Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-12
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COL LONEL BABER.
At the Great Democratic Jollitication
Meeting, Nov. 9th.

FELLOW CITIZENS had no expectation s
of speaking here tonight, but IN response
to your repeated calls in behalf OF the thou
sands of former political opponents who
united with you in achieving the late sig
nal victories over Radicalism IN favor OF
constitutional Government, against negro
suffrage and military despotism, to claim
right to join with you in hearty congratu-
ations that our common country may yet
be saved. -,, ~. ..-,9I 7aA.,.teai,jt
At this late hour, after the able and elo-
quent speeches to which you have just
listened, nothing is left to me but TO sum
up in brief the lesson of the late contest
Here in Ohio, where is the 10000 majority
OF the Radical party? The little bombshell
that you sent into their midst last winter
in the shape of resolution from the Frank
lin County Democratic Convention. chal-
lenging the Radicals in the Legislature TO
submit to their own people, the practical
application OF their favorite dogma CT ne
gro suffrage here at home, has split this
| majority into three parts-one- third, l3-
600, voted for Judge Thurman and the
| Democratic ticket, thereby showing their
constancy to principle, rather than
party prejudice; another third, l3,-
600, voted directly, only against the negro
Suffrage Amendment. and the remaining
third, 1900, were silent; and thus, with
an increased vote of 13 600, our noble State
by $4,000 majority broke the backbone OF
| the Jacobin party. l.3'
Now, my friends, it is wei clearly to un-
derstand the fundamental idea underlying
| this great revolution. Charlatan politicians
and fanatics, vainly imagined that as the
people of the North and West voted to keep
Kansas free and negroes out of that terri
! tory, because they wanted the land Tor
white men and their descendants, that
these marses could be used at will by party
leaders to make helots to former negro
slaves OF their own race and blood. Fools!
| the very Anglo-SaXon passion to possess.
and hold for its o,on race, all the land that
it can acquire, hen so successfully appeal
/ ed to on that issue, is now operating to pre-
vent the surrender of the fair lands OF the
South to the domination of the negro,
1 which would practically and effectually eX-
Eclude white settlement and immigration.
The people need only to understand the eff
feet of this Radical project of Africanizing
one half of our territory as 1.-THE fruits OF
the war for the UniOn." in the language of
Wendell Phillips, and at the next Presi-
| Dental election theywi sink beyond the
reach of resurrection the men, vim. to per-
petuate party ascendency, would bring ruin
on their hearthstOnes. ,1ai- z-.i 81 .
4 Your soldiers who went forth to battle to
preserve this country under one Govern
ment, one Constitution and one flag, never
fired a gun thus to degrade men of their
own blood and lineage. 1t was vile con-
cepton, ,miscegenated by Puritan fanatics m
and shoddy stay -at-home patriotism. New
er had great party in power, at the end of
a civil war, such an opportunity of nation
laliZing itself and securing its perpetual as
cendancy by the exercise of statesmanship
in adhering to the Constitution and the OF.
iectS for which the war for the Union was
supported by the honest masses. The lead
Iers, however, after two years of wrangling,
have swerved away their day of grace.
and the Rump Congress, soon to assemble,
4 will, in its desperation. endeavor to con-
summate the foul conspiracy it concoctetl
against constitutional government by ad-
/ uniting Senators and Representatives,
elected by negro votes in bogus State gov
lernments. erected by fraudulent registTa-
tions, under military despotism, with the
ultimate design of cheating the people out
of the choice of the next President of the
! United States, through bogus Presidential
electors. Let us meet this usurpation
l boldly, by declaring every where that this
scheme will NEVER be .ACQUIEsCED in.
Let the people proclaim, and stand fear
lessly by the determination, that no SeDa-
tors. no Representatives in Congress, no
Presidential electors, will ever be
RECOGNIZED who are chosen by a
franchise, forced upon State by Con-
gressionaI usurpation. That no length OF
time, no mockery of conventions under
the forms of law, can sanctify such an out
rage. But. that the Senators, Representa-
tives in Congress, and Presidential electors,
chosen by White men under the now ex-
isting State governments in the South, are
the ONLY ones we will recognize as legiti-
mate, until their respective State Constitu-
tions are altered by their own free will
and consent of those who are lawfully
voters under them. Unfurl then to the
breeze the flag inscribed with the motto
1tiWHTrE MEN shall govern the American
! Tt, ha fad Hnxu hxy
negro electors, manufactured by bayonet
rule" Under this sign you viii conquer,
if, disregarding all divisions as to men,
you will close up your ranks as to meas
ures. Enter prematurely into no Presl-
dental commitments, as to candidates
Wait until your Radical opponents, now
confused and in retreat, shall present their
candidate. Disorganized, chased and halt
frightened, they are now endeavoring to
retain their hold on office, by frantically
clutching the coat-tail of General Grant
But let me tell them, that the people are
wide awake and will vote upon measures,
and not men, and that General Grant,
or any other candidate, who stands on
a Negro Suffrage military despotism
platform, will like General Hayes after the
election, declare that. "the negro is out Ol
politics for years. The American people
will stand no DODGING on this issue. Fond
as they are of military glory and revered
as Washington himself was, he could not
carry into power party, who after be-
traying the most solemn pledges made to
obtain men and money in the war for the
Union, now seeks to perpetuate party
power by Legislation "outside" OF the Con-
stitution, and is putting the heel of mill
tary despotism on one half the country to
establish negro suffrage there, for the pur-
pose of ruling the whole. Let us then all
stand shoulder to shoulder, steadfast as to
principle, tolerant as to candidates, and
when the next National Democratic Con-
vention shall name the man for President,
victory shall perch upon our banners.
OHIO is now the chief wool-growing
State. having 6,60s,052 sheep, out of 80
650,797 in the whole United States. In 1861
the live stock of Ohio was valued at $751;
600 600, which is greater than any other