The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-06-05
Negro SufIragc-NegrOes During
the War

The Negro Suffrage advocates and the
Abolition papers that support Negro vot-
ing iu Ohio, pay but poor complemnt tc
the White soldiers, who volunteered to aid
in putting down the rebellion, when they
say that the successful issue Of the war was
mainly owing to the Negro troops, and 40
the patriotism of the descendants of HAM.
General Halpin-"Miles O'Reily who
figured prominently in the late var on the
side of the North, in recent number OF
his paper, the Ne,o York CStazea makes
the following statement:
eff Judge Kelley had been South during
the war he could not have the hardihood-
not even he could-to speak of the negroes
of the South as if they had been loyal to
the United States during the rebellion. -
The fact is that ninety five per cent. of them
were as faithful to the Confederacy as any
average equal number Of Southern whites.
They formed the quartermaster, commissa.
ry or lnance and pay departments Of the re
bel arlnies-working faithfully ana preslrv-
lngly at their allotted tasks, although not
five per cent. of the able bodied whites were
left at home to compel them to this work.
had they been otherwise minded. 1t is
simply bald, bold, black falschood to
speak of the Southern negroes as having
been faithful to the Union, or faithful to
any thing bat the rebellioni during the re-
cent civil war;
We do not know the number Of negro
troops enlisted in Ohio during the war, but
from an official document presented by the
Assistant Adjutant General of Ohio to Gov
ernor Cox, and used by Mr.. Kellogg, Of
Ashtabula, in his speech in favor Of Negro
suffrage and against the dsfranchise nlent
of deserters, the number of Ohio negroes
who deserted during the war amounted to
Eight Hundred and SirtN
When it is remembered that it was lafa
in the war before the Government allowed
negroes to be enlisted, and that recruiting
stations were opened in the State for color
ed troops to.fll up the quota for Massachu-
sets, the per cent, of negro absentees, as
shown by this table, over the small number
enlisted in Ohio must be very large.
In the earlier part of the war, Mr.. Dem
nison, then Governor of Ohio, absolutely re-
fused to allow single negro to enter the
army, perhaps fearing, from his knowledge
IF the race, that they either lacked patriot
ism or courage.
The reason why they Radical Abolition
cts are anxious to confer Suffrage on the
Negro race is that, in the waning fortunes
If that party, they need the votes lot the
Negroes to save them from defeat. The
Tennessee organ Of Ri dicalism, the Nash
91te Times is alarmed for the prospects of
for reelection as Governor of
hat State, and in its fear that paper says.
''If it had been suspected that the ne.
roes OF this State would vote with the |
the right OF suffrage would |
ever have been conferred on them"
This let's the cat out of the bag. As an
xchange says: 1t is not that Radicalism
in favor of manhood suffrage" but that
hoped to get votes in the South by its
doption. Convince the Radicals that the
egroes, as body. will vote against them,
nd Congress will take measures to dis
ranchlse them as soon as it meets.
These facts expose the hypocrisy of the
Iegro Suffragists, and with it, disposes of
ie SANDER that the negro race was the on
patriotic one during the war, and that
egro troops were alone to be trusted in the
our of our country's trial.