Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-12
why The AbOi1tionists Want Ne
gro Suffrage In OhiO-The Lead
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ment of the Negro Suffrage question, by
4 the leaders allowing each man to vote
against it without losing his standing in
the party, the Journal is so enamored of
it, that it still appeals to the faithful to vote
for it, not because it is right, but because
it would add to the benefit of the party
now fast passing into minority through
out the Union. ASK y - s.-;L+2
| The object of the attempt to force Negro
Suffrage on Ohio is TO enable the party
now in power In Ohio to enable the ne
groes to hold the balance of power in the
State, and thus to control its destinies.
This fact the Journal denies. 1t says:
by the adoption of the amendment,
| therefore, we will confer the right of suf-
frage on 5000 colored men, in voting pop
ulation of 100000, or one colored vote to
seventy eight whites. And it is from this
mere handful of votes that we are to look
| for such dire results as are predicted by the
| Democratic oracles. These figures will
most clearly demonstrate the ridiculous
absurdityi of the Democratic fustian on
this subject, and should effectually close
their mouths for the future."a,s g
With that strange folly which so often
besets the Journal and aids in making that
shettridiculous, the editor, in the very next
paragraph, proceeds to prove that which 1t
denied but moment before, and thus it
does it.: y ~i
"There is another view of the subject,
however, which has doubtless been taken
by these same gentleman, but they are too
cautious to make public exhibition of it.
Examining the census of colured votes by
counties, we find that the adoption of man
hood suffrage will change the political
flsad
eral counties that are now extremely doubt
| full, or regularly Democratic. For exam
pie, Ross county, in 1865 gave Democratic
majority of 103 while she has 46S men who
should be voters, and will be when we
adopt the amendment, every one of whom
will vote the Republican ticket, giving
majority that makes Ross reliably Republic
can, elects a member of the House all the
time, and places the Senatorial district be-
yond doubt. 80 ,.,'rl.
Brown county in 1865 gave Demo-
cratic majority of 269, which her colored
voters will easily wipe out and leave a
handsome margin for Republican mem
| ber of the House. -''
..The Democratic majority of 312 in Pick
away will be very much demoraliZed when
her 100 negroes deposit their ballots, and
| the hard working and faithful Union men
there will soon be able to overcome the bal
ance. -0 rti. DIT .E-7a"- -4.- -.
-'In 1866 Clermont county elected Col.
| Branch, Democrat, to the House, to fill a
vacancy, by majority of 147, which result
will bemueh modified when her 307 colored
men are enfranchised.
'The energetic Union men OF Belmont
will be able to score more reliable ma
Ijority, and with less hard work, when the
203 colored men of that county are per-
mitted to vote, and she will no longer be
classed among the doubtful, with her two
representatives.
There are other counties similarly sit
uated, but from which we have no re-
| turns. Muskingum, for example, where in
1865 we had but 60 majority, in consequence
of which her noble Unionists are work.
ing with uneXampled vigor, would feel
entirely easy as to the election of her
two representatives and one Senator, if
her 400 negroes were enfranchised, and she
would take her stand among the reliable
| Union counties"
! With the counties of Ross, Belmont
Brown, Pickaway, Muskingum and other
hotly contested eouties, held by the Ne
groes as. a balance of poaoer party" helaw-
making power of the State is confined to-
4 the Radicals. Whenever a county be-
comes doubtful, by reason of changes from
the political organization that now goes
Negro Suffrage, to the Democracy, Negro
voters can be imported, with but compar-
ative small expe nse, and thus vote down
the will of the White men. -i
! To the casual reader it may seem strange
that the leaders of the Negro Suffrage
party, on the eve of an important election,
should invite portion of their party adj
i herents opposed to the vital issue of Negro
Suffrage which the leaders themselves
made, to vote against it, by an assurance
that such a vote will not impair their
standing in the party. There is an object
in this, and they feel that their success,
and the success of Negro Suffrage in Ohio
at this time, depends upon the pretended
abandonment of this issue. The facts will
bear us out in this assertion.
On the question of Negro Suffrage the
\ Abolition leaders find unmistakable symp-
toms of revolt in their own ranks. The
young men of this organization have not
been educated to the point of believing
that Ohio shall be made Mulatto State
that the Negro is better race. They will
not vote for Negro Suffrage, and the fear
is that they will vote against the ticket
whose candidates for State offices advocate
it. The Radical leaders know and feel that
the only chance for Negro Suffrage in
Ohio is to carry the Legislature, and this
they are making almost superhuman efforts
to do. There is not single candidate
in a single county of Ohio, where
she Abolition party have chance of
success, but is deeply pledged to Negro
Suffrage, and who, if elected, but will vote
for an amendment to the Federal Consti-
tuition giving the colored race not only the
right to vote in Ohio but in every other
State in the Union. Thus do these dishon-
est politicians stoop to conquer. They
pretend to allow latitude of opinion on the
subject of voting for an amendment to the
Constitution of Ohio making voters of the
negro race, provided the party will elect
majority of Negro Suffrage advocates to
the Legislature sufficient to ratify an
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States making voters of every male
negro in the United State of the age of 21
years, no matter how ignorant he may be.
When the Legislature ratifies this amend
ment Negro Suffrage is so fastened upon
Ohio that it cannot be shaken off, and then
will the Journal accomplish its wish of
having Muskingum, Belmont, Brown, Pick
away, Clermont and other counties, where
the parties are nearly equally divided, or
which may become SO, governed by the
vote of Negroes, and represented by Negro
Legislators and the local interests of the
people controlled by Negro officers.
The darling wish of the leaders of the So
called Republican organization, is to make
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