Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-08-26

question IS, are these cOlOred walls and GtrayB
to be given the right ~ outrage in Ohio In
his letter. General Cox declined to answer
that question, but at tho late meeting at 0ber-
lin, General Cox took occasion to define his
position as 10 negro suffrage in Ohio Ac.
cordiug TO the special dispatch to the Gin
cinnati Gazette, he declared III have seen
black troops fight nobly, and say to oil, that
they who were good enough to fight with us,
are good enough to stand on the Uuion plat
form with us."
This frank and explicit declaration of Gen
Cox in favor Of negro equality in Ohio, clears
away the doubts which existed as to the true
OF certain passages of his let
ter, and as recognize the right of the peo-
pie to be informed Of the opinions Of a candi.
date upon all public issues submitted to their
consideration, here declare that sm oppo-
sed to comforting the right OF suffrage on the
negro ia Ohio, or in the South, or at any fu-
ture time, or under any circumstances. In
1860 there were more than 90 600 negroes in
Ohio and il is believed that the number has
been increased four-fould since that time.
Are we to confer the right of suffrage on
negro population of 1000, and thereby con-
vert our great State into a negro colony2-
For grant citizenship to negroes in Ohio, and
the African dependency proposed to be es.
tablished by General Cox would become de-
populated. The waits and strays would be
the only Inhabitants Of the dependency and
the great body of negroes would migrate to
Ohio and other States, where they could
enjoy social and political equality with the
white race.
And is this the reward which our brave
soldiers are 10 receive for all their peril in
hundreds OF battles, and all their toll in scores
of campaigns2 Now that the war is over,
shall we say to the soldiers, as a reward for
your valor, we will reduce you to the level Of
negroes And our labofing men, are they to
be brought into competition with negroes with
half wages, and be forced to take negro pri-
ces or starve2 No, sirs, it must not be; the
whole scheme OF negro equality is chimericel
and fraught with danger. We have upon the
continent examples of the total incapacity of
the mongre races for self.government At
the outbreak of the American Revolution, the
population of the United States and that of
Mexico were about equal, three millions each
in either country. There we're thee races,
the white, red and black in the States of the
Union, free as we'll as slaves The negroes
have been kept in a condition of submission to
the white race, and from comparatively
small number they have increased to four
million souls while on the other hand, the
savage spirit OF the Indians spurned control,
and a conflict ensued, which only ceased with
the existence of the red men And what is
the relative condition of Mexico, and the
United Slates2 The former has but FIVE mil
lion inhabitants nearly one half Of their ter
ritory has been absorbed by the United States,
and she is destitute of commerce, manu- facto-
res and schools, while our ships cover the wa
ters of every sea, our manufactures are to be-
found in every part of the habtable globe,
and every child in our land has an opportu-
nifty to obtain an English education
Why this difference2 The United States
and Mexico wore alike colonzed by Europe
ans In the former the white race preserved
its integrity, while the Spanisrd, on the other
hand, amalgamated with the Indian and the
negro, and race Of wretched mongreIs,
doomed to a state of chronic anarchy, is the
result Some we'll meaning persons ask
might it not be better to give the negro the
right of suffrage, and have done with the
vexed question. Such was the cry for twenty
five years prior to the rebellion. Let us
abolish slavery and have done with the vexed
question. What has been the result2 Let
those who think thus, be not deceived, for he
who votes for negro suffrage votes for the
Of the most cruel merciless and
devastating of all wars-a war OF races-a
war which spares neither age, nor sex, nor
condition; war which can know no peace,
until one race or the other has been swept
from the earth; war which would make the
West and North, as we'll as the South, scene
Of fearful blight and desoation. We are told,
in tone Of rejoicing, by certain distinguished
gentlemen, that in the South the conflict of
kao N. d.. Al.
race will be driven TO the wall and is 10 be
exterminated, and that in the new order of
things, a negro aristocracy will be created,
and that negroes will occupy seats on the
Supreme bench and in the halls of the Ma.
that six millions of our own race, men, wo-
men and children, shall be trampled into the
earth in order that the aristocraey of four
millions of negroes shall be established upon
their graves2 And can it be that policy so
monstrous in itself, so atrocious in its con.
cepton, policy equally inhuman, unconsti.
tutional and unchristian, can receive the
sanction of the enlightened citizens of Ohio2
Can it be true that the people Of Ohio desire
the determination of our countrymen of the
South, and that the black mans home shall
be built upon the white mans gravel Forbid
IL, Heavenl Aud in the name Of our country,
in the name of civil liberty, in the name Of
all we hold most dear on earth, invoke the
spirits Of the mighty dead-of Washington
and Adams, Of Franklin and Of Jefferson, Of
Hamilton aud Of Madison-against the horrid
against humanity, against the
Constitution, against the divine spirit OF
Christianity itself
Although | commenced my military career
at 10 years OF age, was taught from earliest
youth to revere the cause Of civil liberty, and
| view the continued uspension of the writ Of
habeas corpus, and the trial of citizens by
Military Commissions an indirect violation Of