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If the Courier baa any relations or friends whom it desires to marry off to colored partners, we have no objections, provided they will leavethe mate. But we do not care to see the law forbidding miscegenation re* pealed for the accomodation of the Courier or any of its relatiyes or friends.The Courier quotes a paragraph from the Declaration of Independence,“that all men are created equal Ac./5 as Republican doctrine. The para* graph was first written by Thomas Jefferson, the father of Democracy, many years before the people of this country had tasted of the evils of a modern Republican party. If our local Republican managers had observed this principle, Henry Thornton would have been treated no worse than the white man who married a coloredwoman.The Madison Herald demands that more persons be imprisoned and fined for miscegenation. It is a frightful thing to lock a man up iu a penitentiary, and it is a serious thing to assess a heavy fine upon a poor man for complicity in miscengena tion. The Herald has astonishing bitterness against the colored man.— [Courier.The Herald’s first article on this subject was to call attention to the unjust discrimination made against the colored mao. Here id this Republican county of Jeffersan a white man and a colored man violate the same law, in precisely the same manner. The whiteman goes unpunished, and the colored man is arrested, sentenced to the penitentiary for three years,and fined one liuudred dollars. The Herald only asks that all laws be equally binding on the black man andthe white man, while the Courier and its pirty has given a very painful example of prejudice to the man with a white skin, aod then tries to conceal this partiality by whimpering about the injustice of the law.
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Madison Daily Herald
Madison, Indiana, US
Sat, Aug 23, 1884
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