The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-08-09

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Mungen's Speech.
MEssRs. EDIroRs:-I wish to notice
some of the points in the speech OF
our Representative; not because they
are dangerous to us, but to show their
futility to such of his friends as may
see fit to read. At least twice i'm the
speech we are accused of favering
equal rights for party purposes, If
the result of practical good faith to
the black soldier and citizen shall be
to maintain the Union party in power
till class legislation shall disappear
from all our statute hooks, "'tis a
consummation devoutly to he wish
ed" That William Mungen could
see nothing beyond the shipwrecll of
his party; nothing ennobling in hu-
man equality; no justice in rewarding
the tried friends of the Republic or
in requiring obedience of traitors, is
what might be expected; for when
has his party taught anything beyond
the means of its own success2 While
we admit with pleasure that Right is
Policy, We claim that the people of
ou7 party are governed by "sense
of duty to God and man Not q
specific love for any RAGE, but for
Justice to all, has made US nail our
Decls' alton of Independence to the
mast head determined to carry it
\. ri"ps through the battle or sink
with 1t thare
VIM Mungen tells US substantially
trat the negro is, or at least has ever
been, incapable of self government,
and that the attempt to blend them
with the ''doGinant" white race will
be instinctively repelled. Does he
mean then that in this country the
negro must be governed by Others,
and that so far as the negro is con-
cerned, our government must be a
tyranny If he cannot govern him.
self some one must govern him; shall
we turn him over to traitors, to Nun,
gen, or to himselfj That the negro
has not heretofore maintained free
government is no argument, for nei-
ther have the Irish nor any other
Celts; yet none dispute their power
to do so. Then we shall not give up
the negro to petty Demooraticl ~
tyrants, but shall leave him to him
self and to equal and just laws with
all his God given rights; and if for a
while at first he is no wiser or better
than some of his Democratic neigh
bors, We shall bear with him as With
them until they both shall become
capable Of self government. If ne
grGes are not capable of sell govern
ment, shall we therefore be tyrants;
because other men are fools, shall we
be thieves2 These would be open
questions even If the right of self
government were doubtful.
Mungen says negroes are men, but
not of our brotherhood. From hence
he infsrs that they should not vote
In their own government, and that
they have not equal rights with the
white men, that the white is the pre-
dominant race, etc. Between his
premise and conclusion there is no
more connection than between the
color Of a rose and the weight of a
feather. Ofcourse / shall not argue
against disconnected propositions, but
will examine some of them. He
says: "The types of men are marked
by specific differences, as plain as the
characteristics of the horse and OK"
Therefore the OF should govern the
horsel Beautiful Democracy!
Again: "Those who think the
the negro requires the same intellec-
tual entertainments as the white race
might feed q humming bird with the
food of the vulture But really
would not the negro enjoy Williams
fiddler William and the negro min
strel have too long been fellow mer-
for him to try the dodge
of no brother now. He has been too
long tearing at the vulture's food to
commence acting the hummiug bird.
But says Mr.. NJ, "Msn esnnot live
and enjoy good health long outside
of the geological realm IN which he
was created" IS neither whites nor
negroes are Indigenous to this
country it would seem right to give
both an even chance; and if itI
turns out that the country suits
one race and not the other, this
beautiful law of Williams will soon
kill off the race it don't suit. SO |
there is no need offs stew "Wait
littie longer" suppose that the
South suits the negro, and that he
will soon he principal inhabitant of
all the gulf States, as he is now of
south Carolina,
In denial or the human brotherhood |
We are told that men of the different
types do not look alike. 1T is |
strange too that all men, and espec-
tally men who are different, should
not look alike!) He says that the
is taller, not than the negro,
but than the Esquimau8 and Mongol;
that he ia heavier, not than the ne
gro, but than the Exqumaux and
Mongol. But he says negroes have
longer hands and feet on an average
than white men. This average is a
happy thing to the speaker. Did he
ever reflect that if the rest of the
white race had grown no taller than
ne, we might for height have been
,lassed with with Chinese or Esuui.
nsux2 that my being tall gives him
10 right to be tyrantp and that he
ioes not look much more like the
legro than the negro does like him?
Besides if the size of the foot gives
natural right to territory the negro
las the advantage in land! Ah! but {
he skull of the negro holds but six h
y six cubic inches, the white map's \
Mott d Gliddon saylI
or the negro, eighty-two, and the |
Caucasian ninety-three cubic inches: I
'ut Mungen may be the better eth.
lologist.) } Shall we understand from
his that big headed men alone shall {
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