Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-12-23
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION;
sgs ~. For representative,
sn Adm G.. IIIBBS.
What You Will be Glad TO do BE.
i. .4- fore the War Ends.

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the city of Philadelphia, told his hearers
that if JEFF. DAVIS succeeds in keeping the
saddle, you will, every one of you, be glad
to extend the suffrage to the negro" JEFF.
DAVIS will keep the saddle, as PHILLIPs
calls it. The reelection of LINCOLN has so
far resulted to his advaptage as to enable
him to do that. That reelection disarms
SrEPHI Ms and Gov. Brown, aud the class of
men Nho wo i'd come back into the Unicn
upon the terms the Democracy, in their
support Of MCCLELLAN, ayowed willing
ness to receive them. JEFF. DAVIS and his
adherents can now unite the people of the
South in warning against the LINCOLN Adj
ministration. PHILLIPS is bold to say that
LINCOLN. when elected, did not intend to
90 farther in the course Of Abolitionism
than to sanction measures interdicting the
spread of slavery into the territories; but
that events had carried him forward
so far as to induce him to issue the
Emancipation Proclamation. There can
not be doubt in the mind of
q rational man, that If, when the
War broke out, the Administration had de-
clared that Slavery must be abolished be-
fore it would consent to peace, there would
have been extreme difficulty in getting
volunteers or recruits. A declaration of
this sort does not now shock the generality
of our people. The War has been so man.
aged. and we think purposely, as to educate
the people into the belief that an avowed
Abolition policy is a necessity in the work
of putting down the Rebellion. The Radi-
calls in the Administration party now say
that this is not sufficient. More must be
done for the negro, or ''woe to the nation,'
and PHILLIPS says that 'as the eonqueror
of the 9Th of November, Radicalism is des-
tined TO be as imperious as Wall street."
What Radicalism now demands, is the adop-
tion OF an amendment to the Constitution by
which the negro will be made the 'equaT" of
the white man at the bdllot-6ox, in the camps,
or in the Senate" They demand this impe-
rlously; they will abate nothing in their
demand and PHILLIPS says that our peo-
pie will accede to this demand before the
War is over if JEFF. DAVIS & Co. can con-
tinue to control matters in the insurgent
States. Hemakes this statement in the
face of THOMAS brilliant victory, and
SHERNAN's grand march through Georgia.
At present our people are not willing to ac-
cede to such measure; a majority will re-
volt at it; the Radicals know it. They be-
wi faIr uoo RI .n1, 60 81,
pie up to this point; and they believe fur
ther and truly, if the War is closed up,
and the negro is not pu6 politically an
equality with the white man, that the
question will thereby have been indefinite
ly postponed. They believe that this point |
must be carried before the War closes. |
They put it paramount to all other |
considerations-abov the Union-above
the material prosperity of our peo-
pie. What follows inevitably? The his
tory of this Administration proves |
conclusively that LINCOLN has conformed |
his policy to suit the Radicals. From this
flct there is road to but one conclusion. |
The War will be so managed-so bungled |
-our victories, the bravery of our armies, |
turned to no account-until our people shall |
be worried into declaring that the negro
and the white man shall have an equal
voice in the administration of the affairs of |
this Government. If any man can tell |
what length of time it will require to worry
our people into this state OF feeling, he can
begin to form something like correct esti-
mate of the duration of the War and of the
number of calls for men we shall yet have.