Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-03
NUMBER 20.

systematic course of the Democratic party,
to achieve its ends; while she deplOfed that
| the Republican party shifts, and hence
there is danger of the ascendency of the
! Democratic party by supporting Andrew
johnson. In this there is indeed more
''trutlI than fictlon.n Ever since the iorma-l
tion of the Government has the Democratic
party had but one aim, and that the peace
and prosperity of the republic, and for that
they shrinked from no duty or respohslbill-o
| ty. While the opposition have assumed all
manner of names and used all kinds Of de-,
vices; have had no aims but the present
SUCCESS of the party and to. feed from pub
lie spoils. -'N ju9Dpal p f1if
b No wonder that Miss Annals conscience
troubles her, thatthey have not been con-
sistent Her whole care seems to be TO
preserve the Republican party. The pres
eryation Of the Union is entirely secondary,
and presume no greater insult could 1be
offered her than to speak OF, the ,Upiteqd
States Constitution. She urges negro SUI
1rage as means of preserving the Republi-
/ can party Now, as Democrat, III should
have no tears of the negroes voting with, the
Republican party of the North Ignorant
| as they are, any one of reason must know
that they will be swayed and controlled by
| those around them, and hencewill cast their
votes with the South. And If they be at
Il
| will vote with the South. Intelligent vo-
ters will aItcays vote in their own interest.
| Now the only thing that makes the North
and South vote for different measures Is
| their different interests. Suppose the tariff
question again become an issue, as it totH, !
New England's interest demands protec-l
tion, and hence New England men will vote
for it. But what will thus benefit her will
| take somuch from the South, Will the
nf IN dnllar
yard for muslin under a tariff when he
mighthave gotten it for fifty cents by voting
anti-tariG? viii he vote money from his
own pocket into New England simply to be
with that party? The Supp0sttt0n is viola
tion of every law of nature. sees gs
Democrats do not oppose negro suffrage
because they fear the votes of the negroes
will be against them, nor do they wish the
negro votes to aid them; something dboUe
all such selfish aims actuates that party
One argument for the suffrage was that
the negroes are better qualified to vote than
the poor whites of the South. Now II
these whites be so ignorant shall we add
another element of the same kind? Ii a
man have to take one dose of poison shall
we for that reason give him anotherP
But how is it that the negro slave of
the South is better qualified to vote than
the poor white? The negroes have been
SldUeS, the whites have been Jreenlen, and
hence slavery must be more conducive to
J intelligence than freedom. Would it not
| then be well to have another war to eman-y
cpate the poor whites from the bondage of
darkness, and translate them into the mar
| velous light of those who have dwelt in the
| sunlight of slavery? Would it not be well Y
to have bureau established to look after
and care for this ignorant white element OF
the South? All, ye rphariSatcdl pttlanthro-
piStSi For the sake OF party, you will sac
rifce your country and your race, and over
the ruins of each sit the foreign and inferior
African. | -r arH fnJ 5a srslg .su-
But the negro is "the only loyal element
I south of the line." Strange that this little
feminine has discovered a great truth contra
~ to what johnson, Grant and Greeley have
! told us. But let us see the great loyalty of
these Africans. Out of the four million in
the Southern States, only four thousand
were in our armies as soldiers, and the most
ofthese were deserted by their masters, and
came more for sustenance than from 10y
atty. This sister OF soldiers % spent all
| her eulogies upon the heroism of one or
| two negroes, while our white brothers.
| thousands of them, sleep forgotten. 17 70
| She gave a description of a visit to
| Southern battlefield before the dead were
| yet buried; made fruitless attempt to force
| a tear from her eye, too masculine too weep,
and then added that 1t would all be lost nn-
less suffrage is given to the negroes iusmedt-
ately. . ... n -ir-l ..g...4..-. ..-.t
Did she, as she walked over that battle
| field, dare to think all was for nothing
without negro suffrage? Did she whisper
| to the spirits OF the noble dead, that per- q
chance still fingered there, the preserva-
tion of the Union is nothing; sal is lost
without negro suffrage?' All! fit be pos
sible that those departed spirits could pent
citrate the dark Tecesses OF the selfish human
| heart what must have been their emotions
as this representative of the "friends at
home" walked among them and around
their yet unburied bodies Was it not
enough to vitalize even the dead, to demand
human justice?
"a friend of the boys in bluep Eg
But who ever heard Of this friend of the
boys in blue in hospital ministering to
the suffering and filling the place of an alb
sent sister While they were suffering and
dying, and others were performing the
part of the good Samaritan, she was here
in the North playing the part of the phari-
see, and seeking the plaudits of those as
crazy as herself. "VertHI sag such shall
haze their REGARD" L1Nl ,.rlrr h9laJ-
Then came the logic of Sumner that the
President could just as we'll have demanded
universal suffrage from the South as the
abolition of slavery. The weakness of this
is too palpable to be here noticed Inathe
one case the slaves were already tree, If
President Lincolr's proclamation was any
thing, and hence Ill johnson required was
simple pledge of compliance with what
existed. '' o'3 " ft.fr rl a.g8fs s!qo
In the case of suffrage, there had been no
such war proclamation, and had johnson
issued one, it would have been dictation
to States in time Of peace settling the equali-
fication of voters. And ii he exercised this
dictatorshipin Georgia, he would have the
same authority for exercising it In Ohio
and wherever negroes are found. s'9''
And If Lincoln's proclamation was not
effectual In freeing the slaves, be had no
right to demand anything of pledge from
the South upon the subject.
| But must not weary Your readers with
too long an article. l have no desire to at
tack this simple girl, further than proper.
First, am Unwilling to have her setAip'her1
Radical ideas III opposition to Che Presi-
dent, and try to force them down the peo-O q
pie of the West. Second, / am not willing
to see her desecrate herself as a woman by
attempting to be Reyolutionist, There Is
an appropriate work for her and all Others 2
who wish to do good. Her owusexg gtholI-l
sands of them, are driffing down, ,,on the
dood-tide todebauchery and ruin; Let her
| educate her own heart to be aoohsdit, and
| turn to their salvation. :" .l-ll'5p oa iias
| Let this "6ttdsin woman cultivate within I,
herself the spirit of love, meekness and re-
coneiliation,r as taught by the Savior. Let
ha,r har in fiIpnpa tO inGtiil thia efafett