M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-04-19
lErom the Chiliieotho Advortiser.l
Tired Of Republicanism!
BUoKsKIN TOWNSHIP,


my first vote until the dissolution o
that party, | have lately taken it'll,
interest in politics voting, however
uniformly with the Republicans from
a previous habit Of opposition to thu
Democracy, and perhaps influence
by little prejudice against the name
have looked upon all the hue anC
cry aoout "Slavery in the Terrific
riesN as a hunbng--ai once harmless
aud MISUNDERSTANDING. rs every
man but fool must know. that under
our political system the people N any
Territory can have but little hindrance
in securing for themselves such law
as they desire.
Bat the developments Of tho last
few months clearly disclose that the
aims AMI ends Of the Republican par,
~ are most disastrous to our relations
w5,h other States anl our condition in
Ohio. Since the shrieks about
"SMv.ry in the Territories" are all
glumln, there can ba mt lwo objects
H f.a, paIly--tnc one to destroy
SHgaly . ,u, Slave S!ates; the other,
- aG auxiliary q that purpose, to
saso he black man to q full exercise
Ct political privileges, In all those
States where The Republicans have
heavy luajorities, as in Massachusetts,
Vermont, &c, the negroes vote and
hold office.
Only q few of the Republican lead
ers, Seward among them, have open.
ly declared their intention OF violent
Interference with Slavery in the South.
But no man of mark among lhem--no
man able to get into the United States
Senate, or Presidential or Guberna-
torial nomination but has, whenever
he has spoken upon the subject, de-
clared himself IN favor Of extending
political privileges to the negro. In
this section Of Ohio, this point of the
Republican creed is kept in the back.
ground Rs far as possible.
voted for Salmon p. Chase for
Governor both times he ran; and al.
though recollec. well when Mr. Clay
denounced him as an a5olitionist, |
never dreamed that he advocated the
right OF negroes to vote and to 20 to
our white schools and to be placed on
apolitical equality with the whites in
all respects, until | saw the extracts
from Chase's speech to the negroes Of
Cincinnati, published by You in the
.Adcertissr Of March 80, a copy of
which accidentally came into my
hands. take the Scioto Gdsette.-.
1t never has published the speech Or
any part of it. | voted the Republi-
aan ticket last fall, and for Judge
Gholson among the rest; but it never
crossed my mind that | was voting
for a man so devoted to the wool as
that he would decide, under his judi
eial oath, that man with 0iG quarter
negro blood and kinky hair, and long
heels, and copper complexion, was a
"white citizen Of the United States"
! thought was voting for an honest,
clear headed man and not II tanatical
.abOlitionist. understand now what
Giddings meant when he said to the
|bredren" in Ashtabula last fall. that
Gholson was all right on the suffrage
question.
voted for q Republican R"presen.
tative in the Legislature; lnt, when |
did so, ! did not anticipate that every
Republican in that body save two
wouldvote down a proposition like
that that Parr, a Democrat OF Licking,
introduced into the House. The pro
position ofP,ur was this: Immediate
ly after lhe Republican Supreme
Court had made he Infamous decision
in favor Of ne4r| sufiiage, he intrOdu.
Cad Il rcsol.'i,D 70 sub nit an amend
muu. 70 the Cons mtOn of the State,
wo~tyl n sdch terms, if the English
laHgGsge turnisheI them, as that not
even ~ Abolition Court could drive
Il ll.Sag 'nrodgh it to the polls
Evcu Domocrtt in the IIonse voted
90 b.v. he Constitution TINS amend.
ed. Every Republican but one voting
agaDsi It. They had the decision OF
their Court giving mulattoes the right
to vote, and they were bound to defend
this right Of their colvred friends. |
had no idea the Republican Legisla-
turc was going to do this when | voted
tcr a Republican member last fall.
AS | said before, | cared nothing
for all the froth and gas about the
"Slave Power" and Slavery Exten.
sion;" for considered it all CANNON.
But when John Brownism loomed up
and thefruits OF Republicansm | have
spoken OF began to show themselves,
it seemed to me that realities were
here which should at ouce be dealt
with. !, therefore, threw my first
Democratic vote-without a scratch
ien Monday last, although at time Of
life when one rarely changes his con.
duct or position in these matters
My Republican neighbors disavow