New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-07-25

subservient mental obeying the beck and
call Of the white man. 1t is quite clear
to all fair-minded men that Mr.. Doolittle
meant, and that the Democratic Convention
understood his language to mean, that ne
groes ase to be deprived of their right to vote
or to be controlled in the casting Of their
vote, that they are to be made ineligible for
Office, that the Civil Rights Bill is to be re-
pealed, that "a Niger is not to be treated
as though he were as good as white man,
If, in certain portions of the country, black
men have exercised rights which have been
denied to certain white men, il was because
those certain white men had been guilty of
the welfare of the nation to trust them with
the exercise of those rights. Those white
men had proven bad citizens and the black
men had incontestably proven themselves
eminently trustworthy and good citizens.
The kind of supremacy which gives to the
loyal and steadfast supporters of a nation, a
voice in its control and deprives its enemies
Of like voice, is the real foundation for the
speech of Doolittle, the coalition of Liberal
Republicans with Democrats, and the nomi-
nation of Horace Greeley.
Mr.. Doolittle and the Democratic party
with Horace Greeley as its candidate, would
have the country believe that black men ex-
ercised rights that white men do not, as Mr..
Doolttle says he is for equal rights for ,ohite
as sceN as black men. We take this occasion
fn ~ fo tno TIL, %Io 4; -
party of which it is the organ, that no
white man in the South has been deprived of
any rights except for treason, and that we will
justify the denial of the right to voice in
this Government to any black man who has
been engaged in a voluntary warfare upon
its existence. In the State of New York
convicts from the State prisons are denied
the right of suffrage forever unless pardoned
by the Governor, they may be white or they
may be black; it is considered just. The
case in the South is similar, the rebels were
criminals, and like criminals in New York,
were deprived of the right to vote. In the
State of New York all honest and upright
white or black men, who have not offended
against its or the nations laws are entitled
to vote; in the South all men white or
black who have not offended against the life
of the nation are entitled to vote. Where
in this is there supremacy for the negro:
The New York Tribune looks upon our ar
ticle in last weeks issue, entitled "False
Pretenses," as "damnable innuendo" in Its
assumption that the Democratic Convention
cared only for the white mans rights. That
assumption was no innuendo. The past
record of the Democratic party is sufficient
proof of the truthfulness of the article. The
united votes Of Democrats and such Liberal
Republicans as Trumbull, Upton, Schurz,
and others against the Supplementary Civil
Rights Bill is also proof, and in no city or
State where the Democracy and Liberal Re-
publicans have full control can the black man
have equality before the law. The innuendo
is on the part Of the Tribune, and the party
of which it is the organ, when it attempts to
create an impression in the minds of the
white voters of the country that the colored
voters are exercising a supremacy over them,
when they are but trying TO enjoy and exer-
else the rights to which they are entitled by
their freedom, and which make all equal, and
no one unwillngly the subject of another.
We believe in equal rights for all, as de-
clared in the first plank of the platform ac-
cepted in Baltimore by the Democracy, but
we do not believe in the sincerity of the
Democratic party when it accepts what is the
direct opposite of all its former professions
and actions, only few months previous to
the assembling Of the convention, especially
when it makes a bid-throush the chairman
Of its convention-for the votes Of the negro
hating element Of the country, by falsely in.
sinuating that the negroes are exercising a
supremacy over the white people upheld by
prescription and the bayonet.