Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1857 — Taking Ground. [ARTICLE]

Taking Ground.

Republicanism is taking ground rapidly in favor of, negro equality. A large meeting was held in Chicago, a feiv days ago, to welcome Gerrit Smith and hear an address from him. The call for this meeting was signed by Hon. J. F. Farnsworth, Republican member of Congress •elect from that district and a large number of the leading Republicans of that city. The call states that the object of the meeting was to discuss the question whether it was not the duty of the people of Illinois “to know no law for slavery, and therefore , to refuse to suffer any fugitive slave to be taken back into slavery .” Gcrrit Smith boldly proclaimed that the negroes were the equals, morally, politically, and socially of the white race which sentiment received the sanction of the Republicans of Chicago, and thus the affirmative of the proposition taken. There can be no question but that the Republican party will assume this ground as one plank, and the principal one, in the coming political campaigns. The Republican Legislature of New-York, at its recent session, provided an amendment to the Constitution of that State, elevating the black man in political equality to the level of the white. In Massachusetts, Republicanism has placed the negro politically, morally and socially upon an equality with it, and the same sympathies have been freely exercised in the . Republican States of Maine, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, Ohio and Wisconsin. In all these States the foreign-born white man, the Irishman and German, are made the inferior of the negro. The white Republicans in those States have no sympathy with the foreign-born wfirtesj have iio deslre to confer upon them the political privileges conferred by our institutions, but are entirely willing to invest the negro with them. They court political and social associations with the black man, but have no such sympathies with those of their own race who by accident were born upon another soil.

This is the idea entertained by Republicanism of freedom. It is this kind of freedom that this party is endeavoring to extend over the nation. With the poor white man they have no sympathy, but would degrade him -to the leveled -the ne-. gro. A German or an Irishman they cannot tolerate, but they are ready to embrace the negro and confer upon him all the privileges of citizenship, all the political and social franchises they enjoy themselves. Their idea of a free Stale is to have it overrun with a negro population, the lowest and most degraded form of humanity. We should be willing to concede to Republicanism the full enjoyment of this privilege if it could be done without imposing it upon those who have no affinity lor either political or social equality with the negro, or to participate in the degradation which must follow such aa amalgamation. But as this cannot be done, we shall endeavor to benefit the believers in Republicanism by preventing the intermingling of the races. —State Sentinel. Surgical Operation. —The important operation of cutting away the superior maxilla, or upper jaw, for the removal of a bone cancer, (ostea sarcoma,) was performed on the person of a Mr. Beach, near this place, one day last week, by Drs. Foster, of Ypsilanti, and Hallovvell, of Detroit ; Dr. Gerry, by whom we are furnished this statement, being also present to administer chloroform, and notice its effects. The patient being put in a proper condition, the operation commenced, by cutting through the flesh, from the centre of the upper lip by the tip of the nose to near the corner of the eye ; then from the corner of the mouth backward to the base of the ear, on the right side. The flap embraced by these cuttings, comprising all one side of the face, was then raised up, exposing the anatomy of the part. A front tooth being extracted to facilitate the operation, the jaw was divided at the centre of the mouth, then frofn the nose to the lower corner of the eye near the nasal duct, then separating the transverse suture, or seam, near the other corner of the eye, and the zigomatic suture, the entire light upper jaw, with the cheek bone and infra orbital plate, was removed. The patient gradually recovered from the effects of the chloroform during the dressing of the wound, and seemed to be doing well when we last heard from him. The cancer was inveterate, and the single chance of life depended on its successful eradication by excision. We trust the chance may be his. —Ypsilanti Sentinel. t* ’ CTTho Fourth-Gomes on Saturday. r ' 1. . - . 1 _*■ ’