The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-27
Finance and Suffrage.

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The advocates Of negro suffrage do not
seem to have avcry exalted opinion of
the ability of the black mau to take care of
himself. Mr.. WILSON wants him protected
against the schemes of claim agents, and
so proposes to take charge of the money
due every colored soldier, and putt by law
Ia the hands of trust company. 1t would
be amusing to observe how honorable gen
tlcmeu contradict themselves about the
black mans capacity if it did not involve
such solemn interests. 1t is seriously pro-
posed to have the Government guard the
funds of men who it is claimed rave not
wit enough to keep from being swindlcd
10y the very same men who have formally
declared by legislative enactment that these
helpless creatures shall be invested with
the right Of suffrage. Men, many of whom
cannot count, who are ignorant Of the
rudcst elements of political knowledge, are
yet made voters of the republic by the en-
lightcucd leaders of the Radical party.
\ Warning to P~uritanical Yankee
dOm-MOdcratiOn, or, Stay out in
the Cold.
The following from the Cincinnati En-
qUjrer, of Monday, is a remarkable article
II is strongly suggestive. 1t is a speaking.
out, boldly, what the public mind has beer
thinking strongly-thc shadow of coming
events. We ask the reader not to pass il
over lightly, but to consider well it.
truthfulness and business
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Rights of the UniOn-ObligatiOn OF
the States.
The time is coming when, to the peopl,
of the region lying west OF the AlleghanicS
the need Of a political separation between
their States aud the States of New England
will become 50 palpablc that nothing hu
a party spirit raising to the point of infatu.
alton will prevent it from being UNIVERSAL,
recognized. When that time shall arrive
the right of the West to sever the irksom.
relation. and dissolve the uuprofitabl
partnership, will become selt-evident. Tn
idea that the people of the great, the i'm
pcrial West, are, or can be, bound to Il po
litical condition that is adverse to their in
~tcrestS, or CALLING to their pride. orObstruc
tive to their progress, Is so prepOsterou
that no argument viii be needed for its re
futation.
There is no political fool so utterly for
lOrn and abandoned to his faulty there i
no political parasite so emasculate and de
crepid; there is no political dreamer s.
blind and impracticable, in these regions
~ to believe that the millions who inhabi
our vast plains and smiling valleys are
bound by any other law than their owl
sovereign will, in respect TO their municipa
polity or their federal relations. The doc
trinc that communities may be coerced t
abide in political partnerships which they
lAFn l. n IAnfrfraa chat Il, IT, nHH1s.nVsA -.
to ourselves, we do supremacy scOrn and
r%epudiatC. 1t is the doctrine Of knaYes ant
fools and towards and ~sycophantS, not o
man and because, in our barbarism AM
our passion, we administer it to others at
vast expense, Is no evidence hat we accep
il,
The need Of such IL separation exists a
present. The West is now suffering unde
the dOminancy of New England ideas
made practical in the Government through
the disprOpOrtiOnate power of New En-
gland under the Constitution. The state 0
the case is this; New England has NOR
power in the Government than she is en-
titled to; which power she uses TO furthe
interests of hers which are adverse TO tn
interests of the West. This d"isproportiOl
which, To her, is of incalculahle peCuniar,
value, is secured to her by the constitution
secured beyond any amendment of the con
StitutiOn contrary TO her consent of tn
States. Constitutionally, therefore, theT
is. i'm the rest of the Union, no remedy fC
the evil and, consequently, the only Teli,
must come through an amicablc or an uui
micablc separation aud this separatio
must take place whenever the West arriv,
at a complete understanding of its own il
t%crests, and comes back to the true doctril
that it is interest, and interest alone, b
which the value of all political arrang,
mcnts is determined.
Had the Union continued rs it was, it
probable that, amid all the fluctuations {
parties, the West and the South togeth,
would nave so far imposed wholesome n
straints upon New England as 10 have rel
dered her society in the Union tolerable,
spite of her disproportionate power. TIL
effects of her eXtravagant representatio
in the Senate would have been neutralize
by the equal representation of other Sc,
tions in the House, and no laws could hav
been passed that might not have been CT
dured. But within the last six years I'll
Senate, with New England at its head, la
dominated. There has been virtually II
opposition TO the DEGREES which went tort
from that center OF active ianaticism; AN
the ragult has hapu the DaksuRe OF lurp