The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-05-20

is not mixed the blood of severnl but
this unhappy race of which we are
speaking does not amdk.gamnte with
the rest. Ii IS entirely immaterial to
discuss why it is so; the fact nc one
can deny; nor can it be denied that
its salvation or its destruction will
surely be worked out in its family iso-
lation.
Because there could be no unity
of people between the Southern
whites and Southern blacks, it seems
manifest to me that there could be no
political unity, but rather strife for
the mastery. in which one or the other
would go to the wall.
Il hold that there is a
great political truth in the words of
Guizot, summing up the eight CEN
turies of bloodshed out of which the
French emerged into nationality from
the strife of petty races and tribes
He says: ''In the life of nations that
unity which is exterior and visible.
the unity of name and of government,
although important, is by no means
| first in importance, the most real, or
that which makes indeed one nation.
There is q unity deeper and more
merely from identity of government
and of destiny, but from the homo
gently of social elements, from the
likeness of institutions, of manners, of
ideas, of tongues /; the unity which
resides in the men themselves whom
society assemblies, and not in the form
of their associations i'll short (L'unite
morale, whichIis far more important
than political unity, and which is the
only solid foundation for the latter"
= "You," (meaning the OBJ
erlin Committee), assume that the ex
| tension of the right of suffrage to the
blacks, leaving them intermingled
with the whites, will cure all the trou-
BILE. l believe it would be rather like
| the decisions i'll that outer darkness of
which Milton speaks:
'''Chaos umpire sits,
And by decision, more cnibroils the tray"
General Cox, publicly announcing
these sentiments, was elected Govern
or of Ohio by 10000 majority. His
arguments have never been and never
will be answered, and he has not re-
canted, and is now leading member
of General Grants Cabinet. His pre-
| dictions are being daily verified in the
| Ku KluX Klans, the loyal militia OF
| Arkansas and Tennessee, and the un-
settled condition of the South, con-
signed purposely to q wretched sys-
| tenn of bad government, to enable par
tisan adventures and mercenaries to
plunder her people in the name of
| loyalty, while the rest of the country
| foots the bill, to maintain standing
army, with military satraps to uphold
this mockery upon republican govern
ment. Governor Morton, i'll his
speech, September 90, 1876, at Rich
mond, Indiana, maintains similar
views with General Cox, and says:
| 'In every State where there is a
colored State Government, negro
for Governor and negro Supreme
Judge, aohite immigration qotU cease.
There will be no more white immigra-
ton to any such State. You can not
find the most ardent anti-slavery man
in Wayne. County who will go and To-
cate in State that has colored State
Government. You will absolutely
shut off, at once and effectually, all i'm
migration from the Western States
and from Europe, whenever that
event shall happen Thus they will
remain colored States in the South
the qchite men who are now there
woulk remoce from them, and would
not remain under such dominion"
Yet, to maintain party, even it will,
according to his own argument, polit-
ically ruin one-half of the country
this man, now United States Sena-
tor, asks the people to perpetuate this
! condition of affairs by an amendment
/ -, Il
States. r.s- q.
In Ohio, and other States where the
smallness of the negro element can
not practically affect the very fabric
of society, it is the height of cold.
blooded cruelty and malevolent re.
! yenge to inflict, by our votes tortur-
| ing curse upon others which would
not be endured for a moment by oul
own people if the negro was in equal
numbers in our midst.
This XVIII amendment, as original,
ly passed, forbade the States requiring
qualification for Office, but, fearing
that the popular mind was not educat.
ed up to that point for the present, il
was dropped, just as the doctrine Of
amalgamation of the races, which lies
logically, at the bottom of the whole
theory of mongrelism, is held back
for prudential reasons. Every elec.
tor, by the Constitution of Ohio, is
eligible to Office, and, under the ope-
ration of the proposed amendment, il
i is evident that the zoe, 900 negro voters
I of the South Will soon be represented
by Senators and Representatives i'll
Congress, who, as matter of course
| like any other Representatives, will
have to be admitted to the Presidents
| levees and other places of public re-
sort, with their families. This is the
/ commencement of that social equality
that precedes amalgamation, the next
step of Radical progress, just as the
Fourteenth Amendment, which recog-
nized the right of the States to con-
troll their own elective franchise, sub
/ ject to penalties, is now superseded
by the Fifteenth Amendment. Men
who were shocked at negro suffrage
! will, for party purposes, take this last
step, already foreshadowed by the So
cial equality bills just passed by the
negro Legislatures of Louisiana and
South Carolina, to the enforcement OF
I which, forever, the effort is now made
to pledge the whole white race of the
North and West by Federal authority.
We commend TO these coming lights
of progress the following passages
from the great naturalist, Profes 8or
Agassiz, in his late work on Brazil,
page 1913: ....z
"Let any one who doubts the evils
of this mixture of the races, and is in
ciined, from mistaken philanthropy,
to. break down all barriers between
them, come to Brazil. He can not de-
ny the deterioration consequent upon
an amaIgamation of races, more wide
spread here than in any other coun-
try in the world, and which is rapidly
effacing the best qualities of the white
man, the negro and the Indian, leaving
a mongrel, nondescript type, deficient
in physica,, and mental energy. AT
a time when the new social status OF
the negro is a subject of vital impor-
tance in craftsmanship, we should
profit by the experience of a country
where, though slavery exists, there is
far more liberality toward the free ne
! gro than he has ever enjoyed i'll the