The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-08-22

right IN that respect upon ah lm Pe'
tisl basis with white men. All Dem
ocrats can not, even at this day, hav
forcotton the statement of Genera
jackson, that he was supported 70
the Presidency by negro voters in th
State Of Tennessee.
"Tho doctrines Of impartial suf
frage is one Of the earliest and mos
essential doctrines Of Democracy. !
Is the affirmation Of the right Of eve
ry man who is made partaker Of th
burdens oftho State to be represent
cd BY his own consent or vote in it
government. II is the frst principl,
npon which republican government
rests. II is the basis upon which In
liberties Of America will be prcserv
cd, &c they arc preserved at all. Th'
Democratic party must return IRON
its driftinsa,end stand again upon tho
immn,aD1e rock of principles.
In Ohio the leaders Of the peace
Democracy intend to carry on ono
mere campaign on the old and rotten
platform of prejudice against colored
people. They seek in this way to di-
vert attention from the record they
made during the war Of the REBEL.
ion. But the great facts of our re-
cent history are against them. The
principles Of the fathers, reason, re-.
ligion, aud the spirit Of the age, are
against them.
The plain aud monstrous inconsist-
oncy and injustice of excluding one
seventh Of our population from all
participation in a Government found.
ed on the consent Of the governed in
this land Of FREQ discussion, is simply
impossible, No such absurdity and
wrong can be permanent. Impartial
suffrage will carry tho day. No low
prejudice will long be able to induce
American citizens to deny to a weak
people their best means Of self-pro-
lection tor the urmanly reason that
they ara weak. Chief Justice Chase
expressed the true sentiment when he
said "The American nation can not
afford to do the smallest injustice to
the humblest aud fcoblost Of her chill
dreu,"
ANTAuoNIsM BETWEEN DIFFERENT
RACES DISAPPEARS UNDER EQUAL
LAWS.
Much has been said Of the antago.
nism which exists between the differ
cnt races Of men. But difference OF
religion, difference Of naiiorality, dif
ference Of language, and difference of
rank aud privileges, are quito as
fruitful causes of antagonism and
war as difference Of race. The bitter
strifes between Catholics aud Prot.
estant, between Englishmcu aud lr-
ishmou, between aristocrocy and the
masses, arc only too familiar, What
causes increase and aggravato these
antagonisms, and whnt arc the meas.
ures which diminish aud prevent
them, ought to be equally flmiliar,--
Under the partial aud unjust laws Of
tho nations of the Old World, men of
one nationality wero allowed to op.
press those of another. Men Of one
faith had rights which were denied
to men OF different faith. Men of
one rank or caste enjoyed spccial
privileges which were not granted to
men Of another. Under these sys-
TENS peace was impossible aud strife
perpetual. Butunder Just and equal
laws in tho United States, Jews
Protestauts and Catholics, English.
men and Irishmen, the former aris
tocrat and tho masses of tho people
dwell aud mingle harmoniously to-
gether. The uniform lesson of his
tory is that unjust aud partial laws
increase and create antagonism, while
justice aud equality arc the sure
foundation ofprosperity aud peace.
IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGE SECURES EDU.
TATIoN.
Impartial suffrage secures, also,
popular education, Nothing has Civ.
gu the careful observer Of events IN
the South more qualification than the
progress which is there going on in
the establishment Of schools. Tho
eolorcd people who, as slaves, were
dobarred from education, regard the
right to learn as one of the highest
privileges Of freemon, The ballot
gives them the power to secure that
privilege. All parties and all public
men in the South agree that, if color
ed men vote, ample provisions must
be made in the reorganization of ove-
ry State for free schools. Tho igno-
rance of the masses, whites as we'll as
blacks, is one of the most discourag
ing features Of Southern society. !
Congressional reconstruction sue
ceeds, there will be free schools fo
all. The colored people will SEQ tha
their children attend them, We nee,
indulge in no fears that the whit,
people will be left behind Impar,
tial suffrage, then, means popular in
telligenee, it means progress, itmoani
loyalty, il means harmony between
the North and South, and between
the whites and cOlored people.
TUE PURPOSE AND oBJIor Oh rHE IN
ION pARrY.
The Union party believes that tn,
general welfare requires that meas
ures should be adopted which viii
work great changes in tho South =
Our adversaries arc accustomed I
talk of the rebellion as an anai
which began when the rebels attack
cd Fort Sumter in 1861, and whic
ended when Lee surrendered {
Grant ia 1868 II is true that IA
attempt by force Of arms to dosiro
the United States began and eude
during the administration Of Mr.. Lin
coin. But the causes. the principle
and tho motives which produced Ii
rebellion are of an older date tina
tho generation which suffered fro
the fruit they bore, aud their inauon,
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