Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-07-14
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dependence, we have recently devoted
some attention to the study of that in
strumont, for the purpose of ascertaining,
il possible, what course it is likely to pur-
sue in the future, il entrusted by the people
with continuance Of power.
! Oe course the Declaration commends it.
self to their attention chiefly by the pro-
position "that all men are created equal"
Hence we infer that they propose so to
legislate as TO preserve the equality Of
men. How this is to be done, may be
gathered in part from the journals of the
party. and perhaps more light may be
thrown on the subject by reference to other
portions of the Declaration.
The leading papers and the ruling spir-
its Of the party claim
/. That those States wherein rebellion
against the authority of the United States
government recently existed, shall be held
as conquered provinces under military
rule, until the people thereof consent not
only to the abolition of negro slavery, but
to the enfranchisement of all male negroes
of the age of twenty one years
2. That the word Wlite shall be stricken
from the Constitution of those Northern
States where negroes have not hitherto
been permitted 10 vote.
They have evidently been compelled
to advocate the latter proposition as
matter of necessity for not 10 advocate it,
would expose them to the charge of in
consistency in advocating the former.
They have had the power to enfranchise
the negro for many years in Ohio, but
they have not done it. Why now The
fanatics were enabled to abolitionize the
whole North upon the sectional plea that
the South had too much political power,
by virtue of the existence of slavery and
the constitutional two-fifths rule as the
basis of representation. Slavery being
as they claim--abolished, the two-fifths
rule dies with it's tunctus o6fcio FIVE
negroes, which only counted three in the
basis of representation, while slavery ex-
listed, now count five ; and the political
power of the South is tremendously ia
creased as result Of the abolition of
slavery--a fact which may account for the
ready acquiescence of the Southern poll.
ticians in the new order of things. This
result was entirely overlooked by the time
serving political pap-suckers who lent
themselves and their influence to the Ra-
ideals for price, and the evil must now
be remedied, and that speedily-or the
cohesive power of public plunder" want
ing-the machine must inevitably go to
pieces, as suddenly as the Yankee par
sons wonderful "one horse shay" This
can alone be accomplished by the proposed
coup d etat of the Radicals, the enfranchise-
ment Of the negro, supposed to be more ac-
cessible to New England argument than
his quondam master Perforce, the re-
moval of the mote necessitates the expul-
sion OF the beam. But the completeness
Of the "African System" is not yet fully
apparent. Let us recur to the "Declara-
ton" Its authors complain of king George
for that: "He has endeavored to prevent
the population of these States for that
purpose, obstructins the laws of naturali-
zation of foreigners, and refusing to pass
others to encourage their migration
hither. Puritan philanthropy would eman-
cipate in the name of humanity and human
progress abolish the lash, and enslave
by use of the almighty dollar. The con-
science stricken ex-importer of enslaved
Africans has long viewed the wealth pro-
ducing cotton fields of the South with CO.
vetous eye. Acquired by confscation and
purchase from an impoverished people
they can be titled by the emancipated slave
at the price of the New England master.
An abundance of labor may be procured
by direct importation from the mission
stations of Africa, and new slave-trade
inaugurated in the name of humanity and
human progress, which will cause the
wealth of the world to flow into the cof-
fers of a puritan race already enriched by