The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-05-09
The White Mans Government


One Of our Democratic exchanges keeps the
following paragraph at its editorial head;
81 hold that THIS Government was made on the
WHITE BASIS. by WHITE MEN, for the BRyE-
FIT of WHITE MEN and their POSTERITY for
ever. stephen a. Douglas.
That Mr.. Douglas. who has now been dead al
most six years, might, were he still living, modi-
fy this in view Of the tremendous changes in our
affairs, is not altogether improbable. 1t was said
before the rebels involved the country in the ter
rible calamities Of war; when slavery was still in
tact; when the country, for the sake Of peace,
submitted to be domiDecred over by the most vii
lainous aristOcracy that ever disgraced ciyiliza
ton. The country itself has changed in the
premises, within these six wears and Mr. Douglas
might have changed with it. We do know that
be gave his undivided support to President Lin.
coin, for the country, in the opening Of the awful
trial at arms only the beginning Of which he was
destined to see-and that he did not stand arTay-
ed as traitor against The life of the nation as did
Fallandigham then as still, the Chief Of the Ohio
Democrats.
white mans Government How did four
millions Of 'colored" peOple-one-eighth of the
whOle-get into the country? Exclusively for
white men! What are you going to do with the
blacks? Can YOU get rid Of them How! You
cannot exterminate them, except by the slow
:
Colonization Society las taken away five hundred
year does not quite fill the bill in this regard.
Would you submit patiently to be taxed heavily
to take this laUOr-thi5 wealth--Out Of the cOun.
try? And if YOU would what right have you for
cibly to remove from the land these four millions
Of people !-hark ye, people ITO the manor born.
Lave you not the same right To transport any 9th
or 4, 900 900 Of our citizens? As long as you or
abide by the laws, we have something to say in
/ of tbp of
kindred from the land Of our birth. So have thC
blacks, in regard to themselves.
The ''colored' people are here, then, here BY
right and here we must deal with them They
are free people now. They have o right t.
themselves, to their own wives and to their chill
dren; can acquire and hold prOpertv-how time;
have changed within this short period Not Ions
since the Nation was glad to call in the aid 0
black soldiers to help save itself from destruction
and they came, as in duty bound. Did they hell
70 defend a white mans Government Or haJ
they some interest--sOme right-in the Govern
ment? They came, and did not "stand upon the
order Of their coming" to the assistance of ouI
brave soldiers in the field f? Where, then, wert
| you white" Democrats? Resolving that the wal
was "a failure and doing your best to make i
So that to-day we might be looking upon thi
nation destroyed sneaking from the drafts yoJ
made necessary; discOuraging enlistments en-
tlcng your friends TO desert from the army. Ant
you claim that YOU have rights in this Govern
ment which you would have permitted to be tori
limb from limb rights superior to those of hin
who took bis life in his hands, and rushed to tn
defense OF that Government which he had know
only to oppress him!
white mans Government You, then, don
ask the black man to defend it, in war, by bis per
son; or to support it, in peace or war. by hi'
property. You do? Then shall he have no v0ict
in the laws which affect him and his?
Mo- Letus have done with this twaddle abou
the ''whitc mans Government" Il is the Gov
ernment of the people of the United Statcs-tht
Government of all Its people, native or natural
lied. white or black male or female old or young
And that any one is denied the right to influence
public affairs by the ballot-whieh is not "a nat
ura and inaienable right may be considered fO
the public good. Minors have not the right o
suffrage, by the ineyperience of their years mel
convicted Of desperate crimes against the laws
have not the right, by reason of their offtnses
and women are not enfranchised for good cause,
we suppOse-our readers can, doubtless, tell what
COior does not make a man unsafe. Or il you
come to that, who got up the late terrible rebel
lion? Whites. Who sneaked to Canada tC
avoid defending their country? Whites. WhC
threw every obstacle in the way of the "b0ys IN
blue ?" Whites Who have been killing tht
freedmen Whites. And all these are white
Democrats, too, who call themselves better thai
the negroes who stood up like men for their Gov.
ernment, yours and mine.-.Marieta Register,