The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-09
The 9th Resolution and Negro Suffrage.

The 9th Resolution and Negro Suffrage.
If a single discharge from the battery
Of Senator MORTON has frightened the
nervous portion of Dem ocratc leaders
and sent them panic stricken from their
strongest intrenchment, what may we
not look for hereafter so far as these
childlike warriors are concerned? But
the distinguished Senator will find other
than plunder patriots in our ranks who
look only to the flesh pots, and when
the battle comes he will find an un-
yielding invulnerable army solidly
planted on the bulwarks. The panic
stricken and nimble footed gentry ofthe
Age, and Patriots of Washington and
Harrisburg and the free -booting World,
will voluntarily or otherwise return to
their allegiance when they learn, as
they assuredly will, that there is no re-
treat except into the ranks Of the enemy.
The rank and file Of the party is a unit
on the question of negro suffrage and
consequent equality and will never
brook the attempt to back the party
down from its high and noble position
of eternal opposition to the debascment
Of the government by volu ntarily shar-
ing it with degraded races.
JEFF DAVIS and his friends tell the
people of the south that negro suffrage
may be tolerated there because it will
keep them peaceablo, that they will in
a very short time generally vote with
their old masters, who alone appreciate
their true character sufficiently to per-
manently influence their action, and
that the negro at all events is as .ft TO vote
as the yankee! Mr.. LEW CAssIDA Y
backs up his retreating friends by de-
claring that the negro vote elected Col.
DECHERT and gave to the Democracy
the victory in the first Senatorial dis.
trict, SO important to the party and the
country in its results. That the negroes
will eventually vote with the party
that Is least aristocratic in its tenden-
cies we never doubted, and 1t may be
consoling reflection TO some people that
like all others they will be altogether
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they are most intimate and bear the
closest personal relations. But all that
is begging the question. The principle
is that this is q WHITE MANS GOV
ERNMENT, made by white men, for
white men and their posterity forever
Shall white men submit to have it mon-
grelized? Shall we tamely and forever
submit to the fraud by which this de-
basing result was temporarily accom-
plished? We say resist 1.-THE Demo-
cratic party has heretofore unanimously
said resist it. Why yield now? No
higher or other reason is offered than
that continued resistance will once more
bring party defeat, while to give up
opposition will bring present success!
If this is true it is no good reason for
yielding principle so very important,
so essential to the future welfare of the
country and especially to our immediate
posterity. But we do not believe
word of it! Where can single advo.
cate OF negro suffrage he pointed out
who will vote for Democratic candi-
date because the party has yielded its
opposition to that measure? We do not
believe a single one exists-if there is
such one he is fool, and not worthy
of cOnsideration-and we would not
yield the point If there were millions
or ten hundred millions.
What the conspirators meant to ac.
complish by throwing this firebrand
into the party at this time IL is difficult
to discern. We can only account for it
on the ground that it is an attempt (base,
cowardly and sneaking) to break up
the organization of the party. Through
out all its defeats for more than ten
years the Democratic party stood intact
and invulnerable-a power second only
to the government itself. All attempts
to destroy, to allure or to break it failed.
1t is feared by every species Of rascality
in the nation. Superhuman efforts
have constantly to be made to prevent
it from coming into power. Warning
against has failed to affect its strength,
and therefore, for several years base
modes have been resorted to in order to
undermine and thus destroy it. Attempt
after attempt was made, by all the
power of money and corruption, to i'm
pose candidates upon it who did not en-
tertain its sentiments, and at the last
National Convention Of the party this
villainous strategy was almost success.
r,,l nafaafaI In al ~ bor oh n a iOpl
the audacious attempt is now made to
corrupt its principles. By some sur.
prising means a small majority was OBJ
tained in our late State Convention,
and in that of Ohio, to endorse this sui
cidal and disgraceful policy. The sub
ject was studiously kept from the peo-
pie, and majority of our representa-.
tires were suddenly transformed into
dictators. In this those representatives
were as much above their business as
the dutchman's ram that jumped out OF
the field from the sheep into that of the
neat cattle, and the action in the two
eases was about equally appropriate.
We warn the men engaged in this
business not to attempt to clog the can
didates with this fatal platform. De-
struction will follow If they do. Lee
the 9th resolution 60 as simply vague
opinion of 76 panic stricken men in ,
convention, and let it drop there still
born. Ifthe question requires decision
at all, let 1t be attended to next year il
tha elaction of deIepates
Snrrendering to Radicalism!
The Philadelphia Age, in justifyinI
the attempt to surrender to the Rad
calls, uses this strange argument:
The fact of acquiescence in the worl
done by Radicalism, has been as explici
as acts could make 1t. Negroes vote q
every poll in the United States the
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