The Lincoln County herald., 1870-04-21
A Change Of Tune Already.


The Oregon Republicans do not think
the 6fteeuth amendment should include
disciples Of CoDfucius, and they, there
fore, In thcir late STAY Convention .op-
posed any change 10 The naturalization IN
laws. that. will enable. Chinese to become
voters under the amendment. There is
a moral In this, as tho parsobs say. The
Oregonia Radicals, like the Vcrmonters
the people Of New Hampshire, Minnesota,
Nebraska, and o dozen more Northern
States, are emarkably progressive in ex.
tending the seffragc to residents of other
the people of those statss
do not think ere capable Of exercising it ;
but when the principle is applied to
tasmsclvcs, as in the case Of the Chinese
IN Oregon, their God and morality views
are scattered to the wiads. This Is about
tho cheapest sost Of Observation-Disclosures.
and it is the Kind New England has prac
ticed all along. The Chioese promise to
overrun Oregon, therefore the Repub,
licans declare against their voting the
negroes cant get there and won't stay
there, and as a consequence we Sc loud
yawp for equal rights as regards Sambo.,
1t the half million Of negroes in Georgia
we're 10 Massachusetts,, or in any other
New England state, we would have heard
nothing but opposition to the, fifteenth
amendment from that quarter. They
would have been great stickIers up there
for the right of the states to control the
suffrage question to suit their. own ideas.
But there being no negroes of any &C
count in Yankee land, we get an immense
deal Of cant from that moral eunuch,
Sumner (and physical one too, according
to Mungep), aud his followers about
caste. They have o property qualifica
ton 10 Rhode Island restricting the suf
ftage, but the vote Of that state fastened
negro suffrage upon states that contain
double the number OF colored men chat
Rhode Island does population yet not
One in 6ve hundred Of these negroes
would be voter in that state under it's
property qualifications. They won't let
a poor man vote themselves, and they
have no negroes in theis state for the
very good reason that negroes are not al.
lowed fair chance Of earning q Iiveli
hood there; but they take on immense
interest in the black man down South
This is q characteristic OF the Yankee
metkod Of deahng with political questions
en- 'the broad principles Of humanity"
1t don't cost them anything, their devo
ton to "ckal rights" 1t is about as
cheap philanthropy as that of the smart
lad who sent counterfeit dollar to the
heathens as his missionary contribution,
and consoled himself with the pious re-.
6ection that the poor devils wouldn't
know the coin was bogus. ....
We get single grain Of consolation
out Of all this. BY thei. tinkering with
the constitution the Yankees have largely
increased the representative population
Of the south. II now embraces fire Gtihs
Of the negroes instead OF three tths, as
under that old.fogyish charter framed in
Philadelphia in 1887 This vote, we may
be sure, will be cast solid when the time
comes, for the removal of all tariffs and
taxes designed to build up Yankee monop.
olies at the expense Of the rest Of she
Union. Free trade is one of the 6r.t
political ideas that will penetrate the
southern negro, when relieved from the
pious guardianship Of his carpet bagging
friends And free trade is fast looming
up as the great political issue on which
parties will divide, and upon which north.
ern and southern radicalism will be swept
into oblivion Ohio Statesman.