Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1865-08-30

deTstand to mean, to drift with the current,
and ifin the "event" OF his election, End i
appearing that majority Of the leaders o.
his party favor Negro Suffrage in Ohio, theT
he as Governor will favor amending our Con
stituton so as to make negroes voters.
He SAYS that "the few colored men we have
amongst us are mere walls and strays from
the great body" But the question IS arr
these "colored waits and strays" to be glve'
the right OF suffrage in OhiO7 In bis letter
General Cox declined to auswer that ques
ton. But at the late meeting at O0sFhH
General Cox took occasion to define his posl
ton as to Negro Suffrage in Ohio. Accord
5nq TO tie special dispatch to the Cincinnati
Gazette, he declared
"I hare seen black troops fight no6ly, and
sav oraH that they 0hO '0ere good enough 70
fght s0itR US are good enough to stand on The
Liaiou platform leith me.
This frank and explicit declaration Of Gen.
.eral Cox ia favor Of Negro Equality in Ohio
clears away the doubts which existed as to
the true Interpretation Of certain passages oi
his letter And as I recognize the right ol
TIE people to be informed Of the opinions oI
candidate upon all public issues submitted
to their consideration, here declare that
I am opposed to oOuferring the right oI
suffrage on negroes in Ohio, or in the South
now. or at any future time, OF under any cir
cumstanceS
In 1850, there were more than twenty-five
thousand negroes in Ohio, and it is believed
that the number has been increased four-fOld
since that time. Are we to confer the right
Of suffrage oD a negro population Of one hun
dred thousand, and thereby convert oul
great State into negro colony For, gran
citizenship to negroes Of Ohio, and the Afri
can dependency proposed to be established
by General Cox, would become depopulateC
the "waifs and strays" would be the only
inhabitants of the dependency" and th'
great body Of negroes would migrate to Ohio
and other States where they could enjoy so
cial and political equslity with the Whit
race And is this the reward which ou
brave soldiers are to receive for all their per
lis in hundred battles and all their tolls
score Of canpaigns2 Now that the war i
over, shall we say to the soldiers, as reward
for your vaior, we will reduce you to the lev
,el Of negroes And our laboring men, ar
they, too, to be brought INTO competition
with negroes at half wages, and be forced t.
take negroes prices or starve2 No, sirs, 1
must not be done.
The whole scheme Of negro equality il
chimerical and fraught with danger. We
have upon this continent examples of the TO-
tai incapacity of mongrel races for self-gov-
ernment At the outbreak of the American
revolution, the population Of the United
States and that of Mexico, we're about equa
three millions each. In either country
there were three races, the white, red and
black. In the States Of the Union, free IS
well as slave, the negroes have been kept in
a condition Of subordinauon to the white
race: from a comparatively small number
they have increased to four million souls
While on the other hand, the savage spirit oi
the Indians spurned control, and conflict
ensued which viii only cease with the exist,
ence Of the red man.
And what is the relative condition of Mex
leo and the United States2 The former has
but Eve million inhabitants; nearly one hal
Of her territory has been absorbed by the
United States; and she is destitute Of COM
merce. manufactures and schools; while oul
ships cover the waters of every sea; Oui
manufactures are to be found in every mar
of the habitable globe, and every child in ou
land has the opportunity to obtain a goo'
English education. Why this diference2-
The United States and Mexico were alik
colonized by Europeans. In the former tn
white race preserved its integrity; while tn
Spaniards, on the other hand, amalgamate
with the Indian and the Negro, and rae
of wretched Mongrels, doomed to state
chronic anarchy, is the result.
Some well meaning persons ask, might
not be better to give the Negro the right (
suffrage, and have done with the vexed que'
ton 2" Such was theory twenty-five yea
prior to the rebellion-"Let US abolish slay
erv. and have done with the vexed quei
ton
What has been the result
Let those who think thus be not decei7e'
for he who votes for Negro Suffrage, vote
tor the Inauguration of the most cruel, nero
less and devastating of all wars-a war
races; war which spares neither age, NJ
sex, nor condition; a war which can kno
40 peace, until one race or the other hi
been swept from the earth; war whiC
would make the West and North, as well
the South, a scene of fearful blight and des'
luton.
THE CONFLICT BEGUN
We are told in a tone ofrejOicing, by ce
tain distinguished gentlemen, that, in Il
South, the conflict Of races has already b
gun. and that our own race will be driven
the wall-thal is, be exterminatedl Al
that. in the new order of things, a Negro 9
istocracy will be created, and that Negro
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