Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-02
DOnn Pialt ON the Issues of the
Hour.


On the 10Th OF June, DOM PIArr made
speech at Findlay, which is published in
the Journal, and head-lined "the Issues of
the Hour" DoNN Is now a considerable
quantity in the Republican party. From
this speech we gather as we gathered
from some of his editorials in the Mac a.
Cheek Press, that through the Republican
party brood of the most unmitigatei
and imbecilities have been in
fllcted upon the country. This is the way
in whith DOM accounts for it. in his
SPEECH: s~
II know it is common for men Of cultiuG
tion to sneer at politics. and make 1t boast
that they have no interest in the study, or
care for the results"
And he claims:
Through this shameful neglect, or rath-
er through the strange perversity that re5
CARDS as glittering generality that which
Is simple, common place fact, our Gouern-
nient has in a great measure, changed It's char
octer. Our law makers in the regularly
constituted Legislatures are no longer re-
garded as the agents of the people, reflect
ing their will and acting on their intelli
gence, but haze become poor inattdt0rs of an an
tIgonistic style of Government, and constitute
themselves our rulers. We suffer tn a double
sense from this. In the despOtic Govern
ments OF Europe mot Africal rare intelli-
gence, If not virtue, characterize the gov
erning class, while under our system the
road to office is open to the ignorant and Utcio,rs
and unless carefully guarded, it is precisely
this sort that ,o,H hold the places. 1t is mel
ancholy fact, recognized by the world and
acknowledged by ourselves, that our better
sort of citizens are not in office, and the sneer
fO h ioh I hau al ri Oi
In this connection he says: -v.77
"Thus self government, or rather free
government, has fallen into contempt"
With view of lifting stree Govern
ment" out of the contempt" into which 1t
"has fallen," by stimulating the ''men of
cultivation" to take an ''interest in the
study" of politics, and to carefully
guard" "the road to office" so that ''the ig-
norant and vicious" shall not have an op-
portunity of getting in, either by forcing
their way in at the gate, or in climbing
over the fence, DOM advocates the giving
of the privilege of Suffrage to that highly
intellectual and renowned race, which cul-
tivated the arts and the sciences and all the
virtues long before ADAM and EVE, the an
cestors of the White race, went to house
keeping in the Garden of Eden. We mean
the African race.
DOM admits as he goes along, because
he cannot help it, that:
ain our own country, from almost the
formation of our Government to the hour
when the late terrible war broke upon us,
the gorerning element aoas found in the Demo-
cratic party. Its name indicated to some
extent its beautiful nature, and in its earlier
days, the days of Jefferson. it came nearer
the element that should control a Republic than
any brought forth of humanity. Our people,
stung by the sneers, and suffering from the
wrongs of an aristocracy, set up the rights
of the citizen and proclaimed the dignity
of labor, and under the control of the Denaoc-
rdcy recognized and sustained such measures
only as sustained the citizen and eleudted the
ldborer."
In these good old Democratic times when
the Government approXimated perfection
and the Democracy ruled, the Government
was held to be White mans Government
and administered in the interest of the
White man. 1t was not then that ''free
government" fell into contempt. 1t was
not then that a picket guard had to be
placed "along the avenues to place and pow
er, lest the ignorant and vicious" should
secure the dominancy. 1t was not then
that the ''men of cultivation" sneered at
politics. That was reserved for the era OF
the Republican party-aparty that
power under false pretenses, and under the
rule of which thieves have held high car
nival, protesting all the while the purest pa
triotism and an unblemished humanitarian
ism. No wonder that "men of cultivation
in the Republican party have come to look
sneeringly upon politics as conducted by
Republican party managers. No wonder
that Stree government has fallen into con-
tempt" Not only have the people been
robbed through excessive taxation to fill
the pockets of ''the ignorant and vicious
who now hold Office through the Republi.
can party; but they who have thus lived
upon the hard earnings of the people, te
use the language of DOM, sin great mea.
sure changed the character Of our Govern
ment."
Do these things not demand serious at
tention? Nay, more: Do they not demand
instant reformation? DOM, as much al
any body else, realizes the Importance o.
reformation, and he would work it out by
giving to the Negroes the privilege Of
voting. We want to know how by con-
ferring suffrage upon the Negroes, reforma'
ton is to be worked out. If they shall bt
made voters will the Smen of cultivation
take more interest In politics than they dC
now2 Will 1.-The ignorant and vicious
stand to one side and allow ''tht
men of cultivation" and the Negroe!
lift "free government" out of the con
tempt in which it is now lying? Oul
government, according to the volunta'
ry testimony of DOM. from having
approximated perfection under Democrat
ic rule, in the brief space of less than sever
years under the administration of the Re
publican party, has become the most con
temptible. And to make matters worse
by the men who have despoiled the Gov
ernment and changed its character, we ar,
asked to make voters out of the Negroes
1t is not pretended that the Negro will, By
being made voter, assist in restoring th,
Government to what it was in the days o
its glory and purity before the Republican
| party cdiuo ihto Po"oI' ouI IHo1 ~ VII
arm him with "self-protection." Do tn,
White masses not need "self-protection,
too, and will protection" come to them il
any other way than through voting out o
power the Republican party, under tn
rule of which stree Government has fallel
into contemptP" .-
Democratic NOmina tiOns.
The Democracy of Knox county, at thei
Convention on Monday last, nominated Dl