The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-08-24


groes are property, why is other prop.
erty not represented? II men why
ec-fifths2 From that period
until the present the South has had
tho privilege of using the negro as
merchandise, and three .ffths Of him
as political capital. In SGO,when the
vote of representation was one hun
dred and, twenty-seven thousand the
South had eighteen more memb bers Of
Congress and eighteen more electors
than if only the free persons were
counted. The emancipation of slaves
will give it twelve more, for the blacks
will not be counted as constitutional
fractions but constitutional units
-Four millions of free persons will thus
confer power eqahi to 80 members
OF Congress (more than any except the
loyal Statcs), and yet have no voice
in elections. They must be constitu-
tiChally enfranchised or constitution
ally disfranchised. Are we prepared
10 give these Rebels additional politi-
cal power?-" men ignorant, illiterate,
vicious, fit for no decent employment
on earth except manual labor, spurn-
ing all labor as degrading? Are the
votes OF three such men as Stanton or
Seward, Sumner or Garrison, Grant
or Sherman to be neutralized by the
ballot of one such worthless man rs is
found in the South p
Hon. Robert Dale Owen has care
fully computed tho increased power
given these men if there be no alter
alton of the right Of suffrage by the
Constitution. He says that in some
States where the blacks and whites
are about equal, and where two thirds
of the whites shall equality" as voters
this now condition Of things will give
the Southern white voter in a Presiden-
tial or Congressional election three
times as much political influence as o
Northern voter" .."I
! What direction is it fair to presume
this increased power will take?
1t will be directed as fully against
Northern interests as negro interests.
With this increased power the South
will possess one third the votes in the
House of Representatives. If they
stand together-and who ever saw
them divided-they need but one sixth
more to get and hold control of the
National Legislation and our foreign
and domestic policy.
What would result from such o
combination? w a.1'. rt
The National Government would be
in the hands of those who for four
years determined on its distinctions
1t is now great military and naval
power and used by true men it is fully
competent to enforce its decisions at
home as well as abroad by srong
hand. And we may in the future have
to deplore the faulty with which we
in fearing "negro equality" and had
to choose between NEGRO suffrage
and Southern prcdominance, we allow
ed our prejudices to usurp our judg,
ments, and in endeavoring to keen
the negro down, We have failed to keep
ourselves up. ' =.
What first act of Southern prodomi.
mace would be done?
Reputation of our public debt, OF
placing their reasonable debt on q
par with ours. No one can imagine
the appalling evils of this course. A
tax TO pay the debt at once would not
be half SO detrimental as Reputation
as that would be taxation most cruel
Iiniquitous and calamitous.
What reasons have you for believ
ing tho South would repudiate the
debit .t'.t
| Tho strongest motive that can in
fuence mankind the masters see in
it their humiliation, the negro hi,
freedom; beside the South loose theil
entire debt, contracted by this war
and must pay their proportion of oul
debt. This, with the loss of negroes
their debt is about the size of the Ma
tional one, and this, with the loss O.
slaves, would duplicate their losses, es
timating the slaves at $500 each.
What proportion of the cost of sup
pressing tho rebellion will each sec
tion. of the Government be compelled
to pay?
By a recent calculation (made ap
proximately) in the Census Bureau
Department of Interior, and estima
ting the public dobt at twenty five
hundred millions OF dollars, and ap
portioning it according to the number
of white male adults over twenty years
of age, 1T is as follows:
New England States .s3OS,6S9, ,35:
Middle States....."...... 740, l95, "a:
Northern States. ........... 693,288, ,78l
Southern States ............. 46l ,929,S4t
Pacific States............... 95,896,67i
Thus you SEQ the South are bount
for over four hundred and sixty mil
lions of the debt, without one dollar
OF investment. 1t is thus their inter
est, and all know this passion drive
to reputation. Ii they did we woult
! revolt would we? We should aftel
such an execrable violotion of justice
But in whose hands there would b.
the 'war power. aas ,i.i r-a.
What deductions follow?S ''
!, Let every sensible, rejecting mai
draw his own deductions. Take thing
as they are, not what we would desir
them; and if negro suffrage is alogica
sequence of negro emancipation, thel
let it come and come quickly. ia
The Ruling Sensation.
4 Speaking of an elopement iron