The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-09-17

powerful and the ,arE ,9sg the right 70
asI assurnp option Is dishonorfng to God, and
shows th-it the man who makes IL, II he
an Inferior speclnnsn 81 cthAt raceN II
one man, or one race of men, is in
ferior to or weaker than another, instead
of this being reason for denying them
equal rights and equal protection, tits con-
elusive In favor of equal rights and equal
protection. AS the whole have no need OF
a physician, but they that are sick. so The
strong and the powerful have less need of
ss q e. 6an nsy e2a
necessary to the enjoyment of an equality
of rights as between different RACES, why
does not the same rule apply as between
According TO Mr.. Pendist6n, there must be
an equality of bone in order TO an equality
of rights.
The country has of late years become
Mr. Fsndiet5n is assafetSis the father of
osseous or bony Democracy. II political
lures of men. how important, is 1t not,
that ons dnspectors 2a nsieeaonS should
there be such an olOgy.
This t,,eory of Mr. Pendleton is one of
the most ingenious devices ever in vented
n1oeraey IN the opprslsiSn 81 menYT q =
II one man or one race of men desire to
Cypress, or even enslave another, all they
have 10 do to Justify the oppression or en-
slavement is to- snow thai the proposed
victims are deficient in taste, or not bony
enough or too 6opy. or, according tc Gem
eraf Morgan, unable to write poetry. Nor
gan says tile . darkies " can not write poe
try. v hat pity!
TO the dogma that there can be no such
rights. there must be adred the discovery
that there can be no equality ofrtghts as be-
of an equality of bones and poetic genius.
dss 70 soIorsa S SSns Hse sa fas
whatever Mr.. Pendleton has asserted or
NAV assert to the contrary, history will re-
cord the fact that during the rebellion
they proved their possession of one kind
81 1Sas Malp party d1nins shf
mean, of course, backbone" The col
ored men showed their possession of it by
fighting foI the Unfonand les govern ment;
the Democratic party as organized in the
North showed their want of IL by spea X.
Ing, riung and resolving In favor OF the
who were en- tagged in its prosecution, but
week 70 carry IL 70 the from by Inc sidesof
the fighting Democrats OF the South.
Mr.. Vallandi CHAM says that If the white
race have InajorItyinf any country they
have right to exclude the negro race from.
voting. This Is a mere assertion. aud is
den,ai But sSposs IS
granted does II no; 10, follow that he con
Iy, that il the col9fed men have majority
in any country they have right to ex-
rule would operate with greists severity ON
Mr.. Vallandigham's Democratic friends In
South Carolina. it would be worse than
Congressional enactmenfsl ftt
But, MIR. Valiandigham, gushing with
that chivalrous magnaptmity which Is al
says that he IL In favorof negro suffrage IN
Africa. There" saws he, lit l. right and
RRf is own and II h fe ng Io
eclipse America in civilization and pros
perity," think hear some native
to Mr.. Vallandigham by saying: /" am in
favor of rebel suffrage and rebel equality .
In Canada, but not In Ohio. andI propose
that you and all other men of tie rebel
race go to Canada or to the C 'untries from
which your ancestors came for the enjoy
ment of equal rights. The colored man,
c cGin M as Is Mr. Vaiand ham nnd has
just as much right to say to Mr.. Vallandig-
ham; go to your own country, as MIR; Val
has TO invite him TO similar
entertain ment.
But, we are told by tyranny. dressed in
mans government, and. therefore, equal
rights TO any who are not white are not
If ours is exclusively "A white
mans government what right has ii to
govern men, who are not white If IL be in
deed true that governments derive their
just powers from the consent of the gov
ment why does il tax men OF other cofors,
and require them to perform military SER
vice. and sustain every bnnderl that Is nm
Rff ~ she DAYS sReS31fan wen
colored men fought with their white
freemen, black and white, were permitted
TO vote in every one of the old thirteen
states. except south Carolina DIG ~ be
of the United States was
formed aud the word S,ytliteg.e fefnEy
white mas government when color
War 81 si3S.f ana nd When Hi filat e grand
calling lbem his s5s BIZ
itebecotne. aSwhife bpEsns goSefnnnent
when two hundred thousand colored men,
standard ofthefr cohntfyc in the late re-
Sel1ea az men be RI 1TS hgndafd
digham Democratic race, who sent their
greetings from Ohio TO their Southern
brethren informing them that there could
be SS s1s,e 10 sss g8ne
ca 90 find BLACK men mean enough to
enable him to institute com parison- that
would be favorable to the white rebel De-
mocracy of OHIO, and If we may believe
him, he fQapd some eoiorea men in these
countries that answered the purpose for
which this voyage of discovery was under
taken. 1t must. however, be gratifying to
the colored OhiOans and their white
re e q sd = JudgSTss rrneIAdo NJ zres
United States a colored community that
was not more loyal and better Instructed
In the duties of American citizenship, and
therefore better Qpalided for self-govern-
ment thar, was the organjzed Democracy
of Ohio during the la e rebellion.
When and here did the colored man
ever send to rebels, ready to commence
war on the country, sucn a greeting as
tnat sent by the Ohio OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ton of january q, 1861 ? 1t reads as fol-
lows:
" ResoLved, That two hundred thousand
Democrats of Ohio send to the people OF
the United States, both North and south,
greeting And when the people oftheN orth
shall have fulfilled their duties to the Con-
stitution and the South then, and not till
no tn take