The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-09-21

Gratis who signed this report are T. F
Bayard, 3. ;. Cox, James B. Becl
! anu z. Van Trump. They are eallel
distinguished Democrats, because tha
: party delights to confer upOn them it
highest hOnOrs, and their sentiment
show what style OF men are pOp0la
in that organization. Mr.. Bayard i:
and has for many yesrs been Senate
from Delaware. His name wzs fire.
I quently mentioned as candidate 10
President before the st. Louis Con
yention. He now supports Mr.. Til
den. Mr.. Cox was Speaker OF tn,
q Congress just adjourned. MT. Becl
was 8 candidate for Governor Of Ken
. lucky at the last election, a. also 70
} the United States Senate.
The Southern press takes the sam,
: view OF negro suffrage. The Enter
: prise, a paper published at Franklin
st. Mary's Parish, Louisiana, Of thf
9th Of August, 1874, says:
"rbeir right To vote II but the resul
of the war; their exercise Of it a mon
strOus imposition and a yindictiY,
punishment upon us for that ill-Rd
Z vised rebellion. = COHgTeqr csSiOnd
: Record, Appendix, March, 1873, page
! l167.
, The Mobile Register puts it in thi,
way:
"The grave question to be settled at
much cost Is: What il tO be done tn
get rid Of the negro as \ vOteF2 S1On-
er or later, with more or less di@paciI
he will be disfranchised and thrust
from out our politics
"White men OF ali parties and OF
every grade OF religious or moral con-
viction may ~ well come quickly Ia
the consideration how to get the negro
out of I'ulitI,-s with the least confusion
and cnst He must go, aud there Is
no profit iH SITS nding long upon the
order Of his going.
"YOu say it Is "a grave question. So
it il, aud one that affects the moral
anu political welfare OF the whites To
such an extent that the negro must 90
out of the political problem by legis la
ton on the part of the States respect
lively, or go to the wall in a long,
bloody and fierce struggle for his dee:-
nation. The question Of
suffrage belongs to the States respeet-
lively. When the re-OrgAniZed De-
mOcraey go into Office in 1876, each
state will be allowed TO settle this and
/ OLHCI HOCAhl lhduco
itself and in its own way, without any
Interference from the General Govern
ment. Then, and not till then, can be
begun the work of re-setting our pO-
litical and our demOralized social in
stitutiOnS upon correct foundations.
1t will then take quarter of CEN
tury to put our ships OF StIte into
prosperous sailing order"
The following extracts are from
Southern Democratic papers:
"Fhis Is emphatIcslly our platform,
and we have always stood firmly on
it The Republican party as
sumes as a fundamental truth that the
negro is capable OF civilization, and
that his ignarsnee and brutality We're
caused by the tyranny and misrule OF
the dominant race. We believe every
word Of this tn be false. =
Emancipation threw the whites and
blacks on their own resources, and
each race must depend upon Its own
inherent strength. Freeing the slaves
was q declaration Of war between the
Caucasian and Africans war that Is
going on now, and that will go on ST.
iently, ruthlessly and increasingly, un-
til one or the other Is eXtArmInAted.
Let us rec0guiZs facts, admit
that war of races Is progressing, aud
then every man will range himself
under the banner of his kindred. For
ourselves, We say, no compromise, no
'uniiicatiOn,' but white mans rule,
a white mans civilization and white
mans government, or ruin and eXter-
minatiOn. - EtitdlU Wig.
"The rights guaranteed by the State
and Federal Constitutions do not
frighten US in the least. We do not
expect To repeal any of the recent
enactments. They May stand for
ever but we intend, by superior in !
telligence, stronger muscle and greater |
energy,t0 make them dead letters on |
the statute book. We intend to beat |
the negro In the strife, the warfare, |
the unending battle for life /; and de- |
feat means but one ething-extermina.
tiOn !p-BiTnlinetO1l NeiOs.
"Having exhausted every other
milder means OF self-dsfense, having |
employed persuasive words and flung |
harmless grass, the white man finds
il necessary now to aim some more /
substantial missiles that will prove /
his earnestness in the determination |
to make the rude negro hasten down /
to the level which he belongs, and l
cease gObbling up the fruits of a civil
lZatlOn which he neither helps t.
or advance. OF such ef-
fective missiles, whenever he shall
choose TO use them, the white man
has his full supply and plenty OF hands
there be to throw them.
Whether the sudden, violent dissnlu-
ton Of the quiet relation that for two
hundred years had subSisted between
the two races in the south shall turn
out 10 have been q declaration OF war
between the Caucasian and Ethiopian
depends, IN our Judgment, entirely
upon whether the indOlent, thick
skulled and unaspiring wOoly-heads,
after the tOO-generOus and cOnceding
white man shall manifest his resolu-
ton to retreat no further, will dare
advance against his rights-rights
which belong to his superior race
rights which God bestowed which,
the uncOntradieted ante
cedents of all time, his long lineage Il
has maintained, and which, at this
late day, he will not be ready to sur
till he has ridden up to his
iieve that any such bloody necessity /
will come. The unambitiOus and
harmless negro will never !,
force it OF himself AT the instiga-
tiOn of the wicked hackers who be-
guile him, he may tempt the destrue.
ton which such a conflict would
make sure. Ii
= III
1t will be given in no ambiguous
words and with an emphasis OF
which will astOnish those
who have so ignorantly misconeeived
Or so insolently presumed upon the
generous department which the su-
periOr has heretofore exhibited to the {
who have so thorough {
" misc0nstrued the condescensiOn [
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