The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-06-18
nov, DANIEL w. vORHEEs
ON THE RADICAL PLAT-
FORM,
EXTRACT FROM MS SPEECH DELIVERED Al
FEw Albany, IgpIASA, JUNE
llTH, 1868.

But lot us go step further, and
for the purpose Of discussing two or
three other questions, ] want 10
take up this Chicago platform
They met at Chicago q short time
ago 10 nominate their candidates. -
There was q spot here and thore
demonstrating 10 the great AmerI-
can people that, 30 far as one great
political party IL concerned, they
have broken down tho barrier that
kept tho black man from civil and
social as we'll as political equality.
The first resolution Is ~ iol.
lows:
~. Wo congratulate the country on
the assumed success Of the reconstruc.
ton policy Of Congress, as evinced by
the adoption, in majority of tho
States lately in rebellion, of constitu.
tions securing equal civil and political
rights to all and we regard il ~ the
duty Of the Government to sustain
those institutions, and to prevent the
people of such States from being ro.
mltted from a state anarchy"
Now. they congratulate country
and stats y proposition ~ totally
lalso as any proposition could pos
sibly hp made. l need only call
your attention TO tho fact that in
every one of these Southern State
constitutions seven tcnths OF tho
white people of those States arc
dlslrapchised. Every person IN
Arkansas that participated in the
slIghteat dagreo in the rebellion, ac.
cording to one clause of the constI-
ton, is rendered incapable of even
keeping q ferry or a mill, | believe,
or any of those necessary persuits
unless he can take tho test oath
aud whom they say they have exten.
dad equal civil and political rights
to, they mean simply to all negroes
not to all whito men. Cheors. /
OF course they don't mean TO all
white men, because that ia false
rwo-thirds of the people thcro are
Observation-Disclosures of thom
under those bastard constitution,
Cotton up by tho aasniR of the
Frcedmeu's Buroau. and the worth
loss negro population thero. Whom
this party comes before tho country
congratulating in that equal civil
and political rights arc extSnded 10
all III those States adopting these
negro constitutions, they state n
palPable, wIlliul and premeditntod
falsehood. Tho only escape from
IL in the world is to cay that they
didn't mean that the large body OF
white pohple down there was any
body at NIL, but that the negroes
werc all. Equal ciYlI and palbical
rights are extended to the negroes,
but whom that is said all is said,
for outside Of the little ring of no.
gro officials, gathered up Of broken.
down, degenerate sous of the North
unable IN mako nm honest living
anywhere else, eating your bread
and drlnklng your VINE ut tho pub
lie expense -aptsido Of such worth
Isss vagabonds AS they. tho whIto
people of the Sonth, as ia body, are
disfraEchIscd by the State oqnstitu.
tons now being adopted. Go to
Tennessoo-it is not so had as Ar.
kansas. it has been IN operation
there somo time and You can wit
moss it's effects. HIw many whlts
people are there stricken from DO
litical existence When Emerson
Etherldgs ran for GovopPar no gnt
about 80, 900 Votes. The other man,
Brownl0w, got about 10000 or So
900 IT was conceded that within
n small fraction Etheridgs got the
whole Of tho white vote that was
cast. especially outside Of East Ten.
hessOS. A. still more sweeping pro-
scrlptlon prevails in the Uonstitu.
tion of Arkansas.
The constitution of Louisiana is
as proscriptive AS the bloody laws
once marked out by Scylla, by Ma.
rius--marked by the great leaders
ufs victorious patty. 1t is as miss
chievOus as the resolutions of the
Jacohin club OF Frace. And yet
they come before the country IA il
they had restored a millennium OF
peace and good fellowship. By
these constitutions they have sim
ply planted negro supremacy N
these States, gwen them the poWer
to elect members Of Congress, whirh
they will speedily do, and Senators
and ! heard Mr.. Sumner say that he
hapHd soon to welcome negro Sen
ators upon that floor &c OCCUPY the
seats once occupied by CLAY, by
Sllas Wright, by Lew Wondbury,
by Webster aud by Benton. Sirs,
when you goto Washington and
slt IN the galleries and near foms
pops hame called, and C@sar's, and
Cutfee's, you will hear the negro Of
the South vote pnoR the questions
Of liberty in this land, the great
questions oftaKatioEs, of conmePc
Of finance, and of nf national pro.
gress, aud national glory. This Is
tho programme naked out by Rad.
IGalism, fastened upon these States
by viriqe Of thesO resolutions that
Colonel Thompson drafted at Chi
Oago and came down here to toll yor
that th0Y meant oil that we eoplC
desire. ! ask Of the conservalty,
men Of the Second Diatrlct, outside
ofthe Democratic party can ycu