Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-26
why the Western Reservoirs go
Negro Suffrage.

INcsEO S0AAEEA8Cs
In an article in yesterdays STATESMAN we
showed that the attempt to get Negro Suf-
frage engratted on the State Constitution
of Ohio, came from member of the Con-
stitutional Convention representing one of
the Western Reserve counties, and that ev-
cry vote the proposition received was from
the same region, where Abolition has its
chief abiding place, but where Negroes are
but few and far between.
The fact is a notorious one, that the Ne
gro-voting mania that pervades the Re
publican party, had its hot-bed growth and
was nurtured in the same region. The
same men that fastened Abolitionism on
the old Wing party, and ruled that party
to ruin it, are now in the ascendancy in the
so-called Republican party, and now, as
they demanded in the days OF the Whig
party, all belonging to the organization
must bow the knee to the Negro, or be ex-
communicated from the party. a .VE
This fondness OF the New England pop
ulation residing on the Lake shore for the
colored man is far from being reciprocated
by the Negro. In all the Western Reserve
counties combined the Negro population is
nearly one-third less than that contained
within the Democratic county of Ross.
Leaving out the Negro settlement of Ober-
lin it is but about one-half. Omitting the
city of Cleveland and the village of
Oberlin, the county of Franklin, with her
1000 Democratic majority, to be increased
to 1900 this fall, has nearly twice the negro
population of the remaining counties of
the Western Reserve, and Ross county has
three 10 enc.
Franklin county has 1 Negro to 81
whites Ross county, NEGRO to IL Whites;
Pickaway county, 1 Negro to every 25
Whites Mercer county, Negro to %
Whites, and Pike county 1 "manhood" to
every IA of the Whites or inferior race.
These counties are all Democratic, and are
all opposed to Negro Suffrage.
The county of Lorraine, where Oberlin
College is located, and where Abolition has
its chief abiding place, has but one Negro
to 50. Whites; Cuyahoga, including the Ne
gro population of Cleveland, "a Whites to
each Negro; Erie, e,including the Negro pop
ulation of Sandusky City, has one Negro to
1853 Whites; Portage, one Negro to BIZ
Whites; Huron, one Negro to 373 Whites;
Medina, one Negro to sol Whites; Ashta-
bula, the very hot-bed of Abolition, whose
Senator introd uced the resolution which
passed the Legislature, to give Negroes the
right to vote and to be jurors, &C., one
Negro to 1,571 Whites; Geauga, one Negro
to 2,25S Whites; in Trumbull, one Negro to
1892 Whites.
These counties are all Abolition, and
will all give large majorities for Negro
Suffrage.
Thus it will be seen that in the favored
region, where politically the White man
is as nothing compared to the Negro, there
are fewer of the colored persons than in
the region Democrats control.
There are two reasons for this:
The Western Reserve of Ohio is peopled
by population which knows less about
the Negro, his habits, tastes, inclinations
and capacity, than the people of any other
region. They believe them capable Of all
that the White man can accomplish, and
that they can, as a general rule do as much
work with as little sleep and as little food
as the class of men employed as laborers.
This is a mistake, and the Negro will not
willingly reside among people who force
them to do the work of a White man on
the scant food usually doled out to the
laborers on the farms OF New England and
the lake counties of Ohio. They prefer a
local habitation among a class of people
who know them better, and hence it is that
Southern Ohio is filled with Negroes
while Northern Ohio, inhabited principally
by men from the down east States, is shun-
ned by the darkey as unfit to be graced by
his presence.
The great obj ton in the minds of the
true philanthropist to slavery, is that it
makes labor disreputable. White men
would not work with Negroes without
feeling a certain degree of degradation
The effect of Negro Suffrage in Ohio, if the
State Constitution be so amended this fall,
and in making it part of the fundamental
law, will be to invite Negroes into Ohio in
order to aid in ruling the State. The inev-
table result of large influx of Negroes
into Ohio from the South will be to cheaper
labor and to make it, in the eyes of those
who, from want of trades, will be forced to
work with the Negro, disreputable. This
is already felt to be the case in the counties
of Southern Ohio, and the result will be an
overwhelming vote this fall against Negro
Suffrage; while in Northern Ohio, where,
as we have shown, climate and a false esti-
mate of the "Manhoods" forbid their set
tlement in large numbers, the vote for Ne
gro political equality will be so large as to
lead to the belief that it may become the
law of the land. But this we cannot be-
lieve until the fact is ascertained by the
official count.
Who IL Responsible for the Hor-
rOrs AT AndersOnvIlle.
The question of who is really responsible
for the starving of Federal prisoners at An
dersonville and at other points during the
war, still continues to be discussed. Mr..
HAssAUREK, editor of the Volksblatt, the
Radical German organ in Cincinnati,
charged it in terms direct and positive on
General BEN. BUTLER. of spoon memory,
who thwarted all efforts to effect an ex-
change of prisoners, even after it had been
agreed upon. This BUTLER denied. On
yesterday, Mr.. OULD, the rebel Commits
sioner of Exchange, published in Wash
ington letter, in which he says:
81 did offer in August, 1864, to deliver
| the Federal sick and wounded without re-
quiring an equivalent, and urged the ne
cessity of haste in sending for them, as the