The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-07-17
GOV. DenHfson and Gov Cox On
Negroes.

Gov. Dennison in his message to the Ohio
Legislature. in 1861, says
AN act of immediate general cmancipa-
tion, throwing four millions of the c"lored
cdsfe loose on society, North and South,
would cave them more eaShtpea than they
are now. WHh0m the mteH'geace, pomey
and means Of naGSter of the SupHior roce,
to support them in the con petition Of that
race in the business Of life, they ,0ould per
'sh The North rejecting them. as it has
done in many States and might do in many
others, the four millions let loose in the
South. would encounter 'cdr Of coStes e
war of EXPERIMENTATION" !"
Now, Gov. Dennison has been so recon
structed that he thinks the salvation of the
country depends on the enfranchiSemcnt Of
the c0lored caste, who, without the in,elli
gence, power and m ans of master of the
superior race te support them would per-
ish."
Gov. Cox, in his Oberlin letter of July,
1865, says:
If fifteen centuries of common govern,
mcnt and political union have not been able
stinctive cnmity Of races which were phys
iologically similar. what encouragement have
we that success wiN attend a forcrd poiitic0
ftsion Of bitterly hostile races from the anti
podes Of the human tnniy?.'
Again he says:
because there could be no real unity o
pf0pIe 6ettccen tile Southern whttes and Mt
Southern biuckS, At seems mdHitcSt to nt
that there could be no political umiy dut
rather Stilfe for the mastery, III ochich tht
one or the other would 90 to the ,oaN."
Gov Cox, when he uttered these senti
ments, it must he remembered, was the
nominee of the Republican party for his
present position, and great credit must BE-
awarded him for the + oral courage he ex
hibited in thus honestly expressing views
distasteful to large number of his poiti
cal friends, thereby endangerng his election
Had this letter been written before the Con.
vention met, he certainly would not have
received the nomination. There can be nc
question whatever but that this letter, free.
ly commented On by the Republican papers
previous to the meeting of the last conven-
ton, defeated his re nomination. True, il
is said he withdrew his name as candidate,
so did MIR. Galloway make an effort to with.
draw his name as a candidate for JIeuten-
ant Governor, which he did not want, but
the convention would not consent to it;
hence had it not been for this letter, Gov.
Cox would not have been permitted to de-
cline, for it is well known that he was the
choice of majority Of the convention, who
did not dare to nominate him against the
earnest protestations Of the Oberlin wing Of
the party, who after defeating him, sue,
ceeded in nominating r. B. Hays, who, by
his voice and vote and vote in Con
gress. secured the passage of law enfran-
chising four millions Of this same ''colored
caste" and making them socially, as well as
politically, the equal and in some respects,
the superior of the white race, and who will
ere long be travelling the State OF Ohio
bearing aloft the Radical banner on which is
inscribed the one issue, Negro Equality "
How he will succ ed with these who periled
their lives IN battling for the old flag, can
be guessed by the opionion Of Gov. Cox,
as "he studied it out by the camp fire. -
The Governor says:
II have watched with deep interest the
educational effect OF the war upon our own
army, and assure you that while our
WHITE SOLDIERS have uniformly and
quickly learned to appr ciate the fact that
the existence of our free government could
only be preserved by the destruction of the
system Of slavery, and so became radically
and thoroughly auti-slavery, the tendency
Of battling for the oldRaa ,oas almost equal
b Uniform 0s increasing and deepening their
pride Of race The fact is one which can
not safely be overlooked in any calculation
involving their action upon the political
problems before the country, and it is one
in regard to which think | can hardly be
mistaken"
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