The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-08-09

I of his oppressors. lite basely ungenerous!
therefore. 10 feter the limbs OF race
which has no country, no government, no
laws, no land OF civil aud religious liberty
whereon TO set its feet, and then jeer IL for
tagging behind us in the race, 1t 10 meas,
ureless injustice 70 perpetuAte his ignor.
anco Ivy enforced disabilities, and then per-
petuate his disabilities because he is
ligHorant H.li.
But let us be frank with ourselves-be.
candid with our convictions. Inetead Of
mental incapaeity, or inferiority Of race, is
not tue real, the sole cause of our opposi-
tion to the enfranchsemeht Of Tho negro
grounded in prejudice of color2 Suppose
he were divested of his sable complexion!
and clothed in that Of the Caucasian would
his exclusion be urged on tho ground Of
incapac ty or any other cause Frahkuess,
cahdor, will answer MOI Then our whole
| opposition resolves itself into prejudice Of
color that incident Of his nature upoil
which neither manhood, nor pirthe, nof
patriotism, in aught depends, and which
neither augments nor diminishes the claima
of justice TO the rights of man.
WILL SUFFRAGE RETTER THE NEeEos coEpITIoSf
1t is urged, however, that tho extension
of impartial suffrage TO the African race
cannot give him any better government, OF
his rights The protection of more impartial
laws, than he now epjoys, This may DO
| possible, An enlightened sense Of Justice
might long mete out 10 him an eqnal meas.
ure of impartiality. But eau il be nationally
contended that the rights aud liberties Of
a race Of men are equally secure when Sub,
joct TO the absolute distfetiop uncontrolled
will, aud exclusive keeping of anotner and
distinct racer This subverts the whole
theory upon which popular government is
| founded. 1t is unsustained by the politiI
cal history Of mank ind. II is return to
the exploded doctrine of the divine right
OF castles and hereditary nobility. We're
the rights of the sansculotte equally safe in
the hands OF thoir hereditary tyrants Z
What cause had they then to overtpfn tho
throne of tho Bourbous We're the Al.
pine shepherds equally secure under the
guardianship of the HapsburgsP Why
then did they storm the QuardrslateralH
Arc the liberties of the Celtic peasant bet
ter guarded in the exclusive keeping of the
British Parliament, than in their own handsS
| What motive then existed for the Fepiau
uprising against the protection Of the Han.
overian dynastyH Or, why IRE the opera.
| tiv6s of Manchester and the cottagers Of
England olamoring for the extension Of
suffrage is not the enlightened justice
Of Exeter Hall an enduring guaranty Of the
rights and liberties OF these humber peo.
pie 7 The keen anguish Of their oppres
sion does not permit them to think so. Yet
these people are Of one origin and one race
with their oppressors. eau sense Of JUS
tice, coupled with uncontrolled discretion,
constituted more permanent or enduring
guaranty Of impartial protection to dis
tinct, aye, inferior race The witnesses of
| mbs SCARED by tho fettcrs Of recent sew.
itude must disappear; the bitter reoolleO-
tion of inhuman tagrant laws must be for
gotten /; the spirit which dishonored the
name and tarnished the glory Of Ohio by
the barbarous enactment of the black codeS
must be purged from human natGre, before
it can be assumed that power, united with.
unrestraned discretion, wllcease TO be ab!
surd.
The people Of Ohio are enlightened, mag:
unanimous and just. The sun in his circuit
of the globe shines not on nobier type of
manhood yet not ten times has lie com
pleted his annual course Since ii was dis.
| tnctly proposed and strongly urged in her
legislature, by the Representatives. of pow"
eriul party, to revive her black code pf in
fanny. What the past has attempted tho
future may accomplish, as interest, or Ca
price, or ambition may direct. The exist.
ence of discretion implies tho power to
abnse it, whenever the motive shall prompt,
1t is vain then to contend that the rights;
and persons, and liberties of the African,
are as secure under the protection of pow
ere welded exclusively BY Caucasian hands,
as if restrained by his own right of con-
currence or dissent.
But'the assertion that enlightened JUS
tice sufficiently guarantees the rights OF
the negro has this virtue: 1t is full con-
cession that he possesses rights which,
FROM their nature, ought to have the inn
partial protection Of just govotnhieht and
equal laws. No reason, then, can be
urged why the same enlightened justice
which comedies him the right shhll not as
well concede to his own hands the power;
in common with other men, of making that
protection secure, permanent and endurs
ing.
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE. ahef
1t is objected that this reasoning leads 10
universal suffrage, irrespective of SEX II
this were SO, the reasoning would not be
weakened or its conclusion desttoyed.
But is itP Governments are instituted for
the reciprocal protection hhd mutual de-
fense of those between whom the ties of
nature are insufficient to insure Justice and
prevent oppression. Tho family is the
primary element into which all popular
government resolves itself. The ties of ma:
ture, the relations of consangulityfth the ens
dearlnents of parental and flial affectiOn,
are, as general rule, sufficiently strong to
secure the whole power and vigilance of
the family head in guarding the interests
and totecting the rights Of it's members.
The existence of the family relation bo!
ing so universal, embracing within its mnE
titudinous arms the individuals Of the race.
with few exceptions. the exercise of politi
cal powers by and through its representa-.
tive head, ia an adequate guaranty against
the enactment Of discriminating laws ipiu.
riously affecting theml into whatever con-
dition or situation OF orphahage or widow.
hood they may pass. The tenderness OF
patrarohal regard viii not fail to provide
for their protection and care; in the con:
tingency of his being removed. A ne.
cessity for universal sutfragei thereforeJ
does not exist
But between the different heads of fam
lilies, and more especially between the diff
ferent races and nations of men. these ties
of nature have no existence. Theirs are
The relations of rivalry ambition-antag-
Dnism it may be; tending rather 10 the elei
vation of the one Where uncontrolled
power exists, by acts of injustice 10 the
other. Hence the recessitJ in popular gov
that the rights and interests and
ibel ties bf all the races and nations of men,
il. be represented in the crea,
lion, exercise and control Of political pow.
srs by and through the impartial repre-
'entation oi their respective heads of fam
ly: This ia Liberty, this is popular free.
ION, this is impartial jnstiee. ts
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