Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-10-16

Justice in the mass of the population
taking the money out Of their own pock.
cts and putting it into those of the off.
securing of Yankee land. The Office ot
Governor is worth $4,000 per annum and
each of the Congressman (Of whom there
will be seven including the Senators)
will receive about $1,000 inclusive Of
milage. We would deem it the height
of absurdity in the colored voters to be-
stow these fat Offices on the Yankee
'rapscallions' and remain themselves al
home dig5ing in the hot sun for fifteen
dollars month. And let not our color
ed people imagine that they are not quail
fled for these offices. They are said to
be American citizens, and who ever
heard of an American citizen that was
not qualified for every Office on the face
Of the earth ? For instance, why is not
our friend Colonel Cupid Brooks as we'll
qualified for a seat in Congress as any
dirty-attachee of Freedmen's Bureau,
or any ignorant teacher of Freedmen
school? For years he attended the sit
ting of Congress as the faithful and in
telligent body servant of the late Josiah
S. johnson, and is as familiar with the
rules of Parliamentary procedure and
the workings of party machinery as any
Massachusetts pedagogue dare claim to
be. Will Cupid, or those like him, throw
away the honor of a seat in Congress, or
the profits of the salary and milage, with
out struggle? Besides, We consider a
seat in Congress at this time a peculiar
enviable position to a colored man. It
is from the halls of Congress that we
hear most Of the talk about negro equal
ity, and of course the members of Con-
gress and their families are prepared to
extend to the negro representatives that
equality which they cannot hope to OBJ
tain at home. A negro representative
would be received with open arms by the
great Radical leader, Thad. Stevens, who
'reposes nightly on a black Aspasia's S
bosom, as Mr.. Randolph once said of
President of the United States. Mr..
Charles Sumner, too, who has predilec-
tons in the same direction, would hail
bis admission with the most intense de-
light. At all the social gatherings in
Radical high life at the Capital he could
not fail to be the cock of the walk
He would be the faVorite partner in the
'giddy dance Of all the prettiest and
most accomplished Radical ladies who
adoru the highest of Radical upper-ten-
dom around the city of Washington
Mrs. Sprague, for instance, the pretty
wife of the wealthy Senator from Rhode
Island, and the daughter of the Chief
Justice of the United States, whose
equality notions are well known, would
consider herself highly honored to go
through a polka with her delicate waist
encircled by the stuedy arm of the color
ed Senator from Louisiana or Missis-
sippi. Occasionally a lady might be
found who objected to such things, but
her knowledge that refusal to aeknowl-
edge the perfect equality of the colOred
man would disrupt the party, would
force her into a prudent recognition Of
all his claims Occasionally, too, the
ignorant wife Of foreign minister might
apply her wet handkerchief to his fore
head to see if the black would rub of,
as the Russian ladies did with Mr.. Ran
dOlph's man Juba but this might be
setdown as an instance of foreign ignor-
ance of our institutions and could be
laughed off as peace Of innocent pleas
antry. It will thus be seen that a col
Ored Member of Congress could shoe a
wide row, at Washington, AMI if the ne
grOes will give up all their advantages
to the Yankee white trash among them,
they will prove themselves unworthy Of
the right of citizenship which has been |
conferred upon them. Tits Republican
principle that the majority shall rule
If the newly enfranehised citizens do not
act up to it they are false to the princi-
pies of 'the best government the world |
has ever known