The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-09-15
The Crime md Folly Of Enaan-
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The Toledo Commercial comments
thus on something which it saw IN
the NorehlCest.
The pictures well illustrate the
great fact Of Emancipation, which
marks so important an era. In ouI
nations history. Millions of poor
bond-men and bond-Women have
under the invitation and guaranty OF
the Government, thus turned their
steps toward the genius Of Liberty,
and not In vain. They may not be
as "pretty,n in the sense meant 10y
our exchange, but they constitute the
gr2ndeSt procession that the world
ever saw. It may have no attraction n
for Pro-slavery eyes /; but il will long
challenge the admiration and Joy OF
the,friends Of Freedom every whert -
The time Is approaching when the
''great fact of Emancipation" will be
adjudged by q public mind grown
impartial and candid in the light OF
the consequences which have flowed
there-from TO both races It viii be
seen that an inconsiderable people
have sacrificed to q mere SeJatiment =
awhim, fantasy, an hallucination-
the well-being, nay, the very exist
dependent persons. Below HProS
Slavery to your hearts content. We
tell you the truth; and we abide the
honest verdict OF mankind.
You have given the poor negro
Biberty-hberty to steal, TO stArVe,
to die out before that inevitable ex-
termination which has sovertaken the
Indian. and which awaits the black
man with the certainty OF fate.
For the barbarities and cIueIties of
the servilO relation we are no apollo
giSt, any more than for the crimes
which are sometimes perpetrated in
the relations Of husband and wife,
parent and child. None abhoFred q
cruel Shareholder more than we; but
cruelty was the exception, and not
the rule. The man who starYes or
tortureS even horse, or other dumb
brute, is an exception.
AS q whole, the negroes were well
clad, well fed, well cared for and in
their way the American slaves were
as happy and contented as any SINH
lar number OF people on earth.
They were not fiL for freedom; but
1t was forced on them. They now
go out into the struggle Of life, and
In competition with the shire widest,
most energetic, most INSCRIPTIONS,
avaricious and remorseless race OF
people on the globe. For this Is the
character OF the Yankeeized Anglo
Saxons. Their old masters, who
might have given them compass
sions If not charity, are impoverish-
ed and now as q race, the blacks
are paupers. Without industry,
save when constrained without
ambition without skill without
education; destitute in q word Of ev-
cry eapabiIlty fox the new career as
signed them, they are turned out to
perish. Mamma no more falls ftom
heaven to succor the starving; aims
houses are not built for q whole
race Through destitution, disease,
crime and suffering, the black man
must follow the red man to extInc-
ton. ~
You gave him freedom you pro-
pose to give him the ballot. But
these will not give him bread, nor
give him shelter, nor give him cloth
Ing, nor give him brains.
Had the negro been the white
mans equal, slavery could not have
existed, or could not have been per-
petuated for any considerable time.
Honest Republicans have treated the
question as they would have treated
It had it been aquestion between two
races in intelleet and in every sort Of
capability. This was their fatal err
ror. Who would emancipate all the
children under ten years Of age2-
turn them out Of doors, and forbid
parental control under severe penal
tyr And yet such an act would not
be so cruel and so murderous as that
we are considering for such Of The
children as survived would be able
TO take care Of themselves when they
arrived at mature years. For the
negro there is no maturity. HoWeY-
er ferocious in passion, or brutal in
strength, he Is and must indefinitely
remain q child in intellect.
Emancipation was an enormous
crime; q crime against the country,
for 1t destroyed its chief source OF
wealth; but more than all, 1t was q
crime against the simple, dePeud dent
coniding people whom II has destroy
ed.
How we abhor can't The Toledo
papers are both nauseously and ha-
bitually full of It. Mere epithet we
despise- "Pro- Slavery" never had
much terror for US. Now, il has
none at all.-Democrattc NoTthtcesI.