The Van Buren press., 1867-11-15
Humiliation.


citement Of contest has passed away.
Reason may again be invoked, and with
il comes shame" In the heat OF
political campaign men often forget de-
cency, honesty, honor and all the virtues
merely for the purpose of accomplishing
disgrsceful result The people of Craw-
ford have gone through the first act in
the disgusting drama of Negro suprem-
acy. They have seen the former slave,
barely above the brute in intelligence,
control the ballot box Of the county.
Manipulated by those who claim to be of
the white race for their own advance
ment, they have been found strong enough
TO rule the people Of the county, once
proud of being the home of white men.
The most disgraceful feature Of this affair,
is the fact alarming in its character, that
white men, men with mothers, wives and
sisters, have even feared to enter their
solemn protest at the ballot-box against
the loathsome doctrine ofnegro equality.
Are they prepared TO permit the insolence
of the negro In power? They have, by
their action, declared themselves AFRAID
to even protest against dominant " cufiie.
Well do such men deserve the fate that
they would, with cowardly cringing fear,
permit, aye, invite. 1t behooves all who
have any pride Of race left, to be active
and try to undo the evil, quietly submit
ted to by the men whose knees smite to-
gether at the base name of that bugbear
confscation" These moral towards
cannot be depended on, They must be
counted among those who equalize them
selves with the negro and not of those
who with manly fidelity to their white
blood, stand up and protest loudly
against the Sodomizing of the South.
Miscegenation cannot prevail in the
South. She shall not be made Go
morrah. God may, in his wrath, destroy
those who are guilty, but there will be
many Lot found who can pass out un-
scathed. it becomes a question to be
considered among those who still main
tain their superiority to the negro,
whether they can, in justice to themselves
and their families, longer treat those who
associate themselves with negroes, as So
cial equals. If we are not prepared .!:e to
negro, how can we, consistently do SO
with those who are the avowed equals to
the negro. If any difference could be
made, it would in reason be in favor OF
the negro, for he is not to blame for the
sphere God has assigned him. The
white man, endowed by the Almighty
with high aspirations, whose nature it is
to continually seek something higher and
nobler, who will so prostitute himself as
to equalize himself with those who bear
the marks of GODS disfavor, is far be-
meath the negro. II has been truly said,
"A man must either be above or below
the brute" Would it not then be well
for us to say to those men, that as they
choose to make themselves no better
than negro, you may seek your asso-
ciates amongst the negroes? We do not
propose to abdicate our manhood, de
grade ourselves by association, in the
common walks Of life with the negro or
with any who avow themselves, both by
word and deed, no better than the negro
Go your ways .Miscegenate as rapidly as
you can for your day of odoriferous
luxriation will be short The Democracy
Of the North, who are not scared away
from their rights a. free men, are awake,
ming. A terrible vengeance is coming
for the hybrid party, whose leader is old
Thad. and who is the only man sufficient
" honest in his theoretical views to car
~ them into practice; he lives with a
negress and wont be buried anywhere ex-
cept among negroes. The monster who
would throttle the Republic, is fast loose
Ing his hold Men Of integrity will soon
be in the places now polluted by the mis-
cradle offspring Of party corruption. We
bid the beast" tremble, for the mark"
is upon him and all Gods people know
him. Even Boston. the home of Sum.
ner, felt the trembling of the rotten TEN.
pie and fed from its crumblng walls and
takes refuge in the arms Of Democracy
Fifteen hundred Democratic majority in
the heart Of Massachusetts My God,
what q commentary on Crawford coun.
ty!
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