Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-02-11
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military Government Of the SOUTH
While affectedly deprecatlng Military
Government as only tolerable in the ex-
tremest necessity, and because temporary
in it's character there are Radical journals
that give appreciation to STEVENS bill, now
pending in the House, providing for the
Military Government of the South. There
is no necessity that requires any such Gov
ernment. Not in one Southern city is life
and property less secure than In the Repub-
lican-governed city Of Chicago. 1t would
perhaps, be proper to say that neither is so
insecure. This bill should be advocated on
its true grounds, and not be bolstered up
with falsehoods and subterfuges. 1t Is not
brought forward to the end that good Gov
ernment shall be provided for turbulent
and Indignantly disposed people. 1t is
brought forward for the purpose of doing by
indirection what they have not the manli-
ness to do by direction. 1t is to disiranchise
the Whites through the eniranchisement Of
the Blacks. The monopolists of the coun-
try entertain the belief that by making
voters out of the Blacks in the South-by
making them the preponderant political
power in that section-they can so impreg-
nably fortify themselves as to resist all
assaults upon their political views and
measures. Did the monopolists who use
the Republican organization for their own
advantage imagine that the Blacks would
throw their votes against them upon being
enfranchised, their feeling of humanity
would not undergo SO lively an activity for
the man and brother" The interests of
the South and the West are more In ac-
cord than are the interests of the South
and those of any other section, or the in
terests of the West and those of any other
section. AS human nature is as obedient
to self-interest as the needle is to the pole,
it is an assured certainty that the true rep
resentatives of the South and the West
would act as unit against prohibitory
tariffs and all kindred legislation.
The monopoists Of the East understand
this to dot; and understanding it they act
upon it. Recent protests Of exceeding
strength in their character, in Western
Republican journals, admonish them OF the
Importance of keeping out of Congress the
true representatives of Southern interests.
Were the South now truly represented in
Congress, there would not be even the
ghost of chance for the passage of the
tariff bill pending in the House. Such a
scheme with which to plumber the great
mass of the people would not receive re-
spectful liberation. 1t is, therefore, the
policy of the monopolists to appeal to the
prejudices of the peOple-to work up the
indignation of our people against the South
to such an extent as will cause them to vote
to keep out of Congress the South, and
thus do great damage TO their own material
interests. 1t needs no argument to show
that the mOnOpOlists OF the East will legis-
late into thrall to them the great and grow
ing West, any more than it needs argu-
ment to show that the sun gives light and
warmth to our planet, We see and feel it.
There is no successfully disputing it. No
where else than from the South-from the
White men OF the South who understand
the interests of the South, and who will
faithfully represent those interests-can we
receive assistance that will give us adequate
protection against such neiarious legisla-
tiOn. This scheme of STEVENS, providing
Military Government for the South, is to |
postpone indefinitely, if possible, a true
representation of the South in Congress.
While it is aimed directly at the South, it |
will correspondingly affect the West. Is
it not time that the West aroused herself
and brushed away from before her eyes the
cobwebs of prejudice. and no longer vote |
a detriment to her prosperity?