The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-12-24

FDo a: ::oGERRfrs SMITH,
What This VICTORIAN .Abolitioni.t Say. o,
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The 81 Republican fEu party; has fallen
# is nott not, however, because anothe,
party hhas oqtvoted it,, It could not
fall from any cause outside of Itself
It could fall only from its own mis-,
deeds and it's own weaknesses, As it
could succeed seed only by being true u
itself, 80 it could fail Of success only
by being untrue to itself: 1 speak
/ here ofsucce.s not in that low. and
vulgar g sense which counts success in
such things <as the winning of wealth
or battles %; Of office, but I speak of it
infthat sublime and precious: sense
which: makes-it to consist in the doing
ofour duty .
1t j. not possible that any real sue
cess cansawait the Democratic party
the party which Satan inspired. to
uphold slavery. and to strengthen the
enemy: and cripple the country in our
fearful civil war: The good men in
that party (and there. are not a few
such who have the misfortune to-. be
in is. it-born into it o. misled into it,,
Will VIZ when they break out from it and
abandon h lon: i, Il, achieve in that brave and
honest act grand success and this
too, though they may be in the minor
ity. forever. But the"party itself has
been superlatively wicked too long to
be capable Of repentance. A party,
like an individual,' can sin away its
day of grace The only thing for
this thrice: guilty Democratic party to
do is to break up. 1t cannot break
up In penitence. Let it break up in
despair; and SO make room for an.
other party.
IN ITS PRErEMINENT DECEITFuINEss.
: 1T IS AGAIN sH4A+a1M1NG REPENT
-. ANCE.
1t slammed it in the National Con-
svention at Baltimore in 1872, when,
in the face of its evez-infsrnal treat
ment of the negro, presumed t. make
the following the very first article in
its platform
. We recognize the equality of all
men before the law, and hold that it
is the duty of government in its deal
ings with the people to mete out equal
and exact justice to all, of whatever
nativity, race, color. or persuasion, re-
religious or political.
And yet, when the bill providing
for the equality of all men before the
law came up in Congress at the. last
session, it got not one Democratic
vote. The excuse: for this unanimous
Opposition to itwas that it is for the
States and not for the nation to rem,
der this'impartial and equal justice.
How well disposed the former slave
States are to render it may learned
from go:
THE STATUTES THEY ENACTED IMME-
DIATELY AFTER THE CLOSE
OF THE CIVIL WAR,
North Carolina enacted that COL
ored person is not a competent wit
ness in a case where white person is
a party; that in apprenticing color
cd person, their old masters are to be
preferred for their new masters that
the marriage between colored and a
white person is void, and that the per-
son who solemnizes it, and the clerk
who issues the license for it, are each
to be fined $500 Z; and that for q GER
tain, oaense, while the white offender
is to be only imprisoned, the colored
offender is to suffer death. q would
here remark that, Is = general rule,
if persons blood be one-eighth Af
riean, the law classes him with ne
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n@M(i!s'.stiis:siPpi !'.ti enacted, as North Caro-
lima aid, in regard to apprentices,
and provided very severe Sc punishment
for eacaPing apprentices, and very
severe punishment Of persons who
give food or r.iment to such escaping
|{appFentices. It provided: for the, i'm
position Of heavy fines upon; co1ored
vagfants, and, Of course, almost every
colored Pemon,1as liable to be ar
rested ii .s(vagfaut. ,.Itprovided Ut.
sethst, inecase ofthe nonpsyment1of
their fines; theyshould be- hired7 (a
Ssoft word for so1d to such persons as
would bid them off on the most favor
able terms. It further enacted that
no colored person should be allowed:
to rent or lease any land except in
incorporated towns or cities-and not
there without the consent Of the. cor
porats authorities; and it further en-
acted that no colored person should.
be allowed to possess deadly weapons.
Its enactments in regard to the in.
competence Of oolored persons in the
matters Of testimony and marriage
were similar to those in North Care:
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Georgia made laws similar to those
referred to in the codes of North
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