Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1857 — Not Republicanism. [ARTICLE]

Not Republicanism.

The Ohio State Journal, a paper that supported Fremont last year and ranks itself with the Republican party, has recently given utterance to the following expression : “We believe the negro, so far as the right of suflerago, or any other right of citizenship is concerned, should be placed on an equality with the rest of mankind.” We need not say that such a prin ciple never can, and never will find enough friends to make it effectual, It is impossible, and we have no fears of the great Republican organization ever adopting such a motto. If it should, however, we would be on the outside of it as quick as we heard of it. It is too loathsome to contemplate for one moment, and we detest the Journal, not so much for expressing itself thus, as we do for pretending to speak for an organizatiortftvho as a body repudiate the idea. These expressions are handled without gloves by the opposition, and unless we unanimously,' as a party, repudiate them, we need never think of being outside of a minority in this government.. We are reminded, however, that this is not the only instance where similar views have been advanced by journals and men who pretend to be the leaders of our ptirty. We refer to the New-York Tribune, the Chicago Ledger, Hon. Win. H. Seward , and others we might mention. We have now before us one of Mr. Seward’s speeches delivered in the United States Senate, Jan. 30th, 1850, in which the following passage occurs: I am in favor of the equality of men—of all men, whether they be born in one land or born in another. I am in favor of receiving the whole. I acknowledge them all to constitute one great family, for whom it is the business of statesmen, and the business of man to labor and to live. • ♦ * * * And, going upon this broad principle, I have no hesitation in saying that there is no distinction in my respect or affection between men of one land and of another; between men of one clime and another ; between men of one race and another; or Betweett rnen of one - color and another; no distinction but what is based, not upon institutions of government, not upon the consent of society, but Upon their individual and personal merit.” We take the following from a recent number of the New-York Tribune, a paper that boasts of a greater circulation than any other in the world, and also pretends to preach the whole gospel of Republicanism. It is an urgent instruction, heralded forth by that paper to the Republicans of lowa just previous to the recent election there, and no one rejoices more than ourself that it was not heeded. It will be remembered

by all our readers that the people of lowa had a new State Constitution submitted to them at the late election for adoption or rejection. A separate clause was also submitted granting negro sufierage, and this is in reference to that: “ Rally to the polls on the first Monday in August and vote for the Constitution and equal sufierage. We presume that though the Constitution be sustained, equal sufferage will be voted down ; but to have voted openly, manfully and heartily for the great principle of adjusting political franchise to political responsibilities in defiance of demagogue craft and blackguard prejudice and slang, is an incident in a . man’s life to which he will recur with satisfaction in the hour of calamity, and contemplating which he may look upward with hope of mercy from the bed oFUeath?’ How really solemn ! We wish to ask our Republican brethren in the State of Indiana, if they would vote for negro sufFcrage here if they were called upon to vote yes or no ? From what we have heard we are conscious you would repudiate such an idea very pointedly. Then why do you so freely patronize a print that is the very personification of that ism, which indeed thinks, is so meritorious an act as to insure the candidate a safe and brilliant exit into the paradise above. Are you ignorant that this paper preaches this doctrine ? You cannot be. All who have been taking it a few months or more and have read it as

they should have done must certainly know it. We are well aware of the great cause of its vast circulation ; it is from the exceedingly low price and the unusual amount of reading contained in each number, and it has so great an amount of news, etc., couched within its ample dimensions this one idea is en tirely overlooked. We say friends, in all candor, too, as long as we cling to that paper with the tenacity that has governed us thus far, our enemies will have a weapon that will cripple us for life. We say again, that such a principle must be eschewed by us or we cannot muster enough soldiers soon to make a decentrctreat. The idea of negro equality, whether socially or politically considered, is too abhorrent to receive the support of the masses. OCT’ Is Mr. McCarthy such an ignoramus, that be does not know that the Post-office law does not require the letter list to be advertised in the paper having the largest circulation in the county ? Every well-informed man knows that the law merely requires the list to be advertised in the paper having thfe largest circalation in the township.—Gazette. A little too fast, Mr. Davies. The law provides that the paper shall have the largest circulation within the range ofthe Post-office “delivery.” The delivery of this Post-office is not confined to this township, but extends over a very large portion of the county. Try again, sweet pet.