Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06

| th0rity more than Gen Hancock"
Tie New Orleans Tribune said
"If Gen. Hancock prefers to see th,
civil law take its course, he ought to ap
ply the rule equally in every case"
THE BLACK MANS CONDITION.
Hon. w. r. Ruffner, the present Super
iniendent of Public Instruction for Vir
| qinia, said in an address before a meeting
! Of the school officers OF the county in
| Washington, last winter that the "negrot
fate Is TO be determined largely by what
the Federal Government does for him or leave
undone." Here is an open admission Of
representative Democrat that the Southern
people, through their State organizations
do not intend TO aid. any more than the,
are compelled by the Federal Government
| in the elevation OF the colored people. II
at this late date their elevation depends
chiefly on the Federal Government, how
much more was their need Of Its kindly aid
in the bitter and bloody days when Han
cock turned deaf ear to them?
Among the laws put in the statute book
of Louisiana, about this time, was one
providing
"That any one who shall persuade OF
entice away, feed, hdrbor or secrete any per.
son who leaves his or her employer, with
whom she or he has contracted or is
assigned to live, without the permission
of his or her employer, said person OF
persons shall, upon conviction thereof be
subject TO pay a fine OF not more than FIVE
hundred dollars, nor lees than Ten dollars,
or imprisonment in the parish Jail for
not more than twelve months nor less than
ten days"
On November 25th, 1865, the Legisla-
ture of Mississippi enacted that certain
law relating to the colored people, "Shall
not he 30 construed as to allow any freed
men, free negro or mulatto to rent or lease
any lands or te,ementS, e xcept in incorporated
towns or cities in which places the cor
porate authorities shall control the same"
All civil officers were authorized to
arrest and carry back 10 his or her EN-
| ployer any negro who might quit the
service Of his or her employer before the
expiration of the term of service, and any
person selling food or rdimem o such negro
was liable to a fine of $25 or imprisonment
for two months.
Ia South Ccrolila on October 10, 1865,
a law was passed prohibiting any person OF
color in The employment Of a master
from selling "corn, rice, peas, wheat, -four,
fodder, hay, bacon, fresh meat, or any
other product of II farm" without the writ
ten permission of his master or some local
magistrate. Another law prohibited MI
persons oil color from prncticing or pursu-
| Ing any trade, art or business on his own
account, or in partnership with a white
person. uithoW hcinse therefor from the
! iudge OF the district court and the issuing
Of the license was discretionary with the
Judge.
In Florida local law provided,
"That no negro shall be permitted 10
preach, exhort or otherwise declaim to
colored people without special permission
in writing from the President of the Po
lice Jury" and it also prohibited all
meetings of negroes after sunset.
Would the railroad men who gathered
at the post office the other evening "a
cheer for Gen. Hancock like to live I'M
der such system OF laws, the enforce.
ment OF which Gen. Hancock considered
a sacred obligation and one paramount
to the enforcement OF the laws of con
gress which guaranteed to tho black,
equal rights with the whites? And vel
it is on account OF Hancock's pYeierenc,
in this respect that the Democracy nom
mated him for Senator Stevenson in his
letter informing him OF his nomination
soys:
"That which chiefly inspired your nom
nation was the fact that you had con
spicuously recognized and exemplifie,
the yearning OF the American peopl,
for reconciliation and brotherhood unde
the shield Of the constitution with all il
Jealous care and guarantee for rights 0
persons and States"
The rights" OF black persons a
"shielded" by the laws recited above, ar
the real "vearnings" Of the "Americal
people" in the South. Said Sena tor La
mar, of Mississippi, In his ratification
speech in Cincinnati on the nomination O
Gen. Hancock:
"We are sold in the South.
will tell you why We are united j
order to save our oun civilization"
Not the civilization of progress and q
the free and mighty North; but the civil
ization that stamps out the light of tn
free school, padlocks the mouths of il
people whose lips are too thick and who's
heels are too long, is girded by knives am
pistols, is ted bv the hand Of silent serf
il gloriied BY idleness and tried by tn
code OF the duel
THE DEMoN OF THE SOUTH.
> On the 10Th OF February, 1872 eigl
representative Democrats-Frank p. Blai
I T. F. Bayard, S. S. Cox, James B. Beck,
VanTrump, A. NJ. Waddell, J. G. Robinso
and J. NJ Hanks-in report on I'll
South, said:
at was an oft quoted political apothegr
long prior to the war, that no governmer
could exist 'hslf slave and half free
The pnraphrase is equally true that r
| lnnu 81 thalf hlools ot
half white' There can neither
sympathy nor harmony in any polil
: where such sntagonism is attempted to
. overcome by law. \ Those who
!, God has separated let no man Join t
gether. Ther4 can he no permanent pa
titon of power nor any peaced5le joi
exercise of pU,Uer among such dtscordal
bodies OF men. One or the other must hd
all or none.
"Such state Of things may last 40 lol
! ns the party shall last which had Il
. power and audacily to inaugurate it, m
! no longer. But DIenever that party sha
go dawn, as go down it viii mt son
time in the future, that will he the e,
= OF the political power OF the negro amor
= white men on this continent"
! It il the fell spirit Of that thrice daI
! nable threat against nm innocent peop
that shadows the fair land of the Sou
aud hrs closed there the lips OF Repu'
!, licans and Slapped the cisting of RepuI
y licnn votes; il is this fell purpooe tn
) inspired the extra session Of Congress, Il
ominou, silence in the last session, al
> the nomination OF Hancock.
a CHARLES EATON.
Toledo, Ohio, July 80, 1880.
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