The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-09-03

hVe millions Of national bank currency which the law
| Woyides may be taken from States In the East and
given TO those States IN the West aud South having less
than their proportion than what they need, may not
be taken up very rapidly and In fact can not be until
there shall have been revival OF business and pros
perty, yet twill be taken at no distant period and
the demand will be renewed aud finally granted for
the establishment OF what Is called free banking and
the removal Of the monopoly feature Of the national
banking system which has ever been its bemish, aud
the system may have.
| Notwithstanding all that has been said against our
currency as being deprecated aud huctuatlng rag
money, everybody knows that Il is good currency
under which the country has prospered 1t never did
before and that its further Improvement will be nat
ura steady, and healthy. And with these considera-
tions am content 10 await the further developments
| Of the future on the financial question.
CIVIL RIGHTS.
In the seventh resolution the Democratic Conven-
ton went upon its knees TO the prejudice against color
and the hatred OF negroes The bill which passed the
Senate making provision for the equal rights OF negroes
In the public schools supported by general taxation,
colleges churches hotels railroads. steamboats,, thea
| ters, and qaVeyards supported ut public expense,
was made the occasion for special attack upon Sena-
TOR Pratt and myself IL will be remembered that the
same men who passed this resolution apoogist Of
slavery aud TO the very last did everything in It's de-
fense except to fight They opposed to its aboli-
ton, resisted the civil rights of the negro at every
step, and declared that to confer upon him the right
Of suffrage would be the dishonor and destruction OF
the republic Beaten at every point they would still
exclude him from the blessing Of education, the equal
privileges OF travel, place OF rereshment and rest
| on his journey, or Of honorable burial when dead.
They would even exclude him from the privileges Of
| worshiping God in company with white people; and
this, TOO, by white men, some OF whom seldom enter
| the doors OF a church.
| UNREAsOsABLENEss OF PREJUDICE.
| There Is something very remarkable in the opera
tion Of this prejudice against color Persons who In
their infancy were nursed by negro women, In their
| childhood slept and played with negro children,
| In nd war; he doil q
negroes In the workshop, upon the farm In the car
riage and upon the journey who employed negroes as
body servants aud In that way were almost contin-
ually in their society," dressed by them, shaved by
/ them, nursed by them In sickness, and in various
WAYS inhaing their breath hundred times day, and
having with them that physical intimacy and contact
which does not exist between equals In society; yet
when the same negro, as freeman, presumes to
stop at the hotel 10 ride in the same car with
them, send his children to the same school with
theirs or to knee In the church, they are mex
pressbly shocked, aud declare that social
| equality will degrade and destroy society
They think to make few. votes by appeal
ing TO the prejudices and fears of the white
people about mixed schools. In towns and commune
| ties where the children Of each color are numerous
enough TO be formed into separate schools there VIII
be trouble on the subject and there has not been
But in districts sparsely populated or In neighbour
hoods In which there are few coOred children, and
where their proportion Of the school fund would be
wholly insufficient 10 maintain separate schools ana
their parents are not able TO maintain private schools
for them II they are not admitted into the public
schools they must grow up In Ignorance and without
education. And what harm would the cOlored chill
dren do In the public schoosY They would interrupt
nobody, though in many places they would be the
victims Of insult and oppression. The man who would
say that under such circumstance these coored
children must grow up without education, to be poor
ignorant, helpless and perhaps vicious throughout
their lives simply because 1t would be offensive TO nave
them go into the same schoo-house with white chill
dren, himself needs education int he principles oil ou
common humanity.
EvEN-HANDED JUSTICE.
But the punishment and suffering will not fall upon
the negro children Ony the country which inhicts
the wrong will ultimately have to pay for II in some
way Such are the mysterious rulings OF Providence
Even now the people Of the South are complaining
bitterly o 4 the ignorance Of the colored voters by
whom they are surrounded, and by whom, in some OF
the States and many OF the Districts they are outnum
bered. The poisoned chalice is commended to their
own lips. Only afew years ago the people OF South
Carolina, Louisiana, and, in fact, every Southern
State, made the education Of negroes felony. For
teaching them TO read and write their teachers
ned imprisoned cast out Of society, and often put to
death; so that the negroes grew up In mass In the
densest ignorance for thought that. that would
| make them the most subservient slaves. And mean
white men now hate TO the negro educated, for
fear that he will become their intellectual superior
But there came grand revolution. The masters
had embarked in a wicked rebellion In which they
we're defeated The slaves were made free and clothed
with equal civil and political rights with their late
masters In Of the districts and In two or three
States they were numerically in the majority, and
took the reins OF the Government naturally into their
own hands. They were not as mass very
well qualified 10 govern, and the morals
as well as the intellectual edu-
cation Of many Of them sadly defective for sav-
cry is very bad instructor in morals, teaching hon.
esty neither by precept nor example, When the
white people come with loud complaint of misgoyern-
ment by the negroes in South Carolina and other
Southern States, answer that the negroes are just
what they made them. Their former masters must
take the bitter with the sweet. II Is impossible that
the brutal slavery of two hundred years should not be
followed by some consequences which are disagreeabe
to their former masters And what are all the suffer-
ings and the evils resulting from msgovernment by
the negroes in all the Southern States combined
pared with the intoerabe sutferings and hardships
resulting from the institution OF slavery for
short month"; But the negro of the South is improving
rapidly and Is everywhere distinguished by his de-
sire TO get education Even the old are learning to
read and write, and all anxious for the education
of their children In the State Of South Carolina in
which the negro population Is so largely In the
ascendant, and over which there Is so much Demo-
cratic groaning, they have to-day better system Of
schools than in most Southern States
ONE IDEA OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THE SOUTH
In the Southern States the central idea of the DEM
ocrac party is opposition TO the civil and political
rights Of the negroes White men are urged 10 vote
the Democratic ticket because that is the white mans
party, and will not tolerate the civil and political
equality Of the negro II the party in the South has
any other principle than this, they are wholly subor
dinate would be sacrificed to it at any time, and
not worth mentioning. To be q Democrat, in the
Southern States means not only opposition 10 the
civil and political rights of the negro, under all
but the political and social ostracism
| of every white who recognizes such rights,
and will act with the negro In any political
| organization. Democracy in the South
means q conflict Of races, and has use for the
Democracy Of the Norh except SO far it recognizes
this race conflict and principles of the white mans
| Government. The Republican party placed the thir-
teenth fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments in the
Constitution, and is bound by its allegiance 10 the
Constitution and the eternal principles OF the Dec
araton Of Independence TO preserve and defend the
negro in the enjoyment OF his freedom and Of his civil
and political rights. And here is presented great
aud vital issue between the two parties, The Demo-
cratic party pledged by its constitution its history
affiliations, and hopes Of the future, to undyng hos
tility TO the negro race. The Republican party is
pledged by its history, by its sacred principles, to
stand faithfully by the 6OtO0 900 Of newborn reemen
and must continue to be in the future as 1t has been
in the past the party Of liberty equality justice, and
| the indissoluble union of the States.
MIscmEvoUs IMPRESSION.
| A mischievous impression has been eunningly made
in the South that the President sympathizes with the
Southern Democracy upon the subject OF civil rgh s
and will differ with Northern Republicans upon that
question: and this impression emboldens the move
South day by day. For this impression know of no
foundation. No word act OF the President has given
il eounenance In his December message he express
ly recommends the enactment of law TO better
the civil rights which freedom should secure, but has
not eectually secured 70 the enfranchised slaves"
| and repel with indignation the suggestion that the
President will prove false to the principles Of the Re-
publican party.
| WHO is RESPONSIBLE.