Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-09-08


we make the square issue? For Gods SAKE,
keep SILENT, Let us obtain success and, get
the ballot and The bayonet In the negroes
hands, and then let them.yote them OUT
the negro having say, and a hand in the
question" He says of the soldiers hatred
to the negro "The fact is one Which can
not safely be overlooked In any calculation
involving their action upon the poljtieadi
problems before the country, and, it Is one
in which think ! can hardly be mistaken"
His attempt to arouse passion against his
opponents and the peoplegOf tfeh South
clearly indicates tbathe only wishes to hold
the. soldiers in the party, He must see that
no Abolitioonist, no man opposed TO Negro
Suffrage and Equality, no one who was in
favor of armihg the negronand using him
as soldier in the late war, can vote for him
upon principle. H.. .,i, t,,,,.... i....,4
AS to the Abo1itionist: He believes that the
negro is only a black white man; the white
man only negro with pale skin; THAT the
antipathy of color is only prejudice; that
properly conducting themselves, the white
and black man car dwell together in the
same harmony as men of the same race.
Believing So, he has always thought that
negro slavery stood upon no different toot-
ing than the slavery of the white man by
the white man; that the two races were
''created free and equal;" and that, therefore!
the relation of white master and negro slave
outraged every sacred principle of human
rights, and should be. opposed by every
agency, human and divine. This is his
theory. ! .tif. r, .'lif.-H- "ft|
The Southern theory was, thatthe differ
ence went deeper than color; that it was
difference of race; that when brought to-
gether In large numbers, this difference Of
race would manifest itself by the hostility
of the one to- the other; that that hostility
would lead to the determination or the
hopeless subsection of the one or the other;
that the Government of the United States,
when created, found the negro in subsection
to the white; that selt-defepse justified the
white man in so holding him, as one upon
a plank aJ sea, which win not carry two
ther together}i is justified, in pushing OF, to
drown another who may cling to it, and be-
cause the white man would take better care
| of the negro in subsection than the negro
would of him; that to break this relationof
master and slave would lead to the negros
determination wherever the'whiteman was
the most powerful, as in the United States;
and that, as this would seem like great
cruelty, mercy, christianity. and God sane
toned the relation. He held, with certain
scientific men, that wherever two distinct
varieties of the same species, animals, vege-
tables, or men, come together upon the same
plane, the one best adapted to the circum-
| stances of the locality viii destroy the
other; and that, to the extent that they mix,
both are in the way of destruction; that the
superior does not elevate or generally mix
with the inferior, but destroys it; that this
has been the law of the growth of the world
| la law as invariable as graVitation, which
always causes an apple to tall to the ground
N nd nt tff lax fnet
| ed every day before the eye by Norway
rats destroying the blue ones, the red foxes
the gray-the Write man the Indian, and
the white man. the negro, and the negro
the white man, as in the West Indies, when
the relation of master and slave is destroyed.
Such is the position of the advocates of ne
gro slavery in This country. II state both
| sides falrly. caW uRiu j. .gTJr- ~ d. M
| 4, Now Gen. Cox says that observation and
| study, during the war, have taught him
that the hatred Of the whites to the ne
| groes isis not confined to the slave-ownefs
| alone, but the opoor whites share it fully,
/ and often showit more opassionately."' Of
| the negroes, he says; "Ihey have the nu-
t'tual attraGtion Of race atii6hgt themsGIaes,
and r6pulsion to the whites as another pee
pie. developed to adegree which surprised
! me-" And he says, further, in case the ne
/
er with the ballot. 0 ''The struggle for su-
premacy would be direct and immediate,
| and see nOhepe whatever that the weak
| er race, would not be reduced to hopeless
| Subsection, or utterly destroyed" And as
to the soldiers, he says: ''The tendency of
battling for, the old flag was almostequally
| uniform in increasing and deepening their
| pride of race" He characterizes the prob
lem OF the hour as arising from the contact
in the same community of "bitterly hostile
races from the antipodes OF the human fam
| Hy." The whole question turns upon
whether there is Oris not this antipathyof
race. Gens QoXlhas stated his opinion al,
most in the very words, aud exactly to the
same effect, rs has John G. Calhoun, again
and again. So far as the negro question en-
tered into the war; so far as he has been
used againsthis white master at the South,
has been not only q mistake, but crime, If
| Gen. Cox and John C. Calhoun be correct
ON, this main proposition, and Gen. Gox'sI
plan of separation--the only one TO offer
should prove impossible to carry QUE He
should, therefore, have weighed itwen be-
fore advancing it7-rotherwise he places the
| North in the wrong throughout the whole
controversy of more than thirty years. He
has admitted what the South always recar-
ned to, for Justification. When his letter
came out, the chairman of the committee
who drafted the platform (shirking the
negro. issue) .pponswhieh Cox was ,nonina-
| ted (Judge Dixop), in alarm and wo writes
a letter Reminding the General that his po-
sition is. that Of Calhoun great premise
/ land, that, II, admitted, there is ne escape
| from Cahoun's, logic On slavery. Are the
/ olitionists, Tor success, prepared to- Stand
! With Calhoun. on the negro question? s,Y
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