The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-09-27


Republican leaders now seek TO evade the
issue, in certain localities, until after the
election; and then, it they carry the State,
the first step will he taken toward negro
equality. In the northern part of Ohio,
where the Republicans are united in favor
Of the Negro as against the white soldier and
labonng man, their county and district con
ventions have explicitly declared in favor of
Negro Suffrage. The Cleveland Lauder,
the most prominent Republican paper in
Northern Ohio, thus defines
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
!. "The right of suffrage should be ex-
tended to the colored men Of the South
,. The State Constitution must be so
amended as to give equal suffrage to whites
Bud blacks. I 1he word white must be strick-
eu from the Constitution.
Ard that doctrine is indorscd Is the lead
crs Of the Republican party generally.
In his opening speech in this campaign,
as reported hy the Cincinnati Commercial,
a prominent Republican paper, General
Schenck declared that there were three
classes Of persons in the South, the aristo-
cratic planters, the poor white people, who
he calls white trash, " and the negro 8, and
that he would prefer giving the negroes the
right to vote to either Of the other classes.
And this, too, notwithstanding it is notori-
Gus that the poor people Of the South were
always legal and yet, this Republican lead
er would take the vote away flom poor
white men and give it to negroes, because
the white men are opposed to Negro Equal
lty
VIII the white men of Ohio indorse such
policy?
| hold in my hand two campaign docu-
mcnts, published by the political friends Of
General Cox, and now circulate to secure
his election. The first is entitled "Miscege-
cation '--thatis malgamation-and is writ
ten by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, an
earnest ad, ocatc Of the election Of General
Cox. This book which / now show you,
was published in 1864, and is sill being cir
culat,d, care being taken as to whom it is
given.
! will now read, or I invite any person
here present to read for me, from page eigh-
teen. 1t thus reads:
1t will be our noble prerogative to set
the example OF this rich blending Of bloods.
It's idle to maintain that this present war
is not war for the nogro. Not simply for
his personal rights or physical treedcm-it
is wars if you please, Of amalgama-
tion, so called a war looked as its final fruit
to the blending Of the white and black
| will now read from pages 40 and 90:
Nv hen the President proclaimed enian-
cipation he proclaimed, also, the nlinging
Of races. The one iollowssh he other as sure
ly as noonday sunrise, The party, as
whole, will not admit this yet. They de-
nicd that they were AboitioniSts And
now behold The great Republican party
has merged into the little Abolition party
The drop has colored the buckettull. 'ihele
are only two parties now, the Abolition,
which in effect is the party Of miscegena-
tiCn and behind them Il at contemplate
crowd who haye 10 policy but expedien-
cy."
Y And page 20 reads as follows
lie only aIitEaly inannr black army is.
that it has white thccrs. This will disap-
pear as tin e passes hy, and the black pri-
va and Ion con missioned officer shows
rayery and skill enough to lead, not only
men OF his own race, but men of the white
race. 1t will be sad misfortune ifthis war
shonld end without lattle being fought by
a ! ack general in con mand of white or
MIXED body OF troops. y
should any one desire TO obtain this book,
it can be had for twenty-five cents; hy wri-
ting to H.. Dexter, Hamilton & Co., ll3
Nassau street. New York City.
If further proof be necessary to show
more couclusively that General Cox aud the
Republican leaders are in favor OF negro f.
quality, | viii now produce it. Here is al
ether Republican CAMPAIGN document enti-
ted, Universal Suffrage and Conlplete
Equality in Citizenship. This pamphlet.
is Icing circulate d by Thousands, and is main
ly. composed of speeches of Henry Ward
Bcecher and Wendell Phillips. both warn
T., litical friends OF General Cox. On page
0, Mir Beecher says:
Il advocate the giving to all men, black
and white, the right Of suffrage
And on page 10, in speaking Of the ne
glocs, Mir. Beecher says:
They lthe negroes are more faithful
than the white So!dierS on guard duty. The
tread of the amy under the bayonet of the
black man is safer than under the hayonct
OF the white man. That is, says Mr.
Beechcr, the negro is not only better sol
der than the white man, but he is also more
honest. Ard not yet satisfied with this
wanton insult to our white soldiers, Mr..
Beecher goes on: And when coming
from the plantation, without having had
the advantages Of education, they (the ne
grocs) are able to maintain themselves side
by side with the white men that have been
brought up in common schools" That is,
says Mr. Beecher, the common field-negro
without education, is equal to the educated
white man.
And now, soldiers and you citizens who
are their fathers and their brothers, will you
act with a party which declares that the ne
gro is not only the equal, but the superior,
Of the white man? And carrying out the
same idea, in his late 4th of July Grafton,
Wendell Phillips declared that "ln this war
the plume Of virtue, gallantry and patriot
ism belongs to the negro. "
GENFRAL COX AT OBERLIN.
When General Cox was at Oberlin, he |
had what MIR. Bcechor would call misce-
genectic audience That is, black ard white |
And to avoid the possibility |
of doing injustice to General Cox, will |
read from the Cincinnati Gazette and Ohio
State Journal both his ardent supporters.
The Gazette thus reads:
"The General alluded to the charges that |
he had wavercd from his earliest anti-slaye-
ry views, but claimed the right to brand
with falsity any charges of apostacy. He
was graduate Of ObeIlin, and would not be
of any other, if he could. "
The great dogma Of the Abolition party is
he equality OF races z; and General Cox says |
hat he brands with lalsehood any one who
,harges him with having changed his opin-
ons. And so anxious was the General to
'e understood, that he did not stop here,
cut declared
II have seen black troops fight nobly; |
md say Of all, that they who were good
enough to fight with us, are good enough
o stand on the Union platform with me. F."
The OHIO State Journal says:
''The General took his seat in the midst
If storm of applause, which had scarcely
,ueted down when Mr.. Hale, negro, rails.
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