Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 26 September 1867 — Page 1
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DR. J. 0. SIMAKD,
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CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA.
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Extract from a Speech, Delivered by 6'OI\ CONRAD BAICER, at Mozart liaV. 1G, 18C7.
But tbeso gentlemen, in tho narao of dcmocraey, ignore the principles of the Declarniion of 1776, and whilst they perlioaciously insist that an inequality,, ^frights as between States in. the Union is an impossibility,. still maintain that there may bo sych an inequality of rights as between tho men who compose such States, at^to permit ono race.of men to deprive nnothor race of men of all rights. Some men, according to sham Democracy, have no rights which other men arc bound to respect, nnd as in former yeaia, State rights, are. to bo exalted, thata:individual rights may be moro easily crushed. The basis upon which this monstrous theory is sought to be maintained is as untenable and illogical as tho principle itself is wicked and cowardly.
Mr. Pendleton, for instance, in the plentitudo of his inapproachable superiority, fulminates Ins decree whereby he dooms miliions of men and their posterity to perpetual inferiority and then makes this supposed inferiority the ground of denj'ing to them equal justice and impartial rights.— These millions of men arc too inferior to Mr. Pendleton to be permitted to plead to the jurisdiction of the tribunal which pronounces this decree of everlasting inferiority, and therefore, instead of impeaching the decree, can only insist that tho principles of tho Declaration of Independence apply to all, inferiors as well as superiors.
Mr. Pendleton says of this race 'They have dliferent blood and bones and organization. They have different tastes and capacities. It is not a mere difference of climate, or sun, or birth, or education, or color.— It is an inherent and radical difference of race, of blood, of intellect, of capacity, which no training can efface, no association, or habits, or discipline can extinguish. God made them different man can not make them the samo or equal."
Now there is an authority entitled to nearly as much respect as any opinion of Mr. Pendleton that says, "God hath mado of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all tho face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed and tho bounds of their habitation," but as Mr. Pendleton declares that God did no such thing, perhaps it would be unsafe to dispute his word, especially as the authority just quoted says nothing about a difference of bone, organization, taste and capacity which Mr. Pendleton assures us do exist.
Tho pretenco then is, that one raco of human beings because it is inferior in some respects to annthor, and because it differs from that other, has no rights in human society, except such as the superior raco may see proper in the plentitudo of its superiority to dole out to tho inferior.
The Creator of all things has mado all mankind social beings and government is a necessity of their social existence. If men of different races aro separated from the races to which they respectively belong, and accidentally or providentially thrown together, they will affiliate and form Government of some kind.
Now, if there be a God who is tho author of man's existence, and a just and righteous being, is it possible that ho could create different races of men, ono inferior and another superior, and both possessing selfish and sinful natures, and yet make tho rights which tho weaker and inferior race shall enjoy, depend upon the will or caprice of the superior raco Is God a rospecter of porsons? Does ho give the powerful and arrogant tho right to oppress tho weak and tho lowly Such an assumption is dishonoring to God, and shows that tho man who makes it, if ho does belong to a superior raco, must be an inferior specimen of that raco. If ono man, or one race of men, is inferior to, or weakor than another, instead of this being a reason for denj'ing them equal rights and equal protection, it is conclusive in favor of equal rights and equal protection. As tho whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick, so tho strong and the powerful have less need of protection than they that aro weak, and liable to bo oppressed. If equality of taste, equality of capacity, and equality of bones aro necessary to the enjoyment of an equality of rights as between different races, why docs not the same rule apply as botween different individuals of the samo raco? According to Mr. Pendleton, there niu6t be an equality of bone in order to an equality of rights.
Tho country has, of late years, become familiar with muscular Christianity, but Mr. Pendleton is assuredly tho father of osseous or bony Democracy. If political rights are to depond upon the bony structures of men, how important, is it not, that our inspectors of elections should understand anatomy and bone-ology, if there bo such an ology.
This theory of Mr. Pendleton is one of tho most ingenious devices ever invonted for the accomplishment of the ends of Democracy in tho oppression of men.
If ono man or one race of men desire to oppresss, or even enslave another, all they have to do to justify the oppression or enslavement is to show tho proposed victims are defic-
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ient. in tasto, or wot. bony enough, or .too bony, or, according to General
Cincinnati, O. September Morgan, unable tot-write pootry. Morgan saj*s the "darkies'! can not write poetry. \Vhat a jpltyj"
To'tho dogma that there can be no such thing as Stales
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unequal rights, tfijere must be added the discovery tl*?it, there can be no equality of rightCas between individuals, or, races inHhe absence of an equality of boncsiand poetic genius.
Before disinissing^the bone question it is due to'colorca^A'Bcricans to say that whatever. Mi.Pendloton lias asserted, or may assert to tho'contrary, history will record tho fact that during the. rebellion, they proved their possession of one kind of bono which was entirely wanting in tho Democratic party during tho samo timo. I mean, of course, '-backbone.'}?| ,The colored men showed their possession of it by fighting for the Union and its government the Democratic party as organized in tho North showed their want of it by speaking, writing and resolving in favor of the rebellion, and by sympathizing with thoso who were engaged in its prosecution, but the spinal column of the party was too weak to carry it to tho front by the side of tho fighting Democrats of tho South.
Mr. Yallandigham says that if tho white raco have a majority in any country, they havo aright to exclude the negro raco from voting. This is a •mere assertion, and is sufficiently answered by an emphatic denial. But supposo tho proposition is grantod, does it not. follow that the converse of the proposition is also true, namely, that if tho colored men havo a majority in any country they have a right to exclude the white race from voting.
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Such a rulo would oporato .with great severity on Mr. Vallandigham's Democratic friends in South Carolina. It would be worse than radical reconstruction und'or tho recent Congressional enactments.
But, -Mr. Vallandigham, gushing with that chivnlrous magnamity which is always the accompaniment of su pcriority, says that ho is in favor of negro suffrage in Africa. "There," says ho, "it is right and proper, but not in tho United Statos. In his own latid, if he can, lot tho negro cclipso America in civilization and prosperity, ._.
I think I 'nerJr eomd nativo American citizen of African descent reply to Mr. Vallandigham by saying: "1 am in favcr of rebel suffrage and rebel equality in Canada, but not in Ohio, and I propose that you and all other men of the rebel race go to Canada or to tho countries from which 3'our ancestors came for tho enjoyment of equal rights."
The colored man born in Ohio, is just as much an American citizen as is Mr. Vallandigham, and has just as much right to say to Mr. Vallandigham, go to 3*our own country, as Mr. Vallandigham has to invite him to a similar entertainment.
But, we arc told by tyranny, dressed in the garb of Democracy, that this is a white man's government, and, therefore, equal rights to any who aro not while, arc not admiasable.
If ours is exclusively a white man's government, what right has it to govern men who aro not white if it be indeed true that governments "derivo their just powers from the consent of tho governed?'' If this is a white man's- government, why docs it tax men of other colors, and requiro them to perform military servico, and sustain every burden that is imposed on white mon And, when did it bocomo a white man's government? Was it in the days of the Revolution,' when colored men fought with their white brethren for our independence, and when freemen, black and white, wore permitted to vote in every ono of tho old thirteen States, except South Carolina?' Did it become whito man's government when the Constitution of tho United States was'formed and the word "white" carefully excluded therefrom Did it becomo a white man's government when colored men fought under Jackson in tho war of 1S12, and when that grand old hero thanked these sable patriots, calling them his "fellow-citizens."
Did it becomo a whito man's gov-ei-nraent when two hundred thousand colored men, at the first opportunity, rushed to tho standard of their country in tho late rebellion, as an offset to the two hundred thousand men of tho Thurman -Vallandigham Democratic race, who sent their greetings from Ohio to their Southern brethren informing them that there could be no coercion Judge Thurman has gone to Mexico, to Hayti„ to Canada and to Jamaica to find black men mean enough to enable him to instituto a comparison that would be favorable to the white rebel Democracy of Ohio, and if we may bclievo him, lie found some colored men in these countries that answered the purpose for which this voyago of discovery was undertaken. It must, however, be gratifying to the colored Ohioans and their white friends that Judgo Thurman does not pretend to have found any where in the United States a colorod community that was not more loyal and better insiructed in the duties of American citizenship, and therefore better qualified for self-government
When and v/het'e did colorod men ever send to rebelSj ready to commence war on their country, such a greeting as that sent by the Ohio Democratic Convention of January 23, 1SG1? It roads as follows "Resohied., That two hundred thousand Democrats of Ohio sond to the pcoplo of the U'lltod States, both North and South, greoting And when tho people of the North shjill have fulfilled thoir ciiiti.es to the Constitution and to the Siiuth, then, and not till then, will it be proper for them to take into consideration the question of tho right and propriety of cocrcion."
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And bo it remembered that 'the present Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio was the author of this resolution, and that ho said in support of it, "Tho South aro a brave people. Tho Southern States can not bo hold by force. Tho blacks wont fight for tho invaders. Tho Hungarians had loss causo of complaint against Austria than the South had against tho North."
I uefy any man to show mo a colored man in tho United States who has so mean a political record, or who proved himself to be's^ poor a prophet as tho present standard-bearer of tho Democracy of Ohio.
He said in 1SG1 "tho Southern States cannot be hold by force," and now, in 1S67, ho says tho government is destroj'cd and despotism prevails, because these samo States are held by force. Ho said in 186.1, that the blacks would not fight for what he called the invaders, but which loyal black mon called their country, and now, in'18G7, ho says' thac these black men who falsified his predictions, and fought manfully to suppress the Democratic rebellion to which ho sent Democratic greetings arc not fit to vote. If this bo tho superiority of which these gentlemen boast may all loyal black mon bo preserved from its attainment.
Judgo Thurman was mistaken in 18G1, and ho is mistaken now as the uniform good conduct of our colored citizens shows. Their action in tho late elections in Tennessoo and in the District of Columbia shows that they can throw loyal ballots as truly as they aimed loyal muskots during the war.
Fernando Wood, then Mayor of N.^w York, you remember in 1861, had a a friendly telegaphio correspondence with Toombs, of Georgia, in relation to arming that State for tho destruction of tho Union.
Afterwards in a message to the council of tho city of Now York, he justified secession on tho part of the South, predicted tho formation of a new Pacifio and a now Western Confederacj*, and proposed that tho city of Now York should secede from the Stato of New York and set up for herself as a free city.
Ho did all this without losing caste with tho Democratic party* and is this day an honored member and a leader of that organization.
No colored man in tho nation could havo been guilty of conduct so treasonable and base without receiving the universal execrations of his race throughout the country.
Take as another specimen brick from the Democratic kiln in your own State, the following editorial from the Marion Democrat. Thus it reads '•Andersonvillc,.Libby, treason, &c., aro all catch-words for dupes. If our prisoners suffered at Andersonvillc and Libby for food, it was because the Southern pcoplo wero deprived of food by the overwhelming power of ^Northern hordes. If the prisoners at Anderson ville and Libby with the kindness and consideration which people are ei:titled to when they remain at homo-minding thoir own business instead of taking up arms in a bloody and desolating crusado against their neighbors and brethren, wo havo only to say they got their deserts."
If tho Democracy of Ohio should rake tho entire Stato of Ohio with a muck rake, they would bo unable to find a single colored citizen so lost to deconey, patriotism and humanity, and so besotted with prejudice and and treason as over to havo "given utterance'to sentiments so infamous.— And this man, be it remembered, is a teacher of Democracy in your Stato, and one of thoso superior beings peculiarly qualified by blood, Jbones, tasto and capacity, not only to govern himself, but to govern decent black men without their consent.
And let it bo also remembered that the utteranco of sentiments such as these does not in tho least impair a man's influence or standing in tho Democratic party as now organized but if one of its members can be provod to havo worn tho uniform of his country with honor to himself and benefit to the nation, suspicion and distrust aro at once visited upon him by the party in Ohio, whilst in Kentucky nothing will, under the circumstancos, save him from disgrace except proof that tho service rendered was in tho Rebel instead of in tho Union arm}'.
When did colored citizens of the United States, when their country ahd its government were battling for existence, negotiate with the ambassador of tho British monarchy in relation to foreign intervention in the affairs of this country? It was loft for the leaders of the Democratic party of
than was the organized Democracy ofi Now York to prove their superiority this disparity is constantly augmentOhio during the late rebellion, lurid their pre-eminent fitness for self-1ing in an increasing ratio, not only by
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government lay a proceeding So peculiarly Democratic. Let them read their'shame in tho dispatch of Lord Lyons to Earl Ri)sr sell, dated Washington, November 17, 1862, and ceds'e to talk about such men being superior, to anybody or anything having tho -semblance of manhood,
But you have ahothor specimen .of this superior Democratic race, in Ohio, whose record ought not to bo overlooked.
I quote from two lotter from the pen of Louis Schaofer, late Democratic candidate for Congress from the Canton District, and now a Candidate on.the Democratic ticket for an important office in Stark county. Thus he wroto under dato of May 16, 1866, viz: :-y
'•In conclusion I would add, that I have never voluntarily contributed a farthing, nor ever spoken a word, or over thought a thought in favor of either of oar two late abolition rebelljong—one hoaded by John Brown and tho other by Abraham Lincoln."
And again,.under, dato of April 12, 1S67 .*/• "I will not contribute ono sous by my voto in or out of our City Council to compensate any one for his services, bo he a volunteer or veteran, who, either for want of brains, or want of honesty, went into the military service during our late civil war."
Now. I defy Judgo Thurman, cither in Ha3*ti, Jamaica, Mexico, or oven in Africa itself, to find a negro equal in meanness and unfitness for self-gov-ernment to this Stark county brother of his.
But why multipl}* instances such as these, when it is known to all that during the entire rebellion, after the reorganization of the Democratic party by Vallandigham, Yoorhees & Co.,
its political literature was, in tho main, made up of just such treasonable utterances as 1 have quoted and where an appearanco of loyalty was assumed, it was onlj' to deceive.
Benjamin G. Harris, a Representative in tho 39th Congress, from Maryland, who, in tho presence of tho assembled representatives of thenation. prayed for the success of the rebollion, and whose prayer Mr. Pendleton endorsed by voting against his censure, has recently turned State's evidence and mado somo ugly revelations concerning his Democratic colleagues, tending still furthor to show tho superiority of tho Democratic race and their genius for self-govornrennt.— Thus he writes of his brethren, viz
Whilo in their hoarts they did not wish the success of the North in their nefarious and unjustifiable war upon the South, they yet discovered wonderful policy in 'pretending to wish it. They shrieked lor tho Union—mado tho sirongost war speeches whilo they whisporcd to tho knowing ones of their party that deception was the surest moans of getting power, and when pewer was obtained then they would do tho expedient."
Benjamin was ono of tho knowing ones, and therefore knows wheroof ho affirms-.
By thoir fruitsryb shall know them is a rulo applicable to all men in overy relation of life. in a it a men could be found anywhere in tho nation, who would if they had the power, take a man from tho prize ring or from the gambling hells of tho metropolis and transfer him to the halls of Congress? And yet tho Democratic race can do this without having its superiority questioned or its pre-emi-nent capacity for self government suspected.
In the light of thefco examples and with the conduct of tho organized Democracy during the rebellion before you, and with tho history of the coloron people of tho United States during the samo period fresh in your recollection I ask you whether it becomes the Vallandigham Democracy to thank God that ihcy. arc suporior to other men, even if those men should have black complexions A more becoming pra}*er for them would be, God bo merciful to us miserable rebels.
It is pretonded, however, that if impartial rights are accorded to all men in Ohio, your Stato will becomo an African paradise, and that if impartial rights aro established in the South, that region, too, will bo Africanized.
Now, if four millions of citizens of African descent, recently emancipated from slavery, with little of tho property of the country in their hands, can do all this in the presenco of twen-ty-eight millions of white people, then wo had hotter cease forever to talk about tho superiority of our race.
If tho tho fivo hundred thousand white voters of Ohio can not accord to tho seven or eight thousand colored men who will become voters under the proposed amendment to your constitution, equal rights, and still tako caro of tho interests of the white raco the}' had better immediately on act a political bajE^krapt Jaw, and tako the benefit of it without delay." c-v ,,
Tbo pretence that Ohio can be overrun by the colored raco, is too bald to deceive any except those who want to bo deceivod, and the Africanization of any portion of the country is equally absurd. Seven-eighths of tho entiro population of the country is now whito apd one-eighth of African descent, and
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reason.of natural Increaso, but tho stream of white immigration .that is constant!}' flowing into tho country from abroad without any corresponding accession to tho. colored population.
If tho African vic&iVsoTrtforfcrr its enemios represent, thd cjuestion is not whether it can or will tako Ojiio or any ot'her State, but whether with equal rights and impartial.-'justice guaranteed to every one of its members,, it must not gradually pass away ahd give1 place to the dominant race. If we restore to thoso people, so long tho victims of oppression, their rights as mon, and treat them according to the requirements :of the Golden Rule, wo will not bo responsible for the consequonccs, if it shall turn out that they can not sustain themselves in the presence of the superior nambjers, superior culture, and superior advantages possessed by our race.
Brother Crawford's Seriitotf# A Southern exchange gives this as th a in is in a village in that section. Ho began apologetically us follows: "Yoq don't sec me to-day in tho dress I allcis woar I como among, you as a stranger, and am now tricked out in my storo clothes. I am not a proud man, but I thought it would bi» more becoming among strarigo'ra."
After this he raised a hymn, in which the congregation joined. He then began his sermon.
MY DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS First and foremost I am guine to tell you of tho affectin' partin' I had with my congregation at Bethel Chapel.— After 1 got through with my farewell sermon, as I came down outen tho pulpit, tho old gray headod brethren and sisters who* liftenod to my voice for twenty years crowded around mo and with sobbing voices and tearfufc eyes, said, "Farewell, brother Crawford •'. 4
As I walked down tho isle the young ladies, tricked out in their finery, brass jewclr}', gegaws, jimcraiks, paints and flounces, looked up with their bright cj-es, and pronounced with their rosy lips, "Farewell, brother Crawford!"
The }*oung men, in their tight pants, boots, high collars and flashy waistcoats—smolling of pomatum and cigar smoke—with shanghai coats and striped zebra pants—they, too, said, "Farewell, brother Crawford!"
The little children—lambs in tho fold—lifted up thoir tiny hands and with ono accord said, "Farewell, brother Crawford !M
Tho colored brethren of the congregation now came forward (black sheep who had been admitted to tho fold under m)r ministry) with tears rolling down their checks, they, too, said, "Farcwoll, brother Crawford!"
As I got on my horso and bade adieu to my congregation forever, I turned to take a last look at tho church where I had preached for more than twenty years, and as I gazed upon its dilapidated walls and moss-covered roof, it, too, seemed to say, "Farowcll, brother Crawford!"
As I rode through tho village, th» peoplo who stuck their heads outen the winders, and the servants who leant on thoir brooms, all seemed to say, "Farewell, brother Crawford!"
As I passed along down the highway, through tho forest, tho wind, as it sighed and whistled in thctrootops, playing on tho leaves and branches the burden of salvation, it seemed'to say, "Farewell, brother Crawford!",
Crossing a littlo creok that was gurgling and singing over its pebbly bed, as it rejoiced on its way to tho great ocean of etornity. it too seemed to say, "Farewell, brother Crawford!"
As I rode along down a hot, dusty lane, an old sow jumped out of a suddon with a loud boo'too, boo-too sho too seemed to say, "Farewell, brother Crawford' f-,,
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My horso got frightened and jumped from under mo. and as ho curled hia tail over his Dack, kicked up his hocls' and ran off, he too seemed to say, "Farewell, brother Crawford!"
IMPORTANT.—Referring to tho fact that tho Houso has, upon motion of Goncral Butler, ordered an inquiry into tho mystery of tho assassination conspiracy, the Albany Express says: "Here, for cxamplo, is one significant fact' which we learn from authority that cannot bo doubted. On tho night of the assassination, tho pickets on the road which Booth took from Washington, wero withdrawn by a written order of a high military officer in our army^.On one previous--night, when the pliti^of-the abduction was to have t)ecn carried out, tho pickets wero withdrawn by the samo officer. That writton ofder is now' accessible. This would certainly seem to indicate that others besido those whose names aro familiar to the public, wero not ignorant of the conspiracy. Indeed, it is the opinion of thoso whose position .enables them to learn the interior facts of tho case, that there was presont in tho thoatrcj on tho fatal night, one higher than Booth, who bad the supervision of tho deadly work. Traces of this man have been found, but he has never been fully identified.
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