Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-11-26

kulhu DobWtOu t1At AtNhS W NObO ~"N V'-f
right to be voted forss the Mdc-d-cteek
! Prsds, with urbane magnanlmlty, hastens
I to enllghten us. II, has written lengthlly
on the subject-used large number OF
words but the pith Of It's editorial Is con-
tained in this paragraph:
snow, If THE STATESMAN will give Itself
up to, say q weeks, hard thinking, tt VIII
presently discover that the agents OF the
people who are selected to carry on this
Government base their claim for votes, not
ON any other right but on their qualt-
fications-otherwise capacity-otherwise
BRAIN" s>
We do not see how this establishes the
fact that 'sthe right to vote " does not
carry with it "the right to be voted for"
The trouble with the Mdc-d-cheek is, that
1t subordinates the agent to the principal
the creature to the creator, OF Ofcourse, the
people in our form OF Government are repre-
sented by what may be termed ''agents," not
because, particularly, OF "their qualifca-
tions," OF their capacity" of their
"brain; :" but because it is inconvenient
for the whole people to assemble and carry
on the Government. They, therefore,
carry on the Government through agents /;
but yet theoretically they exercise super
visOry care overtheir agents. A man whOis
a voter has the right to be candidate for
any Office he may aspire to, and the people
have the right to vote for him. He may be
destituteof qualifications" Of capacity
of BRAIN" just as is the editor of the
Mde-a-cheek deficient Of them as a Legisla-,
tor; but that does not invalidate his right
to be a candidate and his right to be voted
for. If the people shall choose him as their
agent, that IL their business. II their In
terests are not duly attended to, they will
be the sufferers IN consequence, and the
presumption ought to be that they would
90 far turn the experience thus obtained to
account by electinga person who will serve
them to better advantage in the future.
The Mack-a-cheek has been persistent in
It's advocacy of the extension ofsuffrage to
the Negroes, on the alleged ground that by
reason of their manhood and right they
were entitled to it; that it was necessary
to their protection against outrage and
wrong. In the same issue of the Mack-G-
cheek that the editorial is devoted to the en-
lightenment Of the STATESMAN, an editorial
is devoted to "Political Cowardice," in
VIII D it says the editor was "run over by
the Convention" that nominated Governor
Cox. "as by drove Of Buffalo bulls, and
for days ours (his) friends we're engaged in
the pleasing task of digging us (him) out
of the mud" because he had, among other
things, insisted in resolution that "the
South should be given to the loyal men of
the South regardless of color" This is not
all. The Mdck-G-cheek says that "while the
Chicago Times loudly avows itself in
favor of a Negro Suffrage restricted only
by education, the poor little cowardly
pod-augers of our (the Republican, party
are dodging around to whisper it in dark
corners;" and yetit, the Mac-d-cheek, which
undertakes to draw check upon the pub
lie for greater pluck" than anybody else
at work in the Abolition party, sits down
and berates Massachusetts. for giving to the
country practical illustration of Negro
Suffrage-its logical result-by electing
some Negroes to the Legislature. This
plucky publication, which affects to "des- |
pise the pOd-augersy in its own party for |
their nervelessness, tells Massachusetts she
has made "herself ridiculous" by electing
Negroes to her Legislature and that this
Righteousness of hers will do damage to
the great, the Immaculate Republican party.
Says JAMES Russell LOWELL, we must
acknowledge the Negro "as our broth
err and that still we have done
SO he will be always at our elbow,
q perpetual discomfort to himself and
u.s." We assume that JAMES Russell Low
ELL is intellectually the peer Of the Muck
G-cheek, and, doubtless, II he were to be-
stow thought upon the Mack-d-cheek's
objection to the election of Negroes to the
Massachusetts Legislature by the Aboli-
tionists Of that State, and its assertion that
the right to vote does not inseparably asso-
ciate with it the right to be voted for, it
would be that the Mdck-d-cheek is about the
most despicable of "the poor little cow
ardly pod-augers" in the Abolition party.
For journal to clamor week after week,
as the Mack-a- cheek does, in every con-
ceivable form, for the extension of suffrage
to the Negroes, and then to tear tshair and
make itself generally and unconsolably
miserable because the Republicans in
certain State see proper to make Legislators
out Of Negroes--thus declaring that they
are as fit to sit in a Legislative body as the
editor Of the Mdc-d-c cheek--is certainly the
extreme of the ridiculous." If 1t is ridic-
ulous to make Legislators out Of what
are supposed to be educated and intelli-
gent Negroes, is it not ridiculous" to
make voters out of the illiterate and de-
based Negroes in the South9 Answer ms
that. l.I
The Wsyne County DcUnOcrst.
A change has taken place in the editorial
department Of the WGyne Covgtg Democrat.
LEMuEL JEFFRIEs, Esq, Is succeeded by |
that veteran of the Press, ASA G. DIMMocK,
ESQ, and by Mr.. BENJAMIN EAsoS; We |
regret the withdrawal Of Mr.. JEFFRIEs
from the tripod, and trust he will soon re-
mount it. Glad we are that Mr.. DIMdocK |
willcontinue to serve the Democracy as an |
editor. lLm i'l ,idBf
3 IT is Gods law that lie cannot live,-
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