Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-09-18

] AaAGA " 4Eu AuDD 4GlECN lAAO SAASAH "
Jubilee on the surrender Of Lee and John
ston at the return as they supposed of
peace; if this has all been a delusion
and all this blood has been shed IN vain
if the union is not restored and the war
not ended, then let US have one, two or
even ten years of war If need be, but
mock us not with these Dead Sea apples,
which look like the Union we loved and
longed for, while to the taste they are
but the ashes and bitterness Of a king
dom Of Dahomay or a Domingo and nOt
our glorious old
Union Of Lakes and Union Of lands,
A Union that none can sever
a Union Of hearts and Union of hands,
With the flag of the Union for ever.
There is no fancy in this picture for
the registrations under this reconstruction
laa0 as it is called, but as it is, this law
for the differentiation Of the sgbOle South,
have been nearly or quite completed and
it is a fixed fact that the Africans are
nearly and in some States quite two to
one to the white voters.
If these men had adopted universal
suffrage and universal amnesty as Mr..
Greely and Gerritt Smith proposed, it
would have been merely an exercise of
unlawful power to try a utopian and
dangerous experiment and would only
have exposed its authors to the charge
of being dangerous fanatics, but when
Atty Gen. Stanbury held that under
IL, r-s,SD,1 1,v- sy,ob -bsto v,,or ne bod
been. cOnst bles, road supervisors and
justices of the peace, were not thereby
excluded from voting, we all remember
with what eager frantic haste these men
rushed to Washington in dog days, to
prevent such monstrous usurpation; and
now when the President of their own
choice insists that the negroes shall not,
a Ia BroWnloW, be marched to the poles
to the music of the fife and drum by
such partizan demagogues as Stanton,
Sickles and Sheridan, but that the last
act of this tragic farce shall be more
decently performed under such Republi-
can as Thomas and Candy, even such
men as Mr.. Bingham, who little while
ago denounced this whole legislation as
a scheme to "secure to the negro the
whole political power of the State" and
"to compel the majority of white citizens
to be their subjects for life" even such
men now say they will not give sleep to
their eyes or slumber to their eyelids IN
til they have, by impeachment, made
Ben Wade President in his stead.
And yet even now there are thousands
of Republicans who while made sick at
heart by the late course of the party in
Congress still cling to the party trusting
to such conservatives as Bingham and
Sherman who have for the last three
years at first denounced every PROPOSE
lion of Mr.. Stevens and in every instance
have finally been compelled to eat their
fine words and yield to his iron will.
Who can wonder at the whitening scorn
Mr.. Stevens, on all occasions, throws
upon these brave speaking weak kneed
men; and the Republican who trust such
men to protect the interests of the coun-
try from the fearful storm of Radicalism
now sweeping over it, initiates the folly
of that man who builds house Of reeds
to protect him from the blighting, re-
sistless Simeon Of the Desert.
There are some results of this Con-
gressional scheme which would be ludi-
cious if the subject we're not too serious.
For forty years the leaders of this
movement have denounced the injustice
of allowing the whites of the South to
vote for 3-ffths Of the slave population,
but now these same men propose, while !
refusing great masses of the whites all
participation in the elections, to allow |
the negroes to count not 3-ffths but FIVE
ffths of this diffranchised population and |
do the voting for them and they propose
to make this privilege, perpetual by pro-
viding in the Constitutional amendment, !
which is part of the scheme, that persons
so disfranchised shall not be excluded |
from the count in making up the basis
of Representation; so that instead Of
five white men in South Carolina count
ing as much as eight in Ohio by actual
figures, and Sheridan's figures, at that FIVE
plantation negros in Louisiana under
this system will count actually more than
ten white persons in Ohio and have more
weight in Congress.
NEGRO VOTING IN OHIO.
As to the question of the negro voting
in Ohio, if it were not urged for the
mean motive of retaining party power,
the proposition would deserve to be treat
ed with respect. It would be an insult
to our comparatively intelligent colored
people to compare them for moment
with the negroes Of the South. My best
however, is that it would be
neither for the interest Of the whites or
the negro to give them suffrage, and l
shall therefore oppose it. To this At-
ricauizing scheme of Congress and this
Negro voting scheme Of the Radical poll
ticans of the State, the Republican par
ty stands fairly and squarely committed
Both schemes were enthusiastically in
dorsed by their State Convention and are
every by their orators. Gen Hayes
was from the first follower of Mr. Stew
ems against the so-called Conservative
in Congress. In an article b
in the Cincinnati Commercial of Febru-
ary 90, 1867, on this subject the editor
Of that Radical Conservative sheet says {
ave regret to see that Gen. Hayes of
the Second District of Ohio wcs one of s
he followers Of Mr.. jStevens yesterday
and congratulate Mr. Egglostou of the
Ist District upon the comparatively /
sound discretion he displayed in sup
porting tho Senate Bill" I