Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-25

DOdgiBg of The Real Issue-The
Negro Suffrage Cozhmittee Make
a Denial of that which Wns
Never Charged. 4
The Negro Saffrage State Executives
Committee has issued circular, signed by
its members, and published in the Journal,
which says:
1.-THE OHIO STATESMAN, the Cincinnati En-
Qttirer, and other Democratic newspapers
nave repeatedly published the statement
that this Committee has issued "secret
circnlar advising the Union party of the
State to abandon the Constitutional Amend
ment as hopeless, and to concentrate every
effort upon the State and Legislative
tickets"
A more contemplate equivocation and
falsehood was never penned. No such
charge was ever made. None such was
ever intended to be made.
The charge made was this: The Chair
man and Secretary of the State Committees
lanes are signed to secret, printed circu-
ar sent to certain closel contested couny-
ties in southern Ohio, where Negro Suf-
frage is unpopular with the masses of the
Republican party, taking the same ground
advocated in the Resolution of the Aboli-
tion G onvention of Brown county, that
Republicans who cannot consistently
vote for Negro Suffrage, if they would on
ly vote for the, nominees of the State RI
publican Convention, or for the members
of the Legislature, would not lose caste
with the Republican party of the State.
Thiscircular was carefully kept from the
Negro Suffrageites in Northern Ohio
where the doctrine that the Negro Is the
equal, if not the superior of the white man
| was generally advocated and believed in
q id was intended to rally all the disaffect'
ell in Southern Ohio on the Legislati,t
Ticket, the getters up of the secret circu'
lar knowing, that if a majority of theil
4 party can be returned to the Ohio Legisla
ture, that majority will adopt an amend
ment to the Constitution OF the United
States that will force upon Ohio, and upoI
every other State in the Union, the right o.
the entire male negro population over th'
age of twenty-one years, to vote and t.
hold office.
| Instead, of denying these charges, broad
ly made, the committee deny that the.
have issued a "secret circular advising
the Union Negro SuffrageI Party to aban
| don the Constitutional Amendment a
| hopeless" &c.
Although we doubt the right of any
committee, when the party, whose organ
1t is, makes an issue, to abandon it, ye
had Gen. CowEN and DIR. JANIS WILLIAMS
committee done so, and made the same
recommendation to all parts of the State
it would have been less Objectionable thar
holding out to the Negroes, and TO theil
friends and advocates in Northern Ohio
that they, in good faith, were advocating
Negro Suffrage, while at the same time
they were giving it deadly stab by advis
| ing their friends in another part of the
State that no man will lose his standing ir
the party if he voted against it.
Let the Committee force its Chairman an6
Secretary to sign denial that they have
signed to Circular of the kind we have
named, and that they have advised
the men OF, the Republican party that tht
party fealty demands that they vote Yesuor
the Constitutional amendment giving the
negroes the right to vote, and let the Com.
mittee publish this, and then we will agree
that there is no truth in the men of the
Negro Suffrage persuasion who act az
Chairman and Secretary of the Executive
Committee of that party.
The Negro Suffrage Candidate for
Unifed States Senator NOT Al
lowed 10 Speah-The Candidate
for Lieut. Governor Retires on
the Sex List-Hc has the
s.Shukes.'' ..,l, La
"Brave old BEN WADE" as the Radicals
used to call him, before Vallandigham
stripped him of the title, has been with
drawn from the stump in those parts ol
Ohio where negro suffrage is unpopular,
bee 4use WADE is so fully committed to the
heresy that he dare not disavow it. 90
In like manner, General LEE, the Negro
Suffrage nominee for Lieutenant Governor
has been taken from the stump, in order te
hide his folly and to conceal his Negro
Suffrage principles. As stumpist, JOHN
NY LEE is not success, for he has got his
party into sore trouble by claiming that
the Negro is better fitted to vote than the
same number of Whites. AS shamist, he
is success, for he shams sickness WE'LL
He pretends to have the shakes, and he
does shake with fear, and his friends will
be shaken out of their boots by the Democ-
faey on the 9Th of October. That will in
deed be a shake and no sham.