Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-31
DIR. FieIding's Letter 10 she Editor
of the New York ~ Ocld.

of the New York world.
DR.. FIELDING, the Representative in the
Ohio Legislature from Shelby county, re-
Gently addressed the following able and
forcible letter to the editor of the New
York World. The Doctor truly represents
the Democratic views on the questions to
which he refers:
EVERGREEN, SIDNEY, O., Dec. 13, 1867.
Manton Marble, Esq, Editor '.IVorld," Ne,o
York:
My DEAR SIR-Your compromise won't
do. No party, politician, or per will BE-
sustained by the Jef1ersonian Democracy
of Ohio who advocate it.
No compromise of the Negro Suffrage
question, whether prospectively in five.
ten, or ten thousand years, can gain the
least support from the true Democracy i'm
Ohio. The rugged issue, forced upon her
BY fanatics and disunionists, has settled
that issue beyond the possibility of res
direction, except it may be exhumed to
exhibit the foetid corpse in its Odious ard
disgusting deformity! loathsome, moi
some nuisance; that it may be eternally
abated.
Has not Kentucky, Connecticut, Califor-
nil, Colorado, Pennsylvania, New Jersey.
Maryland and your own State, vetoed it?-
And does not Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota
send greeting, that they too will soon be
in martial array with u?
What! advocate compromise of ques-
tion virtually ignored? A measure giving
countenance to a principle at war with
every element of our Federal Union. and
the geni;is and spirit of our poopl.? there
by introducing eternal discord under the
peace, when there is no peace possible, in
the combination of elements so in
compatible as those of the ex-
tremes of the human race as now
existing, has heretofore existed, and fOrev-
er mast exist between the Congo African
and the White race!
what was 1t That brought such accessions
to our ranks from the opposite party
Was it not the enunciated decision of the
Democracy that White men only should
govern or participate in Government? And
now you propose to turn back this vast
host to their wallowing in the black and
filthy mire of Negro Suffrage, Negro SUI
premacy and ultimate miscegendtion! there
by halting the Democratic cohorts on theiI
onward march to victory, and almost to q
certainty insuring defeat. Do you desire q
war of races? If not, stand firmly in sup.
port of the Constitution of the Union. By
maintaining it the Union will be restored
! stdtu quo, ante belluns, without war oi
races.
But amend it as you propose. giving the
vote to the negro, and, as a ST sequence, ele
vate him to office, and you inaugurate g
war OF determination, and that will unite
forever your "knOt of the difficulty"
There were other matters and measures OF
great magnitude in themselves, merged in
the late elections, but, in comparison with
the evils present and prospective of negro
suffrage, they sank into, and yet remain
and will still remain comparatively insig.
nificant. ASKS ll.- =
T 70 los fI,ae
eregnty OF the States-the rights, liber-
ties and hard earnings of the people, and
what care they for your Shylocks and bond
holders, or your greenbacks, or the shin
plasters of sixteen or eighteen hun
dred shaving shops of the Govern
ment which are wringing from
the industrious mech anic ant
2 the day-laborer, their hearts blood in the
shape of dear bread and meat?
The people are sovereigns when aroused
Let tyrants, 1eeches, demagogues, traitors
and slaves look out!
The Democracy of. Ohio will never re-
pudiate her State debt, though virtually
party hitherto recently in power. No
will they repudiate her quota of the Fedora
debt, however unnecessarily. unwisely, OF
dishonesty accumulated. And while tn,
Democracy in all time past declared, and
nO,o maintain, that gold and silver alone arr
money-vet, the party in power did make
print, stain and stamp, as money, certain
greenbacks, promises to pay-made then
legal tender in the payment ''of all debts
public and private" and especially made il
obligatory on the part of bondholders o
$40 bonds, to take these greenbacks (prom
ises to pay) in lieu of said bonds.
Therefore the Democratic party insis
that as these said bonds become due, they
shall be thus redeemed And so of al
bonds until the resumption of specie pay
ments, when the constitutional money alon,
shall be legal tender, in the payment o
all debts, whether public or private.
The party, statesman, or press, who Op'
pose this must go under. l pray you, dom
withhold your able pen or vigorous mind
from the warm support of these views ant
principles, advocated and sustained in the
late elections, as above indicated.
Your patrons here, and the Democracy o
the county, desire their publicity in you
ably edited paper, and will aoillingly and i'm
partiallyweigh any objections you may otfel
to them. Respectfully,
Your ob't ser't,
E. w. FIELDING.