The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-04-15

Inc OppOSltlODs Se"Osuts u" ~s'o ss"'-S'
During the debate the Republican,,
neither In nor out Of Congress. resented
the i'm putation that negro suffrage had
proved a failure. One Republican SEN
ator declared, alphabetically In the ne
ero's behalf, that he had had the ballot
"thrust upon him." Our readers will
remember the remarks of Senator Jones,
the Republican Senator from Nevada,
published by US at the time, wherein
he went to the full extent In condemn
ing the experimental negro suffrage.
Senator Plat, of Connecticut, was op.
posed to the passage of the Chinese
bill, but in the course of his remarks
had nothing to say in behalf of negro
suffrage. The Senator, on the other
hand, found 1t quite convenient In Or
der to maintain the right of the Oh nese
to come to our shores and "work hon
estly," to quote the annexed extract
from one of Mr.. Ltncoin's speeches, In
which not only race equality, but the
negroes right to participate in govern
ing is condemned:
have no purpose to Introduce polit-
ical and social equality between the
white and the black races. There Is q
physical difference between the two,
which In my judgement, will proba-
bly, forever forbid their living together
upon the footing Of perfect equality
and inasmuch as IL becomes necessity
that there must be difference, I, az
well as Judge Douglas, am In favor of |
the race to which belong having the |
superior position. I have never said |
any thing to the contrary, but hold
that, Notwithstanding all this, there Is
no reason in the world why the negro
Is not entitled to all the natural rights
enumerated In the Declaration of Inde-
pendence the right to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness. I hold that
he Is as much entitled to these as the
white ,nan. agree with Judge Dou-
glas he is not my equal In many re-
spects-certainly not In color, perhaps
not in moral Or Intellectual endow-
ment. But in the right to eat the
bread, without the leave Of anybody
else, which his own hand earns, he Is
my equal and the equal of Judge Dou-
glass and the equal ofevery living man.
Senator Teller, of Colorado, now Sec
rotary of the Interior, and as such a
Staiwart of the Stalwarts, Of course
favored the Chinese bill, and found IL
suited his view of the case to quote Mr..
Lincoln, also. Tho Senator said that
emo man within this country ever dis
cussett the question Of the rights Of the
human race with as much intelligence
as Abraham Lincoln did, and yet he
f1oo1ueo<1 nd f,N no
memorable debate between Stephen A.
Douglas and himself In 1858, which
attracted the attention of the whole
world, that the negro was an inferior
race to the white man. He repeated
1t again and again, and notably at Co.
lumbus In 1859, that the negro was and
must ever remain the inferior of the
white race.' :
The quotation made by Senator Tel
Ter from Mr.. Iincoln's speech is as
follows:
will say, then, that I am not nor
mover have been In favor of bring
Ing about In any way the social
and political equality Of the white
and black races that ain not
"a SSOA o"VO OSSu !" xAvOf OF
making voters or jurors of negroes.
nor ofqualifying them to hold Office.
or intermarry with the white people ::
and will say in addition to this, thai
there is a physical difference between
the white and black races which
believe will forever forbid the
two races living together on terms
OF social and political equali-
ty. And inasMuch as they cannot
30 live, while they do remain to.
gether there must be the position of
superior and inferior, and 1, as much
rs any other man, am In favor of hav-
ing the superior position assigned to
the white race. ~
These quotations and the attitude IF
these Republican, Senators are sipuia.
cant as showing that the Republicans
have lost faith-if any they ever had.
In the ultimate elevation of the negro.
aud that they accept and endorse what
Is called the .Bourbonism of Democracy,
as expounded by Abraham Lincoln.
As another sample of Bourbonism,