Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-06

opinion in respect to negro suffrage. He
replied at great length and with great
trankpess, and it is but just to say that his
letter bears internal evidence that he had
giveh the subject great consideration. /
read from 1t as follows:
You, Judging from this distance, say
Deliver the four millions of freed people
into the hands OF their former oppressors,
now embittered by their defeat, and they
will make their condition worse than before.
L, starting from the same principles. and
after tour years of close and thoughtful OBJ
servation of the races where they are, saw
I am an.oillingly forced to the conuiction that
the effect Of the aodr has not been SIMPLY TO ene
bitter their relations but to deueEop. a rooted
dntqgoRisHl aoltch makes their permanent fusion
in one political community AN. ABSOLUTE In
POSSIBILITY. The sole difference between
us then is in the degree of hostility we find
existing between the races; and its sproba-
BILE permanence. You. assume that theex-
tension of the right of suffrage to the blacks
ledoing them interTsi1ed loith the aohttes, viii
cure all the trouble. z 6eiteee that IL t1oitld
rather be lite the decisions in that outer dark
ness of ;aoaich Milton speaks, where III, ri fg,e
Chaos umpire sits, - T. fs-a M
And by decision more mbrois the fray.
"Yet, as 2 affirm with you, that the rights
p to lite and liberty are inalienable. and more
than admit the danger OF, leaving labor
ing class at the entire mercy Of those who
formerly owned them as Slaves, you Will
say that | am bound to furnish some soln-
ton of the problem which shall not deny
the right or incur the peril, So / am, and the
only real solution which / can see is. TILE
PEAcEABLE SEPARATION OF THE RACES. =.
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because there could be no real unity of
people bet,peea the Southern tohites and ,South-
eTn blacks, 1t seems manifest to me that there
could be no political unity but rather strife
for the MASTERY. IN a1tict the 07seOr the other
would go to The todll. % fa9eqs nHtfaua siJs
..5's1 :. The struggle for the supremacy would
be direct and immediate, and see no hope
whatever that the weaker race would not
be reduced to hopeless subjectlon, or utter
ly destroyed. There, is mo reason to sup
pose that Missouri, border-ruffianism could
never be repeated on new fields, and Che
strife once inaugurated, the merciless war
would continue as long as the sobnoxions
race had an existence. You have expressed
your anticipations of such result in one
state of the case, how is it that you do not
see that aidirect struggle for power at the
ballot-box9 would make the contest more
ue%eiy;s 5Ta. 5sht-I* ii ,*T,..i 30 ~ nolt
"The Anglo American and Africo- Amer mnneeir
lean races now stand face to face upon the
Southern soil in irTeconcila6le HOSTILITY. The
few colored men whom we have amongst
us, may be regarded as the waits and strays
Of the great body which is a nation In htirn-
bers, and in its isolation by mental and
physical characteristics. It is as a unit that
we must deal with them, and dno paltering g
with the edges of the, difficulty will avert
the doom which all history teaches us will
follow wrong solutien.' ssaas,s9 asri ~
This last paragraph is emf nentlyI just,
Great as would be the evils Of negro suf-
frage in Ohio, much as it would tend to
bring into our State an every way unde-
sirable population, yet the question
whether we shall let negroes vote here. is,
of itself, insignificant compared with that
greater question whether we shall surfen-
der the whole South to negro rule, to ruin
and to anarchy, and thereby not only de-
stroy that fair, section of the Republic, but
bring upon the North also untold calanni-
ties. Apart from these considerations, the
reasons Tor refusing the Foteto negroes in
our State are abundant and convincing,
but when we regard the proposition, as we
should regard It, as part OF a great
scheme of national ruin, the objections be-
come perfectly overwhel 5sa,s,s 9,i
Look at the causes of the present depres-
sion of business In the North and especially
in the northwest, and do You not find,
prominent among them, the impoverished
and distracted condition, ofathe South, once
our best and most profitable market, and
which under good and constitutional gov
ernmen$i would be so again. Shall this
state of things be perpetuated,j and we re-
main deprived of our best customers, that
the inordinate, ambition of party leaders,
and the insatiate cupidity of public plum
derers may be gratifed ?Is21o Woa ed1 bis
!. Shall we continue to maintain freedmen's
bureaus and reconstrnctiQn officials at a
greater annual cost than the entire yearly
expenditures Of the government under the
administration of Andrew jackson? lfl &
Ell Shall We continue to pay over 25Q ,00Q
of dollars year for the support of an army
which never before in time of peace cost
US. over SIG, 100000, in order to disfraRchise
white men and enfranchise negroes? Sffah
we perpetuate war taxes, long after
war has ceased and pay heavy tribute
upon all we eat, all we drink, all we wear,
all we own and all we earn, to support, a
horde OF ffice-holGers and agents, whose
chief employment is to violate the Consti-
tuition and promote the schemes of Radical
politieians? Shall we, continue to employ
all the powers Of government, and powers
never delegated to it, nay, powers express
ly denied TO it by the Constitution, and, in
addition, takejfrom the people all that an
fnexOrable tax gatherer can safely lay his
hands upon, not to foster, not to promote,
not to build up the welfare and union of
our country, but to yet further imp0yera
ish, yet further destroy, yetfurther, distract
and diYideit? ,a'..sfi v 95t s.. .,i.,,.7s ,sr N
These are the questions we have to au-
swer and upon the answer that shall be
given to them depends the destiny of the
Republic. If this state of thing is to con-
tinue, if the South is to remain not only
Impoverished but almost in state of star
walton, if nearly the whole burthen of
taxation is thus to be thrown upon the
Northo because the South has nothing to
contribute, if, instead of reducing the lex-
penses of government we are to go on in
creasing them, If, instead of lessening Of
fee holders we are tot go on multiplying
them; if, instead of outstanding our rer
sources we are to go on -squandering them ;
If, instead of realizing income from our
public lands we are to go on giving them
away. how, let me ask, are the taxes to be
paid, how is the public debt to escape re-
pudiation? And if We continue to disre-
gard the Constitution, if weeontinue the
overthrow of civil government and the jeX-
istence of military rule. if we prolong the
disruption of the Union, and solidity in
stead of dissipating sectional ldislikes, how.
let me ask, are civil liberty and the Repub-
lie to be preserved ?h,,c f,z.stit,,.l.- .i tt=s,
No, my friends, it is by no such malig-
nant and destructive policy as this, that
true peace and union are TO be restored,
and this country made, what it might and
should become, the glory, of mankind.
appeal to you, then, to rally to the res
cue before it is too late. Let not the fairi
est inheritance .ofliberty and prosperity
that man. ever enjoyed, be wrested,, from
you. Let not despair enter your souls and
make you believe that because much has
been lost nothing can be saved. All isnot
lost. There is yet hope for the future il
the people will shake off their Iethargy
and, rising in their might, resolve to be
once more prosperous and free. Il 80
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