Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-07-10
Negro snai.u-c-Again.

Negro suni-ugc-Again.
One of the local Issues i'm the pres
cnt campaign, is thatofhcgrosufI'rage.
The fate of il is In the hands of the
Republicans. We are confident that
the opposition will bring all their
powers to bear for its defeat in this
State; but though they combine on
this, as en every other question with
which they join issue with us, it will
be impossible for tlqena to defeat 1t.
Defeat, if it come, will be by those
calling themselves Republicans.
The Democratic newspapers may
take us up, when we venture to coun-
sci our friends to be faithful; but
their ridiculc will only show their
own weakness as Democrats, and
their reliance on detection in our own
party, on this question. They re-
joiced when, in 1865, the question
was defeated in Connecticut. They
made bon-fires when it fell to the
ground in 1867, in Ohio. They yell
ed with frantic joy, when 1t failed In
Michigan, Ina the spring of this year.
But, their cxultation was not, nor
could 1t have been because of their
own strength, combination or num-
bers. These uncovered results came
from our own Inconsistency. 1t fail.
cd because there were weak.knecd
Republicans who were afraid to do
justice, because prejudice oycrruled
their sense of right.
Only one thing is needed this year
to secure the total collapse of their
party,-a perfect union of the ele-
ments of our own. They have won
transient victories, and have held up
their heads la the hope that the time
was ut hand when they could destroy
ns by dividing US. They have failed
in their estimates of our unity. They
know that there are men acting with
us, as in every other party that has
ever existed, who have always to
struggle to overcome their rrejudices,
and hence all their enginesof wicked
ness are directed, not to win Demo
Gratis, but to dismay Republicans.
They paint with livid colcrs nil the
horrors Of negro rule. They oblite-
rate, as far as falsehood can obliterate,
all the records of the past seven
years, in order to obscure their own
history; and deal in fulsone plati-
tudes, and fawn upon and flatter the
white race that they may turn aside
the destiny of an emancipated race,
made free through the treason of its
late owners and the sense of justice
entertained by Abraham Lincoln.
Impartial suffrage is the logical Sc
quence of emancipation. A man
who is worthy of freedom--a man
who was enslaved only because
might was right, is worthy of the ben
efits of freedom, and no freeman can
have q better incentive to become
worthy of the great trust imposed on
him by the Creator, than the permits
ion to participate in the government
under whose nag he was horn.
Our boast is, that this is the home
of the oppressed of all nations. The
Democratic party join with us in this
noble sentiment, and yet its daily
record shows that it deals with ii
only as a glittering generality. No
man in this whole land, to-day, need
have reason to complain of the hand
of government offer him, were it not
that the men who derived the great
est benefit from the old Union, took
1t into their heads to destroy i 1t.
They failed i'm their attempt, and the
result was the destruction Of millions
of their property in man.
The Constitution has provided for
the safety and rights of the citizens
of one State going to another to re-
side. To-day. the colores man of the
south il an equal in the enjoyment of
political privileges in his own State.
Let him exercise the right of emil
grafton by coming to our prairies and
Iowa cannot yet greet him as man
"a citizen of the United States, but
as an unnaturalized foreigner. He
is black, and hence his utter prose-
cution. He IL the national waiter,
hostler and boot-black, and hence his
unfitness for the high and RESPONSE
bic duties Of citizenship.
How often have we seen men too
drunk to walk, carried up to the polls
to vote the Democratic ticket, and
yet a negro-a black-a-moor--a reg
ular Guina chap-black as the ace of
spades-the owner of q house and lot
pays taxes, earns his own living,
and is industrious, frugal and sober,
is kicked away from the polls to
make room for drunken intelligent
white man. These are facts that we
should remember as we are making
up our minds on this important ques-
ton. The taunts and ridicule of the
Democracy are all the arguments
they have, If such pointless ridicule
rs theirs can be dignified as argu-
ment.
Grant and Colfhx Scare.
The Democracy will be some time
bofnre thav raeoyar fro,n THAR son re