The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-12-18
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DECEMBER is. 1869.
s. LET Him Alone. -

"Let Him AlOne.
co. as if ashamed of the manly senti-
ments expressed in The Democrat some
three weeks since, in favor of educating
the colored people, and which we COM
mended as wise and liberal above his Je-
shuitical party, retracts, in measure, by
attempting to qualify and explain his rea-
sons for the noble utterance. He says,
''Let him alone, Democrat-the negro be-
longs to u.s. Here is the fog in which the
Democracy are bewildered. They cannot
comprehend the negro, except as property.
In fifteen States he was so long classed as
chattel-a peculiar property having a
representative value in Congress, which
was appropriated exclusively by the Democ-
racy, that it is not surprising its loss is felt
to be a great deprivation. Nevertheless,
the fact has got through the hair, finally,
that they own him no longer; but another
equally important truth, that the negro is
n free man, and in the language of our
Declaration of Independence, entitled to
"life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi-
ness does not yet seem to be fully COM
pretended, even by the most advanced
members of that party. Hence &C. puts
the following language into the mouth of
The WAig-" the negro belongs to u.s.
and we are abundantly able to take care of
him.
We dou't propose, however, that the Re-
publican party, as &C." intimates, shall
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him abnndantly able to take care - of
himself, and ''say let him alone,'' as we
let every other man alone who has a white
skin; according to all alike the political
rights and privileges promised in the Decla-
ration of Independence, as self-evident :"
truths and unalienable rights to secure
which governments are instituted among
men,
We are charged with making the negro
our ''main stock in trade ever since
emancipation 1t would be satisfaction
to know what has been the stock in trade
of the Democracy, not only since the ap-
pearance of father Abraham's bull, which
gored the rebellion, and its parent, Democ-
racy, to death, but long anterior to that
event, if it has not been the negro9 Has
that party, for the last twenty five years,
made 4 political canvass, the most promi-
nent issues of which did not embrace the
"negro question - and for the last eight
years little else has been written about or
talked of by that party, but the negro !?
He was proclaimed the corner stone of their
proposed new government in the revolving
States. And now, at this very hour, why
do the whole party cling to the hope, like
drowning men to straws, that the Fifteenth
Amendment will be defeated, if their po-
litical salvation did not rest entirely on
keeping the colored man in state of serf-
dom? We do not say, let him alone in his
ignorance, but let him alone to enjoy the
liberty which is his unalenable right -
and educate his children that they may be
wiser and better men, than that debris from
Europe which has long been used to fill up
the ranks of tie Democratic party, as they
become depleted by education.
1t has long been favorite theme with
the apostles of Democracy to decry the ig-
norance Of the negro, and "C.' in his
last article, initiates this bad example,
He is not stocked with book lore we admit.
but there are other standards of intelli-
gence than the A, B. c criterion. His his
tory, for eight years, has proven him, to
the prejudice of his traducers, to be far
above the brutes, as this charming Demo-
cratic party constantly picture him.
The leaders of the rebellion found they
could not impose upon him, Or deceive him,
when his freedom was at stake. Since
then they have hob-nobbed with him, or
attempted it, to gain his vote but he has
proved too intelligent to be duped by his
former masters. His knowledge of politi-
cal affairs, has made the negro proof against
both flattery and persecution, and when
not overpowered by force, has steadily voted
against the men who held him in slavery,
and now seek to withhold the ballot from
him. He has steadily and consistently
voted just as the most intelligent white
men would have voted if placed in similar
circumstances The Democracy have tried
but their success has not been fatterins,
to impose upon the negro with lies Why
then does &C." say "we can make him
believe any lie we choose ?''
We agree, however, most heartily, with
&C." in urging upon the State tho duty of
educating the colored race, the rising gen.
Grafton of whom are more exposed to temp
tation and vices than ever before. Every
child should be properly educated without
regard to color Society reaps hundred
fold by it. If educated, and the conflict of
color and race still maintains its hold on
the future generations, as an educated peo-
pie they can separate. The world is wide.
The educated colored man can carry the
civilization and arts of the Anglo Saxon to
the unframed continent of his fathers. He
never can do it as an inferior, or ignorant
man.