Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-06-25
REPUBLICAN NOMINATION.
EQ{4L RIGHTS.

Equality of rights of all men under the
law"
When we contrast this declaration with
the course which the democratic party has
pursued in relation to equal rights OF citl-
zens. we are as much amazed as when
we compare the hard money plank in the
Maine democratic platform with the rag
money planks of the Ohio democratic
platform. One is the antipodcs of the
other.
Last winter when the civil rights bill
was before Congress it was opposed by
the entire democratic strength. One would
have thought if the party was in favor Of
equality of rights" it would have mani
tested it when measure embodying that
principle was pending in Congress. Al
though the bill was pared down to pro-
viding for equal rights at hotels, places of
amusement, aud in railroad cars, never
theless it was opposed to the bitter end
by the democracy in Congress, also by
the same democracy in Maine which the
other day inserted in their platform,
Equality of rights of all men under the
law
A sample of the kind of equal rights
which the democracy believe in and up
hold in practice, is exhibited in recent
case in Georgia, as we find it reported in
the Monroe Advertiser, a democratic pa
per in that State. A large party. Of ne
groes went from Forsyth to GAINESVILLE to
attend religious meeting. Some of these
negroes got into car which was reserved
for white people. The conductor under
took to have them vatate, but they re-
fused, declaring that it was their right to
remain where they were if they chose,
and they did remain. The result is told
in the following which we copy from the
columns of the paper above referred to:
We have learned the names of the fourteen who
put on these airs, we call upon our sitzens to re-
fuse longer to give them employment. If they in
sist on having some imagined rights, to the incon-
venience and discomfort ofswhite people, they
should be dismissed from service and allowed to
shift for themselves. The civil rights bill has
been decided by every judge, before whom case
has been heard, to be unconstitutional. and the
negroes really have no such rights they fancy
they possess.
We had hoped that the negroes of Forsyth
would have had the good sense to recognize their
dependence upon the white people and conduct
81 Dptt boya cd in
shameful manner, and if we cannot control them
in any other way they should be starved out.
Here is list Of the names of these troublesome
pests, and it remains to be seen if the white peo-
pie will longer furnish them their meat and
bread:
Robert Washington. John Jones, l.. Blount,
Rippin Dewberry, F. Bishop, j. Horton, E. Dew
berry, Harriet Dewbery, Gus Evans, William
Dunn, Martha Wing, Henry Goodwin, Scott
Hollis, Martha O'Neal, Enoch VIM.
This treatment of those fourteen ne
groes would be approved by the de-
mocracy of Maine as much as by
that of Georgia. They have no
objection to black servants riding
in the palace cars with their masters and
mistresses, but if a negro not a servant
attempts to ride with white people. he
must be requested to step out of the car,
and if he refuses and keeps the seat which
he has paid for as much as his white
ncighbor. his name must be posted inthe
papers and he starved out of the commu-
nifty where he resides That is "equal
rights under the law as practised by the
democracy of Georgia, and endorsed pri-
vately by the democracy OF Maine. The
declaration in their platform is of small
account when considered in connection
with acts like the above and the unvary
ing votes of democratic members of Con-
gress against measures to secure equal
rights to the colored people of the South.
The Kennebec journal, whose chief editor was
hanged and drowned in ehigy during the war for
the utterance Of disloyal sentiments takes excep-
tons to the war record of General Roberts
Name Standard
The Maine Standard labors under quite
a mistake in the above paragraph. There
was person hanged and drowned in
effigy during the war for the utterance of
disloyal sentiments" in the city of Rock
land where the editor of this paper then
resided. but the person SO hanged and
drowned was a leading democratic poll
tician of the State, a lawyer, well known
on the Kennebec, where he now has rela-
tives and friends. who are doubtless sub
scribers to the Maine Standard.
There was also another efiigy hung in
Rockland, labeled with the name of the
paper which we then edited in Rockland
This was on the 4th of July 1868, Just
after the close of the war. 1t was hung
by copperheads in the night, and taken
down very suddenly in the morning by
the loyal men and authorities of one ofthe
most loyal and patriotic cities in the State.
That was done by the copperheads out of
hatred TO the paper which we then edited,
because after it had supported Stephen A.
Douglas for President in 1860 if wheeled