Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-12-03
A BLACK REPUBLICAN, CON
VHNTI0N.
They Demand Suffrage and Equality

Thcy Ash the Party that Elcettd Grant
and Colfas 20 Carry out thcir Fledges
10 the Negroes - These Pledges are
suffrage aud Equality Throughout the
whole Country.
"Our colored brethren are evident
" getting in earnest. The tone Of
the following resolutions, adopted at
Harrisburg, at their late State Con-
vention, is not easily misunderstood.
The gentlemen from Africa want the
white "loilists" to quit lying to them
especially that class who were too
cowardly 10 bear their breasts to
"rebil bulllts."
"White trash," read the resolutions
and reflect whether you ever found
more impudenee in the same measure
WHEREAS, The right of suffrage is not based
upon any consideration Of complexion or race, or
any other mere differences Of ply steal appearance
aud is not instituted for the benefit Of favored
few, but is founded upon Gods eternal truth aud
justice, as it finds utterancc in the old adagc
Fright is of no color truth is of no sect God is
the Father of all who are born and reared upon
American soil regardless Of whatever race or kin
dred to which they may belong and
WHEREAS, The Republican party have given us
additional assurances from time to time Of their
determination, when once they had the power to
carry out every line Of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, and make good every promise made by
the party in the complete elevation and enlran-
chiscment of eolored men wherever they may reside
within the national domain therefore,
Resolved, By the colored men to-day in mass
convention assembled That the unlading truth
"That all men are created free and equal. and are
endowed by the Creator with certain equal and
inalienable rights is one 80 intuitiye and firmly
established in the sacred order Of things that is
not within the power Of the reasoning Of men 10
gainsay it.
Resolved That every condition Of gratitude, Of
justice, Of liberty and equality, demands that the
elective franchise shall be at once extended and
secured upon an imperishable basis to every native
born American, whether white or black. who claims
a home under the protection Of the Aag Of the Uni
ted States.
Resolved That the recent overwhelming triumph
Of the Republican party, in the election of Grant
and Collax, dispels much of our gloom, and makes
us rejoice in the hope that soon we will be wholly
made free and enfranehisedj that the only CON
ceivable difference between the Democratic party
concerned, that the Democratic party is one Of
slavery and the Republican party ono of freedom
that while the Democratic party has shown
desperate determination TO continue our ensaye-
ment, disfTanehisement and degradation, the Re
publican party have accomplished our emaneipa-
ton and have promised US enlranchisement and
eevation-that this they are bound to do in con
sonance with their plighted faith, and If, for no
higher motive, certainly in consideration Of the
support given them BY the loyal cOlOrcd element
in the South and North.
Resolved, That the blessings Of liberty are ever
the same, and that its laws are alike binding upon
the North and South that the sume consideration
which demands enfranchisement for the black man
in one portion of the country demands 1t for him
in the other; that while it is no more than Justice
as well az expedency, to extend tho right Of suf
frage to the black South, il is not only incon
sistent with the principles Of bcneyolcnce and
Christianity and contrary to the doctrines Of the
Republican party, as echoed and re-echoed on
every hilltop and valley in the land but a with
ering ingratitude TO people for valuable services
ehecrlully rendered in time Of need and totally
disregardful Of patriotic liberty loving element
in the North, majority Of whose sons and broth
ers and fathers more than once barred their bosoms
to the defiant rage of Southern tyranny an rebel
lion, and the terrible storm Of rebel shot and shell
in defence Of the eountrys Gag
Resolved That it is the'swOrn obligation Of the
standard Of popular liberty upon the sure and
lasting foundation Of Universal Suffrage, and
should Republicans falter here and again bow the
knee 10 the insolent demands Of prejudice and
prescription, decline TO discharge the binding
obligation TO 1T once make complete eDfranohised
citizen Of the coored man--complete in all the
States so that all may alike experience the benefits
aud enjoy the blessings of equal liberties and
rights with free access the ballot box to schools
colleges and other places of learning and business
then do they prove tTeacherous 10 themselves,
show ingratitude TO an indngent Providence and
bring down upon their party the fate Of all the
faithess parties that have died outright as as
they espoused any portion Of the unjust of
prescription and disfrGnehsement--then Is the
party dead--dead-dead.
Resolved, Tha; there il no measure Of inconsis-
teney 80 glaring as that in Government which
withholds the elective franchise from its native
born sons merely because their skin Is Of darker
hue than other men, who are intelligent and sus-
tain the character Of Christian gentlemen, and in
the face Of such exclusion TO award II to the green
foreigner, who is perhaps without intelligence can
neither read nor write, with neither talent nor
morality, and without, in many instances even the
shadow OF knowledge Of the genius Of our Repub
can Government.
Sambo distinctly tells his white
faced ally that treachery, falsehood,
and open fraud, must cease. "The
loyal colored element demand "free
access to the ballot-box, schools,
churches and colleges" and that "the
green foreigner, without intelligence,
talent nor morality" must not be
placed ahead Of tho awards of the
nation"
Should these Pennsylvania niggers
live for a thousand years, they could
not treasure up more impotence aud
falsehood than is to be found in this
their first cpistle to Lincoln.
White men, awake; the lion is at
your doorl Negro suffrage is now
demanded, and the next contest in
this State will be fought upon that
ground.
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