Year: 1867

favor Of, by its platform7 No afirma-,
tive measure does it announce. 1t has,
column after column of platform, butt
not single item Of policy applicable to
the present does it announce. Does it;
not say it is against something's Of
course it does it is against everything;t
but the only living issue that it is now
against is


MANHOOD SUFFRAGE.


1t is against that. The Republican
Union party is in favor Of it. 1t has
declared it in its platform, and it will
vote upon it on the second Tuesday I'M
October next. [Chcers. What are
the reasons urged against itl The uni
versal rule given to US by the great
charter of our liberties, the Declaration
of Independence that "all men are cre-
ated equal;" not all black men, not all
white men, not all slate or copper-col-
ored, but "aH men are created equal;
and wherever man bears the image Of
his race, that Declaration says he stands
upon an equality with all other men;
and we propose to bring this doctrine
to realization. Vallandigham says his
principal objection to it is, that it in
wolves social equality. Let us look at
this for moment. There are a great
many things by which, for want of ex-
animation, we are deceived. Why isit
that the simple privilege of casting a
ballot makes the negro our equali All
things else fail to make him our equal.
The fact that he came from the same
divine hand, the fact that he has the
same eternal responsibility, that he
breathes the same air, looks upon the
same sun, has the same seusibilities, the
same hopes, the same sorrows, eats the
same food, works in the same feld-in
all things alike save his color-aDd they
all fail to make hm our equal. But the
moment you give him piece of paper
with the name of a candidate upon it,
that makes him our equal, and all the
Democratic party at that moment are in
sore tri6ulation. How illogical Are
our social relations dependent upon the
BALLOT Because stranger to you votes
at the same ballot-box does it follow
that your daughter must receive the at
tentions of his SON. that your wife must
call upon his wife; that you must break
bread at his table, and invite him to
break bread at your tablet There is no
sense or argument in it.


CONFLICT OF RACES.


Then, say they in their platform, it
will be productive of a conflict of races;
the black man will rise against the white
man, and the white man against the
black man, who, being stronger, the
black man must go to the wall A con-
tlict of races! Out of what is it to
comet Upon what occasionl Who
will inaugurate it? How will it be car
ried forward2 Upon what pretext1
Andrew Johnson seems to have given
special credit to this theory, taking what
he said on the subject in reference to the
enfanchisement of the negroes in the
District of Columbia. He said it would
produce a conflict of races Now they
have had an election in the District of
Columbia under that very bill. Did
you hear of any conflict Was there
any white or black blood spilled there
If there had been, and the blood had
run side by side, you could not have
told which was the white mans and
which was the black mans blood.


Tennessee, under the radical legisla-
ton of that State, authorized the blacks
to vote and two weeks ago they did
vote, fifty or sixty thousand of them;
and they reelected old heroic Brown
low Governor Of the State. Cheers |
| Was there any conflict there! Did you
hear of any? The whole nation stood
trembling, as if poised upon pivot of
intense anxiety as to the fearful results
that would follow or accompany the
election in Tennessee. But from Mem
phs to Knoxville, the elections were
held as quietly as ever was an election
in old Richland county. Cheers. A
conflict of races You cannot inau-
gurate one. The black man, who has
been under servitude for so many years,
has shown a disposition of quietude,, >,
subordination to law, and obedience,
that prevents in him the slightest sus-
picion or presumption of violence to-
ward the white man. On the contrary,
he looks kindly upon, and talks kindly
to him who has long been his master,
and an oppressive master at that And
if, in this country, we have white men
who will inaugurate riot and boodshed
for the purpose of destroying the liber-
ties of the black men, we wish to say to
them, if you wish to inaugurate a con-
flict of races in that way we will meet
you with this Government we now have,
and make you bow in submission to the
higher law. [Cheers.1 The fact is
this opposition to negro suffrage in
Ohio is indefensible.


Another ground of objection is, in
feriority of race. What does it amount
tot Is that basis of disqualification
Is there perfect equality among white
meni Why some are intelligent and
some ignorant; some active and some
sluggish. The great difference between
the white and the black man is in the
color of his skin, and nothing else.
But, say they, he is ignorant. And are
there not white men, having the right
to vote, ignoranti Are there not men
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