Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-14

are wiser than their Republican brethren
of the United States. The negro in Hayti
has forbidden the white man to vote or hold
office, and Sambo is right. He understands
the laws which govern the human family,
better than those who preach negro-equali-
ty here. He is in the vast majority there,
and white men are in the minority. He
knows the white man Oug not to be al
lowed to mingle on terms of equality
with him, and hence all office-holding
and all suffrage are confined to the negro
there. 1 recognize the superior wisdom of
this. am in favor. of!negro, equality and
negro suffrage in Africa, but / am opposed
to it in the United States. am opposed
to allowing the white man to hold Office or
vote in Africa, and am opposed to giving
those privileges to the negro here. But At
rica is the negroes country;this is ours; that's
: the difference. The question is now present.
; ed to the Republican party of Ohio to intro
duee negro equality and negro suffrage by
striking the word white" out of the State
Constitution. Thus at last it has come
The wolf is now at your doors. recol-
lect when, few years ago, we proclaimed
that that party was drawing itself toward
! this very doctrine, how we were met with
contradictions and denials; the lie was
thrust into our teeth, and we were de-
nouneed as slanderers. As late as two years
ago they bitterly denied it. Why, Abra-
ham Lincoln, whom. some heather men,
quite pagans, are not Quite willing to wor-
ship as god (and they have illustrious ex-
amples OF that sort ofjwork ow)--Abra-
ham Lincoln proclaimed in 1853, not as a
mere matter of temporary policy, but he
gave IL as a reason why there should and
: could be no negro equality in this country
sl-no negro suffrage and no negro office
holding-that there was physical distinc-
tinetion between the races, which forbade
! that the negro should be the equal OF the
white man. William Dennison, lately Re-
publican Governor of Ohio, denounced
universal emancipation in 1862, during the
war-at the end of the first year of the
war. when they wanted soldiers to enlist
= under, pretense of fighting for the flag, and
I not for the negro. He denounced not only
:. emancipation, but negro suffrage and
$ equality, and proclaimed that it was not
the intent or purpose of the Republican
!, party to advocate or carry out either. So,
\ too, the present Governor of the State,
e General j. d. CoX-a scholar, a man of
reflection, man who thinks upon subjects
E before he speaks or writes about them;
man who studied this particular question,
: and who has the courage to speak his mind.
l L refer to him in these terms because he de-
4 serves it, not for any mere partisan pur-
{ pose, though when provoked, two wears
: ago, to speak of him in plain Anglo Saxon
vernacular, on account of a falsehood in
relation to myself, l so did. All that is
S passed, and refer to him now for these
: qualities for which he is remarkable. He
= uaS uecldreu IN a lleCl6r addressed to that
place called Oherlin-you have all heard of
that place, 7 suppose-in that letter to the
Oberlinites he takes ground against this
attempt to equalze the races, politically
J. and socially. say socially, for there is
: the philosophy of what Z referred to a
5 moment ago. If you would bring the
: races up to an equality, yoe must lay aside
a all distinctions which are founded upon
= race. There must be intermarriage, and
u general mingling of the races. am aware
that it does not follow because my son or
a your son belongs to the white race, he shall
d therefore be at liberty to marry the daugh-
e ter of any white man on the continent.
It Nevertheless, they are equals as to race,
: and when they do not marry it is because
u of some other reason than that which pre-
e vents whites and blacks from iEtermarry-
u ing. 1t is utterly impossible that
: there should be negro equality in this
81 country, consistent with order and bar
e mony aud peace and quiet in the commune
8 ty, unless you accept the negro as your
: equal sociallY,as we'll as politically. They
q muS5 marry and be given in marriage
q as result of that political equality from
d which social equality must necessarily
u come. The silly talk about Democrats be-
e ing afraid their daughters will marry ne
ell gro husbands, or their sons marry negro
IS women, should be passed by with the con-
e tempt it deserves. / am speaking of his
q tory and philosophy, and when, tell you
l. that political equality means social equality
,e for the negro, / only say what is proclaimed
y by Fred. Douglass, Wendell Phillips, and
d all the pioneers of the Republican party
G Don't tell me you can give the negro the
l. right to vote, and stop there. The amend
o, ment which is proposed goes further than
n, that 1t implies the right to hold any office
Y, from Governor down, and if the system
J. exists throughout the United States. then
/ from President down. The negro has al
$ ready demanded a fair division of the offices
/ They are asking to have a negro put upon
IL the ticket for Vice President, and think il
of is right that it should be so, and that mer
lie who have advocated negro suffrage should
le follow cut this doctrine to its legitimate
is conclusion, and not be ashamed OF it.. You
at told us few years ago you were opposed
z to negroes having right to vote sol
10 hold office. You are not opposed to it now
Sc but are openly advocating it. In 1S69,}it
il should come here, need not be surprised
IN and openly advocating them. From ths
I'd progress, as they call it, made lately, it Il
he not too much TO eXpect4hiS. That is pre-.
m eisely what it means. It may be a small
Is matter to you here, where, Idon't suppose
a. there are fifty negroes in the county. Bu
Id down in the southern counties they mum
s. Der hundreds and thousands, and it is 9
ne matter of some Importance to US. Again
ID down South it is of great Importance. lht
1t negroes are in majority in some of tht
Id States down there, and under the system o
D. disfranchising the whites, 1 think they arr
ne in majority of each of the eleven, includ
ty ing Tennessee. Look at the election il
to Tennessee. The Republican candidate il
er elected by great majority. How ? + FOl
1t shame. for shame-60,000 negroes voting
u and $4,000 white men disfranchised. i
TO would carry. any election. The next step,
In presume, will be to disfranchise every Dem
te ocrat in the North. We have the enterins
tn wedge of it already. OF course they won
", say ''Democrat" when they go to distran
ne chise us, but they will provide that every
d. disloyal man shall be disfranchised, anC
p then they will go step further and say
re that every man who voted for Vallandig-
IL ham in 1868, while he was waiting auC
ly watching on the border, is disloyal anC
Is must be disfranchised. That would be au
Is admirable scheme for carrying the elec
n, tions, but suppose we should come into
ne power as in the upturnings OF politica
s. revolutions we certainly will, whether un.
u der the old Constitution, or under the mo-
on narchial form to which tits rapidly chang
r ing under these men--suppese we come
no into power, and then turn round and try
We this prescription on the Republican party
IN will they begin to tell us of Esop's fable
" that it is our bull that is goring their OK
e. fLau-ghter.l Yes, $4,000 white men dis
K franchised in Tennessee because they wer
81 disloyal. ~.
II Col -s- CoPPERHEADS.
n,
IT. Well, / believe there is scarcely Repub
iican here who does not recognize distinc
tions in degrees of disloyalty. There i
: not Democrat here who was not more dis
ty loyal, according to these gentlemen, thar
'e- the men OF the South who took up arms
as They used to tell us how much more thev
ng respected the rebels of the South than tht
ed Copperheads of the North. Jefferson Da
n Wis, even, they respected. Oh, yes, Horac
ng Greeley respects him. The white-hattei