Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-04-25
3roRer b. GooDLANDEn, Editor.
EOnnI Thnnder.

The weak -kneed members of the
loyal wigwam are being sorely tor
mented by their advance pickets.
The leaders of the miscegenation per-
suasiCn are becoming honest, so far as
their theory is concerned Senator
Morton, of Indiana, in his address to
the negroes in Washington, few
days ago, said "The great example
of Congress in making universal suf-
frage the rule in all the Southern
States must now be followed in all
the Northern States" Senator Sum
ner announced the same doctrine be-
fore the Connecticut election. The
celebrated New Jersey State Senator,
James NJ. Scovel, (who figured so con
spicuously in that State while the
Rump Senate were trying to expel
from their body Mr.. Stockton, be-
cause be was Democrat } with 9th
ers, made a platform for the "Union
Republican party" and submitted 1t
to the Dead Duck for approval. But
few members Of his party in the
Legislature joined the Democrats, ard
defeated the proposition-which was
to strike the word "white" out of
their State Constitution, so as to al
low negroes the right to vote. Hear
him:
"In the New Jersey Legislature thirteen Ropub-
lcans have just been weak enough and timid
enough to vote against striking out the word
"white" from the Constitution Of this State. Most
Of these Republicans arc good men, but are what
Horace Greeley calls "timid good men" Some
Of them excuse themselves by saying that they
promised their constituents to vote against negro
suffrage. No honest Republican had a right TO
demand such a pledge from any candidate for
Office, and no member Of the Legislature had any
right to betray the righU Of man at the bchest Of
prejudice or Ignorance. We stultify ourselves
when we force negro suffrage on South Carolina,
and timidly creep away from the question in New
Jersey, by saying the time has not come for il yet
in the free States The Republican who is not
with on this question is a coward or q desorter
and, at heart, belongs to the enemy. There he
had better go. / was profoundly impressed by
the recent speeches Of Theodore Tilton and Robert
Purvis at Concert Hall with the necessity for i'm.
mediate action upon this vital question, which
very nearly concerns the future Of the Republic.
| agree with Henry Winter Davis in thinking
that If some Of the dark skinned sons Of the Re
public should got into Congress, at least they
would deserve it quite much as some Of their
ox-masters. There ought to be an immediate can
vnss in New Jersey, and in time for the October
election in Pennsylvania. Are there not many
good men who will devote heart and mind and
money to the cause, and do Il Sowf"
This New Jersey fool talks about
Hstultif ifoetionp on tho niggor quoo
tion, and claims for them the ballot
because of their intelligence O.; and
yet, this same fellow and his party,
less than ten years ago, wagcd
relentless war against all foreigners,
and held nightly sittings in hen-roosts
and pig-styes, for the purpose of dis
franchising three millions of white
people, because Of their igHoraneel
The thing that labors to enfranchise
the negro because of his intelligence,
and to disfranchise his white neigh
Dor because Of Ignorance, is both
fool and knave. Why, the fellow
can swallow qualification" as easily as
Jersey Lightning. shoddy patriotism
is an awful dose for an American
stomach to carry.
We wonder how Brother Row feels
on negro suffrage! We wonder if he,
like Scovel, thinks himself and his
family no better than negroes Re
collect Seovel intimates that "no hon
est Republican" has the right to deny
suffrage to the negroes