Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-04-25
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From the Highiana News.l VI
"Thc Highland News, the. Republican,
organ of Hlgliaiid County, does not take
to the negrC m n;ranchising.l
and white man DISTINGUISHING amend
mcnt. Ii recites the circumstances at
tcndingits passage, and thep directs at
tcn,ion 10 The amendment, which it
publishes as an advetisenient, without
com hitting itself I'm flvo: of it. There
a.c Il great many Republicans yet in the
Republican ranks VINO are not yet ready
to commit themselves III favor of this
Amcn,iment."- -lcoiumbus statesman.
The Statesman entirely mistakes our
position lift thinks tliatwe nfo opposed \
to the Constitutional Amepdment. On
the contrary we lfstimc1y declared our
SC ,ves in favor % adm ltting colorcd men
to tn ; right Of suffrage some weeks be-
fore the Suffrage Amendment passed
the Senate. We did, however, consider
the suomission OF the question 70 the
people AT this time al premature, and
iikely to- cause defeat. Ne know that
many other Union men took the same
view of the matter, including n consider
able number of the members ofthc Leg
slature in both branches, who for that
reason at first voted against the Amend
! ment, though ADMITTING the Justice OF
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that there were some good and reliable
men in the Union rauks who had not
yet got the better OF their prciudices
against the colored man, and needed II
"a little more time TO prepare them to net
calmly aIA disp lssionatelyon the qucs-
ton. They were little timid afraid
that their "Deinocratic' ncighlOlS would
make faces at them and call ithom
"WOolly Hca:ls!" and charge them with
"A
to "nigger', husbands, and all that sort
of slang, whercwith the Va.landigham
party has been wont to flighten week
knecd Repubicans-all this doubtless
made some Union men hesitate to admit
that II negro Is man, and entitled to
the rights of man. tis declared in the
great charter OF American Independence:
awe hold these truthSto be self-evident I:
that aH men were created equut,n &c.
, But in the mysterious and wse provi-
tdence ofGod, who often "lcads His peO-
pie by paths that they know not" while
this Suffrage question has been under
: consideration in the Legislature a new
, and wonderful light has sprungup "untt
them which sat in dark kness,' and is H.
Illuminating our pathway like the "pillni
= of fircp whicliled the hosts Of lsrac
: through the wilderness. The Democrdt
r ic party IN the ,SOuth has miraculously
discovered that the negro 10 u man :
They made this marvellous discovery
C (singular to relate y Immediately dJt"I
y Congress gave the negro U0te--a mos
= remarkable illustration of the cause ant
2 effect And wlat do we see, rs the nat
ural and intv tal result of this move
&c state of things?, 'iliie leading Southern
e Democrats LeWOcrttts, mark you, Mr.
n Statesman, and our intensely negro-ha
- ting neighbor of the Hillsboro Gazette
- are actually making speeches to th
Il ''niGgers!" asking them for their votes
s. pralsing them for their Industry and Ia
# teitiGencc, and never once reminding
;, them that they have black skins, thicl
u lips, fat ncscs and kinky hai:! "Crcda
r Jptoidus! tN. tt}
,r Now what effect will all this have UP
. on the Northern Democracy? Do we no
" know that the loves of David and Jon
IL athan, Of Damon aud Pythias, Were bu
l. tame and commonplace affairs com
n pared with the sympathy existing be
"a tween the Northern and Southern De
~ mocricy? Were they not accustomed t
T. partake of Uncle Samueis pap with tn
to same spoon, in the good old days of pro
70 slavery ascendency before the war? An
-, when the Southern branch of the flrr
;" waXed fat and kicked over the platter
did not Judge Thurman, NallanNghai
4 Co., OF tile Northern branch, sen
~ them greeting, In the name or the 2OO
e. O0) Democrats or Ohio and vow tina
ty save over their dead bodies" no horde
II, of"Lincoln hirelngs" should march
=, ,'coercc' their 'iSouthern brethren"'-
"U Certainly tncy ulu. ANA When was
II ever known, in short, that the SOuther
80 | non,ncr,cu ninaI and thn Northnrn II,
NJ ~ - e,S ".'.' y S''I mn, ,> r.
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