Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-25
he Duty of Congress Touching
Restoration,

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l lifted to the people, they have voted it
{ nwn with startling emphasis. This has
! zen the case in Wisconsin, Connecticut,
{ lio, Minnesota and Kansas all these
: s.lates being at the time the vote was
t ken, immovably strong in the partisan
+ .ith of the Republican party. Almost
z,ntinuously, within two years, the Re-
,blican leaders have arraigned the Demo
{ attic party before the bar OF public opinion
"a the charge that they were throwing all
amer of obstacles in the way of Recon-
s ruction. One of the vital measures OF
econstruction-vital to the Republican
. :anization-is the handing over of ten
s'uthern States to the barbaric rule
Negroes, a race under whose rule every
here sterility has superseded fruitfulness,
ike in material and religious things.
ere in Ohio, pending the late contest, by
ne Attorney General of the State we were
threatened War should our people refuse
!, commit themselves in favor of abolish
,sg all political distinction between the
Whites and the Blacks. The South Caro-
ma Negroes were to avenge their race, il
nis were refused and the unsanctified
I'd unreconstructed Rebels who were re-
resented by that self-exalted dignisary as
ing in wait for an opportunity, were to
lake common cause with the Negroes
gainst us. Other orators, assuming to
oeak in the name and behalf of down.
lodden and degraded humanity, claimed
iat the Almighty was bending over his
lrone. and with intense solicitude watch
,g the issue, hoping that He should be
.lorified in the enfranchisement of the
Negroes. These threats of intimidation
and these representations as to the wishes
1T Jehovah in the matter, were Intellectual.
On full vote fifty thousand voters testifi-
ID their opposition to sharing political
power in the STATE with Negroes. A rela-
tive majority was given in the other States
against the proposition where vote was
had on it. The States voting on it did not
lie contiguous; but they lay to the far East
and the far West, in the Middle and far
Northwest; and from this circumstance the
conclusion is inevitably deducible that
wherever in the United States, and
no matter where, the Negro voting propo-
sition is fairly submitted to the White vot-
ers, there it will be voted down decisively,
and that only can it be forced upon the
people, and only will it be submitted to by
them, at the point of the bayonet.
IL Wisconsin, Connecticut, Ohio, Min
nesota and Kansas, the Negro population.
as compared with the Negro population in
the Southern States, is very small; but
small as it is, and small as it is likely to
continue, the majority of the White people
illustrate the idea that this is White mans
Government, founded by White men, to be
administered by White men in the interest
of White men. Republican editors and
Republican orators, pending the contest on
this question in the States referred to, de-
MED, absolutely and positively, that this
was White mans Government. In the
most calmly form they presented Negro
Suffrage. The Negroes heroism iu
the army, his fidelity to the Stars
and the Stripes, his humanity to our SOL
diers when flying from prisons where
and death were said to be
holding high carnival, were exag-
gerated and dwelt upon with stilted
eloquence, and the gratitude of the
Whites appealed to. To all this the Whites
through the ballot-box: "The
Negro shall not vote in our States" Hav-
ing refused to give to the Negro this priv
ilege in their own States, will not the Re-
publican members in Congress promote
the public satisfaction by putting an in
slant stop to the broad farce of Negro
voting and Negro Constitution making |
which they at their previous sitting put in
notion in the Southern States, which will |
in the end calamitously affect the whole
country? A people who will not give to
mere handful of Negroes amongst them the
privilege of voting through en- apprehen-
sion of the corruption of the elective fran
,hise, will scare ely be inclined to sanction |
the scheme of giving ten States over to the
Negroes, with power to decide who shall be !
President and Vice President and give the |
Form, substance and complexion to the laws
Of the Federal Government. 1t is ques- |
ion that involves their peace and prosper
ty as fully as it involves the peace and pros |
perity of the Whites of the South. Did it |
q ot involve this consideration, the very fact
that the White voters residing in States |
outside of the South have so strongly de- |
,ided against Negro Su frage, furnishes
tion on that basis in the South. Negro
Suffrage, by reason of there being more
Negroes there, is even more Objectionable
20 Southern Whites than it is to Northern |
Whites; and they will not give their sane
tion to it voluntarily, since Republican
States have refused to sanction it. Thus |
nave members of the Republican party |
themselves put in the way of Reconstruc-
ion Infinitely more detriment than the |
Democratic party ever did. To yield
therefore, to the wishes of the
people of the North, and to Reconstruct |
the South on basis that will give
peace and prosperity to that section,
and Herewith to the whole country,
It is incumbent upon Congress to abandon
It's scheme of Southern Africanization to
subserve its party ends, and allow the
White people there to rule it.
The M0rmons Refused a Masonic
Charter.
At the late session of the Grand Lodge of
Free and Accepted Masons tor Nevada, held
n Virginia City. the matter of the petition
If Mount Moriah Lodge of Masons of Great
salt Lake City, Utah, for charter, came be-
ore the Lodge for action. The whole affair
vas thoroughly investigated, a large amout
If ,finteresting correspondence read, substan-
ial facts made apparent and after patient
rearing OF the merits of the case the Craft
.efused to grant a charter that in any man
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