Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-13

The Boston Anti Slavery Standard, WIN.
LLOYD GARRIsoN's paper, discusses the
late elections and charges the defeat of Its
party to the lukewarmness of conscience
less, place-hunting white Republicans"
and to the failure of the party In Cong ress |
to do its duty by the African race. How
that duty should have been performed, the
Standard leaves to be inferred by the
course it urges Congress now to pursue. 1t
says: Sy
"An important question now is will Con-
gress be wise enough, on Resembling, TO
rise above party considerations, and
promptly seize its remaining opportunity
to repair the injury occasioned by its past
omissions? A wise craftsmanship in Con-
gress may still save us from serious
troubles which otherwise will be inevita-
BILE. The limited and conditional grant of
political rights already extended to the
negroes of the South, has awakened among
them q consciousness OF power which they
did not feel a year ago. They expected
then that the Federal Government would
guarantee to them not only political equal
ity, but also homesteads. Every effort
has been made to disabuse their minds As
to the prospect of land from the Federal
Government, but they have, meanwhile,
the ballot in the hands of a landless ma
jority, with unrepentant rebels for OppO-
nents. We speak advisedly when we say,
that though the negroes are not now. as
formerly, looking for land from the Gene
raj Government, they have not given up
the expectation of having it in another
way. Unless johnson, following the lead
of his initial movement in disarming the
blacks of the District of Columbia, is al
lowed to override the present reconstruc-
tIon, and crush out the Radical pO itical
strength now rapidly developing in the
South, the blacks, wherever they with their
friends are in the voting majority, viii so
shape the State legislation as to make the
landed property of the South (thelrs by
their own past unrequited toiD su0serye
their immediate wants in the way OF edu-
cation and local Improvement. In suDJect-
ing the Southern lands to heavy taxation
for eductional and other legitimate ends,
we think they wanld- act wisely and we'll.
If the possession of too much unproduc-
tive land. under such an adminislratlon.
should be found a burden, its sale at low
rates would provide cheap homesteads for
all, and give an independent agricultural
constituency for the State and National
governments much more stable and trust
worthy than the South has hitherto fur
nished. But in anticipation of this turn OF
affairs, johnson already begins to discrimi-
nate against, and to disarm colored men,
and the Democratic journals North and
South raise great hue and cry against the
negroes. and propbesy 5loodshed and all
sorts of evil results That the negroes
will claim more than is justly their due, or
that they will incline to enforce their
claims in an irregular, violent manner, we
do not believe"
Thus goes the entire Radical doctrine.
The South is to be parcelled out to the Ne
groes, giving them not only political equal
ity with the whites, but the white mems
farms, subjecting the land not taken for
the homestead of the Negro. to heavy tax
tion tor educational and other legitimate
ends" for the benefit of the African race.
The cry of vote yourself farm and a
mule to work it, which demagogues of the
Radical school have so dinned into the
ears of the late slaves, to the exclusion OF
all ideas of earning the land and the mule
they hope to possess, is not an idle dream
OF the simple and the ignorant. but is
grayely put forth in sheet that did as
much, If not more, to divide the Union and
to keep it divided, than any other one
newspaper in the land. s62
But the STANDARD takes another step for
ward when it throws the following to its
brother Radicals.
ave are near the Presidential cam
paien, but with johnson impeached and
suspended, and prompt, thorough radical
legislation, such as we have indicated, the
sBull RUM of the October and November
elections can be more than made up. There
| may arise contingency In sohich it totH be the
duty of the Congress already chosen not only to
depose President but to designate one for the
ne1t succeeding term" ;"
The contingency" to which the Stand
ard alludes is the failure of the Radical
Negro Suffrage party to elect Presiden t
In that event, the present Congress, which
goes out of power on the same day the
President to be elected next fall is, by law
to be inaugurated, will dispossess Presi-
dent JOHNSON and designate CHASE, WADE
Fred DOUGLAS or some other man, white
or black, to occupy the Presidential
lair for four years, and ther
the leaders can perpetuate their power
through the remainder of their lives. This
open declaration of an intention to sub
vert the Government of the Republic, a.
LOUIS NAPOLEON did that of the Republic
4 of France by a coup d. etdt, coming IRON
the source it does-published in a shee
whose editor is in all the councils of New
England Observation-Disclosures evidence
of foregon conclusion on the part of the
leaders to retain power at each and 9
every hazard. The attempt, if made. will
settle the question of the proper mode II
make sstreason odious."