Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1868-07-17

Sl' 'litStioHS' JiC 10 II botEfs III
sufficient To ca mnaud respect The polit-
ical parties, under Il necessity to win TIE
voters favor. quit calling each other Abo-
litonists and only strive to convince the
black man of the interest they always took
in his welfare. Negroes make good Dem.
oc attic delegates in Tennessee. and the
party (thcugh beaten) was very proud Of +
few thousand black votes obtained in tie
recent Georgia elections. Great is the
black man in the eyes of the Democrat in
Georgia and Tennessee, when found in the
ranks of his party.
TRUTH TO PROGRESS.
We are to advance to newer and better
issues. A true Democratic party will al
ways be respected in the eyes of the lovers
of the people, because the lovers of the
people reverence God, the Father of the
peopIe-that God who makes no distinction
between them. When they come to Hi.
heaven. redeemed by the blood of His Son.
who died for all, it will not matter whether
they were white or black. or to what race
they belonged. They will be good enough
for God.
UNCONDITIONAL UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.
his Government of ours has held out
to the world the principles of the Drclara-
ton of independence. that all men are
po,n free and equal. But you know how
fashionable 1t had become. in latter times,
to say this b.thright belonged only to
white men. 1t was even fashionable i'll
some places to read it ..all wlite men,
etc. But our father meant by it all men.
In Eu;ope it is all men horn of certain
tamilics that have the right to freedom
ana equality. For the Engtishman it is
the tluecn who derives her right from God
to govern the nation. and transmits it 20
her children next to her it is the mobiles
next to the MOBILES, some fellow who has
made Il fortune selling soap and tar (laugh
ter. and who is oily ambitious (ike Ed
mund About's Frenchman) to marry his
work for 400 years. The Idea is held there
that the mass of mankind are 700 igno
rant to enjoy the right of suffrage. But
the true American idea is that suffrage
is not the due of intelligence. not the due
of race, Of wealth, &c, but. knowing no
practical test by which we Can conne it
to the Nirtuous and intelligent dleEc, that
i. is the due of all the people.
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Inc masses oi hianR.''d are what Wisn'
oe ca'lta ignorant; they nave n" 'oo"k
'a'h'''' shey nave not "eeh 10 co,ieSe,
great many cannot read and write but the
MASSES OF mankind, however ignorant,
love their country. work iorit, fight for IT,
die for it. They are as true to-day as the
inteli'oent portions "i community, Intel
'.sthce alone Is hot suihc,eiit security ios
The person mat casts the ballot. i-"ciief
was li"t wanting III fh'eiliSehce he was
,ht brightest oi the sons ni uoi' ana he re-
'eiira' J'H. DAVIS ana Afeck'iifitst were
hot wanting III ih'tii1srncc' ana tl'' com :,
'"''t'" ''c"s' II 'S''hs. ,heit co"i't'l IN"
"sa1''s' ti''hhlhu' nose i'iihsS which
VII, govern nest IN ever! laha a'e virtue
which you can secure them unless YOU let
crime shov me how vou will vet MI tlr
yirtu. and intelligence wjthout ,mbraciug
all the pco,lc. and will ciye mn my riyht
to vote. If it were left to the i,jrrs oI
elections Ia saw vho is yirtuo,s and intel
lig,u,, they would declare that all were
not 50 who did not vote their ticket. He
that loves his cuuntrv. how.vcr :rnorout.
will find out how TO vote rirIt. If he
makes mistake to lov, he wui correct it
TO morrow. IN saw that where couolity
prevails virtue and Intelligence will be less
powcrful than vice and irnnraucr. is 70 say
have uo iai,h in God, and to forget that
God and the race u.v.r di. th,, II. ON
p,ovs me, sinnlv tn worl, ont his d.sirns
consciously or unconsciouslv. WILLINGLY or
unNiliin.iv. II forrets. too. that vice has
no powcr,cyccpt it wears the mask Of yir,ue.
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