Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-09-18

OF his low oHder OF intellect, the ques- A
ton forces itself upon us, are allWhites
so elevated intellectually that they can
be trusted. And I fear, if we we're
consistent, large number of our Demo
cratic friends would be disfranchised.
The loftiest intellect among our oppo-
nents Is engaged at this moment in
editing the rural press on their side
and, taking efforts in that line as speci-
mems Of ability, fear the polls would
be closed against the editors at an early
day. And If the leaders and teachers
have scarcely brain enough to run an
overshot country saW-mill, what are
We to say of their deluded followers
Their right to vote would be in immi-
nent jeopardy.
Testing aside, believe this law, bru-
tai cry Of white mans government
has lower origin than that. At the |
South it meant a government of the |
governing class and excluded the poor
whites, while at the North il Hefers 10
the negro, net because of his color, but
for that he has been tainted by labor.
1t was slave labor if you viii. yet it was
labor. We boast Of our Indian blood,
If We have any; we receive the Japs-
nese on an equal social footing, and
yet pour out our wrath on race quite
as good as either. Until the late war,
the South was governed by an sristo-
cracy, and its feelings If not its views, |
were reflected North 1t was as hard
on the laborer and mechanic as on the
slave. And when q man could say to
IA carpenter al don't want you, /
bought a carpenter yesterday" he in
suited the free man through the degra-
dation Of the slave.
The Democracy IS in deadly antag-
onism to this social and political order,
and when it isso changed as TO breathe
the atmosphere of slavery, it ceases to
be Democracy. We not only stulify
ourselves snd turn our backs upon the
selfgoyernment established BY the
fathers, but we cast dishonor upon the
graves Of our ancestors. We are ma
ton Of laborers and the descendants Of
slaves. A few pages bGck in history
tell US that not the rich and well-born,
but the poor and oppressed sought the
shore Of America-and few pages
more brings Us to the period when our
ancestors wore iron rings about their
necks and worked as slaves under the
scourge Of the master. 1t is TO our
honor that we come up from such deg
redation, and it Is not for US to dim
our glory as a people, by forgetting the
past and turning heartless opprsssors
now that We have miserable class N
turn to trample upo1. l la1
will not say that Democrats have
forgotten these facts, for doubt WheIh-
er they ever knew them. Their seVe-
rest term Of reproach is to call ~ ] sc-
obins, and they do not know this .re-
fers to awar between oppressor and
oppressed of thirteen centuries that
eliminated at last in a triumph OF the
oppressed, and that the victorious
Democrat Of that day was the Jacobin
so heartily abused IN this. a,sc.-
SOCIAL EQUALITY. lEl
But the cry that browns all others is
that of social equality. We are charg-
ed with an attempt to put the negroes
on footing Of social equality with the
sensitive, refined and superior Anglo
Saxon race. It is grieYous charge
Il pains Us beyond measure to think |
we should be open to such an imputa- !
ton. Our principle difficulty is to
know precisely what is meant. The !
laws governing social intercourse are 4
self enacted, and lie outside any other
ciate and companion il I find such
other agreeable, and in turn am subject
to the same influence. All that be it
enacted, ever crowded into statute
book could not force Mrs. Jones to call
on and associate with Mrs. Muggins
unless Mrs. Jones Wss so disposed, and
then she has to get the consent of Mrs,
MuEgins. Old Hickory who made all
obstacles bend before him. broke down
ignominiously when he attempted to
force q certain lady on the social rec
ognition of the families of his cabinet.
And Louis Napoleon at the head of
the heaviest despotism in Europe,
backed up BY million of bayonetst
cannot make the old Ro6leeSe Of France
associate with him and yet we are
told that if our Consultation is so gmen-
ded as TO admit negroes to to the polls, l
we will be forced to eat with negroes,
work with negroes and sleep with ne
groes. In word that political equality.
How absurd. ef -Erl1.f I
Let me give you q familiar example, I
Mr.. George ii. Pendleton IS a gentle
man of high social culture and refine
ment. He has arrived at the proud
eminence Of being considered the one
gentleman IN the Democratic party
Well, learn from the press that he
resides in 8 palace, called the Bowler
and Is surrounded by all the
of modern socialre6nement. !
Nov, when Mr.. Pendleton gives an en-
does he, like the man, in I
the parable, 90 out into the highways
and bywsys Of the 18th ward and fetch q
in the Irish patriotic citizens he proba- c
bly, addressed the day beforel Certain 4
" not. Ny friend George, and l am 7
proud to call him my friend, would be I
Justly sstonished were tha ragged pad
iy-whack voters, his political equals, Z
to invade his lawn and pour in at his
door to claim a social recognition. Ny
honorable friend Wou1 probably call
in the police and forcibly eject the
Irish equality. .ss
We are told that if we repeal a GER Z
tsin constitutional law the negroes
will associate with as. Let US look st I
this for 8 moment. Il means that nm
less restrained by law the negroes will
associate with us. Not that we will
with the negroes. We are =
he superior race, and hold the van :,
age ground we need no law to res
rain US. The cry means this. if it Z
means anything. Well, when it comes y
% that, want each fellow TO speak for '
himself. We of the Union organization "
Ihield ourselves under the law of God =
hat makes the distinction between the :
aces, and are so well educated and re-
ined, we feel in no danger, and ask :
or no statuary protection. If-our =
democratic brethren ever. find them L
elves differently situated, and feel :
hat they are in danger of negroes as I
with them; why we will pass :,
law prohibiting negroes under heavy =,
to so encroach on the poor y
democrats. believe this fear to be ~
cal. 1t has been working on our :.
riends for years. | am told that in = =
our town appears in every democratic -
waving about the heads of -
wagon load of girls which reads :. !.
Our fathers will protect US from negro =
Now this means that If :;
be negroes are permitted to vote they =
Till go about marrying all the little :"
emocratic girls in he country This q,
Tould be q terrible state of affairs and -