The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-09-14
GOOD READING
FOR CoLoRED CITIZENS
Speech Of Peter II. Clark, Of
Cincinnati.

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man, Of Cincinnati. We make a
few extracts from it:
sHagE THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY /
LIvEP
Many are now found who assert
that the time has come for breaking
up the grand party organization
which has won such great triumphs
in the past twelve years. It is as
serted that the old questions have
been settled, that new ones have
arisen, and that new organizations
are needed to meet them. We can
not, of course, expect to maintain a
living party upon dead issues but
before we disband it viii be well
enough to make sure that the enc
my has abandoned the battle field
and finally and fully yielded the
points in dispute.
The Republican party has fought
to maintain the union, the suprem-
Iacy of the national constitution and
of the laws made in pursuance there
of.
Has the Democratic party yielded
that point? Jefferson Davis, who
represents more Democratic votes
than any man in the nation, says
that they have not. In his speech
lat Atlanta he declares: 81 am not
of those who accept the situation.
These cant phrases that we hear so
much of about accepting the situa-
tion,' and about our rights having
been submitted to the arbitration of
the sword are but the excuses of.
towards. L admit that power pre-
walls over truth. Iadmit that pow
er is so great that it would be folly
to resist it, and therefore I am in IA
vor myself Of being acquiescent, and
advise you to the same course but
1 do not admit that our rights have
Ibeen submitted to the arbitrament of
the sword" When Davis speaks of
rights, of course he means states
rights. What other rights did any
lsOutherner ever have or claim?
Look to the States controlled by
the Democracy, and see what re-
spect is paid to the national eOnstitu-
tiOn, or the laws made in pursuance
thereof? Look to the State of Ken
lucky, where the provisions Of the
civil rights bill are CoOlly set at
naught, where, except in a few To-
calities, education is denied to the
cOlored people, where the ku klux
murder men in the streets of her
capital and are discharged; where
government agents are driven from
their work by armed mObs, which
the local authorities refuse to control.
Look to Tennessee, where in an evil
hour, owing to Republican dissen-
sion, that party has come into Uow-
er, and instantly school houses for
the education of the poor are closed
and school teachers disappear.
THE DEMAND FOR OFFICE.
Notwithstanding this grand record
there are to be found men who ask
"What has the Republican party
done for the colored men ?" Mem
bers of the Democratic party are
| greatly exercised at the fact that IN
the North few or none of the colored
people have been elected to Office,
and that even in the South they
have received but insignificant Off
cial recognition.
Now, I am free to declare that in
my opinion a consistent adherence.
to Republican principles demands
lthat cOlored men shall be elevated
to Office by the party. I think a
northern constituency would honor
itself by sending a colOred man to
Congress. 1 believe the day is not
far distant when this will be done.
In many places it can be done with.
out peril to the ascendancy of the
| party, and where and when this can
be done, we should have candidates
for Office, but 1 am opposed to col
Ored men making a demand for
such action. I want one more tri-
umph of the party and its principles
/ in a presidential election I want
one more Congress elected pledged |
to maintain the results of the war.
I want the Democratic party to un
derstand that there is no shadow of
turning in the purpose of the Amer
lean people to bury slavery and re-
belliOn out of sight forever.
THE NEW DEPARTURE.
supposing the gentlemen who
composed the convention of the
Democratic party to be in earnest,
the question arises naturally, can
they carry their party with them ?
Can the party whose chief inspira-
ton is derived from abuse of the ne
gro be held together if that cause Of
inspiration is removed? -? Imagine
a Democratic meeting where moth
ing can be said about thick lips,
wOOlly heads and ebony skins.
Where the Democratic mind cannot
be narrowed by pictures Of beautiful
white virgins forced into the arms
of loving Othellos. I don't think |
the thing can be done. Imagine