Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-13
rhe RadrcaiPI

Some Of the Radical tlisunion newspaper
organs deny, with unblushing audacity
that theirs is a sectional party. One o
those organs now before us makes out Z
plausible ground for this denial by fiatly
ciaiming three millions of Southern ne
groes as members of its party In good
standing. 1t is q claim which probably
none will be found to dispute.
!. The most unfortunate circumstance fol
the Radicals connected with this claim, Il
the fact the Southern wing Of their party.
although great in numbers, Is unpleasantly
small in votes. This circumstance leads the
Radical sheet before us to make the follow
ing declarations:
EAT the South the question of cOlored suf
frage is of overwhelming political import
ance. 1t involves the control of most OF
the State Governments. Grant it, and
South Carolina, two-Ihirds cOlOred, be-
comes as radical State as Massachusetts
Louisiana, Mississippi. Tennessee, Texas.
and probably Georgia, Would be Republi-
can, while in each of the other States Re
publican Representatives would be return
ed from those districts in which the colored
population are in excess"
Herein is revealed, with frankness that
is not often found in journals of radical
disunion persuasion, the real and only OBJ
ject which the Radicals have in opposing Il
restoration of the Uniou. 1t Is not because
the Southern States have not sent loyal Rep
rescntatives to .Congress-the Radical ma
jOrity of that body have refused to inquire
whether they are loyal or dislOyal; it is
simply and solely in the hope that means
may yet be found to forceupOn those States,
by the action of the General Government
aud in defiance OF the will of their people,
negro suffrage, .ra.le
'.At the North,r it is further said, "the
question of negro suffrage is mere senti-
ment, not an urgent political necessity"
But at the South, ohere all the members
of tile Radical party are negroes, it Is a
"political necessity" In no other way can
South Carolina be made 'as radical as
Massachusetts" lu no other way can a
Radical disunion majority in Congress be
preserved. IL is hopeless to expect that
Southern white men will send negroes to
Congress or give them ballots to send one
another there.
"Even while the UniOnists of the Border
States might not find it prudent to aid ac-
lively in this result, they could not but re-
ioice if it could be accomplished for them
from without by the action of Congress-"
That Congress, in defiance of the Consti-
tuition. in violation OF the expressly resery-
ed rights of the States, in the exercise of
usurped and revolutionary power, shall
place ballots in the hands of the Southern
wing of the Radical disunion party, is thus
declared to be the real aim OF the revOlu-
tionary Radical faction in the North.
We invite every voter in Illinois, in the
Northwest, in the republic, to the serious
consideration of this frank and candid cec-
laration, made by one of the prominent
Radical disupiOn newspaper organs in this
city. 1t is full and complete exposition
of the whole Radical platform. 1t is a
frank acknowledgment of the fact that
Radicalism rests all its hopes of future
political ascendency upon negro votes, and
hopes to place those votes in the hands of
the negroes by the action OF Congress-
Chicago Times.