The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-07-25
saslaAH 1TIFFN OHIO, THURSDAY MORNING. JULY 2S 1867

foundations Of our oonstitutional
Government, for which We fought and
suffered, wo must do this thing.
We have passed certain laws called
acts Of rcconstructiou, aud tho Dom.
ocraoy Of the North are 81 cd with
anguish at what they are plesod to
term their unconstltutionality aud
wrong. But the Democracy Of the
South, led on By such men as Long
street aud Wade Hampton, call them
peace .oferings---as they are In fact
aud beg Of Andrew johnson aud the
Democracy North TO let them alone.
do not propose to entor here upon
an argument as to the constitutional
ty Of these laws. Amer all that the
Democracy has done In the purchase
Of Louisiana, aud the acquisition Of
Texas, out of which States were croat-
cd, as We create towns, townships and |
counties, il is too late to waste our
time In such Improbable speoula-
tions. / can not consent TO follow
the ground rail Of Virginia abstrac-
ton by considering the resolutions Of
'9S, aud what they are pleased TO call
State rights, which few understand |
and none believe In. The South did
not fight for them, but treated them
with sooTn, aud asserted to the world
that she was struggling for the reoog-
milton Of her nationality, aud, failing
in that, now scorns 70 fall back on the
distractions dug from the worm-holes
Of antiquity.
What l propose TO fight now Is
something more potent than that
which appeals TO your passions and
prejudice, in the assertion that We are
Africanizing America, which will end
in war of races, ruinous TO tho poo
pie We seek to protect.
APPROXIMATION.
Ibelieve little study OF statistics
will quiet this great alarm. We have
something like four millions Of blacks
TO our thirty millions Ofwhites. Aud
while the white races arc being aug
mentcd by emigration, the black,
through Democratic social laws is
being absorbed In the superior Anglo
Saxon and Celtish families. Tho
white races do not grow darker, but
the black race grows lighter in color,
and in few years the sons OF Ham
will be lost In the sons Of Liberty, or
traced in darker complexion TO be
complimented by some fanoiful name
as obtained for the so-called deoeud-
ants Of Pocohontas, who are to be
distinguished not so much BY high
check bones as thick lips and pugnos
es.
As for tho much-dreaded war Of
races. I don't appreheud much
trouble, unless II should break out
in great violence in Hancock County.
Where the negroes most abound the
negroes are very popular. But for
the institution Of slavery, that gave
the whip to the white and the hoe to
tho negro but for the late war in
which we call the slave to our assis-
taDce the relation between white and
black would have been harmonious,
and now, that slavery is at an end,
aud the war over, IL we can adjust
their rights they will be very happy
together.
ORIGIN OF THE cHIvALRY.
The relation Of the two races South
has been Of the closest sort, aud in IL,
the one that We call the weaker has
so impressed itself upon the stronger
race, that the last changed greatly in
its national characteristics. Do you
know, my friends, where our South
ern brethren get that warm hospitali-
ty-that high, impetuous courage and
dash Of chivalry we so much admire ?
Whe are told that il comes of their
cavalier blood, enriched aud heated
by tropical sun. Well, my friends,
they have cavalier blood. but they
have no tropical sun. will not say
as many do, that the earlier colonies
Of Virginia aud Carolina were con-
vict settlements, aud, therefore, the
claim is not tenable, for they might
yet have been filled with cavaliers. /
never could find any thing in the
character Of that class which untitled
. its members for the Penitentiary; on
the contrary, / find decided quali6-
cations for that place. Nevertheless,
the earlier settlers Of the Southern
colonies we're not Of the sort claimed.
They were not desirable places of res
licences for gentlemen OF refinement
: and cultivation, and were filed up by
sturdy sons, criminal or otherwise, Of
the Anglo Saxon family, with about
as much Of the cavalier in them as in
the veriest Yankee Of New England.
l will tell you where the South got
her chivalry. From the negro and
none else. They have been born
with negroes, nursed by negroes,
played with negroes, worked aud as
Soeiated with negroes, until they
think, feel an1 speak like negroes.
: Aud from the negro they obtained
their tropical Impulses and character
iatics.
You will mark that when ono rises
above the level Of the multitude and
] becomes distinguished for great In
! tellectual traits, he seems TO 60 back
Y and take up the austere, puritn nioal
: type common. TO New England. Take,
t for example, your truest Southerners,
: John O. Calhoun, JEFF. Davis and
/ Stonewall jackson, their three re-
Q markable men--and their cold, aus
tere egotism, animated BY an indom-
D liable will, make them so like old
|. Osawatomie Brown that Il 10 diAicnlt
1 10 distinguish one from the other.
: This Is thu real Anglo-Saxon type,
9 but the great mass have been 30 col
: ored by the negro that it is difficult
Q to realize that they belong 20 the
!; same race. Their very language is
. the language Of the nsgro--snd / do
I not refer here to the "we'uns and