Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-17
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In the better days of the Repablic, when
patriotism was the rule and Abolitionism
the exception, within the length and
breadth and scope Of the q niol, no where
were to be found body of men more
bound to man than the present leaders OF
the Republican party in Franklin county
were toHENRY GLAY,-none more attached
to the principles of great party than these
same meuwere to those OF the Wing party
of which HENRY CLAY, was, the acknowl-
edgsd embodiment. l.3 F8z
1.-THE Democracy then, but few in mum
bers, combatted these principles and re-
joiced in their defeat or mourned in their
success. The issues were live ones, and
they were presentedla and met with straight
forward honesty. No man in those days
dared wag a slanderous tongue against Ell
rher- of the great parties, by accusing them
ofawantof patriotism. The issues Of those
days are now with the dead past, and new
ones have arisen. And it is fact, remark
able as showing the rapid change from
patriotism to its opposite, that on every
question now at issue between the two par
ties, the old Whig and Democratic parties
held common opinions. Both looked upon
the agitation Of the Abolition question as
dangerous to the Union-both stood by the
Constitution, in its letter and its spirit, as
the only safeguard for the people in The
hour of peril-both looked upon the form.
alton of geographical parties, and the de.
nunciation of the people or the institutions
of one State by that ~ of another
as dangerous to'es tfeiA peace Of
the country and the perpetuity of its free
institutions. The man, in that day, that
would have breathed the thought that me-
groes should participate in ., the elective
franchise, would have been deemed insane
or idiotic, or as one who wished to so cheap
en- the dearestfight of American freemen as
to bring it into disrepute.
Tie principles that HENRY CLAY and his
party denounced, and that the Democratic
party made common cause with the Wings
in pulling down, as dangerous, are now in
issue, and Abolitionism, by the aid of the
great mass of the old lWhig party, aided by
men, once Democrats, but who have aposta-
tized from its every principle, now rides
rampant over the liberties of the country,
aud the effort is making to perpetuate its
power by bringing to the polls a mass OF
negro voters, as if white men were no
longer capable of ruling America.
At the Convention. of the so-called Re-
publican party. for Franklin county, which
met on Saturday last, the following Reso-
luton was adopted, as the great principle
which is to be fought and decided at the
Fall Election-not a single voice being
raised in opposition or single vote in the
negative, teoppose its adoption
''Rfsolved. That this Convention hereby
approve of loyal Manhood Suffrage"
There is no attempt to deny that what
they call loyal Manhood Suffrage" is
negro voting, and if successful it carries
with it the right of negroes to sit on, juries
and to act as Judges and as law makers.
And in support of this resolution, and to
cast these votes for Negro Suffrage on the
ticket nominated in this issue, the ardent
Wings who, years ago, stood in the old
Senate Chamber on the northeast corner OF
State ard High street, and for hours, hissed
and yelled so as to drown the voice OF
FRED. DOUGLASS when he attempted to
preach his Abolition doctrines, and finally
succeeded in thus putting him down, are
now expected to take an active part -
And the elder Wings, whose detestation
of negro equality was SO great, that they
sternly refused to allow Joe MASSEY, one
of the most respectable of the African
race, to bury his child in Greenlawn Gene
terry because it was tinted with the blood
of the negro, and those who sustained and
endorsed the act, are expected to wheel
into line, and in voting for loyal manhood
suffrage, to disfranchise $1,000 white men,
In order TO give 5000 negroes vote.
AndSou ardent long time pasts'Whig
friend, HENRY GIAY NOBLE, now proposed
as candidate on the negro suffrage ticket,
who stood, with the late WIN. GREGORY, SOL
itary and alone, in, the old United States
Court House in defence of HENRY CLAY
when DENNIsoN and GALLOWAY got up
their meeting to denounee him for sin
against negrodonl which it turned out that
he did not commit,-the telegraph in this
dispatch, as In many other instances, pro-
wing false-and who renounced and de-
nounced the fellowship of such men when
the act was consummated, is now expected
to be a great and shining light in support
of negro Suffrage = TFff e.Fse .
And the old stand-bys of Mr.. CLAY In his
war against Abolitionism, the 'MER1oNs,
MINERS, FRANK. MARTINS, LANDoNs
THRALLs'. BUTTLEs', NEILs, John GRA-
HAMS, let id onsne genus, who swore by the
great Cemmoner in the days of his glory,
and who held with him that s'two hundred
years of legislation had sanctioned and
sanctified negro, slaves as property" and
who, with him, were ready upon the altar
of their country to swear that when the
Whig party became mere Abolition party,
they would be Wings no longer, are now
expected to sing hozannahs to the negro, to
swear that his perfume is greater than that
of the otter of roses, and that in compari-
son with him, no white man has rights that
the party is bound to respect. ee 7or
Can such things be,
And overcome Us like a summer cloud,
Without our special wonder ?"
Cold COlnfOrt for the Whites.
The Cleveland Herald, a rabid Abolition
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