Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-27
+ COLUMBUS, o., WEDNESDAY MoRNIN

| then tie fourteenth amendment to the Con-
stitatiOn must be adopted, not merely by the
State TO be affected, but by enough tomake it
4 y part of the Constitution. Massachusetts
has refused to ratiiy it. Her veto, therefore,
may, in a contingency. keep the ten States
out, however much they yield to the
! torture and thum b. screw OF this BILL. The
| sixth section keeps the Provisional Gov
| ernment under Congressional control, and
/ creates, black suffrage Tor them in their dis
abled condition. : 1t hews them to pieces,
and by some black art it is to give them life.
4 The South may, lest worse Ill befall chem,
attempt this plan. If they do not, they
are to be turned over to ans Oligarchy OF
BrOwnlo VS. and Hunnieuts, and then worse
still may be in store for them. Not to dis
cuss now the importance OF. an Intelligent
body polite, and the utter senselessneSs of
making mock voters of the late slaves
[cheersl-it will be enough to say that
no where in the Constitution is there any
power in Congress to NEEDLE with State
suffrage. For a wise reason The States
themselves are the best Judges of who are
| to express the popular will. II, the suf-
frage were uniform throughouC the land,
what would be the rule for the Chinese
| What the rule tor foreigners who have only
declared their intention? Where the limit
as to residence F., As to females or minors
If untu0ored slaves may vote at the South,
| why may,n0t Congress force the more in
| teliigent blacks in Connecticut to vote
| against your expressed WlllI1 In Ohio the
Radicals refused to submit to the people
the question of striking out the word aobite
| from her Constitution; but, fifteen of her
Radical congressman could vote to allow
blacks to vote in the District of Columbia.
| Oh / it was a great thing there, as it is
great thing in the South; but they dare
not try the experiment in Ohio. They
will not do it in New, York. Why Quacks
are always 10th to take the noXIous doses
RHaff fhnvy
are not content with heapiDg this black
incubus on the South. Tney take care
| first to require all rebels to be disfranchised;
and second, in requiring the fourteenth
amendment to be adopted, they insi-t Oh
| the disfranchiSement contained in the third
section thereof. This is the very diabol-
| ism of prescription. Not content to OBJ
literate State boundaries, and manufac-
! ture black voters by the thousand,
i they cut off from Office and from
! vote all the guiding minds of the South,
however repentanG and anxious tor allegi-
tnce. There are no voters under this bill
xcept negroes and such whites as can hold
)tf1ce under the constitutional amendment.
These are the materials to build up the new
SuVernmentsi Pulling down the Govern
! ueuts now in operation. then build anew of
.Intempered mortar. Now, you have a
j gentleman running for Congress in this
7 district, as the exponent of the statesman
V
hree-fold question in way so startling
hat it would make one of his wax figures
crow paler still, and the vanished mud
urtle torCle i'm fear behind the Nova Scotia
siantess. That he should answer the moral
md religious queries little awry. might
Je expected from his early training; but
hat he should not be sharp enough TO see
the economy of prompt and immediate re-
Union, is surprising. He could not expect
: 60 make as much money by keeping police
/ force to drive of tn. unrepentanG peanut
eaters, who desired to see his museum
| Illaugter]-and he knows it does not pay to
cheek the prosperity of half a nation, be-
cause some among them are repentant.
Therefore, am not surprised thai in his
speeches he calls his opponents hard names
I-"S Sham Democracy" "COpperhead AL
| lfes," &c. He has made the Happy Fam
| lily '''-dWelling together i'll one-[Cheers]--
| yet with the most diverse tempers-w has
made the icthneumon and the tOm-cat, the
rabbit and raccoon,. the canary and monkey,
dwell in sweet harmony, knows-that it
| will pay. beg to say that l have no pref
udice against the Snowman, for his Occu-
patton. From childhood l have loved the
show. Artemus Ward is my hero.
| The circus, the museum, the thea
ter, with their illusions, SO CRATE
| full to the child, the boy, anu the
man-who does not owe them grateful
| memory The tanbark.- the tinseiled
acrobat and motley clown; the Forty
Thieves"-of my first play-Ghe wondrous
variety of physical and animated nature of
the museum, and the thousand sports and
tricks OF the mimic and the player, all EN-
| balm the recollections of the Snowman.
! But this Snowman is a politician. land a
humbugn Loud cheers He is a false
Snowman. He is sham. He admits that
he sends up false lights to attract attention,
| His missions are decisions. He is to the real
| Al.
| what the Radical is to the patriot. That's
SOL He has by slandering better men
offered his own performances to the public
I gaze. Let us buy ticket and 60 into his
political couriosity shop. l hold in my
| hand report of the shOWman's speech,
made at Norwalk, March g.. 1t begins with
| the statement that he appeared before them
as Democrat. a jackson Jefferson Demo-
crat, because Democracy was, when he be-
gan and until he left them i'll PierceS time,
| ''the upholder of equal rights and the
greatest good of the greatest number"
Yet before he closes his rambling bar
angue, he says he lived down South twen-
ty-f five years ago, for five years. Then
he was an out and out Democrat-a
political nondescript-a Northern man
with Southern principles. More
On one occasion bought slave. felt
could not establish my position there unless
| gave him a licking. did lick him. All
this time was Democrat. Laughter
Now the Snowman may be good at sewing
monkey to Goldfish, but he makes poor
tailor in his logic. Laughter.I Democ-
racy he liked, because it was for equal
rights and he licked the negro! Democ-
racy he liked for its greatest good to the
greatest number; and the negro he licked
for the greatest good-Of the negro
Tlaughterl / suppose. He was Democrat
in all that would degrade, if licking negroes
means Democracy but as.equal rights does
mot allow the licking of negroes, think
the Snowman had better stick to his Fee
ljees aud Boy Leopards and leave politics to
linen who do not deal in shams and hum
bugs! But when the Snowman was a
Democrat-the Democratic platforms from
1886 to 1855, when he left us-held that
Congress could not interfere with domestic
affairs of States, and that all efforts of AbO-
tlitionists or others endangered the Union
When did he relinquish this tenet? He held
it for twenty years, and says while he held
it it was equal rights and the greatest
good, and thinks so yet. There isn't ar
EAlbino in his stock but could confound this
shallow charlatan in politics.. Yet he un-
Edertakes to read lectures to us about the
sham Democracy, and to place his iron op.
tponent among the opponents of Union
tand as an ally of traitors. He says the
platform at Chicago was made by consul
tation with traitors in Canada. This is un.
true. But that platform, so much condemn
ed, is now being made true. in that it sale
''that war failed to restore Union" 1t i,
our burning disgrace that such harlequin'
in politics have made 1t true. When they
charge such men as w. Fl. Barnum-
Tcheers James E. English-[cheers i
and others with being allies of the South
they libel them and insult your intelli
gence. l served with Mr.. English in Con