M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1865-09-28

ter of million lives, and an awful
amount Of devastation and misery,
and left our National debt full bill.
lion less than it is to>day."
Aud, again, in the Tribune OF
August "a, 1865, in speaking OF the
bad policy ofrefusing to allow the
South to propose terms, he says
81 would have welcomed every
overture looking to pacification, and
il compelled to have refused the pro-,
posed: terms, would have shown to
the world why / must do 80. . /.
| think this course, wisely and studi--
ously persisted 10, would have been
worth an army to the National cause,
land would have saved q full year of
tue war" ..rs .....'
/ At the outset OF the insurrection,
it was we'll known at Washington,
it was proclaimed by the Republican
press, that majority Of the South.
ern people were opposed to secession.
Wisdom and patriotism would have
dictated a policy calculated to inspire
confidence in the hearts of that por.
tion ofthe people who remained loyal
to the Union, and to cohciliate all
those who were not in arms. unN
happily, an opposite policy was
adopted and there Waea settled pur.
pose on the part OF Mr. Stanton, and
other leaders, to force the whole
Southern population into the vortex
Of civil war.
Every soldier, from the General to
the private in the ranks, appreciates
the advantage OF having intelligent
friends in the sphere of active militia
ry operations. Information, guides,
supplies, all come from such a popuS
lation. But, instead Of Cancellation,
the only idea at Washington was war
! mot against armed insurgents, but
against every man born under a
: Southern sun, provided he had q
} white skin. Thus were the innocent
and the guilty condemned together,
! and thus did Edwin M. Stanton
. provo himselfto be the most efficient
h recruiting officer Tor Jefferson Davis.
8 Applause 1t had only to be
= known at Washington that the single
e motive, which inspired the conduct
? of General Officer WAS the sestor-
D alton of the Union, and that officer
was, as far as the War Office could
9 make him 80, a doomed man. Hence
= the defeat Of our army in front Of
s Richmond, in 1862, not by Lee, bnt
Iby Stanton. Hence the assassins
d blow which was aimed at Sherman,
Il and which only faileG to reach him,
e because his army formed shield
sixty thousand deep, through which
e the murderous blow could Mt penc-
q trate. [Applause.]
8 No feeling OF personal dnkindness.
}, no vulgar prejudice, controls my ac'
o ton in opposing Negro Equality
e have ever regarded, and now coz
60 slider, the negro an object of COIN
J miseration, and not Of hatred or con-
70 tempt. He is not responsible for
: being a resident of America, but his
% misfortunes neither give him sufi-
IS cieat intelligence to become citizen,
J. nor do away with the insurmountable
: obstacles against his being placed
~ upon an equality with the white
= man. And, although Gen Cox de-
re clares, ia bis Oberlin letter, thai
% "tEe white and black races are tron
= the antpodes Of tn human family,
nc yet he substantially says, in the sam'
80 letter, that if a majority Of the Re-
III publicans declare in favor Of Negr'
u Suffrage, that he will ther declare il
favor Of placing black and whit
III men on the same political level.
a With two or three exceptions, al
'le of the Republican papers have, sine
'ii the nomination of Gen Cox, declare
~ in favor ofNegro Suffrage, but, find
u u ing that the doctrine was otfenslv
Us to the soldiers. the mechanics, an
70 oO aboring men of Ohio, the Repuei'
V can leaders now seek to evade til
eu ,., issue, in certain localities, until atte
~ the election; and then, if they carr
r1 'S tho State, the first step will be take
~, toward negro equality. In tn
40 40 Northern part of Ohio, where tn
% - Republicans are united in favor
., 'n the negro as against the white sold
,bt ,h ier and laboring man, their count
~ and district conventions have exphc
S So lily declared in favor of Negro gu
ed frage. ~ s.as.I D.
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