr.. Val
lardighain, aud has just as much right t,
cav 10 Mr. Vallandigham, 20 to your owl
country, rs Mr.. Vallandigham has to in
vite him to similar entertainment
But, we are told by tyranny. dressed il
the garb OF Democracy, that this is white
mans government and, therefore, eq1ha
rights to any who arc wot Whits afs no
admissible.
If ours is exclusively white mans gov
ernment what right has it to govern mer
who ace not white ifit be indeed true that
] governments "deriVc their just powers
/ from the consent of the g0yerned:' Il
| this is white mans government why does
il tax Iacn of other cOlors. and require
them TO perform military service. and sus
tam every burden that is imposed on While
men? And. when did it become Il white
mans government? Was it in the days oi
the revelation, when colored men fought
with their white brethren for our indcpen
dencs, and when lrecmon, black and white
were permitted 10 vote in every one OF the
old thirteen States except South Carolina:
Did il become white mans government
when the Constitution of the United States
was formed and the word white careful
ly excluded ihcrefr0m? Did 1t become n
white map' government when colored men
fought under Jackson in the war of 1872.
and whe. that grand old here thanked
these sable patriots, calling them his fcl-
low citizens.
Did il become white mans government
when two hundred thousand coiOfed men,
at the first opportunity, rushed TO the stan
dard of their country in the late rebellion
as an offset TO the two hundred thousand
men of the Thurman NallandigRaih Demo
cratic race, who sent their greetings from
Ohio to their SouthsfA brethren informing
them that there could We no coercion?-
Judge Thurman has gone 10 Mexico,
To- Hay,i, TO Canada, and 10 Janlai
ca To find black men mean enough to cna-
ble him tG institute comparison that
would be favorable to the white Democra-
cy of Ohio, and II ne NAV believe him. he
found some colorcd men in these countries
that answered the purpose for which this
voyage OF discovery was undertaken. Ii
must, however, he gratifying to the cOiored
Ohians and their white friends that Judge
! Thurman does not pretend to have found
anywhere in the United States colored
community that was not more loyal and
better Instructed i'm the duties of American
citizenship, and therefore better qualified
ioT self government than was the organized
Democracy OF OEio during the late rebel
lion.
When and where did colored mon ever
send to rebels, ready ID commence war on
their country, sucli greeting as that sent
by The Ohio Democratic Convention OF Jan
! uary %, 1861? 1t reads as follows
''RcSOiccd, That two hundred thousand
Democrats of Ohio send 10 the people of
the United States. both North and South.
greeting: And when the people of the
North shall have fulfilled theird duties to the
Constitution and to the South then, and
not till then. will Il be proper for them TO
take into consideration the question OF the
right and propriety of coercion"
And be il remembered that the present
Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio
was the author of this resolution, and that
lac said, in support il, The South are a
brave people. The Southern States can
not be held by force. The blacks wont
fight for the invaders. The Hun rarians
had less cause of complaint sga;nst Austria
than tl.c South had against the North"
defy any man to show me cOlored
man in the Unilcd States who has go mean
political record, or who proved himself
SO poor prophet as the standard bearer OF
the Democracy of Ohio.
I,r said in 1861 'the Southern States
cannot be held by force" and now, i'm 1867.
he says the government is destroyed and
despotism prevails, because these same
States are held by force. lie said in 1861
that the blacks would not fight for what
he called the invaders, bit which loyal
black men called their country; and now,
in 1867, he SAYS that these black men who
falsified his prediction, and fought manfu'-
IL to- suppress the Democratic rebellion to
which he sen: Democratic greetings, are
not fit 10 vote. If this be the superiority
of which these gentlemen boast may all
loyal black men bc preserved from its ut
tainmei;t.
Judge Thurman Was mistaken in sci,
aud he is mistSEen now rs the uniform
good conduct Of our colOred citizens shows.
Their action in the late elections in Ten
nessee and in the District Of Columbia
shows that they can throw loyal ballots as
truly as they aimed loyal muskets during
the war.
Fernando Wood, then Mayor Of New
York, yOu remember in 1861 had a friend
ly telegrsphic correspondence with Toombs
of Georgia, in relation TO arming the State
for the destruction OF the Union.
Afterwards in message to the council
of the city of New York. he justified seces-
sion on the part Of the South. predicted the
formation of a new Pacific and new West
ern Confederacy, and proposed that the
city of New York should secedc from the
State of New York and set up for herself
as free city
He did all this without losing caste with
the Democratic party, and is this day an
honored member and leader OF that or
ganization.
No co,ored man in the nation could have
been guilty of conduct so reasonable and
base without receiving the universal exc
crationS of his race throughout the coun-
try.
Take another specimen brick from the
Democratic kiln in your own State, the
following editorial from the Marion Dem
Ocrat Thus it reads:
"Andersonville, Libby, treason, g., are
all catch words for dupes If our prison
ers suffered at AnGersonville and Libby for
food. it was because the Southern people
were deprived of food by the overwhelm-
ing power of the Northern hordes. Ii the
prisoners at Andcrsonville and Libby were
lot treated with the kindness and consid
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