Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-12
The NHedic,ne Rejected.
- tFEom the Chicago Tines :

- tFrom the Chicago Times1
The trite aphorism that doctors never
take theirown medicine is rather forceful-
| ly illustrated in the result of the election
| in Ohio. The Jacobin doctors have long
| insisted that unrestricted negro suffrage,
compounded with a restriction of white
| suffrage. is the only nostrum that will cure
t.'tiisloyalty," and restore the country to a
healthful condition. ANY who would not
swallow the dose willingly must have it
crammed down their throats by force. Ac-
cordingly, the process of examining it
down the throats of the Southern people
with ramrods and bayonets has been, and
is now, prosecuted with great vigor.
The State of Ohio, by majority of 40.-
600, declared a perfect willingness to assis t
| in forcing negro enfranchisement and
white disfranchisement upon the Southern
States. But, when the nauseous dose is
prescribed to themselves, the people of
Ohio reject itwith decision and emphasis
that thoughtful men will not disregard.
The proposition which has been so dect-
sively rejected in Ohio was substantially
lithe same that Jacoblnism is forcing upon
the Southern States by military despot-
| ISM. 1t was to extend the electoral fran
chise to Ethiopians, without respect to any
qualification whatever; while at the same
time it was to restrict the franchise as to
white men by erecting certain "loyal'
qualifications, never before suggested or
thought of in a Government calling itself
Republican. Had the proposition been sus-
tained, every "Qnashee nigger' in Ohio.
though unable to read, unable to tell his
own name, and endowed with less inteli-
| gence than a well-trained baboon, would
have borne on his face qualification to
vote that no white man could presume to
challenge But whire man, unless able
to produce incontestibe proofs OF his '.loy-
atty" according to the Jacobin meaning
OF the term, would be excluded from the
polls, though he might be the most intelli-
| gent citizen in Ohio. and pav larger
amountin taxes than all the Ethiopians in
America would sell for as recruits to the
army OF the negro monarch of Abysstnia.
The result in Ohio, as in all the States
where elections occurred on Tuesday, is an
indication that the 'tsober second thought7
has begun to take possession of the Amer
| lean popular mind. 1t is in Ohio, espe-
cially an indication that has been helped
forward by bringing the case home to
themselves-by the proposition of Jacobin-
ism to swallow dose OF his own medicine
-by the suggestion that what is good for
Americans in one section of the country
ought TO be equally good for them in ev-
cry other section. The people in Ohio have
| decide d that negro suffrage is not good for
Americans in that State. Why is it not
There are certainly not Ethiopians enough
in Ohio to render them very important
/ pOlIblCdl CltnCuL, lOE ROOu VI lOT udu. IL
is very different in the South. The great
number of Philippians. there will render
them most important political clement;
and their Ignorance, their british habits,
and superstitious natures, make it certain
that it will be an element of good. There
is certainly no argument by which North
ern men can justify the endorsements of
negro suffrage upon the Southern people,
after they have so emphatically rejected
the noStrum themselves ' 'Jl ~ i' -.
The result in Ohio is complete answer
to all the rant and fury of JacobiDisn on
this subject. 1t stops the mouth of Chase.
and Wade, and Sherman, and Sumner, and
all other Jacobin declaimers about the
'pertect equality of all men before the.
law" which they assert is esssutial to the
perpetuation of American liberty. The
| orize and rant as much as they will, when
the nostrum is brought to the taste, human
nature instinct vely revOlts against it.