The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-04-30

| as Catholic soldiers, risked their lives &c
preserve the Union We should like tc
see the IriJune's list of foreigners and
Catholics in civil Offices where there are
large salaries and no danger
T,T6une-"In this county foreign born
citizens and Roman Catholics have fte-
/. quently been placed upon the Republican
ticket, and always received the full party
vote"
Reply-Not so +! In 1854 Pollock re-
ceived 1927 votes, Darsie 1l74-453 less:
and though Darsie was the better man OF
the two, and Protestant, he was guilty
of being born iu Scotland, though he was
brought to this country in his mothers
arms. But if the Tribune ''pleads the
statute" to this we refer it to 1859, under
the Republican party. when Enos 9. Nc
NTullin, the Republican candidate for
Commissioner, ran $50 votes behind his
tcket-the only objection to him being
his religion We might name other in
stances, but we forbear
Trfbtu1e-"C Concerning tie other charge,
that the Republican party 'proscribes the
white man and gives power to the negro,
we have this to say, that, in the Rebel
/ States. where white Democrats prove their
! loyalty by organizing themselves into Kuk
! Lux Klans for the murder Of white Union
/ men, Republicans do insist that loyal black
man should be the political equal of those
/ scoundrels, while. to use the FreemaR'S own
/ clumsy language, (see its third specification
| above), mo Northern State, even the most
radical. that has held an election within the
! last FIVE years on the subject, that has not
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! for suffrage in States that did not rebel"
Rply-Here's logic for you! The
( Tribune admits that Northern Radicals
wont stand negro suffrage among them
selves, where the negroes have an equal
chance with the whites TO become quail
fed while in the South, in his degraded
condition, the negro should vote, In order
that he might ''be the political equal Of
those scoundrels" The Tribune knows,
or should know, that voting is a privilege
based HPon proper qualifications; and
shat the safety Of every government must
depend upon the intelligent exercise of
suffrage. And yet il contends, on the
above theory, that because one that he
thinks, or chooses to call, a ''scoundren
an unqualified negro vote upon the other!
On that principle, we suppose, that as the
''scoundrels' are reformed the negroes
should quit voting The murderous do
ings of kuk Lux Klans is only dyspep-
tic dream of the Tribune, That outrages
occur in the South, by and against negroes
ana white men, results from the denial of
self-government, and while we disapprove
of tie Kuk Lux Kan as being little better
than Know Nothingism, it must be adj
mitted that they are the natural spawn of
oppression. Give the South free gov
ernment and these societies will vanish
TIiJme-"It is true that the Democratic
party is a proscriptivo party. We have
said that IL seeks to trample under its des
pOtic heel the black victim OF its own bar
barous practices-trample and crush him
like viper simply because God made him
black. He is not only everywhere treated
by the Democratic party with contempt and
ignominy, but he is Systematically slandered
his vices exaggerated and his virtues de-
MED. No matter how we'll he may deport
himself, or how Intelligent he may be, he is
still in the eyes of the Democracy nothing
but 81 damned nigger.' If this is not pro-
And then, as if to add insult TO the mon
strous cruelties already heaped upon him.
the Freeman says that its friends do not
seek to deprive the negro Of any privileges
he ever had which includes, we suppose,
the privilege Of again serving his Rebel mas
ters if the Democracy should ever again OBJ
tain control Of the Government o most
rare magnanimity !"
Ppy-What is the Democratic pro-
scriptiou OF negroes !-of what rights have
Democrats ever deprived them Slavery
existed in all the States North and South
many years before any Democratic party
ever existed. The Constitution recognized
slavery, and the Democrats sustained the
Constitution az the Great Bond of the
Union Of the States. As to the genteel
phrase of the Tribune, damned nigger,"
that is the coinage Of his own brain. No
Democratic national, state, county, town
or township convention or meeting ever
used the term. We cheerfully admit that
Democrats do not choose to vote, or eat,
or sleep with negroes, or to make him.
what he can never be, the social equal of
the white man. The Supreme Court
(Judge Agnew, Radical, delivering the
opiuiCn) agrees with the Democrats in this
but the Tribune is wiser. We take ex-
ception TO the Tribune using the words
damned nigger." We never use even
the latter term. Niger is a word of
eproach-therefore we don't use it
Neither do we adopt the word ''colored, y
Gas the same number of the Tribune does
in describing the attempts of a negro to
take the life of Johnstown white man
with a razor, for protecting white girl
from negro insult,) because the negro is
black, and black is no color, but the ab-
sence Of color therefore the negro is not
colored nan. We do them Justice even
in name, and call them what they have
always called !hemselves-''n negroes. -
On the question of voting, Democrats
would cnly treat the ignorant and degraded
negroes of the South as Radicals treat the
comparatively intelligent negroes of the
North, by denying them the right to vote.
Ilibune-"3. We wisk to be understood,
/ and would fain hope that we may hereaft er