The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-10-21


! Western radicalism, the home OF Cnei 'uS'ice
Chase, who is the niger radical candidate TOT
the Presidency has emphatically refused to
| give the negroes tho suffrage. No amount Of
ingenuity on the part OF the partisan press or
radical orators can explain away the slgniii-
! .ance of this fact There Is clear majority OF
sixty to hundred thousand votes against
giving the suffrage to negroes in the State.
The returns are not all reported but the re-
publicans concede majority of sixty-hve thou
sand, while the democrats claim near hun
dred thousand Take 1t at seventy or eighty
thousand, which is probably near the mark, or
even what the republicans admit, sixty-fiye
thousand, it is surprising msjority and unde-
niabe evidence that the negro suffrage policy
of the republican party is utterly secuted BY
the people.
But to understand how remarkably emphatic
this vote of Ohio Is we must consider the man.
ner in which the question was put and the
status Of the negro in that State. II was mixed
up with other questions-with party questions
and the election Of State officers. It was sup
posed, doubtless, by the political managers
that by thus bringing the question before the
people, mixed up with party issues in an cleo
ton, the people generally would vote with
their party and not discriminate between one
question and another. Mr.. Chase went home
to vote for negro suffrage and to give an
example to the republican voters Other radi-
cal leaders were equally as earnest in their
efforts to carry the State on this issue. But the
people did discriminate in very remarkable
manner for vast number who voted for the
party ticket voted at the same time against
negro suffrage Taking the republican majority
in the elections last year and the majority
now against negro suffrage, there is change
of at least hundred thousand republican
votes, and probably change Of 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, purposcly to express their
disapprobation of negro suffrage, Just as
Mr.. Chase went home expressly to vote for it,
Never was the policy of party leaders In and
out of Congress so signally denounced as this
has been by the mass of the party itself. But
this is more surprising 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 tho
laws to the whites. Giving them the privilege
of voting would have had little or no effect
upon political issues in the State, because they
are comparatively few in number. There was
no fear of negro supremacy or q 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 negroes suffrages II means
that the superior white race-the Anglo
American and sl the other branches Of the |
European race which constitute the body of |
American citizens-will not degrade the coun-
try and government by admitting an inferior
race 10 equality with themselves. That, and
that alone, is the mcania>r<s1h The vote in Ohio.
In California he people refused to give the
Mongolian race (the Cnnese) tho privilege of
voting from the same repugnance to putting
an inferior race on an equality with
Themselves Yet The Monaghan is far
superior 10 the negro. Is it surprising,
then, that Tie American people should
be disguised with the efforts to make the
negroes-thc lowest race of manknd-their
equals? The consciousness of superiority and |
the sentiments aud pride sprnging from IL have
determined iIrevocably the relative position of
these races to each other. But the negro ques-
ton has assumed just now the greatest proper
tons in another point of view. II is not merely
whether few negroes scattered throughout
the populous States OF the North shall be
placed on an equality with the whites where
less as political element, but it is the effort
OF the radicals TO make them power in tue
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 ia some States
the largest. Under the operation of the recon-
struction acts of Congress, which disfranchise
great many whites, they actually hold tho
political power OF chat vast and valuable Sec
ton Of our country. But that is not all. Our
political system is such that they would proba-
bly, hold the balance of power in the republic.
TIE President and members Of Congress
enough 20 give balance Of power-may be
elected by the negro voic OF inc South The
President, probably, would owe his cleo
ton to that whenever parties were pretty
equally divided. The organs OF the radi-
calls unbushingly confess they are now
aiming ut this object They have the hardi-
hood to avow this infamous purpose. This great
republic TO be under negro government What
a spectacle to contemplate Ignorance and
brutality 10 rule thirty millions Of white
American citizens We must recollect that II
is the balance Of power that governs here,
though II may be secured only by few thou
sand votes. The Southern States in the hands
or the negroes. rs they will be il the recon-