Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-09-04
yHE EQUALITY QUESTION.

When the black man Is harped upon
by the Democracy, the Republican
party are always accused of originating
the doctrine of negro equality. The
responsibility in this matter ~rightfully
belongs somewhere else, aud rs it is
decidedly wrong for the Republican
party to claim more than they are justly
entitled to, the matter ought to be
thoroughly ventilated at once, and facts,
concerning which there cannot be the
slightest question Of doubt, brought
before the voting people Of the country
without delay.
Let us, for q moment, go back to the
organization of the Government, and
see what the great men Of that day said
those who led the Democratic party
at the time it first became u political
institution. Commencing with Thomas
Jefferson, the father Of Democracy, we
find that he asserted ALL MEN ARE GRE
ArED EouAL. We so along n few years,
aud we behold that the negro was given
the right of suffrage in the State Of
New York by the-yes, there is no mis-
take-by the Democratic party. On
looking over the proceedings of the
Convention, we learn also that Martin
Van Buren, presided over the body and
by comparing the date on which the
Convention was held, behold, he WAS
afterwards elected President Of the
United States-by whom? The Democ-
racy, Of course.
A little further on, and We have a
more vivid picture in one Richard VI.
Johnson, n Democrat. He married a
negro woman, had mulntto children,
and-what? Now blush, Democracy
was afterwards elected by his party Vice
President of the United States with Mr..
Van Buren,. Look for q moment at the
situation. Suppose President Van Blu
rem had died. Richard NJ. Johnson
would have become President-and,
look at this, Democrats, ladies and gen.
tlemen-a negro woman would have
become mistress of the White House.
Wouldn't that have been shocking ?
Not long after this event the negro was
madc a citizen of Maine by the Demo-
cratic party. And, horrible to relate,
a similar law was enacted in the aboli-
ton State of Massachusetts, by the same
party ; and the Democratic law makers
of New Hampshire soon after did the
same thing. But the Democrats soon
discovered they were getting too fast in
New York, and q purely Democratic
Assembly, no, many years after, passed
q law permitting every colored person
owning two hundred and fifty dollars in
real estate to become q voter ; n law
which is in force in that State to-day.
Let us now turn our attention to Ohio,
where we fluid that the Democratic
party repealed the laws which required
negroes to give bonds and security be-
fore settling in that State. But that is
not all. Only q few years after a Dem
ocratic Supreme Court Of that State,
of which Reuben Wood was Chief JUS
tice, made mulattoes legal voters. The
question naturally arises, what was
done with Reuben Wood for that breach
Of Democratic trust? Why, no was
afterward elected Governor three times
by the same party that placed him on
the Supreme Bench.
Now, let us refer to somc good old
Democrat, who, though living or dead,
still shines brightly in every Democratic
heart. Ali we have found just the
personal---very. Jackson-we suppose
all our readers know him, ,.and believe
he was n good Democrat. Well, to cut
matters short, be helped to give free
negroes the right to vote in Tennessee
under her Constitution of 1906; and, if
we mistake not, he ever afterwards
passed MS a good Democrat.
Can any man Of the Democratic party,
after reading the foregoing record, I'M
blushingly say theirs is not a "negro
suffrage " and /" negro equality" party,
when there is a ghost of n chance of
making any Democratic votes? Their
course in the South conclusively shows
it; and though, like the thief, they cry
" stop thief" the loudcst, they are
after colorcd ballots, and are
doing their best, by every mean in
their power, to control the African clc-
meut in the South to servo their dis
union and dishonest purposes.
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