Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-12-13

SOVerhmenJin VI Sucn cCaCes respectively 1t
IS hereby declared that no supposed State,
law or State Constitution can be set up as
an impediment to the national power the
discharA Of this duty. ?" nhI Aiait
ResOleed, That since also 10 has become
the duty of Congress to determine what is a
republican form of government it is hereby
declared that no government of a State re-
Gently in rebellion can be accepted as re<a
publican where large masses of citizens
who have been always loyal to the United
States are excluded from the elective fran
chise, and especially where the wounded
soldier OF the Union, with all his kindred
and race, and also the kindred of others
whose bones Whiten the battle-fields where
they died for their country, are thrust away
from the polls to give place to the very men
by whose hands wounds and death were in5
hicted; more particularly where, as in some
of those States. the result would be to dis
franchise o majority of its citizens who
were always loyal ,andgive to the oligarehi9
cal minority recertly engaged in carrying
on the rebellion the power to oppress the
loyal majority, even to the extent of driy-
ing them from their homes and depriyfh9
them OF all opportunity of livelih0Od!nj n
Resolved That in all those cases wherts
by reason of rebellion there is alapse in. the
State government, and it becomes the duty
Of Congress to provide government for
the State, no government can be accepted
as "a republican form of government,
where "a large proportion of native-born
citizens, charged with no crime and no fall
ure Of duty, is left wholly unrepresented,
although compelled to pay taxes: and es-l
pecially where particular race is singled
out and denied all representation. although
compelled to pay taxes; more especially
where such race constitutes the majority ot
the citizens, and where the enfranchised
minority has forfeited its rights by rebell-
ion; and more especially still where by
such exclusion the oligarchical enemies of
the Republic can practically compel il I'd
break faith with national soldiers and.na-
tional' creditors, to whose generosity it
was indebted during period of peril. '.'
From the Macon (Ga0 Journal and Messenger.l =
Come and Lea us Reason Together.
Why should most of the Northern news
papers pursue the SoLth with such yindic-
tive rigOr and animosity? Why should
they be so diligent in putting the worst
possible construction upon all that we do or
fail to do--impeaching our faith, honor aud
integrity, and imputing.tO US directly or in
directly revengeiul feelings and edious de-
signs upon the freed blacks, and a general
disposition to do mischief and make trou-
pers to reconsider all the facts and circum-
stances of our unhappy case with candor,
and II they find, upon such review, that
they are needlessly infaming the popular
hatred and miStrust of the South to abate
their maledictions. .. ...
l. Let them consider that since the sur
render of the Confederate armies, the South
ern people all, without exception, have sub
mitted themselves INTERESTINGLY to the will
OF their cOnquerors. No outbreak of any
kind has indicated the slightest resistance
to the most absolute domination from the
kitchen to the Capitol. The submission las
been more complete than in any instance
history records. The Saxon was in some
cases stung into bloody though unavailing
strife with his Norman master; but here in
the South, as bold and proud race as ever
drew sword-entitled by birth and covenant
to the rights of freedom and self-goyern-
ment-have submitted without a solitary
struggle to the revolution and control of all
their domestic, social and political affairs.
Is this temper and behavior which gives
space for fair misconstruction, or should
provoke denunciations from the cOnqueror?
Could more be conceded and thus having
every interest OF the Southern man at their
absolute disposal, cannot they suit them
selves without further abuse or miscon-
struction? ..... ..........
2. That in the particular charges of cruel
and unfair designs upon the African race,
which they urge, the entire history of the
Southern people gives ample warrant for
the belief that they are ill-founded. The
events and discoveries of the late war must
have satisfied the most bigoted Abolition
ist that the negroes as class, have always
been well cared for and protected in the
Southern country. The most violent oppo-
nents of the system Of slavery have con-
fessed so much. '
3. But third and lastly, we will present
this simple, common sense suggestion:s ID Is
it not now, more than ever, matter of the
plainest Self-intereSt to the South that the
negro should be prosperous and comforta-
ble5 If they are thrown upon society as
paupers, vagrantS or criminals, who must
suffer but the South? The North NAV feel
the loss of production, and some of the cost
OF public disorder and ruin of the South.
in the way of diminished trade, but the
South must pay tor the subsistence of the
vagrant and pauper aud the legal prosecti-
tion and punishment of the malefaetor., II
emancipation shall prove remediless blum
der, every man in the South will feel it in
the loss of all his property-in the forfeit
ure of his entire stake in the common prosl
peritY, There Is not, therefore, a man in
Georgia, or in the South, capableofputting
two and two together, who does not feel a
much greater interest inthe fortunes of the
freed negro than the Northern man can
possibly do, , ,.l
7 We are all under bonds, to the extent OF
our fortunes and our attachment to native
soil, to make the negro, If possible; a com.
Portable selfsupporting, and c0ntented
member of society. Do these bitter North
ern accusers think we are too blind ana
Ignorant not to recognize so patent a fsscte
And why then should they aseribe a dif.
ference In the character, or the measure of
the remedies proposed, to a mean, 'malig-
nant and spiteful revenge upon the poor
blacks, which no man feels, because no man
can see any reason for feeling any spite
against the race. It is not their fault they
are free.g Left alone they would have re-
mained the same cOntented and happy peo-
pie they were before the war. But III the
Southern whites fail to see any remedial
agency in political suffrage for the woes
and wants of the free black, why should, it
be charged to bitter antipathy and hatred,
rather than to the'conyiOtion, arising from
more intimate knOwledgeof negro charac-
for nonaoitNy and naaacoittaoo VIZ.