Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-12

you upon the cheering political indications
Our party, as it were, has passed through
along, dark political night so long and SO
dark, that many have despaired of the
dawning of day; but at last the night is
passing away, and ray of light breaks
Through the thick darkness eastward. In
New Hampshire the Republican majority
has largely fallen off. Connecticut unfurls
the Constitution and records decisive
majority for the Democracy-giving to the
Democratic candidates on the State Ticket
a majority of about one thousand, electing
three out of the four candidates for Con-
Igress, and causing the Legislature to stand :
Senate, IL Republicans and 10 Democrats
House, 127 Republicans and III Democrats.
lAt,the spring election of 1862, preceding
the fall election wherein the Democracy
carried Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York,
Indiana, Illinois, New Jersey and Della
ware, Connecticut gaze to the Republican can
dtdate for Geuernor a majority Of nine thousand.
The Senate was unit against the Demo-
crats and the House stood: Republicans 1S1;
Democrats Sc; being a Republican majority
of 146 on joint ballot, against majority of
only IL on joint ballot now. By reference
and comparison, we find that the spring
elections this year in New York, Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey, Indiana, and partieu-
larlyein Ohio, are assmuch of, an improve
ment on the spring elections in these States
in 1862, as was the election in Connecticut
on the 1st instant an improvement on the
result in that State in the spring of 1862, in
the tall of which year the Democratic par,
ty triumphed so grandly.
We herein recognize cause for congratu-
lation, and an incentive that should spur
Democrats everywhere to the most ener-
getic effort. If our information is
not faulty, continuously for fourteen
years did the Democracy of Connecticut
encounter defeat at the polls; but
nothing daunted, believing ins the
of their cause, they fought
on and they now find their reward in a
victory. They had to encoun-
ter desperate tagonism-intellect, mon
ey and Incorporate appeals to passion and
They have overcome ALL What
the Democracy in Connecticut did the De-
mocracy of other States can do through
the same dauntless and persistent effort
You, the Democrats of Ohio, can do it..
You have not suffered exclusion from
power in the State for fourteen years, as
did the Democracy of Connecticut. You
carried the State in 1852 by majority
ranging from five to over seven thousand,
although at the preceding State election
you were defeated by majority of So, ,203
--your aggregate vote in the State being
only 157,794, whereas the Republican
aggregate vote in the State was 2O6,
997. The very next year your vote
for Secretary of State was 184, ,332-
an increase of 32,53s on the preced-
ing year, whereas the Republican vote
for. Secretary of State was 17s,741-a fall
ing off OF 28,256 as compared with the vote
Of the preceding year. The Republican
majority in this State last fall on Secre-
5ary of State was 42696-12,5O7 less than
it twas against you in 1861, and yet you
carried the State at the ensuing election
We cite these votes to en-
and stimulate you to an active
cooperation with us in the effort to carly
the State. Even did not the result of the
election in Connecticut and at the munich
pal elections elsewhere, bid us hope for
success as the reward of energetic work,
the revolutionary conduct of the Radicals
in Congress, and especially the effort, of
the leaders of the Republican party here
in Ohio to drag the White man down ito
a political, and thence to a social, equality
with the Negro, should cause such repug-
nance as to arouse the pride of race in every
White man to resent so impudent an insult
by voting upon the Republican leaders and
their candidates overwhelming condemna-
tlon.s We, therefore, beseech you, one and
all, so to direct your labors as to bring
about this result. 1t will require work
hard, unceasing work, from now until the
election. Could vote be taken to-mor-
row upon the question Of Negro Suffrage,
without an appeal pro or con, that ques-
tion would undoubtedly be oyerwhelm-
ingly defeated. The advocates of that
they include all the leaders
and organs of the Republican rarty-in-
tend to bring into requisition every con-
ceivable agency to secure its adoption
To be defeated it must be fought
with the same ceaseless energy and
stubbornness. Every man who is op-
posed to the establishment of an equality
of the White and Black races in this State,
and to the disfranchisement of those sol
diers who did faithful service throughout
the actual continuance of the War; but
who returned home before receiving an
official discharge, must now be enlisted
To this end, organize Clubs in every town
ship in the State, disseminate Democratic
journals as extensively as possible, as well
as such publications as treat scientifically
and impartially upon the two races