The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-09-24

with ours, and for that reason thereioushl
ilte be no attempt to raise the negro t.
political orcivil equality. ~ e
i OPPOSING ARGUMENTS. R.S taI
4 Let us look for a. moment at the 'argu.
/ ments adduced on the other side. Whal
lare they? Judge Thurman has referred
!. to three Of the most prominent, Cooper
head aButternut, Traitor, p Or what's
'fabout the same thing, Thurman, Pendlei
I ton, Vallahdigham. Another argurnen
lis contained in a singis word now ffe
|, Equently heard. You know the fondnesl
of the Republicans for the clap-trap logi,
of single word. They have a wonder
full liking for that sweet scented synonym
jof all infamy, the word ssloyaltys"f On
that word they carried on gigantic war
Jconscripted . million Of soldiers, FLIED
1.-The land with widows and the fatherless
lsrewed your streets and your highway,
with wrecks Of crippled men hid away tht
bones of half o million Of your. best ant
dearest in the churchyar anc
Ieome In the nameless gfaEes Of the fal
laway South. Under the guise Of loyalty
1.-The Consultation is trampled under foot
By pretense of loyalty the Union is per
imanently dissolved, as far as the party II
Ipower can dissolve it. Ten States of ths
Union tried to get out, but did not sue
tceed and they are. now held as military
tsatrapies. Under the gulse Of ieyalt3
There has been an amount Of public cor.
Eruption and public larceny the like oi
(which was never conceived in any Other
lcountry under the sun. And as under
THAT word they have accomplished SC
much OF, evil, now under another word
they work another wrong, and invest the
negro with political power. They have
gilded the pill, they have concealed its
|repuisiye qualities, they have disguised
itsaodious nature and the coatingi is "asar
hood suffrage. Z / see before me q vene-
trable man whose scant and hoary locks
proclaim the voter Of sixty years Fol
three score years he has been WELDING
tthesovereignty of the ballot. Hisipolit
Eical acts have been the dictate of the bal
lot His political acts have been the die
tate of intelligence Information, expe-
lrience and common sense have influenced
lhis,votes, but wheneyerhe has deposited
1.-The ballot which, forgood or i'll, has ef
Efected his country, the act has not stirree
La ripple in the philanthropy of the coun-
TRY, because it was simply, unadllterated
suffrage. Now that the African is called
Ito the polls and the imbecile creature
whose skull is thickened BY centuries o.
his races degradations proceeds to 'syots
with his friends, the entire sloyalty" and
progress and humanity Of the land il
I.meyed to its lowest depths and the pro
/ Idigions achievement is pompously styled
ssaanhood suffrage. Loud applause,
/ As Carlyle pointedly observes, yor
might as well talk about doghood suf
Efrage, Applause. or oxbood suffrage, ol
.Ehorsehood suffrage, or asshood suffrage
/ applause, as to pirate about manhood
suffrage, especially when 1t enfranchises
the worst and lowest Of your black men
I and excludes the best and pulest of YOU
iIwhite women. just here will tell yor
what Bingham says. ! see BY enc ol
your transparencies that you understand
1Joe ,Holts agency in the butchery Q,
4 Mrs. Surratt, but Holt is not the only
man who helped to. murder Innocence ane
fape and HELPLESS womanhood in the per
] son of that unfortunate lady. Bingham
I.has chosen to speak Of Vallandigham al
ltsticking out his neck like crane ans
,Lgibbering like ghost : Let me tell hin
THAT ii. it not the ghost Of Vallandighan
which ,disturbs his serenity. Yallandig
ham ;s alive and able in the flesh to. We,
his foes Auplause. 1T is the ayene
/ inr spirit. of that unhappy woman Whicf
aits before his vision atnoo nday !, and glare,
| across the medi.ations Of his guilty con
science at midnight. It is the ghost 0
his victim that dogs his footsteps, mock
ing, threatening, tormsntlng ana drlyins
him to the doom q the spleioe; e9,; Ap
4 plause'l j says tais cHeis eounsenof o.
limurderous Gems splraey stle negro Is u.s.
as ftto vote as the 81 fali end OF q wheel
4 barrow, meaning thereby the hard work
ling lrlshmaIl- Has ne not read the MS
tory OF the Emerald llslef Knows n
nothing OF her statesmen, her scholars
land her warrlorsf has ne never nearf a9E;
of her orators, carrying muitltudes cap
tive with the reslstiess poweraoi natly' lat Y
IeloquenceA VI nef poets, tnriiling hs
heart OF humanity with tneir + songs ss'!g l ane
llmmortalIzlng the iand oi their pIrte aot
the race from which they sprung Mus IS
the great and the gifted and and the good 3,
thus insulted by Ignorance or malice malice.
will dismiss sll tins unmaniy rsvller q &c