Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-09-21
Gen. Morgnn has Thrown She Fat
Into the Fire. .t


General MORGAN, we gather from the
Ssats Jouwdl, was unfortunate enough to
throw the fat into the fire by his Elyria
speech, This circumstances has occasioned
our neighbor surprise, from the fact that
he thought General MORGAN "a gentleman
of sterling probity, with too much conf
dence in the intrinsic merits of his cause
to need the appliances OF deception, and
d too much of true soldierly bearing to admit
of such auxiliaries to sustain the weakness
of his cause" Now, that's good, decidedly,
coming from the State Journal. The editor
of the State Journal sat down to the perusal
of the speech with such feelings, and as ne
read on he discovered that "no small por-
ton of that speech is devoted to the effort
of showing Gen. Cox to be in favor Of Me-
gro Suffrage, Negro Equality and Miseegen-
ation.' General MORGAN ought, 70 know
better than to do this, for the State Journal
characterizes it as 'elaborate trash Y and
denies, absolutely, that sin the Northern
part of Ohio, where the Republicans are
united In favor Of the Negro as against the
White soldier and laboring man, their Coun-
ty and District Conventions have explicitly
declared in favor OF Negro Suffrage 2'
II the self-styled Union party is opposed
to Negro Suffrage, why did not the Con-
vention that nominated General Cox de-
clare 30? They were besought to do so.---
Aud if General Cox is opposed to Negro
Suffrage, why has he not said SOP He has
been importuned to do SO by soldiers; and
he has made spndry speeches. If the editor
of the State journal will point us TO one
paragraph uttered orwritten by him sinct
the commencement of the campaign, in
which he unequivocally repudiates the doc
trine of Negro Suffrage, zoe s0iN pay one
hundred dollars to his order. Did he do it In
the speech at Warren, which so disguised
Ex-Governor TOD as to cause him to declare
that there was entirely too much about the
Negro in 1t [By the way, why is It tha,
Ex-Governor Top is not assisting to stump
the State in behalf of General Cox Is il
because of the fact that the self-styled
Union party have become too much Afri-
canized?l Did General Cox repudiate Ne
gro Suffrage at Oberlin, when the Negro
HALE questioned him on the subject? And
did the Negro HALE and the other portion Of
the colored audience on that occasion show
er upon him congratulations because he re-
puliated Negro Suffrage. In the Northern
portion Of the State the supporters Of GEN
eral Cox, in their County and Senatorial
Conventions, haze resolved in favorof Negro
Suffrage. Wehaye published most Of their
resolutions, as well as editorials from the
Cleveland Leader, affirmatory of that fact
and the tact1can't be lodged or got round
by asserting that General MORGAN has
borne false testimony in relation to, that
people, who have the candor and the man
hood to declare that Negro Suffrage is the
vital issue of the hour. That the advocacy
of Negro Suffrage is given the go-by in
Central and Southern Ohio by Gen. Cox,
because Of its supposed unpopularity, isno
fault of General MORGAN. II in this par
ticular General MORGAN has done General
Cox injustice, there is no man in the State
who will more promptly make all due re-
paration upon General Cox declaring dis
tinctly in his next speech that he is opposed
to Negro Suffrage. That's the way to set
tie the matter. win General Cox do it?
Until he shall do it he must rest under the
charge that he is in favor of Negro Suffrage.