The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-07-02
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ELKTON, JULY ,, 1870.
I" Negro Equality"

The Swans of the " White Mans Party"
of this State and august Democratic Della
ware, have finally settled down on the
policy of attempting to run their political
machine on the old KnowNothing princi-
ple By redoubling their efforts to malign
and libel the colored man, they hope to
create and intensity a prejudice in the
minds of white men, that will draw largely
from the Republican party to fill the ranks
of that corrupt party. In furtherance of
this base design, all the old slave machinery
is made use Of The scare-crows and alarm
cries of Negro Equality" and mixing Of
the races. The white race, numbering,
perhaps, upward of forty millions, is
threatened with total subsection and ex-
tinction by four or five millions Of the col
ored race. All the high and responsible
positions in the State are to be taken pos
session of by negroes, and the entire forty
state of dependence and servitude little
short of that condition from which the
slaves have been delivered. To any think
ing being, it is a marvel that such uncon-
and not be met with a loud guffaw all over
the land. And yet it is surprising how
many men-sensible business men in all
the ordinary affairs of private life-are
fools enough, when approached by one of
these noisy Democrats, beating the air
with both hands, and in loud tones pro-
claiming such intolerable twaddle for
truth, to quake at the hobgoblin stories
conjured up by grog-shop politicians.
Without a principle that will bear serious
examination, this party purposes going be-
fore the country with aninflammatory appeal
to as baseless and base prejudice as ever
entered the deceitful heart of man; hoping
by such means to prolong their lease Of
power The former theory Of the Dem
ocracy, that they would control the colered
votes, as they do the worst class of the
foreign element, has been abandoned, and
the leaders of this base and ignoble party
are now intent on fostering hate between
the white and colored man; and, if posi-
BILE, fomenting war Of races. What they
meanly echoed from the mouths of their
former leaders, who were intent on break
ing up the Union to establish more firmly
slave empire, those miserable politicians
are now striving to bring to pass.
But the general intelligence of the
American people, and the christian virtues
which make them self governing people,
with the ballot in the hands Of the colored
man, we trust, will defeat this hellish de-
sign on the part of modern Democracy
Let every man but use his own reason and
he will have no difficulty in detecting the
utter absurdity of this base Democratic pur-
pose. By what species of witchcraft shall
two men, the one white and the other
black, casting vote for the same candi-
date, be made morally or socially equal,
more than speaking the same language,
travelling on the same public road, breath
ing from the same atmosphere, or drinking
from the same river? And yet these things
have been done for two hundred years by
the white and black men of America, with
out this dreaded social or &C Niger Equal
ity" being seriously feared, till the colored
man threatens, in 1870, to cast his vote
against his constant libeler and abuser, the
professional Democrat. And in the present
case it is plain enough, that while GO Negro
Equality is the excuse, the cote is the only
thing really feared.