Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-21


Ihe South with Negro Orators
The Demand for Money for the
Campaign.
The National Executive Committee,
charged with the interests of the Radical
party, alarmed at the recent State elections
in Connecticut and Kentucky, and at the
spring elections in Ohio and other States,
have issued an address, appealing to the
voters of that party, in every State. for their,
assistance and cooperation in this the hour
Of their sorest need In urging this, duty,
upon their adherents, the committee say:
We deem il, of the highest Importance
that the Republicans of each State should
immediately reorganize for the remaining
elections of 1867, preparatory to the COM
ing Presidential contest. Especially should
this organization be Immediately effected
in those States which have never before
recognized as the only just basis of gov
ernment the equal and inalienable rights of
man. Not day should be lost in forming
and strengthening within those States q
public sentiment, in consonance with the
principles which underle the great political
organization to which we belong.
Beaten in States where the Radicals held
power, and used it to commit outrages on
the rights of the people, greater than those
which caused the American Revolution, and
which, in England and France, taught the
great truth in the persons of CHARLES the
First and LOUIS the Sixteenth, that rulers
were amenable to punishment, they now
seek to regain it in the Southern States,
whose constitutional rights they deride,
and whose people, 'loyal" and ''disloyal,'' p
they treat as having no rights that even
negroes are hound to respect, The Presi-
Dental contest looms up, and the hopes of
the Radicals assume a sombre hue, and
hence it is of ''the highest Importance
that the "Republicans of each State should
Immediately reorganize for the remaining
elections of 1867" If beaten in them, as
in those that have already taken place,
then their hopes in ''the coming Presiuen-
tial contest will be blown into the air.
Fearing this-seeing in the coming events
which cast the shadows, befores that the
North, tired of misrule, of increased debt
and diminished resources-of onerous
taxes, one-half of it squandered in the col
lection, that the patience of the people is
exhausted, the Radical leaders propose to
inundate the South with their orators, and
thus they intend to do it:
To this end, we desire to prosecute sys-
tematic and thorough canvass of the South
ern States, by the most efficient speakers of
both races. We would second their efforts
by distribution of documents, enforcing
the principles, policy and aims of the Re-
publican party. We would call, in every
locality where it is possible, meetings for
w th0Sa w
principle, may learn to act with unity and
energy. These measures are required to
bring out the vote of that large body of
Republican Unionists who now render the
Southern States battlefield of principle.
1t is the pressing need of the hour that bold,
judicious and able men, thoroughly imbued
with our creed, should there explain our
principles, establish our faithtulneSs to
them, and prove that national greatness and
human freedom depend upon the perman-
ent triumph of our cause. 4
Bearing in mind the fact that these
"Southern States" thus to be made the po-
litieai battle field of the next Presidential
campaign, are not, in the Radical creed, ad-
mitted to be States, or their citizens enti-
tied to the rights of American citizens, but
are known and held as conquered prov
inces," the extracts above quoted show
the desperate shifts to which these rulers
are driven. 1t the ''efficient speakers of
both races"-Whites and Blacks-to be
vince the people residing there that Negro
Suffrage is right, and that Radicalism is
the proper road to their political salvation,
and if the signs in the South are clear that
CHASE or WADE or BUTLER can get the
vote OF the stem Provinces" then, and not
until then, will they acknowledge them as
Statesin the Union, otherwise they must
remain out in the cold, and have no more
voice in the Government than have the
people of Poland and Hungary in that OF
Austria and Russia.
ITO carry on this campaign in the 'Eloyal"
States in which elections are to be held
this fall and to prosecute systematic and
canvass of the States, by the
more efficient speakers" White and Black,
requires money. The Government officials,
no longer secure in their places, refuse to
give of their abundance, sufficient to meet
the wants of the committee, and hence this
appeals. - --- 60" IL
REPUBLICANS! our appeal is to you. to
carry on and sustain the work which few
loyal and true men have so nobly begun.
We cannot ask speakers, in addition to
giving their time and talents for months to
this labor, to defray their own necessary
expenses. We cannot print and distribute
documents of the character required with
out a heavy outlay. We have no means or
reliance except upon the generous spirit of
that great party which holds the claims of
Humanity and Freedom above all price.
The patronage of the Government brought
into power by the craftsmanship, the cour-
age, and the oyalty of that party, will not
aid us in this good work.
We must therefore appeal directly and
personally to you. If you are rich, give
generously, If poor, send us whatever
you can afford The generous purpose and
the noble aim sanctify the humblest efforts.
The Radicals never lacked money when
success was certain, and when forced to beg
for it, their prospects are darkly, deeply,
beautifully blue, and never was an appeal
for money for partisan purposes more
strongly made, or urged with greater force.
Upon the prompt response to this demand
for material aid" depends the hopes of
carrying the next Presidential election, and
with it, that Negro equality which, at this
present writing, seems to be the very cor
ner-stone of the Radical edifice. Whether
this is worth the money it will cost is the
great question to be answered by all whom
it may concern. -.-----
The Impeachment of the Presf-
--.----. dent.
The Neu York Times, the ablest sheet of
its party, has denounced the attempt of its