The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-07-08
Hatred to the Blacks.

Hatred to the Blacks!
Hatred towards the blacks is the
basis of strength in the Democratic
party in Ohio SdndusFy Register.
This is newssto us, as It VIII doubt
less be to the negro race.
We remember, less than twenty
years since, when The Ohio Eegisla-
ture blotted from the statute books a
law almost eoeyal with the State Gov
eminent, which forbid negroes from
testifying in court, while white 1Fas
a party, that the press. opposed to the
Democracy, abused the Democratic
party without stint or mercy for so
doing. Under the laws thus biotted
out, a white rnffian might enter the
house ofia -coloned man, insult his
wife. maltreat his children. and dsbutch-c
err the father, and if no white witness
saw the crime committed, the scoun-s
drel would go unhung,i hnharined. s7
Start subscription paper for any
laudable purpose, I'M which the negro
race is concerned, in this city, or in
Sandusky, and our wordFfor it, the
Democratic subscription the wealth.
of the parties considered,, will stand
as three to one, and iwilf be egiyenswith
more of heart This fact is soT patent
that there is not a negro i'll the State
but understands it, Hid 9fi} 80 -s1e
All the rights OF manhood the ne
gro race in Ohio have; even ito the
liberty of settling in the State aud
gaining legal residence therein; was
secured them byb1the Democratic
party. -eTr fsi20iH5 @ui6sBs s15 sss5I
To that party theysiowe their par
ticipation in the common school fund
which, until the present school law
was drafted by Democrat. and passed
by Legislature largely Democratic
in both branches, was denied them, I
Under the reignofl RadicaismAthe
leaders protesting such duBbounded
love for the negro races an insane me-
gro could have none Of the rights of a
white, in free admission to an insane
asylum The last Democratic aLegis-
lature rcmedied this crying evil, by
authorizing the Governor to make a
contract, at the expense of the State,
forathe admission of all such to Long
view Asylum, where they are as hna
namely cared for as if they were OF
the pure Caucastian race. q sfl1 ,liA' e
1 The fact that, under Radical man.
ageinent, persons of'visible admixture
ofnAfrican blood in their veins were
thus denied the rights of mankind,
was brought to the atteittion of the
Legislature by the fact that the Wild
owed mother of an insane muIatfo
in thisIcity had spent much 5of hel
money for his keeping in the insane
Asylum at Longview. Upon exaniiil.
alton ofithe facts, prompt Justice was
done by joint resolution making the
unfortunate State patient from the
time he first entered the Asylum, as q
white man would have been under
similar circumstances. This entitled
the widowed mother not only to the
monoy she paid for her sons keeping
but to that expehded'in his transp or.
tation to the Asylum. 1919 .i9n DIE >
The Democratic party has no :" ha..
tired to the blacks.p That grand old
party, and its members, have evel
been, and ever VIII be, the friend O.
the unfortunate. It opposes negro
sufrageAit win allow no poIitica
partnership between the. black an6 an6
white, because history has shown tha
all such partnerships have been of in.
ealcnlable evil. Ex-Governor Cox, o
Ohio, now Secretary of gthe dnteriol
under Gen. Grant, took q, common
sense view of the subject, when he de,
clared that there was an irreconcilabl,
hostility between the two races, which
made it necessary to remove the weak
er from the vicinity of the, stronger
race, yet we doubt not. in real benevo
lence, and in zeal for the negro's good
Goyf Cox would doimore for the sblacl
race than half q dozen such 1legr,
Worshippers as the editor of the Reg
lister and oftthe Joarnal of this cit.
combined.-Statesman is;hTsy
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The Fifteenth, so-called Amendment.