Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-07-01

Capacity OF Une negro VIII JuSulys lHio
satisfies us, and we prefer the judgment OF
the great majority of the soldiers in the
army TO the clamors of themen whose only
Vocation il is and has been, to stay at home,
lagitate, coerce Presidents, and make the
war profitable to themselves, by shoddy
services, and shoGdy contracts. But these
pocket patriots agreed, says Judge Bishop,
to accept the 9Th resolution in State Con-
vention, as substitute for the ballot and
bullet argument. 1t was accepted in lieu
of it, to avoid offending the military part
OF tile Conyention.s The resolution Is. III
'"Stii. That the experience of Che last
four years shows the absolute necessity In
all our political action Of keeping steadily
In view the great principles of our goyerps
ment as set forth in the Declaration Of Eii=
dependence"
From this we have, through JuffEeB Bishop,
the Reserve statement of the questions:
list. All men are created equal.
''2d. That their rights (unless torfeited)
are alike and unalienable.
.is,3d. That to secure these rights govern
ments are instituted among men; deriving
their just power from the consent of the goo
erned. 4 ,fllStV2 JEftt N!IlI
| ssrake these three propositions together,
or the last one, and If you can deduce any
thing from them youmu certainly see that
| It not only authorizes but requires that suf-
frage shall be conferred upon the colored
population of the South" ' q AI
| 1t is not necessary to notice the doctrine
intimated of the forfeiture of unahenable
rights. And I pr0p6se to pass that patriotic
commentary ON the Declaration, aud take
these three propositions together" and ap-
ply IL to the Digger Indians, west of the
Rocky Mountains. They inhabit Nevada,
Utah, &c. Apply the three propositione- 20
them, s'apd If you can deduce anything
| from them you must certainly see that II
not only authorizes, but requires that suf-
frage Shall be conferred upOnn the Digger
| Indians of the West take Reserve logic,
and itisperfect in its application to these
native Americans of our Western wilds.
1t is true that Gen. Fremont describes the
Root Dggers" thus; '.Roots,s seeds and
grass, every vegetable that affords any
nourishment, and every living animal thing,
insect or worm, they eat. Nearly approach
ing to the lower animal creation, their sole
employment is to obtain food; and they are
constantly occupied In struggle to sup
port existence" (Fremont's Exploring Ex-
pedition, Congress edition of 1S45,, p. 174.)
But as the Abolition argument pfesumes
that the Declaration of Independence is of
application to "all men" unfortunately,
and was SO, intended, without any con-
sideratiOn. of fitness or intelligence, 1t Is
right that We should include In this all-em-
bracing generalization our copper-colored
brother of American descent, as well as
him OF, Africa. - .v q, TT
jefferson and the patriots of l776 oniy.in-
cluded the race who made the Declaration,
as if he had said ''All men (white resident
Americans) are created equal" That he
and the statesmen of the States Of the Con-
federation of 1776 failed to include ''colored
American citizens of African descent" is
evidenced BY the fact that twelve tbir-
teenths of the States that adopted the Fed
eraf Constitution and formed our National
and State institutions assented to the exist
ence of slavery and held the eolored indi-
vidual as achattel merely. Now it is pro-
posed to change all that and form govern
ment upon the construction Abolitionists
give to the Declaration of Independence.
If it,means this, then Digger Indians, Af-
rieans, EsquimeauX, SlavOnians, Asiatics,
Tasmanicans and all that class of right
ought to be held everywhere as equal 10
self-gOvernment, as most of them have
more definite manhood than the Southern
negro. But it is not philanthropy and ne
gro elevation that these men want. They
want that the New England Yankee, and
such Western Abolitionists as Wade, Pome-
roy e Co., (who recently went South in
Governmentvessels at the nations expense,
on their own business shall have the South
SO managed that they can do as it is said
Wade did, buy from $4,000 to 100000 of
confiscated plantations for 81, 200 orJ$2FD0,
get on these lots OF ignorant,i seville ne
groes, and cheat the poor blacks into voting
these uld-be-aristocrats into the offices
of the State and nation. They want to be
made, by trick and fraud and falsehood,
the rulers of this. great continent; and in
the mealltime they argue this duty out of
an abuse of the intent and meaning of the
Declaration OF of'1hdependenee!l We always
knew how intensely the Federalists hated
jefferson, hat could the old, statesman. rise
from his grave and see the use'the RepHbli-
can State Convention made of his great
Declaration we think thatThe would seusi-
never 30 vilely and terribly wrcaked their
hate on him as In that 9th resolution.
In connection with this resolve that we
are TO find the principles of government
hereafter, to guide us In the Declaration Of,
Independence, there Is q marked omission
of the United States Constitution and of
| tie State Constitutions, which this pretend
ed sUnipnn Convention design in their
struggle for power to override. What to
Etheih Is II that the Southern negro is d saw
age, who in a. state of slavery, has known
llbCle. Oh clVlitLdIOn D6yODu lLS VtCetg WnaUi
| is 1t to them that he has In his native Afri-
ca lived without other knowledge Of the
marriage relation than concubinage and of
| The parental relation and its duties than an
almost animal instinct would teach? What
| to them that he has known no genuine con-
ceptiouof the rights and duties of proper
ty, or the grander knowledge of a. self
regulated and self-sustaining feunderlthel
sole guidance of law?, This, In their judg-l
|, ,nent, would In no way prevent his fselee-
tion OF men to make laws, or his being him.
lIselfa iaw-giyeE for the right TO; be- an
elector necessarily carries with 1t all these.
| Ignorant vicious and licenti0ns7 as the
Southern emancipated slave is, the Repub-
| ifcans are nevertheless willing to constitute
these imbruted millions electors, = and
make them the depositariesg of iAmeri-
eau sovereignty, trust the destihies, of
| this continent In their hands, and give
them the balance Of, power In any po1
litieal contest that shall divide the land
Well did Lieut.. Gov. Anderson declare that
this would be to Africanize and .Mexi1
canize our Republic, and destroy its free
dom and dwarf its destinies., And it Is TO
accomplish this that this Convention studi-
ousIy igilored the American Constitution
and rfalsiiled the Declaration of Indepen-
dencel Since the Iarchr rfepd s,stfuggj for
rule OF ruin, no such example has been fur
nished as, In the light of the terrible war
that has -justpassed, its debt, its bleodshed,
and its desolation, men should be found
ready to begin new agitation, to override
Hfafe rights and human rights, and for the