Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-21

Here are six thousand six hundred and
ninety-two Union soldiers to be disfran-
chised because they were reported by their
officers as missing and subsequently, re-
ported as "Deserters," because they hap.
pened after the war was over, and, as they
believed, their term of service expired
failed to come back at the proper time to
be mustered out OF the service and honora-
bly, discharged.
OF the twenty-six thousand nine hun
dred and eighteen whites and eight hun
dred and sixty blacks, thus branded as de-
serters, some died on the field of battle
some starved in prison, and because theiI
officers, more intent on other matters than
In caring for the soldiers under their COM
sequently as "deserters," and thus they
stand branded on the books of the Adju-
tant Generals Office, they are to be deprived
of the elective franchise, and ift the Constitu-
tional Amendment giving to the Negro tht
right to vote is adopted this fall, these men
will all then be placed in the same cate
CORY with unpardoned Penitentiary con-
victs, and not be allowed to vote. 80
= Every Radical Senator and Radical Rep
resentatiye in the Legislature voted thus
against soldiers voting, and every man
who votes the Negro Suffrage Ticket and
the Negro Suffrage Amendment this fall,
votes to endorse it.
The Negroes, if they get the chance, will
all vote the Abolition ticket. The soldiers,
if not deprived of their rights as citizens,
Will vote against it. This fact accounts
for the preference of the Negro over the
White-the enfranchisement of the Negro
and the disfranchisement of the White.
The Herald has full liberty to put these
facts in its pipe and smoke them.
The Flag Democrats Rally Under
The Journal referring to the Banner Of
fered as prize by the Democratic State
Executive Committee to that county giving
the largest increased vote over that of last
year, says: trz
By the way, we should like TO ask the
Committee what kind of flag they propose
to distribute? Stars and bars, or stars and
stripes-or one of each?
The Flag the Democrats rally under, is
the National Banner, not star dimmed OF
star erased-not the Sixteen starred
thing that the present Republican party
carried in the contest of 1856, nor that
which they now claim as the1country's en-
sign, with ten stars blotted from the Ma
tionaI galaxy. In word, it is the Flag
which GREELEY's Tribune called ''flaunt-
ing lie," and asked that it be half mast
ed, as sign of national death.
Is 1T not reasonable proposition that a
man will pay his taxes more cheerfully il
he Is allowed voice in levying them, and
in determining for what purposes taxes shall
be levied ?-J o,rndl.
Apply the proposition in ten States OF
the South, where the people are taxed by
the general Government without being al.
lowed voice in leyying them, or in deter
mining the purpose of the levy, and the
charge OF the Journal, that the people OF
that region are restless under their wrongs,
has full excuse. ga7t,
The people of Ohio have voice in levy
ing taxes and in determining for what pur-
pose they shall be levied, but the Fund
Commissioners and the Legislature, after
they are levied, as was the case with the
ssOO,OOO taken from the Soldiers Relief
Fund, use it for another and different
purpose, leaving the widow and the orphan
and, the crippled soldier to starve. ,~ ,.-
( ,"THE Chicago Times says with wicked
wit: In Europe the tailors are on strike.'
So is one of them in this country. ."-CVere-
land Leader. .-rs.1sf brs5.. y sss.l-
The Rads wouldn't mind the fact of
JOHNSON being tailor, but they do dislike
his attempt tomend the breeches of the Con-
stitution. as1 ,'- -...., = s.s-g s-