M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1865-09-07


| is, they would be protected in life,
liberty and property, without having
the right 10 vote, or tho exercise OF
other rights which arc incident to
| suffrage.
The "Obcrlin Committee" said to
Cen Cox, in their letter Of July 81,
1860, we want to know directly
from yon your views on the following
dDbject-; 18t. AFRO You in favor Of
modifying oar Constitution so as to
give tho elective franchise to colorcd
merl"
70 this quogtion, ;llua plainly pnt,
Gen. Cox made no reply, aud every
reader OF his letter ia LETT to draw his
own inference as to his views aa to
Negro Suffrage in Chic, He speaks
Of the "logic ofcvcnte," which / un-
ierstant TO mean to drift with the
Ic1Tcnt and IL the "event" of bis
election, anl it appearing that
majority Of the leaders of his party
iiVor Negro Suffrage in Ohio, then
no G5 Governor will favor amending
our Constitution so as 10 mako no.
5rocl yoter5,
lie say5 that 'hc few colorod men
we have amongs. ul aa mere waits
and eiraya from tho great body."-
But tho question is, are there "col-
oroI waits AMI strays" to bo given
lhe right Of suffrage in Ohio9 Ir his
letter, Gen. Cox declined to answer
| that question. But at the late meet.
Ing ut Oberlin, Gen. Cox took oCca.
sion 70 define his position as to Ne.
.gro Suffrage in Ohio. According to
.tho apociai diapatch to tho Cincinnati
Gazette, no declared
81 hovo seen bIack troops fight
'n9bly, gnl Isay Of all, that they who
we're good enough to fgh: With US
aye good enough to stand on tho
Uni0nplatiorm with me-"
This franl; and explicit doclara.
ton OF Gen, Cox in favor Of Negro
Equality in Ohio, clears away tho
doubts which existed as to tho tluo
Interpretation Of certain passages of
his letter. And as recognize the
right Of the people to bo Informed of
the opinions Of candidate upon all
! public issues submitted to their con,
aiderasion, | declare that
| am opposed to comforting tho
dgbt of sufrago or negroes in Ohio,
OF in the South, now, tr at any fu.
lure time, Or under any circumstan>
Gee.
In 1880, tpcro wcro moro than
Twenty five thousand negroes in Ohio,
tanl it j1 believed that tho number
/ has been increased four fold since
,aat tine. Are wO TO confer tho
IrisiEo. Suffrage on q negro popull.
! ton OF ono hundred thousand, oui
thereby convert our great State into
negro coiony' For, grant citizen
ship to negroes in Ohio, and tho
African dependency" proposed to
| DO established by Con. Cox, would
become dopopulated tho "waife and
9tEays' would be the only inhabitants
Of tho "dopondoncy," and tho great
| body Of negroes would migrate to
! Ohio, and other States where thoy
could enjoy social and political
| equality with the whito race. And
ig this the reward which our bravo
soldiers are to receive for all their
paris in \ hundred battles, and all
thoir tolls in q score Of campaigoss--
! Now that tho war is over, shall We
. say to the soldiers, as q reward to
! your val0r, wo will reduce your to the
| level with negroes! And our labor.
ing men, arc they, too, to be brought
into competition with negroes at half
wages, and be forced to take negroes
prices, or sterve! No, SIEs, IT MUST
! NOT BE DONE.
! The whole 5ohomo of negro equal
I. i'y is chimercial and fraught with
> danger. We have upon this 'conti-
, nont examplea ofthe total inCapacity
p of mongrol races for selC-govern~
D mont. At the outbreak OF the Am
S oric7n revolution, the population OF
t the United States and that Of Mexico,
we're about equal-throe millions
] each. In either country there were
J three races, the white, red and black:
Q Ia the States Of the Union, free as
we'll as slave, tho negroes have been
Q kept in a condition Of subordiation tc
J, tho white race, and from q compara-
e lively small number. they have in
y creased tc four million souls. While
! on tho other hand, the savage spiEi
10 of Indians sparnod CONTROL and
nj conflict enauol which Will only cease
,s with tho existence Of tho EsI man,
d., And what Is the relative condition
4. Of Mexico and tho United HtAtesl-
N The former aas bnI {Ivo MILAN la.