Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-08-04
Independent, Union Candidate.


"A OI1lfICJ. E. ff..rrfA
The circumstances OF the times manifest
" demand that an Opportunity be given to
che voters OF this Congressional District to
pass directly at the polls upon the great Is
sue, now pending between the restoration
policy of President johnson and the revo-
lutionary and destructive system of meas
ures inaugursted by Congress, whose In
dorsement Is now demanded by the re-elec-
ton OF the Hon. Samuel Shellabarger.1. The
maintenance of the Union Of these States,
for which so much blood and treasure have
been spent must not be made subordinate
10 the pefpetuaJlon OF political power tn
the hands of any set of mon, and the imme-
diAte pressing question before the country,
t0-wit:. the admission of all the States TO
the right of representation, guaranteed to
them by the Constitution, ,is of too para
mount Importance to be embarrassed by O
mere party contest about dead issues, The
war has permanently settled the mooted
points of secession and the abolition of
slavery. The late revolted States have ac-
cepted the consequent situation, and the
laws OF the land under the Constitution are
amply sufficient. II the Courts do their
duty, "to punish treason and make u odi-
GUS" ~. .,5,f f.t5 ~, r.. .sts.o t,e,s
After consultation with men Of all par
ties In the District, for the purpose Of
bringing to 4 fair trial If possible this LIv-.
ING issue on the I'd Tuesday of October
next L announce myself as an Independ-'
ent Union candidate for Congress, stand
ing by the following propositions: fl,
. /. What President Andrew johnson, by,
his unwayering devotion to the Union
through yearso the severest trial, has won
our highest confidence that we cheerfnlly
indorse the policy OF his Alministratio o,
looking to the restoration. OF peace and
civil order, in the so-called Seeded States,
and that as Union men Of Ohio, we will
give him our hearty and UNDIVIDED sup
port.", Which pledge Of the UDion State
Convention Of June 81, 1855, broken BY the
Radical leaders ever since It's adoption,
through systematic plot, to make 1t null
on false pretenses, the people are now
called up0n to redeem, by the defeat of a
faction regardless of the plighted honor
upon which It obtained political power.
II. The Governments of the late Rebel
States, being Republican In form, and their
people acknowledging allegiance TO the
Constitution and the Union, Congress
should at once admit their right Of repre-
sentation, and each House being, under the
Constitution, the exclusive Judge Of the
election, return and qualification Of its
own members, Is bound to act upon each
case on its own merits, according to law,
without makingithe adoption OF the pend
ing constitutional Amendment condition
PRECEDENT to the performance Of a sworn
duty. 5.,..,,e .,,-.,4.,.,
IfI. The proposed Constitutional Amend
ment protesting to oequalize representation,
| is acoyert attempt to designate in the Con-
stitution of the United States, what classes
may become voters-a matter over which
| each State should exercise exclusive con-
troll. The enforcing of negro suffrage up.
ON the States, is its main object; otherwise
| a provision, basing National representation
| Exclusively on the white population, would
! have remedied the complaint, that the
whites at the South are Representing and
voting for the negroes. A feature Of con!
IsTRUCTIvE representation, which, as TO
| women and children, the proposed Ameiid4
ment allows New England to profit by, so
that Massachusetts, requires for every rep.
resentative, but 15,3I9 votes, while Ohto's
ratio would be 22,2Sl on the basis Of the
| Presidential vote for 1860. Therefore, the
voting basis amendment, suggested by
President johnson, and advocated last year
| by the Radicals before the elections, was
| rejected in Congress, because New England
| lost, and the West would gain representa-
| tion under its operations. The other clauses
| in the amendment, are already enacted in
to law, and are added as electioneering
make-weights, to this unequal scheme OF
representation. .o .l..,i-l ''h aE .n.''
| ~. Negro suffrage is the real keynote
to the whole action of Congress-. To carry
which, either directly orr Indirectly, the
Radicals seek to peruert the great Union Or
ganization (composed of men of all shades
of political opinion) from its original and
declared purpose, to an object for which
not soldier was enlisted, or dollar raised
during the war. Thomas Jefferson declar-
ed, and Abraham Lincoln reaffirmed In his
speeches, that the two races could not live
together on terms of political and social
equality. All history teaches that popu-
| lation, which does not assiniilate and be-
come homogeneous, on account of antipa-
thy of race, will fail to establish successfully
a republican government. Look at mon
| greI Mexico, and the South American an
archfcal Republics. Protec9 then, every
person within your jurisdiction, in their
rights of person and property, but human-
| ty as we'll as Statesmanship forbids the
| perpetuation of civil discord, by provoking
war of races.
v. A consolidated government is as de-
struetive TO liberty and republican institu-
tiOnss as disintregation or secession. The
centralizing schemes OF the present Con-
| gress, aFreedmen's Bureau bill, Extension
| Of military jurisdiction, Insurance. Bureau
bill, railroad swindles, ETC., are attempts
practiraIly,to absorb, all subjects of State
legislation, and should be resisted at the
| outset. h,uJ -ifH 10 4.Hit'A 'fvi
| vi. The great burden Of the public debt
i should be met by an equal system OF taxa
| tion, and the people will not bear at the
hands Of a class interest, a pr0hibit0ry high
The =, n nf
ey in lobby schemes, the consequent in
crease of the public debt hundreds of mil
| lions Of dollars, and the shielding from in
Vestigation the corrupt peculations and
cotton frauds of party favorites, will per-
| haps not excite surprise In the history Of a
Congress which voted 81, 600 each into their
own pockets-extra pay for about eleven
months actual services thousand per
month, is rather high wages for EVEN a
Congressman.
Our gallant Army conquered peace"
but for the lack of Craftsmanship in Con-
gress, system of measures seems to be
devised beginning with the District of
Columbia Negro Suffrage billy for the
purpose of engineering the country into
civil strife and popular outbreaks, in order
to furnish pretext for prolonging Military
rule, which General Grant has just de-
clared only tends TO increase evaporation
amongst the people. The leaders of the
Union party in Congress, by. adhering
to the President's policy of encourag-
| ing a returning feeling of loyalty to the
| Government at the South, could haye
built u ) there d party In the hearts OF the
people. Instead Of repelling all advances to
RECONCILIATION, regardless Of the teachings
Of history as to civil wars in other counT
tries. The Constitution of the United