Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-22

16 h day of September 80, On the very,
day of his arrival with his wife at the Nell
House, j, In company with General Geiger'
and others, waited on him, and handed him.
an ONO JSTATEsNANs charging that, "in
debating with Senator Douglas during the
memorable contest Of last fall, Mr.. Lincoln
declared in favor Of negro suffrage, and
attempted to defend that vile aseimp-
tion against the, Little Giant" He quietly
took the paper and said he wanted to
use It. A gentleman from the South,
who was at that time visiting the
city, and who thought all Republicans
must necessarily be rhjgher law fanatics"
was prevailed upon by me to attend the
meeting, with the promis, that on this
| point, he would find out his mistake from
the next Republican candidate for the
Presidency. Mr.. Lincoln came on the east
steps of the Capitol with The STATESMAN
| in his hand, and after reading the above
| quoted extract, said: VI mention this now
at the opening of my remarks, for the pur-i
pose of making three comments upon 1t.
| The first l have already announced. 1t
| furnishes me an Introductory topic; the
second is to show that the gentleman Is
mistaken thirdly, to give him an Oppor-
tunity to correct it." And then read from
his debates with Senator Douglas, the fol-
| lowing extracts. II have no purpose to
introduce political and social equality be-
tween the White and black races, There Is
/ q physical difference between the two. which
| la my judgment will probably forbid their
| ever living together upon the footing OF
1 fectequality; and inasmuch as becomes
| d necessity that there. must be difference,
! l, as well rs Judge Douglas, am in favor
of the race to which ] belong, having the
| superior position. - 49, = That am not,
or ever have been, in favor of, making
| VOTERS or jurors of negroes, or of quali-
flying them to hold ofliee.n And then clos
| ing with hit at Colonel George w. Many
| penny, then editor of The STATESMAN, who
was present, which raised laugh, he pro-
| ceeded to make very able speech, and as
the crowd dispersed at its conclusion, fire.
| quent remarks came spontaneously from
| the people. SHAT man would suit me for
| President" which showed that he had
| touched the popular heart of his party.
| On his roIte to Cincinnati, General Schenck,
o colleague of his in Congress, who up to
| that time had been too conservative to act
with the Republican party, introduced Mr..
| Lincoln at Dayton, as the probable candi-
date for the Presidency; and at Cincinnati he
made a second speech fully sustaining the
position occupied by Judge Swan. He said:
| ''We must not interfere with the institu-
| tion of slavery in the States where it eX-
| lists, because the Constitution forbids 1t, and
| the general welfare does not require us to
| do so. We must not withhold an efficient
| Fugitive Slave law, because the Constitution
requires Us, as | understand it, not to with
hold such law. But we must prevent the
Outspreading of the Institution, because
neither the Constitution nor the general
| welfare require us to extend it. We must
prevent the revival of, the African slave
trade and enacting by Congrese of q Terri,
i Nrrs i IUVVaI oh all
| be glad to have some of the many good and
able, and noble men of the South, to place
themselves where we can confer upon them
| the high honor of an election upon one or
| the other end of our ticket. 1t would do
/ my soul good to do that thing. 1t would
ENABLE MS to teach them that inasmuch as
we select one of our own number to carry
out our principles, we are free from the
charge that we mean more than we say"
FOlLett C Fosters Debates, pp. 2G7-26S. l.,l..
The WadswOrth letter pretended to be
found on he.body of that General, in May,
1864, at the battle Of the Wilderness, is q
well-kpown forgery--a mere radical publ
rcltion To show Lincoln had changed his
| position. ...... ..,r....f. ......15.. 3
Tue Executive Committee scattered TO-
| 600 of these speeches over the State, which
cOunterac cd the effects OF the Chase nnlli-
ficaton movement, and DenniSon was
elected. 1t will be- observed in the forego-
ing extracts, that Lincoln based his objec7
ton to negro suffrage on the fundamental
ground of RACE just as Governor Cox has
since done, and was anxious to get rid of
a sectional organization as soon as the sec
tiOnal radicalism of the South was checked.
| He did not, like the present Radical leaders,
mean more thauhe said, and was honest in
his declarations. That wear State Board
of Equalization consisting of one member
| from each Senate district, was elected. and
met early in December, and thus furnished
a favorable opportunity of executing the
precoRceiped scheme of requesting Lincoln
to furnish a copy of his debates with Dougr
las, as a document for the ensuing Presi-
Dental campaign. Governor Deunison
had, during his canvass, borrowed my
newspaper copy Of the debates, and when
| l proposed to him that the State Central Ex-
ecutiVe Commtte, and the Republicanmem-
bers of tine Board of Equalization should
address q letter. to Lincoln, as a compli-
ment requesting him to, furnish copy of
| his speeches for publication, he at once as
sented, saying he had written himself once
1 to Mn, Lincoln foracppy, who replied that
4 he had but one himself, Governor Denni-
son was a very Jealous Chase man, and
| had to be cautious on the subject about
Lincoln; but he at once asked me to pre-
pare the letter and suggested that he, as
! Governor elect, with the State officers,
would join in signing it. Accordingly, 1
4 Immediately went to the Office of Swayne
| 81 Babsr and. wrote the following letter,
which appears with the signatures in the
correspondence published In Follett q
Fosters, Lincoln and Douglas Debates: 80
4' CoLuMBUs, ONO. December 7. 1859.
4 Hon. ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
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