Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-05

Trust Une lime. VIII c9me Wuen ITeeloh
and equal rights will be. commensurat
with civil Government; Wlien the torct0
liberty will burn on thousand shrines.
till the despotisms Of ages shall .crumbl
and be consumed in the blaze of universt
| freedom. Congress has no authority to
| dicta O. any such terms to the Southern
States. The question of suffrage Is for the
| States Individually to determine, and not
tor Congress. Suffrage is a political priv
ilege, and not anatural right Every Cow
ernment must determine for itself, accord
ing to the dictates of sound policy, who
| shall exercise this privilege and who shall
be deprived Of 1t. Inthe first place, there
is no necessity for allowing the negroes to
vote. The right of suffrage simply gives
every voter voice in the enactment of the
laws by which he Is governed-and who
! will deny that the negroes had voice in
the enactment of the laws passed by the
Thirty-ninth Congress? II every negro IN
| the country exercised the right Of suffrage
1 they could not select men who would rep
resent them more faithfully than the Radi-
Gals have done in the last Congress. Those
who advocate negro. suffrage can, attain
the desired end by returning Radicals to
the Legislative halls BY this means you
confer on the negro all the benefits of
suffrage without imposing any of It's bur-
dtns; you not only enfranchise the neg Q,
but In effect dsfrahChise the white man.
Besides, according to the admissions of the
Radicals, these negroes have not intelli-
gence enough to take care of themselves
The agents of Freedman's Bureau must
be paid by the Government to act MS tl1t
guardians of this people-tO make their
contracts for daily labor. This state of
degradation is the inevitable result of the
sudden social revolution brought abOut bY
the war. But, while we ,ii, 'rr to elevate
the negro In the scale Of III iH.ace aud
alleviate his condition as best we may,
would it not be the snpremest
folly to place the ballot in
the hands of four millions Of these people?
To place the destinies of this great Repub.
lie in the bands of a people who have not
sufficient intelligence to perform unaidad
the simplest duties of life? To give surh
a people controlling influence in this
Republic would be preiudicial to the best
Interests of the negro race, and fraught
with untold danger to the Government. A
| foreigner no matter how intelligent, must
| reside five years in the United States, take
All oath to support its Constitution and
| laws before he caiivOte. Even then he is
excluded from the highest office in the
Government. But, the Radicals do not
proDose that those recently emancipatpd
shall wait five years before exercising 3tbe
| right of suffrage; nor that they shall he:
incapable of holding the highest Ofli in
the Republic! Thus proclaiming not only
| negro equality but negro superiority over
the white foreign bora citizen. jt.3 .a1a
A Negro suffrage is not in issue
! in Ohio s..... ... ......... .,....
Mr.. DeTany-Your political education
| has been somewhat ne@'ccted. You have
read only Radical newspapers. The lights
of your party proclaim Impartial suffrage
as the question of the hour. Perhaps you
deny negro suffrage with mental reserva-
tiOn in favor Of Impartial Suffrage? The
gentleman who misrppresents this district
| in Congress voted for negro suffrage in the
| Territories and in the District of Columbia.
| against the protest of seven tlTousaDChof its
citizens. Mr.. Hubbeil lodged the vote on
that question in the House. He was not
confirmed in the faith; he wavered and
when he came to ask denomination. his
| head was cat off, and placed in the Radical
basket. Every Radical Congressman in
| Ohio was renomipated except Hubbell!
| His place was flied ny one who never
wavered imthe faithl But yet negro suf-
| frage il not in issue in O5iO! o., mol Did
you hear ANYTHING of a Convention which
met in Philahelphiaa few weeks ago?
a yOice--cThe Reconstructed Convention
thatexcluded9V d9Vallandighaman admitted
Dick TAYLOR t,f. .,1.. ID. r.., 4....
Mr. d LIny-NO, sir; but a Convention
which needed reconstruction about as badly
| ne any body which ever assembled on the
| continent That Mosaic Convention, where
awhile man was sandwiched between two
| darkeys-the Convention which was com
posed of strong minded women and weak
| minded men-ef. Congressmenl1 like olIr
mutual friend Shella, who apostrophize
the nrgroe in strains beginning .,..,.-r.
| ul ever Of Mee I'm fondly dreaming; ..- IL
| Re'er can lforget, how dear HOu art 70 mel"
The Conventionin which the loyal clergy
assembled, and after preaching from tue
text, I'm btdCk but beautiful, o! ye daugh-
ters Of Jerusaleh!" they proceeded to lay
! down a policy for the Almighty during
the boming campaign. The Convention in
which our Northern Radicals implored
their Southern brethren, for the sake of the
co,nin1 elections. not to talk SO loud about
! the negro suffrage question. A COnvpn-
7 tiOn, thend0r of whichwas too rank even
| ftI' the olfartories of BottS At whose arc.
ma this paCriot turned up-his nose in of
| tended dignity !--,although it was pro-
nounced loyaJ perfume by the sanity
Brownlow! The Convention which passed
resolutions calling for unqualified negro
suffrage and looked up to, Fred. Douglass
as rs patron saint. Have been sufficient
I ly explicit in designating the Convention
to which referred? There is no danger
of mstaking a Radical Convention, Z" The
trail ol the darkey is DER them all ~"
RADICAL Policy.
Brownlow, speaking e,r odtcio, declared
amidst shours of approval that he wanted
the armyof the United States divided into
three divisions: the first to do the hanging
| in the South; the second the burning, and
the third to divide the disloyal lands
4 ahIohestithe "loyal men "--sueh as Brown
3loT, &c. Phis is the Radical policy lin a
NUTSHELL Browplow is representative OF
that canting crew that are ever ready to
chsnge masters, il it paws betterAwho
think vastly more of the fleece chan they do
of tAeNheep. tsIf these clerical hypocrites
can't sepye God proftably they will change
masters aud serve manmon. for consider
alton! Yes, and steal "tlie livery ofIIeav-
enp toipromote their new mastsr's inter-
ests. Cam such men, or sucha policy as the
1 Radicals proclaim, ever restore this Union
or promote that fraternal feeling which is
the basis of all fasting Unions? ~ H'''h
History is. replete with warnings and
examples which ought to deter the North
ern people from pursuingthe' Radical poll
| cy and from sustaining the men who advoe
cate ii. EaglaHd lostthe brghtestgem. in,
her crown by pursuing a similar policy
| towards the thirteen original colonies.
! She denied the people therights and priVi-
| leges of Englishmen; IeUied and collected
taceS eSoilhoast hallOs0ing them, representation.
] Kindness, Justice, would have won their