Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-20

: Ultimately, however, the scheme must
nil, the White race, which has, and always.
will give law to this continent, can never
consent long, for minority of their own
people, reinforced by Negro element, and
backed by bayonets, to control the destiny
of this Republic. Already the Cincinnati
Commercial, which has been making merry
over Southern men trying to control the
Negro vote, snuffs danger in the breeze
and in alarm for the future cries out: I" No
division on the line OF COLOR" 1t is too
late now to shirk an ISSUE raised by your
selves, against the teachings of history and
the remonstrances ofthose whose situation,
locally, gave them the best means ofjudging
of the effect of Negro Suffrage. The line auiH
be distinctly drawn, and in its progress to
the North and West, the Radical leaders
will yet fiud, that in the struggle for su-
premacy,that in the long run, there are more
Whites that will vote, and if necessary,
fightfor their own race, rather than with
another, officered by white pariahs. The
Radicals have established the precedent,
that force is hereafter to be the only lawsin
the governmental constitutional limita-
tions have been derided and the decisions
of the highest courts of the land scoffed
at. Let them alone to their own fate, when
the reaction comes, as come it must. The
signs of the times indicate, that their
organization is dissolving by its own
intrinsic corruption. Congress med
Tilted "a revolutionary deposition of
the President before conviction or i'm
parchment, but hesitated to consummate
its own dark thoughts, and to, falter in, a
revolution; is to be lost Connecticut. has
nObly opehed the ball, and the country can
10 longer be diverted in the mall admins
tration, exorbitant taxes, tariff swindles
and manifold usurpations of the dominant
party, by the cry of Rebel, Copperhead, and
general abuse of the Democracy and every
man who will not bow the knee to the black
Baal. ss
Here in Ohio, where the Radical party
has long retained power by denying the
true issues before the election, it has been
compelled at last to face the music. The
proposed amendment to the Constitution,
enfranchising Negroes and disfranchising
White men, raises the issue upon which
Radicalism must stand or fall, although the
question was put in its present form to en-
ableits advocates to play two faced game
The Western Reserve counties, where there
is little of the colored element, were of
course enthusiastic for the Negro, as dis
tance lends enchantment to the view, while
Southern Ohio, which does not relish a
dark invasion from Kentucky, where the
Negro cannot vote, hesitated unless the
dose could be disguised with the claptrap
of rebel, deserter and skedaddler.
Electors of Ohio, will you vote to en-
franchise the Negro, throw open your jury
box to him, and to break down the barrier
between the White and Black children in
your common schools? Do you want him
in your courts, common councils and leg
islative bodies? Is it population desir-
able to increase, by inviting immigration
against the policy established by the ordi-
nance of 1857. which devoted the North
western Territory for the settlement OF
White men? a.:e
Your laws now protect the Negro in all
his rights, as much as the alien, who has to
and the minor who may have borne his
musket through the War. The Negro was
originally put in the army, more Tor the
purpose of furnishing arguments and pre-
texts to make him voter, rather than to
shorten the bloody struggle. Governor
Cox was elected on his Oberlin letter, de-
claring that ''the only basis of permanent
nationality, is to be found in complete
homogenity of people, and that the ten
dency of battling for the old flag, was al
most equally uniform in increasing the
pride of the race" Yet, now. in order
that the Negro may vote, it is proposed to
disfranchise from fifteen to twenty-five
thousand soldiers, who fought through the
War, and are marked ''deserters'' on the
rolls, because they refused to go to
Texas, or elsewhere, after their term of
service had expired. What say you, men
of the Fourth Army Corps, to such an in
famous proposal by your pretended friends?
1t is of piece with the rejection of LANG
DEN, FRIzELL, NEIBLING, FULLER, COATS,
and other wounded heroes, by a God and
Liberty -stay -at-home Radical Senate.
WADE HAMPTON, LoNGSTREET, BEAURE-
GARD, Governor ORR and other secession
lists, may consistently make the best terms
they can with the Radicals, on the theory
that their States actually seeded and are
provinces, on which common
platform secessionism and Rldicalism have
again shaken hands after their united eff
forts have already well-nigh destroyed ev-
cry vestige of Constitutional liberty. But
no Democrat or Conservative, who believes
that these States are all in the Union, that
not communities, are alone re-
sponsible for treason, and that THOMAS JET
FERsoN, the author of the Declaration of
Independence, was right in proclaiming
that the White and Black races could not
live together on terms of political and So
cial equality, can supportthis Negro Suf-
frage theory, directly or indirectly, or; the
Radical tickets at the coming election
Organize, then, thoroughly in every Ward,
Township and County, and press home on
your opponents the issue of Negro SUI
frage, White disfranchisement and practi-
cal dissolution Of the Union, enforced by
military despotism, and Ohio will roll up
$4,000 majority against the proposed amend
ment, and sink along with it the whole
Radical ticket.