Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-07
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Judge DICKSON lives inC Cincinnati. Judge
DICKSON is in favor of Negro Voting. He
thinks it a good thing-a righteous thing
thing that everybody should be in favor
of-especially that the whole of the Re
publican party should be in favor of it.
The refusal of the Republican members of
sthe. Legislature to submit the question to
vote of the people, fired him with indigna-
ton, and iseizing q pen he wrote Mr.. A.,
KELLOGG just what he felt about it. He
cries "shamel shame!'' and he wants to
know how Republicans "dare" "to i'm
pose Negro Suffrage upon others and
refuse the same to'' themselves. He is
bold to declare that "the inconsistency OF
such, conduct-its manifest hypocrisy
strikes everybody," and that they simply
make themselves ridiculous. The Judge is
right. The Republicans have been making
themselves ridiculous for some time. To
} be sure, the Democrats see this, and so do
other people who are not Democrats. 1t
certainly will be very difficult to &C defend
the action of Congress from the standpoint
J of refusing to apply the principle of its
action to'' themselves, and it will be about
equally difficult to "defend the action OF
Congress FROM any other standpoint
, The refusal of the Republican members
in the Legislature to give the voters of
. our State an opportunity to pass upon
the question of Negro Voting " furnish a
ground for the South's refusal to recon-
struct on. the terms of Congress" The
South can with propriety ask: "Why
should we make voters out of the Negroes,
when you in Ohio, New York, Michigan
and other States, refuse to do SOP" LTL,I
! Judge DICKSON proposes to anchor his
hopes in ga caucus of the true men," Such
"a caucus he wants held at once, and he
wants that caucus to esresolve that this
amendment shall be made, or the Union
party shall elect their ticket without the
aid of the Radicals. No such thing will be
done. The Republicans of Southern Ohio
profess to feel that they are the masters of
the situation, and figuratively speaking
they snap their fingers in the faces of the
Reserve Republicans Some of them say
that they did not become members of the
Republican party in consideration of love
for Abolitionism and its logical results
that they, give, their assent to Negro Suf-
frage in the District of Columbia and in
the Southern States, because it is an inf1ic
tion of degrading punishment upon the
Southern Whites: but with their consent
Negro Suffrage shall not be inaugurated in
Ohio. Some also say that they are neither
to be frightened nor intimidated by the
threat of third ticket pledged unequivo-
cally to Negro Suffrage. Those who in
dulge in this kind of talk, assert that the
the Republican State Convention in the
matter of the nomination of the candidate
for Governor, nor in the platform, and that
they will not bolt the action of the Con-
vention. They concede that they may pro-
test and grumble some; but think they
will acquiesce in the action of
the Cenvention.} This is the way Southern
Ohio Republicans talk. The probability is
thatit is nothing more than talk The
Reserve Radicals are usually in the habit
of having things pretty much as they want
them. They were slightly disappointed in
Governor Cox. and they, will be more wary
at the next State Convention. Radicalism
Will be predominant in the Convention,
and if there shall be protest and grumbIing
from any section it will be from the mem
bers from Southern Ohio opposed to Negro
voting. They will acquiesce; for they
have not the pluck to bolt. This the Radi-
Gals of the Reserve know, and they will
shape their conduct accordingly So, the Re-
pnblicans in Southern Ohio may as well,
first as last, make up their minds that the
Negroes will speedily be made voters in
this State. unless they shall assist in voting
the Republican party into a minority. A
good time to commence voting in this way
will be at the April election.
Lincoln Not as Great as WASH
z5 9Ti9gsz t1s sIte ing tOn.sza bes Fay - i
The House of the Ohio Legislature yes
terday afternoon passed bill making al
legal holiday of WksHINGToN's birthday.
An ardent Republican by the name OF
RHODES, when the bill was under consid-
Grafton, moved to strike out WAsHINGToNs
birthday and insert the birthday of LIN
COLIN. The motion was voted down with
emphasis. So the Republican members Of
the Ohio legislature dc, notthin LINCOLN
quite as great a man as was WASHINGTON.
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