Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-10-09

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| Correspondence ofthe Cincinnati Enquirerl
LONDON, MADISON COUNTY, o.
| October 8, 1867. I
The Democratic Central Committee Of
this county, yesterday, cOrnered Gener-
al Keifer, the negro suffrage candidate
for State Senator, and drove him into a
discussion, which he has heretofore avoid
ed, on one false pretenee and another,
with his competitor, Henry I. Niles,
Esq.
It was the day of cur stock sale, and
the Court house was crowded to its ut
most capacity. Mr.. Niles opened with
speech OF three-quarters of an hour,
in which he demonstrated the following
propositions with such absolute clearness
that no person in the large audience could
fail to understand them in all their bear
ings.
l. The injustice, not only to the whites
of the South but to the whole country,
of giving ten States to African barbara
ans, with eighty members of the House
and twenty Senators, either negrOe Of the
representatives and servants of negroes,
thus giving a negro balance Of power in
Congress and .necessitating a standing
army to keep these negroes from mur-
dering unarmed white men and the
women and children as they did in St.
Domingo.
2. The injustice and unlaWfulness of
giving gold to the bondholders and
greenbacks to the people, while the
bOndholders escape taxation.
3. The great injustice of giving TWEEN
ty millions in gold, purchased at five DOL
lars for one through the New England
manufacturers tariff, to the National
banks each year for the privilege Of in
dOrsing their notes and making them
good everywhere.
4. The mOnstrous outrage of building
the Pacific Railroad, and giving it to the
Radical politicians. and in addition Civ
ing them thousands upon thousands Of
the peoples farms.
5. That while all parties become cor
rupt by long continuance in power, this
Radical party, by their own confession,
has thrown in the shade all former cor
ruption.
He also shows that a man must be
either knave or fool, or a compound Of
the two, who will charge great masses of
his fellow citizens with design to injure
the country. These propositions we're
presented with such clearness, force and
candor, that the whole large audience,
both Democrats and Republicans, listen
ed with the closest and most perfect at
tention, and will not be able to forget if
they desired to do SO. In his whole
speech he said nothing that any one could
regard as discOurteous or unkind.
General Keifer did not attempt to
meet one of the propositions, except on
the National bank question he admit
ted that they ought to be taxed six per
cent. per annum on their capital to do
Justice good proposition, which did
not seem entirely satisfactory to the Rad
ical candidate for Representative, who is
Ia president of a National bank.
Then, 'fOr want of a better argument
he fell to railing, and repeated all OF
Ben. Wade's speech about Copperheads,
traitors, and Vallandigham, be could re-
member, and then turned to the coIored
African and spent the rest of his time in
attempting to show, that as the negro
did most Of the fighting he ought to do
most Of the voting, and was only torn
from this beloved subject by the moder-
atOr's hour.
During this whole TRADE We noticed
but one man under fifty who manifested
the slightest satisfaction, while many
of the young Republicans looked as if
they were about to shake with the ague
As soon as the General was through
he rushed out to the telegraph Office,
and as some other generals have done
before him, and without waiting a reply,
he informed the Cincinnati Commercial
that he had gained a great victory, and
also that he had an immense meeting at
i West Jefferson that night, but when he
went to his meeting at West Jefferson
there were twenty-five by actual count,
including the two Cops. that counted.
The fact is, this man Keiffer amounts
to nothing, and never did. He has been
put by family influence into positions
which belonged to better men. He has
a long horn and blows it we'll, but to
sum him up he can not better be describ-
ed than as the fox described the bell as
"A thick skulled, long tongued noisy
devil The Uniform testimony of our
friends in all the parts of the county is
that he has done US good wherever he
has spoken, as he certainly did on Tues
day.
The good work goes bravely on here,
and you may look out for a good ac.
count from MADISON.