Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-24

[From the New York Herald
The Significance of the Vote on
Negro Suffrage I'm Ohio.


The Republican State of Ohio, the hotbed
of Western Radicalism, the home of Chief
Justice Chase, who is the nigger-radical can
didate for the Presidency. has emphatically
refused to give the negroes the Suffrage
No amount of ingenuity on the part of the
partisan press or Radical orators can eX-
plain away the significance of this fact
There is clear majority of sixty to hun
dred thousand votes against giving the
suffrage to negroes in the State. The re-
turns are not all reported, but the Repub-
licans concede majority of siXty-five
thousand, while the Democrats claim neal
hundred thousand. Take it at seventy OF
eighty thousand, which is probably near
the mark, or even what the Republicans
admit, siXty-fve thousand, it is surpris.
ing majority and undeniable evidence that
the negro suffrage policy of the Republi
can party is utterly secuted by the people
But to understand how remarkably EN-
phatic this vote of Ohio is we must con-
slider the manner in which the question
was put and the status of the negro in tina,
State. 1t was mixed up with other ques-
tlons-with party questions and the cleo
ton of State officers. 1t was supposed,
doubtless, by the political managers, that
by thus bringing the question before the
people, mixed up with party issues in an
election, the people generally would vote
with their party and not discriminate be-
tween one question and another. Mr.
Chase went home to vote for negro suffrage
and to give an example to the Republican
voters. Other Radical leaders were
equally as earnest in their efforts to
carry the State on this issue. But
the people did discriminate in a very
remarkable manner, for vast number who
voted for the party ticket voted at the same
time against negro suffrage. Taking the
Republi an majority in the elections last
year and the majority now against negro
suffrage, there is change of at least
a hundred thousand Republican votes.
and probably change OF a hundred
and thirty thousand. Nor was there any
apathy or Indifference on the question, for
the vote of the State was larger than ever
before. The people turned out, as they
never did before, purpOsely to express their
disapprobation of negro suffrage, just as
MI. Chase went home expressly to vote for
it.. Never was the policy of party leaders
in and out of Congress SO signally de-
nounced as this has been by the mass
of the party itself. But this is more sur
prising still when we look at the status and
insignificant number of the negroes in
Ohio. Civil rights are not denied to them
there, nor is there any disposition to refuse
them all the protection afforded by the
laws to the whites. Giving them the priv
ilege of voting would have had little or no
effect upon political issuesin the State, be-
cause they are ON oaratively few in num-
Der. There was NJ fear of negro suprem-
acy or negro balance of power in Ohio,
as in the South. The white vote would
always be overwhelming there. What. then,
is the meaning of such an emphatic refusal
to give the heroes suffrage? 1t means that
the superior white race-the Anglo-A mer-
lean and all the other branches of the
European race which constitute the BODY
of American citiZens-will not degrade the
country and government by admitting an
inferior race to equality with themselves.
That, and that alone, is the meaning of the
vote in Ohio.
the Mongolian race (the Chinese) the priv
ilege of voting from the same repugnance
to putting an inferior race on an equality
with themselves. Yet the Mongolian is
far superior to the negro. Is it surprising,
then, that the American people should be
disgusted with the efforts to make the
negroes-the lowest race of mankind-their
equals? The consciousness of superiority
and the sentiments and pride springing from
it have determined irrevocably the relative
position of these races to each other. But
the negro question has assumed Just now
the greatest proportions in another point
of view. 1t is not merely whether few
negroes scattered throughout the populous
States of the North shall be placed
on an equality with the white, where
they must always remain comparatively
harmless as political element, but it is the
effort of the radicals to make them pow
er in the republic through their votes in
the Southern States that gives the greatest
Importance to the question. They form
large portion OF the population of the
South, and in some States the largest. I'm
der the operation of the reconstruction
acts of Congress, which disfranchise great
tlnx, IL 81, ~.l:A
ical power OF that vast and valuable sec
tion of our country. But that is not all.
Our political system is such that they
would probably hold the balance of power
in the republic. The President and MEM
bers of Congress-enough to give balance
of power-lnay be elected by the negro
vote of the South. The President, proba-
bly,, would owe his election to that when
ever parties were pretty equally divided.
ly confess they are now aiming at this
object. They have the hardi-
hood to avow this Infamous purpose. This
great republic to be under negro govern
ment! What a spectacle to contemplate
Ignorance and brutality to rule thirty mil
lions OF white American citiZensi We
must recollect that it is the balance of
secured only by few thousand votes. The
Southern States in the hands of the ne
groes. as they will be it the reconstruct, IN
acts of Congress be carried out, will surely
give these benighted people of the lowest
race that power. What, then, is to prevent
them, incapable as they are, from reaching
the highest offices? And would not the
politicians -pander to the prejudices
and demands of these people for the
sake of party and the offices of
government? A war of races, a ruined
South. vast military establishment,
and, perhaps, consolidated despot-
ism over the whole country woud follow.
We should sink into the condition of the
South aud Central American republics, or
a worse one. Such is the alarming pros
pect which the infamous legislation of
Radical Congress has brought before us.
And it is this, together with an inherent
to negro equality, that has
caused the revulsion of public opinion in
Onio. Since the significant vote in that
State we are not without hope that the evils
of negro supremacy and negro balance of
power in the republic may be averted. We
may expect the same result throughout the
North as in Ohio whenever the issue comes,
and reckless as Congress may be it will
hardly venture to defy public opinion when
so emphatically.
Democratic.
Our Congressional District (the Fourth)
has been redeemed and iS now DpmOoratjr