Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-02
OUR COuNrKY-TIKsT.

Teachers everywhere in our colleges
and primary schools, courts, congress and
executive chairs, ought to have heads clear
enough and ideas definite enough to tell
ais what constitutes man. The Constitu-
ton of the U. S. is based upon a preamble
in which are these words; An men,
awe, the people," The excellence and
Immortality of that instrument depends
upon what Is meant 10y the terms-All
Aen-We, the People. Taney, member
OF the Supreme Court said those terms
meant white men, excluding negroes and
lndians-that negroes had no rights under
tho constitution which white men are
bound TO respect. A large proportion OF
the South and a great many northern peo-
pie belong to that school and entertain pre-
cisely the same sentiments. A northern
e litor called the negro brother as be-
longing 10 the genl,-man. A Southern
typo replied indignantly" lie may he
your brother, but he is not mine" That
Is, the negro does not belong to the great
family or brotherhood OF man of which
an member. Well then, pray tell us, TO
what race or genius does the black man
belong? In Uarwin's theory OF progress
sion is he an animal the next step above Il
monkey having dropped his eaudnl appen-
dage and wall he arise at II stage where ii
will be proper to call him man when he
looks in all respects like an Anglo-Saxon I?
Plato, in his definition OF a man, said to
his school, Man is two-legged animal
without feathers The next day one Of
hin pupils threw n naked rooster into the
lecture room, saying, that is PlatO's man"
l. Al ~ Ii
IoSOpher did not whip him. 1t was too
plain a case. Some have gone so lar in
their theories OF what constitutes a man as
70 suppose that Thomas jefferson and the
fathers, by the terms" All men," We,
the people" meant Anglo Saxons, exelud-
ing Negroes, Indians, Chinese and women.
Barbarous nations have ever held that wo'
MIA is the slave Of man, II fit subject OF
his passions, and some clever Doctors oi
Divinity, acute in Biblical Interpretation,
have held that woman was a mere adjunct
of q man, a sort Of fifth rib 1t was not
till after the middle OF the nineteenth cent.
urV that woman was looked upon as be-
lonRing 10 the genus homo whom il would
he proper TO address as we, the people !,
or a. having any political rights under the
constitution which a man ought to respect
II may be that those sages who framed the
Constitution Of the United States used
terms OF wider import than they imag
ined. But nevertheless, those term
are there, grand, glorious, sublime anC
there they viii remain, imperishable, for
. ever, eyeTmore, as long as there ia man
born OF a woman upon the face Of th'
whole earth. In the conflict Of ages ever,
tribe and kindred will gradually gather NJ
and understand the full import OF thos'
maenanimous expressions OF a common
brotherhood, SET for the first time IA gem
In the pledges of national and mutun
protection. Overlapping the deep ruis an'
rugged CUTTERS Of cast aud big0lry, MAJ
Will greet his brother man, not asking whel
and where he was bornlnor eyeing askanc
The peculisrilies of his dress or color. A
one born In due time under the purer ligh
OF "a moon risen on mid nOOn" F" ever,
man will see clearly that every man tha
h born Of woman, is a man aud lherefor
. brother THAT as man is the father ~
woman Il the mother Of man and therefor
entitled to held any place Of sacred trust
N behalf OF manhood aud that all mel
aud women have the same and equal right
under the constitution OF the United States
without amendments Nor.