Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-06
Call for the RepuBIIcan State Com
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II ventIOme
The Republican State Executive and
Republican State Central Committees have
united in call to the Republicans of the
State to elect Delegates to State Conven-
tion, to be held in the city of Columbus, on
the 10Th day of June. These Committees
thought long address necessary, glorify-
ling the Republican party and disparaging
the Whites of the South and the Democrats
North. as it does. 1t is held that the Dem
cIats Of the North .'must be watched and
defeated" !" because they are guilty of what
tothem seems the unpardonable sin of be-
lievipg the White the superior of the Ne
| gre race, and that therefore the White race
should direct, control and conduct the va
rious Governments-Federal State, Coun-
| ty, City and Town-of this country. ''Slav-
cry" is pronounced ''dead." The public,
however, are informed that ''this barbarous
relic has for generations oppressed and
degraded millions of our fellow creatures.
but could never corrupt their loyalty" II
appears not to have been considered import
ant by the committees to state whether the
Negroes, i'm their native Africa, are in a
more advanced state ofcivilization than the
Negroes recently made free in the South,
or whether they would have enjoyed more
exemption from oppression and degrade
tion If they had never been brought to this
country and subjected to the slavery that
prevailed in the South. Perhaps it may be
immaterial in this connection to consider
the condition of the Negroes in Africa. II
may be sufficient to know that these Re-
publican Committees, over their Signatures,
certify that the Negroes in this country
have been "for generations oppressed and
degraded" 1t would seem to the dispas-
sionate inquirer after truth-to him who
would have the Government conducted for
the benefit and in the interest Of the teem-
ing White race-a race that, with all its
Shortcomings, has taken the earth and
stamped upon it its divine origin-that
nothing could bermore .senselessly fool
Iish than TO make voters, and there
by participants in the management
of the Federal, State, County,
Town and City Governments, out of the
g millions who have just been released
from their oppressed and degraded con-
dition. If they are the equal Of the White
race in mental capacity, and have an equal
aptitude for exercising the high preroga-
tive of Government, which has never yet
been shown, some probation is certainly
necessary wherein to divest themselves OF
the effects of the degradation that for ''gen-
erations has, according to Republican par
tisan representation. assimilated them to
the brute. And yet these Committees, after
having SO certified, ask: lsEf js +
"a Then with loyalty in the heart of him
whom education has made man, and dis
cipline soldier, aoh0 can object to his full en-
trdncbisement ?"
This is the issue as they present it, "Who,' u
they ask, ''can object to the Negro being
made voter?"
Il So far, then, as the Republican Senators
and members In Congress could do it-so
far as the Republican members in the Ohio
General assembly could do it-so far as
the Republican Executive and State Cen
tral Committees can do 1.-THE Republican
party is committed in favor of Negro voting
We have no doubt that the Republican
State Convention, when it shall meet on
the 10Th of June, will fully ratify these
several direct and specific committals. 1t
does not necessarily follow that. the mass
of the Repu blican party are under ebliga-
tions to vote for Negro Suffrage, or for
those whose purpose it is to fasten it upon
the country ~ - ~ = @sAA&
Color Makes lhe DIference.
I A Freedmen's Bureau was considered
necessary to protect the Negroes against
the capitalists who should seek to employ
them to regulate the time they should la
Dor and the compensation they should re-
ceive for their labor. With no favor, how
ever, do the Republican papers look upon
the effort of the White men of Chicago to
inadgurate the Eight Hour movement sue
cessfnlly. 7Itis required of the White'men
that they shall labor on such terms as cap
itaf shall pdictate. Itimatters not if through
the administration of,the Republican party
they are sorely5 oppressed by crushing
taxation and plundering tariff laws, they
must not think of seeking relief. AS the
Government is administered by the Repub-
lican party, it is administered in the inter-
est of capitalists, Eastern manufacturers
and Negroes. White workingmen are not
taken into account Neither are the farm
ers considered of consequence, further
than to assist in the paying of taxes.
w hite, as a color, at this time, is unfortu-
nate. If the Negroes in the South were on
astrike for higher wages, or for the estab7
1ishment of eight hours as q legal days
work, Republican presses all over the
country would applaud the movement.
Color makes the difference with Republi-
can partisans. -
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