Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-12

which is not saying too much for him
The remainder are negatives, who are
quiet and orderly persons, but in
very bad company. I have gone
thus into detail that your read
ers may see of what, character are the
men who are to be our future rulers.
From nearly all parts of the State simi-
lar persons have received the negro vote
and have been elected. Of the contemp-
Bile tricks played upon the colored peo-
pie, have not time to speak. 1t would
be imposing too much pressure upon your
columns. Your correspondent was eye
witness of the so-called election, and of
all its various incidents, and declares it
sickening sight to any lover of his
country. They were all voting for forty
acres and mule. 1t was gala season
of ignorance. Hundreds of negroes from
South Carolina voted in this city. On
the other borders, they came from Florida
and Alabama. No questions were asked
as to where they lived; no person was
allowed to challenge their votes. The
whites stayed away from the polls, and
mourned their lost liberties.
That Radicalism is relapse into
barbarity can easily be proved. Already
it is hard to get the negro to work, and
labor cannot be obtained to till the land
properly. He spends his time in drill
ing, in league meetings. and is wander
ing around the country with a gun upon
his shoulder. In almost every county
armed bands of them meet at nights,
and drill. for what purpose can only be
surmised. They are totally eradicating
the former feelings of kindness with
which they were regarded. The women
destroy their children; instances of this
unnatural cruelty ON the part of ne
gro mothers are occurring every
day. 1t was only last week that a
negro woman left her baby upon. the
South Carolina railway track, where it
would have been killed by the first train
had not gentleman found and taken it
taway. Another on the Florida border
threw her infant into the woods, covered
| it with leaves, and left it to starve.-
Aunty Stowe tells us that the negro is
peculiarly religious being. In ante
bellum times they were instructed in the
truths of Christianity. Now they are
relapsing into their ancient heathenish
practices, and Obeah rites and or
gies are celebrated to very
great extent; and their meetings
have wild, barbaric, uncivilized
air, which never prevailed before. They
are going backward, and judging by the
present, they will disappear in the course
of years, as have the Indians. This is
the fate to which the negro is being
steadily driven. Is it not a fair speci-
men of the entire absence of consistency
in the party of great moral ideas, that in
one section OF the country they. are
expending millions of dollars to rid
it of savages, while in another
they give to ignorance and barbar-
ism the ruling hand, and crush out the
intelligence and spirit which would re-
establish it upon prosperous basis. 1t
is terrible to contemplate, and an awful
thing to think Of We dare not imagine
what our condition will be, with all
power centred in such hands,. The lines
between the races are strickly drawn,
and the black is not countenanced by the
white, save in the case of some individ-
uals who are a disgrace to their color.