Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1867-08-02

In the Stait Nv kentucky,) :
July H. }
I, casiin my eye curelessly over the
politikle field, which Seward aud me. do
evcry sixty days, think | Kin spy into
tho horizon bud which is swelling TO a
most hopeful flower. Ii is spredin itself
into hurricane, which threatens 20 sweep
away the fabric Nv Ablishinism aud purify
the politikle atmosphere. The Radiklc
party have bin at last forced to adopt the
legitimit endin NV their sooicidle princi.
Piles, niger suffrage, and from that the
Dimokrisy, eli they are wise, will snatch a
triumph litrally from the jaws Nv death.
We hev em now. In Ohio that question
is TO be voted onto this fall; in Moo York
and Michigan its raisin breeze in ther
Convenshuns; and in Pennsylvania, Hi.
noy aud Indiana it cant be long put off:
It's our best holt. The proud Csucashun
vich votes the Dimecratic ticket hez no
objeckshun to bein josslcd by tho Niger
ia the rush TO pay taxes, but his hawty
soul recois at the idee NV bein elbowed by
him ut the polls. Besides the Dimecratic
voters ion't want the ballot given to any
other lower class. Ii wood make undoo
competishen. Ez | remarked we've got
em. Wat the Demokrisy want now is to
so handle this delikit subjick ez to make
the most NV il.
The great trouble with the party is that
there is no uniform style NV meetin this
question. On the main question We are
all agreed. We all oppose niger suffrage.
Its part and parcel Nv Dmokrat's
nacher to oppose niger suffrage. The
leaders Nv the party opposed il at the
abused by their followers they trembled
for the Republic ef it wuz entrusted to the
hands NV any more Nv ekal capassity. and
the masses NV the organization opposed
givin il to the niger, becoz that one
privilege, and coior, wuz all that disting-
uisbed EN-. Its a pccoolyarity Nv unre.
generated human nacher that it must allus
bear down on somebody. The poet sez:
"Even the lice hev smaller ones to bite en-
And the still smaller ones, ad infaitum."
Fortunately the Dimokracy hev the
nigger for their smaller lee The sturdy
yeomanry felt it TO be soothiD thing to
find, wunst each yeer. that in wun thing.
at least, he was sooperior to sumboddy,
and SO it will be SO long ez there is a
Dimokracy. The troo Dimokrat promotes
his self, not by lifIin hisself above the
level onto which he finds hisself, but by
shoven some wun down to a lower level,
and ez there wuzn't any body else on this
continent which they Good git hold NV,
the niger wus, long ago, selected fur that
purpose.
The great trouble is, we oppose niger
suffrage now from too many standplnis
Some oppose it on the skore NV the infsri-
ority Nv the Afrikin. but that never wu7
a popular idea with our people. They
may hev assented to it out-wardly, but ia
their own minds they objected. "Ef,'
says reliable Dimokrat 10 hisself, sc
that's the rule, WAT ~ THUNDER Is TO BE
COME wv ME?"
Likewise the idea NV onftness, wicE
others Nv our apossels advance. The,
cant read nor ritel" shreeks inioodishu
cuss, speekin to audience two thirds "
wich 60 to him reglerly to reed thcr ballot
to EN-, and who, when they sign prommis
sorry notes, put au y atween ther first an,
last names.
Another speekcr quotes Noah to EN-
and boldly asserts that the niger is tn,
descendant Nv Ham and that he is th,
identicle indivijje wich wuz Gust by Noah
but he runs agin the fact that the rest u
em, which is in Afrika yet, hev manage,
to dodge the cuss, ez they amt servil
ther white brethern, and them wich wu
brot here to be chrischinized hev buste,
ther bonds, and are jest about ez free, 5,
far ez servitood goes, ez anybody.