Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1867-05-30
Manhood Suffrage.

AS a sample Of negro intelligence, and
negro respect for the founders of the
government, DOW a mixed government of.
mixed races, once "The greatest govern
mont of all this Earth" l refer you to
Fred. Douglass, the 'Black mar with a
white hoart"-avowed champion Of rad
ioaIism. In a speech in q western city,
to au audience, ninety'nine Of q hundred
of which were white, he said
"Talk not of your Washington and
Jefferson, they are strangers to liberty;
With one hand they point to liberty,
while with the other they will reach their
long bony fingers into the cOfiu of the
slave"
White men Of Ohio, mark these words !
Washington and Jefferson strangers to
Iibertyi Fred. Douglass impeachiDg
men, about whom, his colored brain is
incapable of thinking a just thought,
because they treated black slaves better
than he teaches that white freemen
should be treated if Washington and
j Jefferson were strangers to liberty, re-
publican governments and republican
Institutions are failures; the United
Suites deserve not q place on history's
page, and the arm ? that made crimson tho
snow at Valley Forge, that fought at
Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Trenton, and
Yorktown against English tyranny and
at Chippawa and New Orleans against
English encroachments, was a .%riosous
rabble fighting without aim.
If Washington and Jefferson were
strangers to liberty, jackson alsO knew
uaught of liberty, the child Of radical
abOlitiOnism and their soldiers, whose
deeds we're nee themes Of household
praise, we're an undisciplined mob fight
ing, they knew not for what, because the
idea OF liberty never once would force
itself upon followers Of leaders to whom
it was a stranger. GO. Ght
If Washington and Jefferson we're
strangers to liberty, liberty was unknown
to the world, and aa liberty IS noU, Lbs
erty is o radical invention, a poSthumous
child Of rebellion, whose putative father,
raised = wall of murder, devastation,
dssolation, fire, poverty, starvation, hor-
rOr and blood, in States whose sunny
cline his bastard foot dared polute.
Born of such parents, liberty lives,
and where2 In five military districts,
that onoe were once ten sovereign states,
once self governed, now ruled by FIVE
shoulder-stlapped demagogueS, whose
word is law, and whose delight is tyrans
by such as Poland or Ireland pever
knew. Russian eerfs before emancipa-
ton were free when compared to men
who olce we're Greemen knowing naught
of liberty, now slaves to . mighty despo-
tism. we'll knowing that fairy goddess,
she OF liberty,
We do not intend to cause the people
to believe Washington was not q stranger
to liberty -we want simply to show lib
erty as il existsin the opinion o fpradical
rulers, and abolition rumpites Of the
present day, as taught by Fred, Douglass
their rodoubted leader and %mouthpiecc.
uTime was, but time shall be no more ,
rLiberty is, but never was before"
Such is The teachings Of the present
day. whence then cometh liberty? Ii
liberty is now and never was before, lib
erty cometh from secession, war, Davis,
Lee, Wilks Booth, Libby, AndefSODville,
Belle Isle such being the case, Ander-
sonville should be copsecrated. Wilkes
Booth and Mrs Suratt alive, and JEFF.
Davis baskiDg 10 the free sunshine Of
liberty, the South aud the acts Of the
South brought about this and she groans
beneath the iron heel of military deSpo-
Itism forced upon her by those to whom
she gave liberty, the spirit Of the North
must be the spirit Of a hyena, -vindic-
tive, malicious, bloodtbirsty, tearing the
generous hand that gave it food. p Z.
In olden times, to q a man from
death was to make him your mortal enc.
nv. the knights Of the Round Table are
no more, the helmet, visor, and breast.
olate of Milan steel now hang 10 the
halls Of the .antiquary, the spirit Of the
age of chiyalry was gone, and wise men
said forever, but it seems 10 have sprung
anew within the bosom Of the NORTH. that
is crushing Gespotically and tyranDicslly
the very people 0ho SAVED It's We and gaze
az liberty 3ar n sod I'm "a sso7.i
But hsisays with one hand they
point to liberty, and with the other they
will reach their long bouy fingers into
the coffin Of the slave.' When Wash
~ingtou and Jefferson lived, European
mowers were ~tyrannous; Asiatic powers
were worse; Central and South America
eroaned uader the deSpotic rule o fSPain
and Portugal; Oceanica and Africa were
homes for cannibalism. osgoli sGi1taa
The United States was the most irs'
government upon the Earth, yet hbere
Was not there, for Washington, HEE
father was d stranger to liberty ais o BIZ
In the timeuof Washington the burn
ing homes ofnonde proud Poland, raiset
4 q iurid light on the Eastern horizon
Russian despots stalked0 in gore, niliias,
tyrants waded 10 blood upon tho bank
cf the vistuls and "freedomishEisked a