Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-09-09
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HON. ALFRED YAFLE,
','po2A Al GREENFIELD, OHiO,o l2aI
Accepting the Nomination Of the Democracy Of
Ross and Highland Counties for 700,
State Senator

Ross and Highland Counties for 7a,a
+ State Senator.
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But Gen. Cox has lately further defined
himself in speech at Oberln. lie again,
warns them that men in the party-soldiers
ARE opposed to Negro Suffrage. He says,
"Now these men are not as advanced as
some upon the Western Reserve" He then
says. "He" (Cox) 'had already taken pains
to say that he was with the most advanced"
And in answer to negro who put the
question to him whether he was for Negro
Suffrage in Ohio, he said, "that if the
question had to be determined by each State
for itself, anh the South for itself, his deter
mination would be here" lin Ohio .sfort the
full application of the rights iOf man.
which he had described" Now" President
Jonson's policy is, that each State and the
South shall determine this question for
themselves. Aiia the Convention that NOM
mated Gen. Coz, expressly ihd6rsed the
Presidents policy. So'Cox says, "here are
two and there are two: add them together
and how much do they maker" Are we
not warranted in saying that the whole of
this prevarication is to secure success
through the soldiers vote to be obtained
Under false pretenses? Is not that most
anxiously insinuated in everything Cox HAS
spoken or written The one idea of this
party Is now to subordinate country, Con-
stitution and liberty to mere party success.
Negro Suffrage at the Southland Negro
Suffrage, and the admission, of the blacks
with the whites in the Common Schools, in
Ohio, are the vital questions now. An en-
phatic vote of the people condemnihg thef
advocates is the best preventive that can be
administered both as to State and Congress
sional action. Let it be done. All Know
the Democracy stand opposed to this entire
Alter deceiving the soldier into support
ing this party till it can establish Negro
Suffrage, Negro Suffrage itself is to be nsed,
for a time, to secure party success. Few of
its advocates pretend that they are fit to
vote. Henry Winter Davis does not. He
boldly advocates it for the sake of party
Even Gen. Cox speaks Of them, in his Ober-
lin speech, ,as"the millions 0fdegraded beings
: emancipated by the war;" There is no way
to kill a thing like overriding it. And after
he is invested with the right to vote, these
admissions against the negros competency,
for continued party success, will be used as
an nargumentagainst general suffrage
as we'll as black. .''.'''i''' 'hl''
Chief Justice Chase, who never says any
thing without meaning and purpose, at
Dartmouth College, recently, said to its
graduates, that If ballot was put into the
negro's hands, he could walk up and vote
1T, and that that was about all the gentle
men he saw before him could do. As much
as to say. '1n voting, men are mere ma
chimes. Somebody fixes them up ticket
and they carry it to the polls and vote. 1t
is a mere farce" When the RUN of paper
money is oVer-when great financial
crash comes, then the public debt will
cause men interested in not sustaining loss
to say that bayonets and Negro Suffrage
have played out voting, and another mode
Of governing must be adopted. 81 e1hh
Mark well the letter of Freeman Clark,
Comptroller of the Currency, to some gen
tleinan in New Hampshire on the taxing of
incomes derived from United States Bonds,
which New Hampshire. and Connecticut
have done. 1t strikes this very key note in
regard to- suffrage and representation in
= Congress at the South. But the truth is, all
men, financially interested, will find their
security to consist in having the country
settled and In accord, ,before the coming, of
the financial crash which all foresee;l The
importance of this can not be realized too
strongly. But Gen. Cox takes another po-
stion entirely at war with free government.
1t is an idea pervading all that he has said
or written Itsis that among men of the
same race, ali must think, and believe and
Il aot .alike.r He says, "The only permanent
basis of nationality is to be found in COM
plete ihomogenity of people, of manners,
and offs laws,p And again he. says that
= moral unity is far more important than po-
70 litical unity, and is the only solid fOunda-
z ton for the latter. This has ever been the
p position of theocratic and monarchical gov
nernments. The woes and walls of thous7
-andsief years of persecution and blood are
its result. We have prospered and grown
upon our differeneesaHd varieties, check
ing and balancing aggressions and powers,
and developing yiduality-invention
!, and progress-the Democratic idea, directly
the reverse of Co2's. His position, if car
I iried out, will set Protestant against Cath
olic, Methodist against Calvinist-.free
will against predestipation, Christian
against jew, and viii result in q
century of bigotry, persecution, and
blood. The people .0f our country have
been united, it is true, but, like the country,
full of variety and CONTRAST in their unity.
! When Roger Williams proclaimed that
!, governments had nothing to do with the
opinions of men, but could only rightfully
deal with their bodies and goods and out
ward estates-a position, says Bancroft, that
"would blot from the statute book the fell
ony, of non-conformity; would quench the
fires that persecution had'so long kept
burning would repeal every law compell-
ing attendaneei 3ono public worship; would
abolish tithes and all forced contributions
to the maintenance of religion; would give
| equal protection to every religious faith
and never suffer the authority Of the civil
government to be enlisted against the
. mosque of the Mussulman, or the altar of
the fire. worshipern against the Jewish
Synagogue or the Roman jCathedfal"-4-he
but Proclaimed the doctrineof variety and
difference, as the true plan of human prog
,ress aud happiness. His is the foundation
upon which our Government was built II
says t0'all; $50 on In your own way; be
earnest and active as you choose inT for
Il wardiHg your views the law will protect
you all and keep the public peace By pref
venting you from fighting one another.r
|. The doctrine Of the irrepressible conflict be-
tween two systemsof labor--that the coun-
try must all adopt the one or the other, was
this same dangerous principle of Cox's, and
/. we have seen the result. The same result
will follow when applied toother things by
the Caucassian race pertaining to them
selves. 1t involves Asiatic despotism. De-
Y mocracy and progress have ever opposed
Sit--as a system in. religion, education, and
all human affairs. The danger OF this prin-
ciple can not be too strongly felt Had
time, it Is susceptible of being much more
fully shown. ~ 9Nl " llsTS2uh g9gss
Upon other political topics my opinions
are in full accord with the late utterances