The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-09-16

heard. 1t is to pay the highest COM
pliment to the institution of slavery.
THE RIGHT TO VOTE INVOLVES THE
RIGHT TO HOLD OFFICE.
The right to vote carries with it the
right to hold Office, You can not say
that the negro has natural right to
vote, but that he must vote only for
white men for office. The right to
vote carries with it the right to be
voted for. When the right is confer
red, you can make no discrimination,
DO distinction against the right to
hold office and the right to vote i'll a
state carries with it the right to vote
for President and members of Con-
gress and for all Federal officers. The
right of suffrage being conferred in
South Carolina, for state purposes,
under our Constitution, as / have be-
fore pointed out, carries with it the
right to vote for President and Vice
President and members of Congress.
RESULT.
Ii you enfranchise all the negroes
in these states you will have at least
twenty negro votes to one white vote,
states of South Carolina, Alabama
oportion-perhaps thirty colored
votes to one white. Now, ask you
what is to be the effect of that? The
first effect will be, you will have col
ored state Governments. Under such
a condition of things the negro would
no more more vote for white man
than you up here would vote for a
black man- They would no more
elect a white man than you wonld
elect'a black man. Human nature is
the same, whether in white or color
ed skin. There could be nothing that
would confer more pleasure upon a
man of that race, of course, than the
elevation to political power of man
of his own color. Having secured
the power they would retort upon us
that which we have SO steadily prac-
ticed upon them. If you give them
the vote they will elect men of their
OWN >color, and we would have no
right to blame them. We would
rather think badly of them if they did
not. l would ask you if the negroes
of Hayti, or any other place, where
they are in majority, have ever elect.
ed white man to office9 Under Mr.
Summers plan you will give them al
overwhelming majority in every one
of these states and you will give them
the political power of the South. Tha
they will exercise this power by elect
ing men of their own color is abso.
lutely certain. Believing that human
nature is. the same under differen
compilations, that the negroes are no
differently constituted from ourselve!
and that they have like passions with
us, we can not doubt that this power
will be exercised. Some will say tha
it is all right if they can find coloreG
men qualified, all right. There are
enough colored men of education il
the North to go to the South and fill
every Office there, and l have no doub
they stand ready to do it. Here we
deny them almost every right, excep
that of mere personal liberty, and it il
so in Illinois and many other North
erh states; and when you presen
them the prospect of holding tn
highest Offices in the gift of the peopl
of the southern states, rest assured the,
will embrace it. They will have col
ored Governors and coiored Member
of Congress, and Senators, and Judge
of the Supreme Court, &c. Yer,
we'll, and suppose they do send color
ed Senators and Representative t.
Congress. I have no doubt you viii
find men in the North who will b
willing to sit beside them, and will
not think themselves degraded b
doing so. I have nothing to say t
this, am simply discussing the polit
ical effect of it. In every state wher
there is a colored state government,
negro for Governor, and negro fo
, Supreme Judge, white emigration
will cease; there will be no NOR
white emigration to any such state
You can't find the most ardent ant
f slavery man in Wayne County VIII
: will go and locate in a state that has
l colored state government. You wi
} absolutely shut off, at once and effect
3 ually, all emigration from the nortl
ern states, and from Europe, too wher
g ever that event shall happen. Thr
t they will remain permanently colore
l states in the south. The white me
D who are now there would remoy
e from them; they would not renal
= under such dominion.
| EFFECT OF THEIR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.