The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-08-15
JACKSON STANDARD.
TmllRsnAY. 81. AVa. :, Issa.
MORO Hithnolosy.

a Commiuve on the part Of The
State Rights Society, consisting Of Mr..
Il. q. Horton, editor Of the New-York
Doy B5ok, Mr.. john Mulally, editor Of
the Metropolitan Record, aud Mr.. NJ II.
Dackworth, of whom We are ashamed
to say we never heard before, have pre-
seated memorial to the constitutional
Convention against negro suffrage,
Candor compcls us to state that the ar
guments set forth in the memorial are
not of that sound and convincing char
aeter which We might have expected
from its distinguished signers. They
may be reduced TO thesei l. Thomas
jefferson says that ''all men are created
free and equal therefore he meant to
say "all wtite men arc created equal.
2. Negroes are not ike white men;
therefore they cannot be politically
equal to white men. 5. II you admit
coIored persons to the polls you must
admit them 10 the parlor; If they once
get into the parlor they will inevitably
marry your daughters. 4, Every nor
NAL white mn is competent to be Chief
Justice or General-in-C Chief of the Army
every normal negro is not; therefore
no negro ought to vote.
The first Of these arguments is alto
gether beyond our comprehension, and
we shall therefore not try to reintc it.
The second might apply quite as well
d the Celtic and Saxon as to the Alri-
can and Caucasian races, there being.
as everybody knows, good deal more
difference between say Sixth Ward
Irishman, newly Daturali1led, and
Boston or South Carolina gentleman,
than between a Southern and his oc-
toroon offspring. Something like the
third argument we have encountered
before in the sermons of the Rev. Pc
troleum V. Nasby, Ii the daughters
of good Democrats find negro who
can vote perfectly irresistible, aud a
negro who can't vote utterly loathsome
and abominable, they must bo differently
organized from other girls, and quite
unlike any young ladies whom We ever
met. To the last reason OF all we might
object that the sequence Of the conclu-
sion from the premises is not clear but
we might also demur to the proposition
that every ordinary white man is fit to
be a Judge or a general. We have
tried several very ordinary white men
in both capacities, and have found them
conspicuous failures. We are not with
out serious misgivings that Mr. Mutually
himself is not exactly Kent Or a Mar
shall, and that had Mr.. NJ II. Duckworth
commanded the Army Of the Potomac,
Richmond would never have been
taken
For sweeping and audacious asser-
tions we never met with anybody equal
to this committee in the whole course
Of our lives. Here are specimens OF
their impudenee: The educated negro,
whenever he gets chance, relapses
instantly into his original African bar
barism. He "cannot be included in tho
same government with white men,
without violating the laws of nature.
He never has comprehended, and never
can comprehend, the principles of civil
and religious liberty, Unless govern
ment can confer powers OF mind upon
him it can do nothing for him whatever.
There must be one law tor women, and
another law for men, one law for blacks,
and another law for whites.
We are not very fond Of comic reso-
lutions of Congress, but after reading
the views of the States Rights Society
we are half tempted to approve Mr.
Broomalrs proposition for the appoint
ment of a standing committee of Po.
litical Ethnology, to take cognizance of
all matters pertaining to the origin,
differences, and political rights of the
various races of Amorica.-New York
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