Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-11
gVi0L,9-XX,XV. qqET
What the Radical Leaders Think
of FOreisnersHHow they Think
the Negroes are Their Superb


of FOreigners-How they Think
the Negroes are Their Superb
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To prove the above assertions we shall
give the proof. The first witness we shall
| bring on the stand is their candidate for
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio In speech
| delivered by him at Mansfield, Ohio, on the
22d ult., he said: s-'issvni lasf17q a'6'a'a
: '"Are there no men who cast their votes
In Richland county less competent by want
of intelligence than some of your black men
in the country? 1t is so ali over the State.
III here make the assertion that the 1900
men of 20 years of age, in Ohio, with black
blood, are better qualified by reason of in
Iitelligenceto vote than there are 1900 white
men in different parts of the State. Many
times told. So that plea will not answer"
In speech delivered by this same gen
tleman at Columbus a few days previous TO
the delivery of the speech at Mansfield, we
find him reported in the Ohio State Journal,
the organ of the radical party in Ohio, as
saying :t,a...a Esqr all 3, .-fir sat .fe
but / will reply to the allegation that
q negro Is unfit for the ballot on account of
his Ignorance. l submit, fellow-ciiizens,
whether the Black man is not better fitted
for the ballot than the same number of
white men that could be found in Ohio"
The persons that compose the same
number of white men" spoken off by Col.
Lee, are thus dealt with by Ben. Wade, the
Radical Vice President, in a speech deliv-
cred at Marietta:
2 '.if you will take the poor Irishman, or
other foreigner, who comes here, and
knows nothing of our Institutions; if YOU
will permit him to vote after five years
residence, thenI L insistuponthe same rights
for the other cla' OF persons, {the negroes
. > O. q AS a ii ass, they (the negroes) are
better qualified to discharge their duties
under this Government than the great mass,
equal to them in numbers, that we have al
ways permitted to vote, = = am
glad to see that those people whom your
Legislature has referred it to you to-day,
whether they shall be voters or not, are in
finitely above the class that have alluded
to in all that intelligence that qualities
man to vote right" s1as e.. gl -sw rr1
Hon. John Sherman, OF the Radical U. S.
Senators from Ohio, and who is to come. to
Steubenville shortlyto enlighten our citi-
zens, foreigners included, in q speech de-
! liyered at Akron, this State, few days
since, made use of the following language:
Il do not see why the negro is not as
good as the foreigner who is naturalized
and has his vote" .-.....,
Z. A Radical stumper, by the name of Nc
Fariand, at the same meeting, made use of
the following language:
s''1t was especially necessary to have the
negro to vote, or else the Democrats would
get into power, and as all the Pennsylvania
dutch were were Democrats, he wanted the
nigger to put them down. He also said
that he could not see why the negro, who
was born in this country, should not have
vote as well as the Germans and Irish
who were foreigners."e
r. p. Spalding, a Radical member of
Congress from Ohio, another speaker at
the same Akron meeting, made use of the
following language in his speech: IL f
Ia mil IN, for . fhac osol ol
ity of the negro; that he would not permit
negro to come into his bed room, neither
would he permit an Irishnan or Dutch
man to come in.' a'' 'st F.
Ex-Governor Curtin, of Penn, another
sdinted high priest of the Radical party,
not long since made use of the following
language: .s39s t.rs
"a Dutchman is not like another person;
he has two skulls, and in order to get an
Idea. into his head, you must break one of
his skulls.n -lrr F.-.~.-~, =.
y. NJ. Ashley, a Radical Congressman
from Ohio, and who is now on the stump
for that party, introduced a resolution i'm
the last Congress ''that no foreigner should
become citizen unless he could read and
write English, thus makingino provisions
for the negro in regard to reading and writ
ing, and making HIM better than the white
man, ~-s.-s- 49,
The Cleveland Herald, prominant radi-
following language in its editorial colums:
"We unhesitatingly aver that seven
tenths of the foreigners in our land, who
bow in obedience to the Pope of Rome, are
not as Intelligent as the full Blooded AT
ricans-we will not include the part
BloOds." zts..i}fr s-1- r-H s-.s
We might go on and fill our columns
with extracts from the New York Tribune,
| st. Paul Press, Cine innati Gazette. Cleve-
! land Leader, and other radical papers, at
tempting to show that the negro is superior
and above the foreigner, ''as Glass;
We believe there are no white men in
| Ohio to- day who. are as ignorant as the
Radical party intimahs s, unless it be those
who attempt to make the negro their equal,
and, in some cases, their superior. The for
! eigner, although he may not be able to
speak or read our language as perfectly as
| the natives, is generally well educated in
his native country, and is so far superior to
the negro that there is no reason tor COM
parison. They are an Industrious, frugal
and thrifty class of citizens, always looking
to the interests and welfare of their adopted
country, and have done their full share i'll
making 1t one of the greatest nations, of
the world. whether in the workshop, on
the farm, or in bearing its flag on the tented
| field. AS we have defended this class of
citizens in times gone by, when the Radi-
i cal papers and orators attempted to pro-
scribe and disfranchise them, so are we pre-
pared to do so again, and especially at q
time when it is sought to bring in cotnpar-
ison with them an ignorant and inferior
race. We are now, as we have ever been,
4 in favor of white men ruling America
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