The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-08-30

Of thousands of these bonds-all that
TO them from the sacrifices
of their lost husbands, should re-
ceive their money, by this security
being put into the Constitution of
your country, who should complain
of it ? There is a beautiful poetic
justice in it that should meet the
hearty approval of all patriot hearts.
1t is this: When you put into the
Constitution the words THE debt of
the nation contracted in the war for
the Union shall he forever inviolate,"
YOU say to South Carolina and to
Georgia, and all the rest of the States
lately in insurrection, that they shall
exercise no political power until they
sOlemnly ratify that amendment as
part of the Constitution; and in
adopting the amendment you there
by make them declare. in the pres
ence of God and man, that they will
maintain inviolate. for the benefit of
the nation and the families of its dead
defenders, the obligations of theGov-
ernment, and year after year they
will contribute their just proportion to
the discharge of the debt. This looks
right. They should pay tribute to
the MANNED heroes of the war for the
Union, and to the orphaned children
of fathers who sleep in patriotic
graves.
TIE NEGRO AS A VOTER.
They undertake to alarm YOU with
the plea that we are about TO make
The " "nigger," to use their nOmencla-
ture, equal to white man. That is
philosophical conclusion to arrive
at They might as well undertake
TO say that men are, By law, equal 10
each other IN stature. Niggers
equal to white men," and they wind
up by saying, This is white mans
Government" What blasphemY
They might as well say this is a white
mans planet, and organize a Demo
cratic association, established for the
purpose of cribbing, and fattening,
and roasting, ami eating every hu-
man being on its surface that is not
a white man.
FBut these Democrat the elect, i
suppose, of the universe Of God, af
ter conspirlng to overthrow your
Government and mine, after conspir-
ing for four long years to annihilate
your altars, and scatter darkness and
desOlatiOn over Your hcarthstOnes.
after sending lamentatiOn and death
into the habitatlons of the public all
over this land, came creeping out of
their hiding places, and saying We
are the Democra cy, the elect of the
republic, the only men, in the Ian
gnage OF the modest Vallandigham,
who have brains, and should be en-
trusted with the administration of
public affairs. and especially upon the
ground that this is a white mans
How would that pre-
tense OF theirs have sounded in l776.
when those grand old men assembled
iii convention at Philadelphia and is
sued that new evangel to the nations
in which they declared that ''all men
are created equal, and endowed by
their Creator with the rights of life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Why, if Vallandigham had been /
there he would have stretched out /
MS neck like crane, and whispered I
like gibbering ghost in the ear of
IeiiersOn, the father of Democracy, !
e Put the word white in, so that ii :
will read, all white men are creased .
'qual,' etc About that time that .
grand old patriot, who snatched the
llghtnings from the heaven, and /.
broke the scepter of tyrants, Berja-
min Franklin, would have arisen in
his place, and in his own quiet way
inquired OF Vallandigham Pray,
'ir, how white ought man to be he
ore he has right to live 2"
It is a wh &c o~'s Go~ernmcn, is
tn Every intelligent man in the
knows that In l7TS, when
hey organized the first constitution
Il Government for the United States
If America, the first point of difficult
y between the then thirteen States
vas with South Carolina, who was
hen, as now, possessed of the devil,
he arose in her place in that Con-
-ention, and moved to insert in the
rticles of confederation the word
: white" as an essential condition OF
American citizenship. 1t was re-
ected with scorn and contempt Go,
Ook at the record, and You will find
light States, embracing three fourths
Vt the whole people of the United
'tates, voting as unit that no such
Tord should go into your COnstitu-
ion. Nine years afterward they
ramed your matchless Constitution
! Government at Philadelphia, under
ne Constitution of the United States,
nd the word white" is not IN it.
he words natural born citizen
re there, and the man is q natural =
orn fool who does not understand
hat the term natural born citizen
nplies that citizenship is birth
ight. 1t comes with the man into
ne world. He has right to citi-
enship, no matter what his complex
IN, so long as he behaves himself
ell, upon the spot where he had his
rigin; and the man who denies it is
lerely a monster. /
Men of foreign climes, by the text
{ that Constitution, are admitted to g
Il the rights and immunities of citi-
ems ofthe Republic. 1t is SO written q
the body OF it. that Congress shall
ave power to pass uniform natural
.atiOn laws. So thai Won have nat. /