Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-15
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Negro Suffrage Canses for the Radi-
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: Below we give some rare gems from
Negro Suffrage literature, on the result Of
the late election contest IN Ohio. di
These make excellent reading for Demo-
crats, who win enjoy such exhibitions of
grumbling and spite, as is there exhibited.
When the campaign opened, and during
Its entire progress, these sheets that now
groan over the result were loud mouthed
and arrogant in their anticipation of an
utter rout of the Democracy. How they
were deceived, the result Shows.
Most admirably is the, vaunting of Re-
publican Journals before the election, and
their subsequent terrible overthrow, pic
tured in the following: ,s,a--rfv ..t
s.The Assyrisn came down like awolf on the fold.
And the sheen of his Ike stars on the
wHsS the blue x.vs ron. nightly on deep e.lil.e
"Likstlths js.ses Of the Forest uhsns ssnnsrg;s
Thss lot. Win their banners. 81 sunset xsss sssn
Like z, the lseyss Of the forest whsn eutumn hath
Thsf hesis7on the, morrow lay nwithsred and
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ne v;aov, Of A,bsr ara Jonsd n tbs;Hrs bHsI sv,I
And the idols afe broken in the temple of Baai;
And the might OF the Gentle. unsmote by the
Bath melted like snow in the glance Of the Lord.
But to the extracts: .s.sh ,ae'a
Sl lFrom the Columbus Journal Of Oct. l4l
CAUSES OF OUR PARTIAL DEFEAT.--Our
late contest with the enemies of national
liberty, led by Vallandigham, snd the enc
mics Of the national credit, led by Pendle-
ton, has ended, at least, in but drawn bate
tie. We have lost the Legislature, lost our
late commanding majority, lost the Amend.
ment. ,Caniitsbe that Ohio, othe mother of
orators, and the mother of heroes--the
greatest,of the Republicans gone back
upon her record? What are the causes
which led to this virtual defeat? .s.e.a
]. The cause, first in influence and inn
portance, was the engrafting upon our
ticket and our platform, the principle of
colored suffrage. -r...,-'l1.s, B,
Rome was not builtin day. Independ-
ence was not achieved In q week. Emanci-
patton was not the work of an hour. For
a century the degrading, debauching,
poisoning, barbarizing influence of chat
tel slavery had been at work. As was the
case with slaves in all ages of the world,
whether white, red or black, we hated and
despised the race that we enslaved. The
accumulated hatreds and prejudices of a
hupdred years, we could not remove, by
argument, in hundred days. Virginians,
Kentuckians, Irishmen and Germans, set
tied among ns, could not be persuaded to
let this people go free. Then we had our
own arguments to answer. Republican
orators for years had made themselves
hoarse with asserting and insisting that
they were opposed to negro suffrage. They
gave reasons for the 1aith that was then in
them. The reasons had their effect. y
"a The Amendment came near burying the
ticket i'm It's own grave, for want of time
to counteract all these infiunnces, by calm
2. The cry of burdensome taxation in
duced some to vote with the party that
proposed to run the Government, not on
its revenue, but on its promises to pay.
The only means hitherto known to civiliz-
ed nations of paying debts and raising rev.
enue, namely, by taxation, was to be dis
complished BY running a printing press,
by lamp-black, and by rags. The whole
national debt was to be printed, blacked and
soiDed out of existence. = , f''l7 VI
Tine greenback dodge took. Many mems
political opinions are carried in their pam
falcons. And hence Democrats never ap-
peal to the understanding, but direct to the
pocket. .aiAi7 '5 s-4a e't -ag. ~ ss5i- ga
It was known that impeachment would
follow q decisive Republican victory, as
certain as the day, the night. iasipae.f
e Colfax had SO declared before the Capt.
fo1 nd oil Or n n rofirr, i<,fn nar,nfI
son that Tom. Jefferson was the founder of
the Republican, party did not commit the
party to the Kentucky Resolutions of '98,
or to the doctrine of secession, still the
declaration of Speaker Colfax, was taken
as official evidence that the impending im-
peachment would be prosecuted to final
Judgment and, conviction. All who had
been troubled with diseases of the spinal
column, or had been in the habit of seeing
ghosts, fearing that disturbances might
arise from deposing Johnson, voted against
the dominant party. -.
1 4. The fourth cause OF the loss of the
Amendment and the Legislature. was the
loss of the powerful influence, in the State
contest, of the Cincinnati Commercial and
Gazette. We here assert, what is our can
did opinion, that the Gazette and CONNER
cial are among the best newspapers pub
lished In the United States; that notwith-
standing the occasional hum-drum dreari-
q, ness on .ne eoisoriais % tne former. ana the
of the latter, they are conducted with more
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tion; and they gave the amendment the
90 by, ignored taxation, ignored finance.
and had no kind WORDS or compliments for
any Candidate on the State ticket,
unless itiwas Gen. Hayes. So completely
were they Cary-ed out OF the State contest,
that sober Republicans are prepared
to swear that neither paper knew there was
a State election this fall l,at all. In both pa.
pers, it was Cary In leaders, and Cary In
locals, Cary in original articles, and Cary