Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-09
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Pro-Negro States, !

1slimie Rro-Negro States,I 70 rod
| The National ,IntelIigencer,o of tue
18th ultimo, in q long and able leading
editorial addressed to Members of Com
Igress gives seven distinct reasons why
pro-negro States should not be admitted
I into the Union. In the Intelligencer's
logical and dlgniied manner it shows
the terrible peril Impending over the
country, and beseeches the radical fac.
ton to return to conservatism and to
reason. We append the seventh and
last argument adduced by this Journal,
as conclusively showing the danger and
absurdity Of admitting the Southern
States into the Union under the radical
scheme: ntet .sqHt1&tsgiH ,4nifpeiE
F. 2. The iwtrodwctiois Of a 7oyo.negro
State scOuld destroy the Union. ,7s 7 .
IlnCan there be a doubt aboutiit? We
do not naean to attempt to do it, but the
denomination. Would New York sit
| in the Senate equal with the negroes of
South Carolina2 Should the Uncle Ned
of Southern canbrake give the vote of
half State on a measure affecting the
hundreds of millions of government and
bank stocks in the pockets of New York
capitalists. when Senator MORGAN can
do no more? Shall the poor Hottentots
of the plantations outweigh the three
millions of that State on a question of
Regulating commerce for her great city7
Shall men without a dollar, a home, or
character, give the casting vote for a
war for which New York must pour out
her millions of money and her legions of
men, and expose TO ain enemy her IN ag-
bniicent temples of art, industry, and
opulenceao And VIII that great State be
told chat this is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
~ Again, shall a Senator, or Representa-
-
will not tolerate single vote of a single
negro for the lowest constable, but
whose representative must put them
man for man, on a plane of equality, in
his representative character, with ne
groes. in consulting for their good upon
the most momentous public questions?
MIST a negro, staggering in the sacred
privileges of a national lie gislator, boast
ON the floors of the Capitol that he has
wrought a dishonor Of the blood and a.
degradation of the race to Which all
Mort hern members belong, and, that he
has rightfnlly Impoverished and punish
ed all political opponents In his district,
while his Northern fellow member is
bound to exult in the very Opposite
principle prevailing ut his own home
Who can measure the anita gonism that
must, while the sky is blue, or man has
an emotional nature, burn and poison
and explode between such elements?
And it would matter little whether the
representatives were negroes or white
men of negro constituencies A single
dispute casually arising between such
opponents on the floors of Congress
might infiame the country from end to
end. -.sS i'i "a l'}tsttfSts NfI - @' -"s4 3,
Solemnly. sincerely, and dispassion-
ateiy, banishing all party or personal
proclivity, motive, or has, let us inplore
statesmen to press not this unnatural
scheme. Let Gs implore them to abolish
it! There is no doubt, that whatever be
the invincible reasons, the people are
opposed to 1t. The attempt must be
abandoned if peace is to be preserved.
Tfitle not with the colossal enginery of
the public win 1t will destroy you if
YOU do. 3|fsa H'11 ~ 81 FFN'