Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-13
Negro gunfages.-The Statesman
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STATE5MAN IN tne IOlOWlng SeHLiemahly
language: 1r
~ 'sSays this veracious sheet, the leaders
in the Administration party are determined
to confer upon the colored population OF the
whole country the same political privileges
that are enjoyed by white men--to make
them, to all intents and purposes, the polit-
sical EQUALS of the white man. The only
way to reply to this charge, is simply to
say, that The STATESMAN lies"
The Union does not fairly quote The
STATESMAN. THE STATESMAN did not say
that "the leaders in the Administration
party are determined to confer upon the
colored population of the whole country
the same political privileges that are enjoy
ed by white men-to make them, to all in
tents and purposes, the political equals of
the white man." 1t said that "leaders in
the Administration party are determined"
to do this. This statement we did not make
at random. We gave the language of the
leaders in that party wherein they had
taken ground in favor of that proposition.
WENDELL PHILLIPS is persistent in his de-
mands that the negro shall be made the po-
litical equsA of the white man. This The
Union certainly knows, and that man is a
''leaQer in the Administration party On
the I'D of this last February, The Ne,v York
Tribune devoted an editorial to the advocacy
of Negro Suffrage, and it pledged continu-
Gus effort in behalf of that measure until
the end shall Ee secured. The Ne,o York
Tribune, we take it, is a leader in the Adj
ministration party" Quite recently, The
Methodist Quarterly RerieO espoused the
cause of Negro Suffrage, and alleged
that the negro, when educated and
intelligent, will ever think, speak,
act and VOTE on the side of freedom,
civilization, republicanism, loyalty and the
Protestant religion" The Methodist Quarter
IN ReUieto is 'leader in the Administration
party" Miss ANNA DICKINSON, who is also
''leader in the Administration party" in
late address, asserted that THE ignorant
and degraded Irish, who compose the rank
and file of the disloyal party, aoere no more
capable Of exercising the right Of suffrage than
the negroes, WHO MUST BE PERMITTED TO VOTE
IN ORDER TO coUNTERAcT THE PERNICIoUs
INFLUENCE OF THE FORMER CLASS"
On the 4th of February, Gen. b. F. But
LER made a speech at meeting held
in Musical Hall, Boston, in celebration of
the passage by Congress of the Slavery
abolishing Amendment of the Constitution
of the United States, and he used this Ian
guage: ''By the final passage of the amend
ment which we celebrate every negro slare
is made citizen Of the United States, entitled,
As-oF RIGHT, TO EVERY POLITICAL AND LEGAL |
IMMUNITY AND PRIVILEGE ,ohieA belongs to |
that great franchise" Gen. BUTLER is a
'leader in the Administration party"
At the third anniversary of the Freed
mans Association, held in the lower House
of Congress on the night of the 26th of
February, Chief Justice SALMON p. CHASE
presided, and made speech, in which he
declared, that "all that was now wanting to
enable the black man to realize the full
rights of freedom, was the privilege of the
eIectire franchise" Said he, ut only re-
mains to arm him auith the ballot" Chief
Justice CHASE is "leader in the Admins
tration party"
Senator SUMNER, pending the considera-
btOu VI u ICcOlubIOu III bllc Oulbcu DJdJtol
Senate in the latter part of February, re-
cognizing the State Government of Louisi-
ana, took ground against the recognition
of any State Government at the South I'M
til such Government shall have been reor-
ganized on the basis of negro equality.
Senator SUMNER lisa leader in the Admin
istration party" .ta
State Senator HowELLs, editor of The Ash
tabula Sentinel which is 'leader in the
Administration party" wrote his paper an
account OF what transpired at the Neil
House Festival on the night of the 22d of
February, at which Gov. BRoUGH, Lieut.-
Gov. ANDERSON, JOB E. STEVENSON, the
Administration candidate at the late elec-
tion for Congress in the 18th District were
star performers, and in this account Sena-
tor HowELLs said that "the leaders of the
strong party" WED ''with each other to utter
the strongest Abolition doctrines, THE NE
GRos RIGHTS AND ALL" tisbut few days
since the Administration members of the
Ohio Legislature passed a bill repeating the
law prohibiting persons from voting who
have visible admixture of African blood.
The 50. Louis Democrat, leading journal
in the administration party" In its issue of
the 9TH :nst., takes the Radical members of
the Missouri Convention to task for their
persistent effort to incorporate into the Or
ganic law OF that State provision con-
ferring on the negro the privilege of
voting. sbaseg s,.n - ge
The Senate Of Michigan has passed joint
resolution submitting to vote Of the peo-
pie, at the election in 1856, an amendment
TO the Constitution allowing to Negroes the
privilege Of voting. 3s GgP l9ajp3
DO not the citations we have herein made
prove, beyond the possibility Of doubt that
s'ledders IN The Administration party are de-
termined to confer upon the colored popu-
lation Of the whole country the same politi-
cal privileges that are enjoyed by white
men-to make them, TO all intents and pur-
poses, the political equals of the white
man9" Do they not, furthermore, prove
that The csrcierille Union lies when it as
serts that such Is not their purpose, and
that THE STATESMAN simply tells the truth
when 1t says that such is their purpose?
The Ne,c York Tribune pronounceg ssPhila-