Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-05

they are drilled by base and crafty whites.
They are taught that they have wrongs to
avenge: that confiscation, suffrage, taxa
tion and agrarianism are the rightful rem
edies. But if the blacks dominate, if a half
million whites are DISTINGUISHED, if the
black and ignorant minorities are to rule
then will they make up in insolence and
atrocity, what they want in competency
and moderation. Let us come to details.
Jury trial is one of the great evidences and
instruments of freedom. The Constitution
assures it. Without it there is no safety.
dow Is 1t TO be practically given to
| the people of South Carolina? Governor
Orr says that there are but six districts out
of the thirty -one, where the whites are in
majority. In two districts the numbers
are equal. In each of the remaining twen-
ty-three, the blacks predominate. or the
registered whites in Charleston, lIS cannot
write; of the blacks. 1866! 1t is worse
elsewhere. In Beaufort 1850 colored, and
put TO whites are registered. On every
fourth jury this would give one white.S
Generally over the State the proportion is
about eight blacks to four whites on jury:
and only five per cent. of the blacks are ca
pable of reading and writing! This is the
jury box-the arbiter of the citizen against
force and fraud-which De Tocaueville
thought was one ofour American triumphs
the best educator of Democratic Liber-
ty! will not ask you to observe an elee-
tion in Richmond. The papers are full of
this farce. The very names of the suffra-
gans are not remembered by themselves
But there was little harm done there: for
were not the cavalry on parade, and did
not order reign? But go to Alabama. See
one of General Pope's elections for Con-
vention! 1t is at Eufala, Barbour county,
The black leagues, led by few imported
whites, encamp around the town the night
before. They revel the night through. In
the morning three thousand strong, they
torn procession. They have our muskets.
Every negro is marched up with a prepar-
ed ticket. The revelry keeps up. The
negroes play on their cane pipes and tin
horns. Strange noises-wild barbaric cries
rend the air, as if renewing the heather
worship of their barbaric Devil Fetisch.-
The brave, honorable enduring whites are
housed in humiliation. This holy work
OF freedom and reconstruction proceeds
The results of such performances are too
serious to contemplate without shudder.
What are these results? Where blacks are
dominant they will tax at pleasure. They
pay little; and will therefore lew much,
1t is not negro equality, but negro su-
periority, that is to be illustrated. Prodi-
gality will accompany vanity, and they
will be urged to make up by rapacity what
is said is due for their unrequited Service
in slavery. This will provoke resistance,
and only force can keep asunder the races
from bloody and eXterminating war. This
might be mltigated if the negroes, fresh
from the barbarism of slavery, were capa-
BILE of training for citizenship. But what
preparation have these people for voting?
Education? None. Can they take care of
themselves for winter? For week?
Why does your toll go to pay sixty millions
year for the Freedmen's Bureau? To feed
the sleek, lazy negro, who is not smart
enough to earn living, but smart enough
to rule you! Do they understand political
questions? Do they understand the nature
of our laws? Can they help us to good
government? Oh! yes. had forgotten.
They had lessons in politics from Judge
Kelly and General Wilson. The one sought
to arouse their martial attributes in a mob,
to fit them for suffrage; but it was reserved
for General Wilson to give them the first
lesson in suffrage in Charleston: GAIL you,,
said the General to the six thousand ne
groes looking up to him for guidance, "all
you in favor OF supporting by your votes,
the great Republican party, which gave
you your freedom-raise both your hands !"
Twelve thousand ebony hands were upi
"All opposed, raise your hands," The same
twelve thousand ebony hands, each particu-
lar finger of the one hundred and twenty
thousand black fingers tineling to the tips
with the first sensation of the voting ioy,
again were up! This was voting! This is
manhood suffrage. Mule suffrage would be
better! Do you know why this business
has been defeated in Ohio? 1t is not
merely because there are 1000 negroes
there to vote, for they could do but little
harm among 400,0 whites it was because
Ohio did not dare to foist upon herself an
experiment, to be followed South in either
social or political Africanization. So
cial, say; for read in the Round Table
that not merely is this Atricanization pol
luting jury box and ballot-box, but it is,
with the poverty and repression South, pol
luting their homes. Miscegenation has
begun. In one town of 10000 inhabitants.
that paper reports that not fewer than six
of employment by the destruction of the
factories, are openly living as the mistress
es of negroes! 1t was for just such mis-
cegenation that God drowned the world
by the deluge. Thus, politically and So
cially, this deterioration of our society be-
gins. The white race which has carried
civilization, education, science, refinement,
and Christianity over the whole world
whose triumphs with the pen, pencil and
chisel, from the golden ages of Greece and
Rome-whose inventions in compass
steam and telegraph have inbound the
world in a zone of light--whose heroism
in war and graces In peace have made this
star worthy even the Divine Presence
this race OF elf-government, energy and
advancement, is supplanted by a race
whose progress has not been marked by
single evidence of civilization for the
thousands of years they have held the rich
plains of their native continent!
But again, suppose the Radicals fail to
foist negro equality and suffrage in the
South, by the Reconstruction bill. They
have boasted they have the entering wedge;
and that by Congress they viii undertake
it in the States; North and South. They
have adopted it in New York, but refused
to submit it to separate vote. Their po-
litical Convention at Syracuse adopted it;
and since they will not or cannot do it by
States they will do it by breaking their
oaths to the Constitution. Are the people
of New York ready tor the question? If
the people are not rully aroused by these
political and social problems, perhaps they
will be by considering the pecuniary situa-
ton. We have already authentic details
of the cost of registration. 1t will average
over million State before done. 1t is
estimated at fifteen millions. The elections
will cost five millions more. The cost of
the army-this scaffold of civil government
will be forty five millions, making about
siXty-five millions; and all in considera-
ton of the exquisite picture of Barbor
county electors, and barbaric dances to the
music of cane reeds and the rafting of
chance musketry. Sixty thousand more
for the Bureau, and in all over one hun
dred and twenty five miilions-or double,
tor these negro extravaganzas alone. what
it cost for the whole nation under Demo-
cratic rule before the war! How long will
these burdens, added to those already fund
ed in the public debt-be borne? Can you
wonder that reputation is not merely
whispered, but talked loudly? Who bears
those burdens? Nominally every one
really labor; nominally 10000 articles,
really paid for at increased prices, tax add
ed, by toll. Legislation has not only been
corrupt, but it has been for the benefit of
pet classes. Capital is exempt and labor
pays; the result is fiscal tyranny, even
more hateful than military or negro tyran-
ny. You have but one remedy. 1t is in
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