Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-08-03

Congress, or the claimants represent no con-
stituency, of course they must be rejected,
and military governments continued until
there are enough loyal, legal voters, to elect
loyal men. et
congressman, however, who vote to reject
claimants to seats from the reorganized States
because they are not elected by universal sut-
fraee, will find out that their constituents,
and particularly the returned soldiers who
understand this negro question much better
than stay-at-home politicians, will stand by the
President, and rebuke those who postpone the
adoption of the Constitutional amendment
aboiishing slavery, by throwing out by this
action, the State notifications OF Arkansas,
Louisiana, Tennessee, &c, as recounted IN
President Lincofl's last speech, on April III
1865, as justifying his policy in the case OF
Louisiana.
The sentiment of the army in favor of sus-'
tanning President Johnson's policy, was en-
phatically unit at the Union State Conven-
ton at Columbus, and the politicians who
think that the soldiers favor negro suffrage,
can fully satisfy themselves on this point by
submitting, through the Legislature, an amend
ment to the Constitution of Ohio striking out
the word "white," before they ask other States
to do what they wont do at home. linen the
arguments for and against negro suffrage can
be considered before tribunal that has con-
stitutional power to pass upon them. but its
advocates must be prepared to accept the re-,
suits of the triumph of their theory Tor II
negroes are to be electors they certainly have
right to be elected. As Congressman, or
members of the Legislature, they must be re-
i & o1 ot
tonal and State Captals-a step now KEPT, in
the background, for President Lincoln, in his
Columbts speech evidently considers poltl-
cal and social equality as lnseperable concom-
tants. The liquor laws of Ohio are stand
ing example of the effect of legislatlng in ad-
vance of public sentiment, and until the ne
groes can vote at Cincinnati poll without
exciting riot, it is useless to expect that PRIV
ilege to be accorded to them at Nashville OF
Savannah, or to prescribe as a universal pa,
nacca for Southern discomfort the pouring OF
oil, in the shape of negro suffrage, on smould
crinr fire. instead of the exercise of sound
craftsmanship. President Johnson, from his
peculiar position, understands better than any
living statesman the practical management OF
the whole negro question lie desires the
South to be divided up into small treeholds
settled by an industrious and hardy yeoman
ry, whose immigration must not be repellec
by placing the political power Of those States
in the hands of an ignorant negro majority
led by cotten-speculating demagogues hodlns
large plantations. The people Of the Unltet
States will never suffer any part OF our coun
I try to be Mexicanized or Atricanized Tor th'
benefit of ~ class of politicians who, like Win
ter Davis, Fremont and others, (recontly re
l enforced by General Banks, who opposed ne
: gro suffrage in Louisiana until removed b,
President johnson for his cotton operations,
who were repudiated at the late Presidential
f election for their intrigues to defeat Presiden
Y Lincoln the "Savior of his country" If, un
e der the lead of Wendell Phillips who de
! nounced our Second Washington as tn
e "slavc-hound of Illinois" backed by Ber
c Woods New York copperhead News, with tn
y design of dividing the Union organization
y they are determined to try the same canclu'
e ions with President johnson, the representi
tive of Free Labor and Unionism, they WI
!, find out that the people Tough this war to e'
!, tablish the paramount authority OF the Gov
n ernment of the United States over all its te
/ ritory, and not to propagate any selt-r'ghteoIu
!, theory which assumes that every body ullde
il stands their neighbors private business bette
t. than they do themselves.
II \ MEMBER
Of the Union State Cent'l Com. of Ohl