Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-18
Coy. Cox,s Platform.

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Gov. Cox is again in the field, candi-
date for denomination before the State Eon-
vention which meets ip this city on to-nor-
row. 1t successful, and the cityAis fun of
rumors that hehas made combinatiou that
will not only deserve but ensure success
he will run on platform entirely different
from that of any other candidate. The
platform is laid down in his famed Oberlin
letter, whiehwe reproduce on the first page
Eaf TEE. STATESMAN, and it will be ready with
profit by the Negro Suffrageites, if not with
pleasure, 41 SsIESis u
1.-TWO years ago, after Gens Cox was nom
mated, this letter was born, of poor, if not
honest parentage. He was asked by the
Oberlinites, if he was in favor of negro suf-
frage.S Thesnlen whothusinterrogat the
! candidate, acted as a committee. They had
found that their candidate was against
them, nay, some of them were absolutely
startled by q report, coming directly from
Warren-the residence of Gen. Cox-that
he was opposed to giving the elective fran
chise to the negro race, and hence they de-
manded from their candidate a direct an
swer to the question. 10 ss"lr' aiDnsHl
Instead of this, the candidate improves
the occasion to praise President JOHNSON
and to endorse his.reeonstrnctionp policy,
and to give his party friends to understand
in the plainest language, that ANDREW
JOHNSON sis earnestly determined to seek
the good of the whole country and of all
the races in it," and, that he has full claim
to the entire confidence of the party, and
that which the Republican party cannot
succeed in doing in harmony and co-opera-
tioh with him and his Administration" it
will stall of doing altogether" For this
reason, says Gen. Cox, ''my support" of
ANDREW JOHNSON "will be no halt hearted
support, but jealous" one.
The question, thus settled that the Re-
publican party are as nothing without the
support of ANDREW JOHNSON, the writer
then gives his Oberlin friends to understand
| that, unlike, as is the case in Oberlin,
where the two mingle harmoniously into
one, there is, on the part of the negro,
radical distrust of the white race, and that
as there is not, and cannot be any real uni
ty, between the two races, there ought
not to be. any, political unity" because
therefs between the two races "a strife for
the mastery, in which one or the other
must go to the wall"
So far from there being, as claimed by
ultra Radicals, a good feeling between the
soldiers aud the negroes, who wore ''blue''
on the same battle field, the tendency of
battling for the old Flag was "the increas-
ing and deepening" the pride of birth on
the part of the white soldiers. Because of
this deep rooted hostility on the part of the
white soldiers against the black and the
black against the whites, the General was
strong in his conviction that the races
should be separated-thaT the negroes of
the South should be colonized in ,contigu-
GUS territory far away from the whites, and
thus, like MCGREGoR on his native heath
give the negroes a chance TO vote and
make laws, not for, the whites, but
for themselves. The train of reason
ing which produced this plan of
separation, the General studied out by
the camp fire and at the midnight bivouac,
and it is in part based on the fact, which he
had so much evidence before him to show,
that the Anglo-American and the African
American races now stand face to face
upon the Southern soil, in irreconciliable
hostilityl" and good reason it is, for not
giving them equal rights. In this colony
the General went for negro suffrage, but
not in Ohio, and he warns his Abolition
friends, thatcssubject Provinces" as he |
calls the conquered Provinces, once States |
of the Republic, and pro-consulships, as
IL
and other military men sent down South to
govern by force of bayonets and shoulder
straps, cannot long exist in a free Govern
ment, and in this the General said true
thing. in, a very classical manner
The letter is full of fine points as well as
of fclassical phrases sort of sorient pearls
at random struug"+with which he neatly
rounds off his periods,
Since reading it afresh, we have come to
the conclusion that Governor Cox is the |
proper man to nominate His selection
would give the go by, at once and forever,
to Negro Suffrage and turn the members of
the Legislature, after the fashion of old
out to grass, there to
herd with the brutes, and to repent at their
leisure. l5s-- 81.
Besides this, it would be splendid hit
at the Radical Congress. who fought Presi-
dent JeHNseN, with SO much bitterness, by |
his only friend and eulogizer
in the Republican party. In addition to
this, If Gen. Cox's plan be followed out, it |
will rid us of the negroes among us, by
sending them off to their colony, where
they can vote or not, in the selection OF
their negro officers, without Democrats be- |
ing there to claim that the country is a
white mans government.
We take it for granted, if Governor Cox
be renominated with his opinions known |
and so widely circulated, as we intend to |
circulate them in the STATESMAN, the plat
form will, in spirit if not in letter. endorse |
them as sound Republican principles.
Beware of Soldiers Claims.
--s-'f7 ID COLUMBUS, June Is, 1867.
E. B. Eshelnaan, Editor of Ohio Statesman