_, the influential organ of the Northwestern
Democracy, says:

"The word 'white' is not found in any of the original
constitutions, save only that of South Carolina. In every other
State negroes, who possessed the qualifications that were required
impartially of all men, were admitted to vote, and many of that
race did vote, in the Southern as well as in the Northern States.
And, moreover, they voted the Democratic ticket, for it was the
Democratic party of that day which affirmed their right in that
respect upon an impartial basis with white men. All Democrats can
not, even at this day, have forgotten the statement of General
Jackson, that he was supported for the presidency by negro voters
in the State of Tennessee.

"The doctrine of impartial suffrage is one of the earliest and most
essential doctrines of Democracy. It is the affirmation of the
right of every man who is made a partaker of the burdens of the
State to be represented by his own consent or vote in its
government. It is the first principle upon which all true
republican government rests. It is the basis upon which the
liberties of America will be preserved, if they are preserved at
all. The Democratic party must return from its driftings, and stand
again upon the immutable rock of principles."

In Ohio the leaders of the Peace Democracy intend to carry on one
more campaign on the old and rotten platform of prejudice against
colored people. They seek in this way to divert attention from the
record they made during the war of the rebellion. But the great
facts of our recent history are against them. The principles of the
fathers, reason, religion, and the spirit of the age are against
them.

The plain and monstrous inconsistency and injustice of excluding
one-seventh of our population from all participation in a
government founded on the consent of the governed in this land of
free discussion is simply impossible. No such absurdity and wrong
can be permanent. Impartial suffrage will carry the day. No low
prejudice will long be able to induce American citizens to deny to
a weak people their best means of self-protection for the unmanly
reason that they are weak. Chief Justice Chase expressed the true
sentiment when he said "the American Nation can not afford to do
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