Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-06-15
From The New York Herald. June l2l
Important Proclamation Of the
Chase Faction, who Got UP the
Recent Cooper Institute Meeting.

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Shall colored loyal citizens of the United
States be deprived of the vote, while it is
given to traitors? Shall traitors be reward
ed for their treason by giving them the
franchise, while loyal men are punished for
their loyalty by taking it away? Shall trea-
son be rewarded with this distinguished
right because its skin is white, and loyalty
be punished with the degrading brand of
treason, namely--eXcommuni from
citizenship, because its skin Is dark? Shall
colored soldiers who have fought to pro-
tect our Government be punished for such
bravery and loyalty by taking away their
rights of citizenship, and white traitors who
have fought to destroy our Government
be rewarded for such rebellion by max
ing them citizens and voters, and Civ
ing them the power to trample the
blacks under their feet? Shall trea-
son be honored and rewarded? Shall patri-
otism be degraded and punished? Shall
white rebels be enthroned in power, and
faithful colored citizens be robbed of the
right of voting, which is the right of citi-
zenship? Shall the vote, which is their
means of defense for us as well as for them
selves against the tyranny and treason of
the rebels, be taken away from them be-
cause of the color Of their skin? ~.
The proposition to deprive the loyal col
ored citizens of their vote, and to put over
and against them the sole power of the
State government into the hands of rebels,
is the great measure of reconstruction pro-
claimed by President johnson. The trail
tors in the rebel States rebelled for the pur-
pose of perpetuating their own despotism
over the blacks. President johnson pro-
poses to reward the rebellion and the trail
tors by re-establishing that despotism! Shall
this proposed measure of the present Ad-
ministration be sanctioned and sustained?
Let the people answer. The Constitution
refers the right of suffrage to the people,
without distinction of color. BY the Dec
laration of independence and the Constitu-
ton, all men have the right of representa-
ton, without distinction of color.
BY the declaration of our fathers, the de-
NAL and Withholding of the right of rep
resentation was slavery, rather than endure
which they overturned the Govern
ment of Great Britain by arms and es-
tablshed representative government, on
the ground of the equality of all men be-
fore the law. They guaranteed the BEN
efts Of this republican form OF govern
ment to all the people, without distinction
| of color.
Shall the great distinctive measure of the
present Administration be to take away the
| right of representation, the right to re-
publican government and the enjoyment of
the same from more than two-tifths of the
whole population of the rebel States?-from
the only portion of the population who are
unquestionably loyal to the Government?
Shall the right of citizenship be taken from
the only loyal inhabitants who have fought
for the Government, and who have never
taken any part in the treason and rebellion
against it, and given to those who have re-
belled? Shall this be the work of recon-
struction by the present Administration?
In 1860, when the white rebels carried the
rebel States ont of the Union, the whole
white population rebeldom was 5,447, ,222
the colored population (loyal, 1866, no.
1t is proposed to reconstruct by excommu-
nicating nearly four millions of loyal per-
sons from the rights OF citizens, political
civil and social, and giving to five millions
of traitors thesole government OF the whole
Southern country over and against the 10y
al blacks. .'. ....-.l.
The population in North Carolina, on
which State PresidentJ Johnson proposes the
first trial of this plan, and its establishment
as a precedent, is as follows, between white
and colored, between rebels and loyalists
| 629942 whites, 362680 colored. By the
Constitution the right of representation be-
longs to all. President johnson propose:
that one-half-the rebellious half-shal
| take it away from the other half, the loya
half, who shall never be permitted to en-
| joy it, by reason of the color of their skin
| When North Carolina joined the Union ne
groes voted. North Carolina having REBEL
ed, and the rebellion being subdued by the
aid OF the negroes, North Carolina is to be
restored, and the negroes punished for their
loyalty by being excluded from the right to
vote. In 177S, by the Articles OF Conteder-
alton, the people voted without distinction
of color Negroes voted. BY the Consti-
tutions of the Southern States tree colored
men were voters. t. ..i,,....,... ..,,.,.
| When the Constitution was adopted by
| the States in 1889, only one State excluded
and branded the colored man, and that
State was South Carolina. The Constitu-
tions of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con-
necticut, New York, New Jersey, Penn
sylYania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
| North Carolina, Georgia, provided for the
right of voting without distinction of color
The Virginia declaration of rights declared
that all men having sufficient evidence OF
permanent common interest, with an at
tachment to the community, have the right
Of suffrage. In Tennessee, as late as 1928,
Cave johnson was elected to Congress by
negro votes. a auIr9,oJ .a.u. .ypT.
Shall the rebels and traitors of the rebel
States be to-day rewarded with the privl-
lege of voting while the right is taken
away from the loyal inhabitants and col
ored soldiers of the United States? Let us
hear the words of President Jefferson:
"With what eXecration should the states
man be loaded who permitting one hall
the citizens thus to trample on the rights OF
the other, transforms those into despots,
and these into enemies-destroys the NOR
ais of the one part and the patriotism OF
the other?" ;..........., 49,, .....,r
This is the effect of the measure Of this
Administration proposed by President john
son. Shall it be sustained? How will il
work? In 1860, when South Carolina sece-
ded, she had only 29L000 white inhabitants
(rebels) and ,41240S colored inhabitants
Qoyal.) The measure Of President John
son proposes to give the government o1
703,40S into the hands of the 29l, 900 trail
tors. Mississippi had 35G90l white inhabPi-
tants (rebels) to 437, ,404 colored inhabitants
(loyalo The measure of President John
SON puts the 437, ,404 l6yalists under the feet
of 100000 traitors. Ino Louisiana 357, ,45f
whites (rebels) to 1350,546 colored persons
(loyal.) In Alabama 526, 271 whites (rebels,
to 437,736 colored Qoyal.) And so on
Shall the rights of7these loyalsts be taker
! away by our. Government, and the rebe
; portion of the population set over them
Or shall the rule Of President Jefferson b,
adoptedp Letevery man who fights oripayl
, for the, Government vote. Let every mar
who fights or pays exercise his just anC
: equal rights in the election. Eet those Only
who fight against the Government have
the right of voting taken away; let thost
who support the Government and fight fol-
J it have the right of voting and enjoy it.
: Al Case Of Observation-Disclosures,