Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-08-13
GRANT AND COLFAX,
Jews.aud Foreigners.

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So far, have met the objections of tn
Democratic party:
!. That the Republican party did not a
ccpt the Southern States as integral part
of the United States unconditionally afte
the war, although secession was unconsti
utional, and therefore void, and consc
quently the formerly rebellious States
never out and after the war in the UniOI
as beforc-maintaihing that they were on
of the Union and as such after the war bu
territories, and that they had to be recon
structcd somehow.
?. That the Republican party disfran
chised 5000, 900 of whites and enfranchiset
+.OOO,oOO of blacks-maintaining thai
the white population of the South retained
their right of voting with the exception Q
a comparatively small number of leader:
and prominent pariicipators in the rebel
ion as punishment for such.
That certainly they could not participate
in the general government beforethey were
reconstructed, but that as regards theiI
own domestic lmin;stration, they were
free to vote; otherwise the enfranchisine
of four millions of blacks would say tha,
an absolute and exclusive negro-govcrn-
ment was instituted, as Vero had the au-
dacity to pretend, but which is so bare
faced falschood that only an intelligen,
German fellow Democrat, one, in whose
name Vcro writes, can swallow IT,
5. That Congress unconstitutioually leg
islated for the Southern States even if they
were territories--maintainin that Congress
legislated only so far rs necessary TO re-
construct them, that is, 10 prescribe or
ganic modes of re-entering the Union as
States. i'm the same manner as Congress
would act were territory to apply for adj
mission, that Congress acted in more
Constitutional manner than the Democrat
ic party did under Buchanan, in reference
10 the admission of Kansas; and that Con-
gress thereby was properly within the linn
IFS of the Constitution.
We have now TO come to the great
question OF negro emancipation and the
subsequent Legislation of Congress about
the negro. that is, the detail of the recon-
struction policy.
TIE reconstruction policy Of Congress
means that none OF the former rebel States
be readmItted to representation in Con
gress unless all their population, irrespeot-
i've of race or color, have participated in
framing their new organic laws. except the
persons prescribed by law of Congress;
which, as said, number not eight millions,
but about twenty thousand. and now none,
since Johnson has issued his proclamation
of pardon, on the +ih of July.
The policy involves, to Mr.. Vero, two
very objectionable positions:
!. Is the negro man. and as such, sus
ccpiible to the same conditions OF life as
The white man. and
2. Is the Republican party, by the Dem
ocrais called Radicals, one whose highest
object is to destroy, and whose principles
are utopian; one that is irrational in its
policy and whose history is that of dela.
nation?
Is the Republican party one of dcmorali-
zation, Of dcspo,ism anti-dcmocratic, and
anarchical?
/. Is The negro man and as such sus-
ccpiiblc TO the same conditions of life as
the white man?
Mr. vero. ir the Democrat of July %,
to use a vulgar phrase. gives me terrible
fits" because, in the Republican Of July
9th, took the negative side of The white
race, and said. 1--WE pride ourselves of our
culture and of the superiority ofour ration
n. intelligence and think our progress is
solely due to our intrinsic value" Like n
smart lawyer, he turns this point 10 say
that pretend the white race having no
intrinsic value by force Of which it Is su-
pcrior and progressive.
Vero makes me deny the superiority Of
the white race, otherwise hcwould not say:
'He argues that the negro is not our inferi-
or, therefore he regards foreigners no better
than negro Mr., Vcro, because 6epre
ciated the arrogance Of the whites to think
themselves entitled TO look down upon the
negro as fit only TO be n slave, you have
no honorable right TO make such infcrcn-
ccs.
Even AT the risk OF being insulting, which
7 never intended to be on account of diff
erence of opinion, must tell you that
from man of your position I never ex
pecied such perversion of language.
tell you just one thing, and that is shat
the European foreigners and the natives
are the same in origin and that 1t denotes
nething more nor less than dcmoyoguc
il my supposed theory Of negro equality as
to natural qualification is made to bear up
on foreigners, resp. Germans exclusively.
You must not raise yourself so much as
to exclude yourself in distinction TO for
eiguers from my (by you supposedly equality
Of whites with the dnfhropOid qudddru-
D,0nia. (Ah, my dear Vcro, thought the
'pothology" would come home to roost.-
There it is, most learned critic. quoddru
mania instead of qudolrumdnd. No
doubt there is some mania in your brain.
l shall not take Greek lessons Of you any
more If I put the monkey, the anthropoid
and the anthropos upon the same scale
you will not be excluded. But have told
you that do not mean to be unnecessarily
involved with the Germans. Each one 70
his opinion in politics without personal
animosity, for it is not question between
my fellow Germans and myself, but the
Democratic party and myself, a question of
principles and opinion. A dcmagogue like