The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20
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DEMOCRACY VS.. NEGRO.

NtSiO ~ ~. CIttulco DOll ANOlti anu
South now seems to engage the atten-
ton Of pseudo Republicans throughout
the lind. Its argued that necessarily
the idea Of giving him equal political
rights must be deferred or the party
that liberated him and saved the Union
must perish. No elaborate reasoning
is required to confront such argument.
We have asserted and still maintain
that the cry of reaction is not war
ranted because of the temporary sue
cess Of our alversarics. There is
nothing to prove it. No amount of
figuring will wipe out the fact that the
rccnt elections were allowed to go by
v.iult by our stNy-at-home voters,
partly as q rebuke to our leaders, part
" from a division on local issues and
more especially to secure their own
= nominee for the Presidency in '6S.
Tie negro is Danocratic st ock-in-
trade and has been fer years. Unwil-
iingiv ne was dhareel into the contest
and, a ia p-'s Weekly truly remarks,
the Dcmooracy cXpends its force and
eloquence in defaming him. That
journal is equally true in its asser-
ton, that Democracy's highest strain
is that this is white mans govern
ment, which is true as a matter Of fact,
since of thirty millions of people only
four are colored. But it is wholly un-
true as an argument for the exclusion
Of colored men from suffrage, for
there has never been time in the
history of the country when they have
not voted in some of the States. By
incessant denunciations of "nigger
equality" as well as by the most con-
tcmptible falschoods, the Democratic
party tries to inAame the hostility of
race. While in the city of New York
and elsewhere in the North there is
no degree of b2stiality into which a
white human being can sink so low
that lie is A.. 5,ili a good enough
voter and an Intelligent fellow-citizcn
yet the colored man everywhere is of
necessity of an inferior race, semi-civi-
lized, a barbarian, ignorant and de-
graded. The staple Of Democratic
speeches is ridicule of the negro, or a
solemn effort to prove his total inca
pacity for intelligent citizenship. Now
we a. for a single evidence of that in
capacity as a class which is not equally
true Of the foreign-born voters of the
city of New York as a class. And we
ask any nln who wishes the speedy
ratarn o. pace and prosperity to the
COUNT whether he trusts the states
mon5hip Ola party which systematic
ally cXaitc5 hostility between the
Irish-born and the colored population.
1t is the old tactics of the sIaveholding
olirarchv which always iostercl the
mutual jealousy of the poor whites
and thc slaves.
The Democratic party claims to be
peculiarly conservative. Conservative
ofwhat ? OF the great principles Of
liberty, of equality before the laws, OF
ofcqunl dcfcnscs ofrights, of govern
mcnts q all the people? BY no means.
lis merely conservative Of the tradi-
tions Of caste and slavery, which the
country has outgrown; of class su-
prcmacy, Of class legislation, of un-
equal laws, ofgovernments from which
half Of the people IRE arbitrarily cy-
o,uded. OF what is the Democratic
part conservative Is it of the Con-
stitution One of its chief candidates
foy the Presidency, Mr.. Horatio Scy-
mour, attacks the Senate as ,mjustly
constituted Is it of the national good
faith and fame Z? The other of its
Presidential candidates, Mr.. Pendle-
ton, demands reputation. 1t will
not be denied that the most intelligent
And highly civilized parts of the coun-
try are politically Republican ; and
the most ignorant sections Democratic
In the city of New York it can not be
disputed that the parts which are tho
least enlightened give the heavies
Democratic majoritios. Now is igno.
rance truly conservative? Docs any
body who is competent to pronounce
suppose that the political majority II
the city of New York represents a.
real a conservatism as the majority il
the State of Iowa or Massachusetts?
We repeat that the policy of tn,
Democratic party in the present situa
ton, of the country is founded upor
bitter hostility to part of the popu
lation, and upon disregard of the prin
ciples ofthn Constitution andof publ,
honor. 1t is conservative in no othe
sense whatever than that of the olt