Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-09-11

! LlQue IulS dElLdll5u dDUub Lu6 u6kIU, !
you continue this strife, if you 90 OIL
with this war of words, becoming heated
more and more every day, the inevita
bic result will be that it will become
war of arms and an attempt to dissolYl
the Union? Did we not tell them s,
year after year, and did we not appea
to them by everything, by their low
of country, by their love for those WHIT
had achieved our independence, by theil
respect for Washington and jackson, al
lay these sectional hopes, but to remain
as their fathers had been before them
one people from Canada to the Gulf OI
Mexico? And what was the answer
that we received? ? Why, then as now,
they had their elap-trap words, and
when a man got up and spoke with the
eloquence of Patrick Henry and the pa
triOtism of Washington, and invoked
testimony of Washington, of Jackson,
of Webster, of Clay, and Of every great
man almost the country has ever prOduc-
ed, to allay this storm, this agitation
which was threatening to dissolve the
Union of these States and destroy the
Republic, when he did that, what was
the answer received from Radical speak
ers2 Why, you are Union shriekers.
Union shrieker was the slang word then,
just as COpperhead is now.
WHAT IS THE UNION?
They told us that the South could not
be taken out of the Union they ridicul-
ed our fears for the perpetuity Of the
Union; then they said it was mere cleo
tioneering clap-trap on the part of Demo-
cratic speakers that there was no truth
in it, for the South could not be kicked
out of the Union. Very well; there
erected their sectional party; they got
into power in an evil day for this coun-
try, and they pretty soon found whether
or not the South could be kicked out Of
the Union. They pretty soon found that
it cost this country a world Of. blood and
treasure; but now that this blood and
this treasure has been expended and the
South lies prostrated at our feet, these
men who insisted that the South could
not be kicked out Of the Union, have
most effectually succeeded in kicking
her out. She is kicked out this day
This is a Union where ten States are pin
ned down by the bayonet, Union where
the negro is placed above the white man,
to rule over him; a Union where the
white man is disfranchised and the
stupidest, most ignorant and degraded
negro that ever trOd our soil IS elevated
over the intelligence, the education, the
wisdom and the virtue of the country
That is a pretty Union. They call
themselves Union-savers-GOd save the
mark l-Union-savers, indeed They
have Union between Northern Radicals
and Southern negroes, to rule the white
men of the country. Call this the Union
Of George Washington, call this the
Union of Thomas Jefferson, call this the
Union of Madison, of jackson, of Web
5ter, or of Clay! Why, it is to profane
those great names; it is blasphemy
against them to call this such a Union
IS theirs. No this is the Union of the
Phillips, the Fred Douglass |
5he Benz. F. Wades, the Charles Sum
lers, and the vilest and most ignorant
upon the face of this continent. |
That is the Union held together by the /.
1ayonet and enforced by setting aside !
Ill civil governments, and placing the |
leel of military power upon more than !
)ne third of the Republic.
NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
In conclusion, what I have to say must
be very brief. Itis a very
black subject, this question of negro |
suffrage. There are some things that
ire so plain that any attempt to illustrate |.
hem by argument only seems to make |
oggy what before was perfectly clear, |
nd, to my mind, this is exactly that /
-ery thing. What is this proposition |
# negro suffrage? It is nothing more
II less than this, to subjugate ten States
f this Union to the absolute control Of
he negro race, for, as far as I have seen,
n every State in the South, under this
egistration device, there have been more
egroes registered than white men. The
yhite men are disfranchised, and the ne
Toes are set to rule over them, and,
therefore,, this is a proposition to sur
ender one-third of this Republic that is
he work of the white mems hands and
he white mans brains. This country. /
hat was discovered by white men. built
p by white men, whose holy religion
as been propagated by white men, that
his white race shall all at once surren-
er its inheritance for less than a mess ofI
ottage, and put over it 100000 Of the
lost ignorant Of the human race isn't 4
nat simply monstrous proposition, and
MS a race that never in recorded annals
as maintained a civilized government?
ivilized governments were found on this {
ointment when it was first discovered !
YeryWhere there have been civilized i
overnments among men, but never in =
le worlds history was there civilized 7
Overnment of the negro race. defy {
1y man to point me out one. The only '
tempt that we have is at Hayti, for t
don't speak of this little colony Of q
iberia, which is extremely small COM q
ared with the governments Of the world y
5hat has Hayti been? An island filed t
ith anarchy and despotism; an island
which even the blacks and muIattoes
lnnot live peaceably together, and there t
re the blacks have one endand the mu.
ttoes the other. Look at jamaica, /
,ok at Trinidad, look at any place
here the experiment has been tried, and t
hat has it been but miserable failure? C
o advance in civilization, no increase v
wealth; and shall we shut our eyes to i
! this cxperience2 But the white race, I