Year: 1869




make, prostitutes herself gratuitously to every
solicitor out Of mere love Of lust. The men
are only less bad because the black women
desert them in favor Of their white paramoun,
OF whom there are plenty. These negroes,
irrespective of sex, herd as animals. Mar.
nage is not even name among them.
"Wife" means "a woman, ssr, dat took up
Wld. down in Werginny wen. de army moved
OF" The children all know their mothers,
but no child has yet been found on the Island
proverbially wise enough to know its own
father. As whole, these negroes are q
mass Of thieves, murderers, and baWds, the
lowest OF the low and the vilost Of the vile.


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JUDGE PHILADELPH VAN TRUMP, was
the permanent Chairman of the Ohio Dem.
ocratie State Convention at Columbus, and
in his speech on assuming the chair said:


"Wl qeTer may be the result Of the con.
fict which is now plainly before us-whether
the Constitution shall survive or Perish in
the shock of opinion, the democratic party.
as its latest, If rot its last, defender, will be
sustained by the proud consciousness that it
stood as the firm and unfinching. champion
Of the rights, a3 we'll as the union Of States
as ordained by the Constitution. Heretofore,
the point of dispute has been confined to =
mere question Of Constitutional interpreta.
tion but now, after the conVulsion of q great
civil war, and as one of its retributive re.
suits the Constitution itself is put upon its
trial, and the right Of self government, and
of local representative, liberty is again pre-
sented as political promblem, as sharply
marked, if not yet as sharply disputed, as it
ever was in Rome or Attica two thousand
years ago. In this modren repetition of the
struggle, we are not called upon to illuminate
any Bew doctrine in political ethics. Every
utterauce Of the Democratic party, whether
in storm or sunshine, in victory or defeat, is
a re-afirmance of the divine right of the
people to govern themselves, through the
agency of just laws made by themselves un-
der written constitutions. Nor does the crisis
which is upon US, in any of its dire necessir
ties, demand of Us any new pledges of action
not recognized in the great original and
fundamental principles upon which tho
American government is based. We have
no new road to travel, no former heresy to
repudiate, nor any doubtful party problem
to solve. Our pathway is plainly before u.s."
Mr.. Van Trump said that the consolidation
of political power in the Government is the
twin-heresy of secession and the impending
danger which lies before US. Consolidation
and secession, be contended are two hostile
forces growing out of the very inertia of a
well-balanced Government like ours, and in
this connection, he said; Upon this great
question of innovation, of revolution in the
form and structure of our Government, the
Democratic party will stand where it has ever.
stood-upon the clean and naked platform Of
uncompromisiDg principle. 1t will be the
pillar of fire by night, and the pillar Of cloud
by day to guide the Israelites Of the Consti-
tuition through this wilderness of anarchy
and confusion. Whether we shall reach the
promised land,' or perish in the Red Sea OF
tyranny and despOtism, is an alternative in
the hands of Him who notes alike, a sparroW's
and nations fall. In this trying mission
of the Democratic party it will turn neither
to the right hand nor to the left upon any
question of mere policy or expediency."