The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-09-06

habitants who are not citizens, but they
are fully protected by the laws of the
land in which they reside. There is no
hardship in limiting the negro to the
rights of an "inhabitant," and still less
SO, when it is considered that for such
services as he may have rendered in the
field, he has been rewarded with free
DOM
IF the negroes so desire, they can re-
main as perpetual inhabitants, who, y
says Vattel, care kind of citizens of an
inferior order, and are united to the soci-
ETY. without participating in all its advan-
tages." ;" That is,they would be protected
in life, liberty and property, without hav-
ing the right to vote, or the exercise of
other rights which are incident to suf-
frage. rs. a8f
NEGRO EQUALITY IN OHIO.
The ''Oberlin Committee" said to Gen.
Cox, in their letter of July "a, 1865,
"We want to know directly from you your
views on the following SUBJECTS: 1st. Arc
you in favor of modifying our Constitution
SO as to give the elective franchise to col
ored menu aEaf NJ e
To this, question, thus plainly put, Gen.
Coz made no reply, and every reader of
his letter is left to draw his own inference
as to his views as to negro suffrage in
Ohio. He speaks of the logic Of events,
which understand to mean to drift with
the current, and if in the ''event"7 of his
election, and it appearing that majority
Of the leaders of his party favor negro
suffrage in Ohio, then he as Governor will
favor amending our Constitution so as to
make negroes voters. ge54 -a
He says that "the few colored men we
have amongst US are mere waits and strays
from the great body But the question
is, are these "colored waits and strays" te
be given the right of suffrage in Ohio
+ In his letter, Gen. Cox declined to answer
that question. But at the late meeting at
Oberlin, Gen. Cox took occasionto define
his position as to negro suffrage in Ohio
According to the special dispatch to the
Cincinnati Gazette, he declared age
"I haze seen 6Jack troops fight no5h
and I sag oflaH, that they aoho soere good
enoagh to fight acith as are good enough tc
stand on the Union platform aoih me-
This frank and explicit declaration o.
Gen. Cox in favor of Negro Equality il
Ohio, clears away the doubts which exls
ted as to the true Interpretation of certain
passages of his letter. And as | recog
nize the right of the people to be inform
ed OF the opisions Of candidate upon al
public issues submitted to their consider
alton, here declare that 90
| am opposed to comforting the right o
suffrage on negroes in Ohio, or in tn,
South, now, or at any future time, or un
der any circumstances.
In 1860, there were more than twenty
five thousand negroes in Ohio, and it i
believed that the number has been increas
led four-fold since that time. Are we t.
confer the right of suffrage on negr
population of one hundred thousand, an,
thereby convert our great State into
negro colony ? For, grant citizenship t
negroes in Ohio, and the African "depen
dency' proposed to be established b
General Cox, would become depopulate
the swaifs and strays" would be tn
only inhabitants''of the. dependency an
the great body of negroes would emigrat
to Ohio, and other States where the
could enjoy social and political equalit
with the white race. And is this the re
ward which our brave soldiers are to re
ceive for all their perils in hundred bal
ties, and all their tolls in a score of cam
paigns? Now that the war is over, sha
we say to the soldiers, as a reward fe
your valor, we will reduce you to the leyt
of negroes And our laboring men, al
they, too, to be brought into competitio
with negroes at half wages. and be force
to take negroes prices or starve? M
! sirs, it must not be done. a
The whole scheme of negro equality
chimerical and fraught with danger. w
have upon this continent examples of til
total incapacity of mongrelsraces for sci
government. At the outbreak of tt
American revolution, the population I
! the United States and that of Mexic'
; were about equal-three millions eacl
In either country there were three race
the white, red and black. In the Stat,
of the Union, free as well as slave, the nj
groes have been kept in condition {
!, subordination to the white race, and fro
A a comparatively small number, they ha,
increased to four million souls. Viii
on the other hand, the savage spirit
: the Indians spurned control, and a co,
: fict ensued which will only cease wit
Y the existence of the red man.
r And what is the relative condition
Mexico and the United States The 10
: mer has but five million inhabitant
e nearly one half of her territory has bee
!; absorbed by the United States; and she
d destitute of commerce, manufactures ar
schools; while our ships cover the waite
It of every sea; our manufactures are to
! found in every''mart of the habitable glol
! and every child in our land has thesoj
: portunity to obtain a good English ed
It cation. Why this difference? The Tn
ted States and Mexico were alike colon
}. zed by Europeas, In the former the viii
f race preserved its integrity; while Il
4 Spaniards, on the other hand, ,amalgamatt
e with the Indian and the Negro, and a ra
e of wretched Mongrels, doomed to sta
d of chronic anarchy, is the result.
Some we'll meaning persons ask, Mig
q it not be better to give the Negro Il
: right to suffrage, and have done with Il
r vexed question ?'' Such was the cry Fl
: twenty five years prior to the rebellion
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