The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1867-11-13
LETTER OF HON. THOMAS EWING,
OF OHIO.
Lancaster, Ohio. October 2s, 1861


II the Republican losses al the late cleo
hon, especially in Penns, wanna aud Ohio,
and the best means 10 relieve our Country
IRON lis unhappy complication. aud reslo,e
harmony aud union. am always prompt
aud Tree 10 give my opin,on on political
questions. aud chVose. now. 10 give il
through your widely circulated paper.
By publishing The enclosed you will
obl,gc Jour ob,oienl servant.
r.EwING.
THE CAUSE OF REPUBLICAN, Losses AT
A THE RECENT ELECTION.
am sell satisfied Win The result of ous
sieenun--we may consider il a iie--tlie
"ne hundred tA2psand malUr'iy which,
when We we're avVsrther UulUn war par.
~. ELECTED BruUgh our Governor, has been
anvrn OF by lew Radical leaders. whom
lac KspuOlisans IA the tmo ii.Dsrs hasc sl.
iswrd 10 Iulr. aud perhaps 10 ruin them.
There - VERY large member oil old lnc
Nhigs, aud u shose Mhu inherIl her PIE.
pnsssss.Uns aud aplni0Hs, who sent with
The ksputiIeaus al The late election 10 all
ihlngs excerpt tie constitutional amend
menl. because they feared u place power
~ tue hands oi ,.ie,r old adsrrssries, lhr
Hemoutsls, while lhrs heatttI, dlsappru,-
I'd tIe txueme Radical policy ol llle Re-
pablIcan party. Tins ,la.s 1t voters IL We.
~ neatly numbered IN tie difference be
tween TIE Democratic vote Tor Governor
aud the Suie against the constitutional
mvnLlnrni. Uu The ~hole, the rrsus, has
shosn, shat II new election we're To take
sllacc Al uncr, " Would be ~ tie power of
Conservatives 10 give large msJurty 10
silhvT sIde al plrasSle. 1lns may, or NAV
ut be, the Case year 10 come--elihrr
part. when ~ power mav. ~nlnn that time,
sItrriy destroy Itself past the possibility OF
scar. line present trndeney 81 tie ION.
,,rsitt,cs l, lo unitr Min tie Rrpubi,cau
party. II ,iist party vii. in obedience To
Nha. they nun know 70 De Tie Nlli 81 lhr
pcsplr, .ceaii ,heir psoscnpiise msaJatc
aHd leave tie Intelligence IL tie Southern
states Tree 10 aci - modifying aud carry
lag on lnrm state governments, aud desisl
irom forcing on lhem negro suffrage. aud
asasl-n,grO quasi military rulr. This thst
slIl do q The, read arighi. aud prii, by.
the lsssen Which has just been taught them.
Iietsoprnposi,iops, namely --oi giving
suffrage - the blacks, aud dchying il to tie
whites as punishment ior past political
ani military nnrnccs--wrrc lnr the lirsi
time saDmlltcd 10 the people. aud lhen
opIUIon asked upon them at The late rlce.
lIuu Va Ohlv.
uhio was selected a. the most decidedl,
Radical amuns The great States, aud the
questions w,re put to her people, irst oI
al. 10 the couhdent expectation that their
authority would be obtained Tor fastening
the recnnsirnrtion acts on tnr South, aud
extending then over the border States,
under The assumption that the government
~ no Stale can be republicsn That dues no,
sdmiS negro suffrage aud prescribe men
who have been rebels. Both ol these ques.
tIvns ueIe Involved aud discussed III tic
Ohio election; lls Republican orators in.
sls;ng that u would be Inconsistent aud
unju., to force negro suffrage on the South
aud not aeccp, IL Tor ourselves. This was
maniiestly true; We rould moi, with any
preIeuee 81 puiIlicsjustiee. place the Whole
south under negro government, by admit
ting all black, and excluding 20 many White
voters as would give the nrgrues majvrI.
!, everywhere, snd al the same time refuse
y .uiler 1000 nrgfoes TO vote ~ Ohio,
with 600 900 white voters to rontrOl them.
When the people oI 0hio refused TO accept
regro suffrage as part Of their own sys
TEN. they were guilty 81 NJ Inconsistency
and NO Injustice had inflicted Meth
~ prescription nor negro suffrage on th,
south--as fac as il had been executed Il
was The act Of their public servants. and
they, by this vote, refused IL their sanction
Th was the response Of the forty ihous.