Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-07-19


status of the Indian-Americans. We
cannot legislate upon hair We cannot
Eallthe previous question upon complex
ions We eanfot divide the House up
on the matter Of high cheek bones. we
cannot send, eyes, and noses ana Jaws
and facial angles to committee
mans a man; this is the simple forIn1-
Ia which must guide US IN law naSIngl
and II we should undertake to esUaDllsh
an aristocracy of species, the absurd1tles
and contradictions IN which we snoCL4u
find ourselves involved WOULD soon put
an end to all Congressional business
whatever. It is hardly worth Whlle
even for Mr.. Mungen to undertake TO
rival the sages of Laputa. Ihese are
I the common sense views Of the case, and
all others are fanatical, speculative, and
destructive.
undertakes to make race the test OF po-
IiticaI equality, must first encounter ana
/ overcome the fact that IN the DnlJed
/ States 1--WE have nOthingtO do with any
other country the moral q InUel1eCIIaL
I differences between Blacks and w hlLes
( are not nearly so great as beJWeeu
! Whites and Whites. There IS NOT a
/ vice, there is not an infirHItyl tnere Is
not a disqualification imputed TO the
/ African race las here existing) when
may not be found emphatlcalIy e1h1Dl-
/ ted among the CircassIaus las mere eA-
-
M aDv other than moral distinctions,
Il. e., it is not claimed that the African
/ should be excluded from citizenship,
] with all its immunities, simply because
he is. black. The argument Is that, De-
ing black, he is ignorant or stupid o1
4 otherwise incapable. Tt is evident,
II therefore. upon these premises Iha'
color should not be made our stanoaICL
but character, that is, If we are TO SCI
up any standard at all. ITsa4 Dy ll JIM
? test we very much fear that, Mr.. NUN
zen wouldn't be in Congress to Gay
that tens. of thousands of whites would
: be zdisfrancbised throughout the couh
: try-that great many nee anu s Sel5s
? characters who do sbz1iz7zaess pun y -
: 1zaalssl4fItl UiIeir capital suddenly reuuc
ed to nothing. The superfiIie theOrIst
: should be at least Just and consistent
: If Mr.. Nungen demands that for certain
4 qualities of character the Blacks Shouts
Z be deprived of citizenship ne WILL 2
! neither Just nor consistent, nor decenIL
Democratic. if he overlOoks or W1nks
: the same deficiencies and disquahfica
: fions in the Whites and yet, II II Wer
e proposed to disfranchise one hundred 9
5 Mr. Mungen's Democratic constituent
Z for the identical reasons Tor Whlcn n
: would disfranchise all the Blacks n
+ would raise such a howl of Ind1gnatlo
y in the House that members of sens
e tive turn wOuld-loe forced to go Ou
4 This is all his ethnOlOgy amounts Z
o and our readers will agree with US !
a saving that.it amounts to very little.
h Somebody has remarked, in writ o
9 upon this subject, that with all hl
3 ssknoWIedge and cultivation, and a
y sShis LOFTY pretensions, the white man
= ssstiII a savage at heart" The Law
y which keep him within the pale OF 8
4 cial duty will be found equally ette9
: tive in their operations upon. his dusl
Ter fellow creature, and if he CLAIMS
is voice in the enactment of those laws, fl
sr the purposes of self restraint, the pri'
n iIege must be conceded to all who a
t. to come under their inhuence.-N'
be Tribune.