Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-10-22

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Would not one qualification and pre-
requisite after another be heaped upon
the text of the suffrage clause, if a
hood suffrage were once adopted? And
a property qualification, first among oil?
1t would be so or our institutional
self Government would be rapidly bro
ken down, to give place to n fierce
Democracie," and ultimately to fall in
anarchy.
~''Impartial citizen suffrage" destroys
the "as q man" doctrine Z; and is an in
congrui,y of words as used. For you
may pile up the prerequisites for voting
to the thousands and tens and hundreds
of thousands of dollars, and still have
"impartial citizen suffrage" Says
Madison: "When we are discussing
forms of government or changes in gov
eminent, we must always look at the
possible results within the bounds Of
the system proposed" Already there
is a demand for property representation.
The phrases and catch-words of the all
c~reationers permit any nomination Of
prerequisites. The point now made is
that their broad cry is q humbug,
because it may, according to the new
explanatory text, cover an %aristocracy
of property in exclusive right to vote;
or it may fix uniform "impartial'-bear-
ing on all alike-conditions to the priv
ilege of voting, which will be most I'M
just. The cry of the fraternity is a
delusive one.
"Selfprotection." Every time a man
knocks another down let him retaliate
by going to a polling place and voting
against his antagonist! 1t is explained
by the humanitarians thus " The more
ignorant the man the more his need of
and right to the ballot" Why then
not measure his ignorance on som
scale Of examination, and give him a
number Of ballots proportional to his
lack of mind and learning? You see,
as soon rs these broad men commence
their sermon on their Universe text thcy
preface their discourse with new texts,
which do not even agree with the full
face head line.
Then to swell out into the All
Equal" shout Then, to be consistent,
If the shout means anything serious
for their affected argument - there
should be indiscrimiuate suffrage.
OF all the wicked ways in which the
ruin of this Republic could be plotted,
the doctrines Of the humanitarians ex-
eel. They will not recognize what God
has decreed by a separation of the races.
And, o, how they love the whole people.
Yet they explain their theories as for
a wild Democracy, or for an aristocracy.
How they love the ,chole people? Do
they? Piling on taxes, voting them
selves large sums of the peoples money,
acting in the association or pay Of
g%rievous monopolies. Are not these
things notorious? The great Radicals
spouting negro suffrage, and then going
into a side chamber and getting their
hair curled and pomaded at the expense
of the white men of the nation. "The
whole peopleT So shouts o Radical
champion of Humani,arianism, who is
VIGOROUSLY owned, carcass, clothing and
transportation money, by the Dutch
Flat Railroad Company. And so on, in
the list until you meet the men who
are sincerely misled in their views-a
few Of that record.
The sympathetic element Of humanity
kindness, human friendliness ,-dwells
in proportionate strength in the supe-
rior races. Cruelty is an element in re-
finemeut in the inferior races. So far
as the literal Significance of the. term
is concerned, the plea here is even
stronger than elsewhere for the DOM
NANCY in this republic of the Caucasian.
And you must take your logical and
practical consequences. In allowing
negroes to vote, you must suppose-in
your calculations Of efects-that they
acquire the majority vote in this nation,
as a race. (They will have it in seve-
raj of the Southern States, at once.)
Suppose the negroes had the majority
vote in this nation, and from "self-
protection" had the power of exclusive
seif-aggrandizement, whatkind of an AZ
RIGA would the United States make, un.
der such circumstances {? s'It won't be p'
But you must consider it as possible.
And il will be in some States.
The hurrah, the definitions, the pleas,
the illogical evasions, the denial of sure
practical results or Of probable conse'
quences, by the Humanitarians sno"
co~nclusively that they are not, in fact,
what they assume to be- or because Of
their prejudice" they demand most
unwise action, the adoption Of a false
liberalism. Those of New England are,
in majority, honest on this coast we
have some who think, or have believed,
that their promotion to or retention in
power was dependent on joining in what
was supposed by many to be a grand,
popular rush for a B-r-o-a-d Church-po-
litical. Honest fanatics and damphool
hypocrites and demagogues say that the
Union party must advocate and adopt
Swammery. Humanity Forbid