Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1869 — Negro Equality [ARTICLE]

Negro Equality

Tfee St. l’oul (Mint*.) Pioneer #ays: “That it i* n noticeable fact first nejji’d jury mm in thh't* ktiife wt'ro tummon«l by a democratic sheriff, m a democratic cotttity and dry, in a court ptcaided ( over by a democratic judge*, and where the prosecuting attorney was a democrat.'’ Democratic hatred of the negro line only existed in those States where he was deprived of the right so vote. Flace the ballot in hid hands and he at once, in the eyes of the democracy, is raised to a point where he ia worthy of the distinguished consideration, and after nil the cry and fuss made l>y the boiling representative* in this State, let the 3Mil amendment become a law and “negro equality*’ will be cn accomplished fact.— With the negro, ns a voter, the laws ori onr statute books preventing the marriage of negroes and whites, will be repealed, m.d then there will be nothing to save the poor fallows, except their prejudice, from the wiles of a voter who is sure to vote the democratic tirket. With what terrible , earnestness came thwery to uh during the iavl"ft ( 4 l wet-ke, “save u« —frowmegro equality” Feojile may laugh at it and sneer al it but wc* think the democracy kuow what they have to iV’.rbatter than their opponents do, they know thiir weukheSEts.

New York Citizen of the 27th in*:t. is terribly exercised shout a rumor it has hoard, concerning anew paper to I*o issued in New York to-day, called the Jr’reriulist. and which it says, is to advocate the establishment of an Empire upon the ruins of our Republic, proclaim Grant, Emperor, and play the mischief in a variety of ways. This editor wall-eyed through fear, having stumbled on this "‘marc's host,” see* that this has., been the Republican doctrine and tendency for years. Grant’s ominous “Let ns have -peace,” was but a modification 4tt* Napoleon’s “The Empire is peace.” Frank ?. Blair, Jr. “told ij rcfu so” way early last, summer. Th e . .President appoints none to office but those "STio ai'e related to him, that when the time conics for the coup d’etat the principal offices '.will be filled with men bound to ■ him by the double ties of blood and —ylscir. As all this is to take place to-day, and as to-day is the First of April, won’t the Citizen man be considerably fooled if the thing don’t •oinc off according to programme.