Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-07-09
Am u Republican, but mo AbOli-
Zionist.

From some sections OF the otaJe We geI
reports like these: A
Mr.. A., an actIve Republican, called on
Mr.. q, local politician Of some influence,
and made inquiry about his political health.
Mr. G. gave Mr.. A. to understand that this
fall he intended to vote the Democratic
ticket straight.
"That won't do, it's wrong" replied A.
"No; it amt" responded Mr.. G.. "Im
Republican; but no Abolitionist; In the
daysof the Whig party was Wing. Am
satisfied that the present leaders of the Re-
publican party are Abolitionists; that Is
they want to confer upon the Negroes the
same political privileges that enjoy.
That's the issue. You can't cover IL up.
1t sticks out in everything. Whathas been
the burthen OF the speeches and legislation
OF the Republican members in Congress
since they convened in December lastP 1t
has been the Negro-first, last and all the
time. There was the bill to confer suffrage
on the Negroes In the District of Columbia.
For that bill every Republican member
from Ohio voted There was the Freedmen's
Bureau bill-a bill to enlarge and prolorg g
system that requires me to toll and sweat
and stint myself and family to sustain. So
unnecessary and so outrageous was 1t that
the President felt it to be his duty to veto
it. And for having done SO he has been
abused as traitor to his party. Then
there was the Civil Rights bill-a bill that
in reality makes the negro little better
than the White man. 1t was voted for by
every Republican member from Ohio in
Congress but the President, having some
respect for his Constitutional obligations
and for his own race, vetoed it. Thereupon
the Republicans in Congress and the Re-
publican papers raised another howl Of In
dignation. They declared that he had be-
trayed the party-had gone over to the
'Copperheads,' and ought to be impeached
and driven from office. That, then, is to
say, the 'Copperhead' is the White mans
party, and the Republican politicians are
the Black mans party. This is the logic Of
their denunciation of the President. Not
saii fed with this they have passed
q Constitutional amendment, the object of
which is to make voters out of the Blacks
In the South. 1t does not in direct Ian
guage say they shall be voters; but it
makes United States citizens out of all Of
them, and when they are made citizens OF
the United States, whose privileges aud
immunities shall in no manner beabridged,
l would like TO know. how far they are
from being voters? When an lrishman,
German, Englishman or any other foreign
born White man draws his papers constl-
tuting him citizen Of the United states
can be not walk right up to the ballot-oox
and vOtep II you don't know that, l DO.
Aud if, the moment foreign-born White
men are made citizens OF the United states
through the process Of Naturalization
they become voters, l should like to know
why Negroes do not become voters
the moment they are made cltlzens Oh
the United States with all the PRIV
ileges and immunities OF every other
citizen OF the United States1 But Ioi Ihe
purpose Of clinching the matter, the repre-
Sentation OF the south Is 10 De uiml''isne"' NY
II they shall not make VOTERS ou' Y 'ne