Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-04
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The ZdnesvtHe Courier is happy. It fairly
revels in happiness. 1t has made the dis
covery, after having looked over some
Southern papers, that there is probable.
ty that the Democratic party North will mo-
be able to establish relations with a party
in the South that will in the least be ser.
vieable, because the Rebel leaders and tht
Negroes will acttogether, and the Northern
Democracy being opposed to Negro Sui.
| frage, they certainly could not get adher.
ents among the Negroes South, or the
i Whites who are making political common
cause with them. The Courier gratifyinglJ
copies an editorial from the CharEottsuilI,
(Va) Chronicle, in which this language oc-
ours:
| SNOW we are quite satisfied, from what
we have seen and heard very recently, that II
/ will be impossible to rally the colored peo-
pie to the support of any Northern Demo
cratic party. They allege that the Demo
cratic party was a pro-slavery party, thai
it Is now opposed to giving them the elec-
tive franchise in Connecticut, New York
Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey-and that
| they regard it as an enemy. In stand-up
| fight between the Republican party and the
Democratic party the colored people viii
not be controlled by the Southern whites
in favor of the Democratic party-we are
| not sure that we shall control them any
way"
The Radicals having determined to rule
the South through the Negroes, and the
Southern Whites being compelled to sub
nit to it, does not furnish reason why
Northern White men should give their ap-
probation to this measure. When it can be
shown that civil Government has been i'm
proved where the Negroes have had voice
In its direction, then will it be proper for
the Whites of the North to consider the
propriety of making them voters. This
can not be done; but it can be shown in
disputably, that where the Negroes have q
commanding voice in government, gov
ernment is far from being of the character
it should be. Hayti is being turned topsy
turvy by a revolution, and revolutions in
that country are about as periodical as the
seasons. 1t is no disparagement to the Ne
gro to say that his race is the inferior of
the White race. He is as he was created.
He can not help it. Over his creation he
had no control. All history and all time
are alike emphatic and distinct in their tes-
timony that the Negro is the subordinate
of the White race. This testimony is not
begotten of ignorance and prejudice /; but
impartial and unprejudiced truth affirms it.
1t was contended that our Government,
prior to the recent War, was the best Gov
ernment the world had ever seen. 1t was
to maintain and perpetuate this best Gov
ernment the world had ever seen that the
war was ostensibly prosecuted. In what
particular can we hope to improve it, if the
Negroes shall be made voters? Will we
have better men elected to the Presidency
and Vice Presidency than the Whites have
been in the habit of electing? Will better
men be elected to Congress-to the Legis-
latures-to county ofices-to municipal of
fees? Will our taxes be lightened? Will
our tariff system and internal tax>collect-
ing system be improved, if the Negroes
shall be made voters ? ;, 1t is becoming evi-
dent to the mass of business men, capital
lists, mechanics and laborers, that some
thing must be done speedily to relieve all
Industrial pursuits from the oppression
that weighs upon them through taxation.
Are the Negroes sufficiently capacitated
to assist, through Government, In bringing
about the much needed reform This; is
the question Of the hour. What the public
need is a better, cheaper and a more
economical Government than they have
had for the lastsix years. Will the making
voters out of the Negroes give us such q
Government? Is any Republicans any
friend of Negro Suffrage-prepared t4
answer this question in the affirmative9 &