Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-10

be, we are fully confident triumphantly
4 elected on the first Tuesday in November
next, -.-..-., RI. ... f-.,
| - The Toilet Finished
| The Presidential election machines in the
ten Southern States are, very nearly COM
pleted and ready for work. Only one more
cleaning apparatus is to be added to the di-
abolical engines, and they will be in rum
ming order, 20 crush generous people to
powder and give to the Radical candidate
for Presidents the Electoral votes of at least
nine Of these unhappy States. TSgt1
| This cleaning apparatus is called regis
tration. ALI the new Constitutions pre-
scribe 1t. It. Is the crowning infamy OF the
reconstruction work. 1t will debar from
voting thousands, even of those who by
the provisions OF the reconstruction acts
were permitted to cast their votes. In AL
ALBANIA, Mississippi, Arkansas and Virginia
nobody can be registered, who, besides sub
scribing to many other unlawful stipula-
tions, does not take the oath never to inter-
fere with negro suffrage. In Florida the
same thing is required, indirectly; for there
the new Constitution recognizes the SUI
pren,acy of the colored race, and every voter
has to take the oath in the Constitution.
In the other four reconstructed States
the ''truly loils" are permitted by the new
tions they please upon those who apply for
registration. The oath they will concoct
| will, of course, require the belief in po-
litical creed, which not one among hun
dred OF the whites can possibly confess.
This registration, says the Missouri Re
publican, finishes the toilet prepared by the
executioners of the South for their victims.
The civil power ordered it, the military
secures its enforcement. The scheme was
devised as means to elect the Radical
candidate, and, in order to make a sure
thing of it, the Radicals nominated the
officer at the head the army of execution
in the South.
In nine Southern States Gen. GRANT
is the superintendent of his own cleo
ton. The new constitutions were framed
under the protection and even under the
advice of his subordinates. Without their
consent not a single citizen in the South
can cast vote. The registration takes
place under the auspices of the Presidential
candidates bayonets. Their wisdom and
generosity may permit citizennto vote !;
their peculiar loyalism may prevent any
body from exercising the franchise. Even
when the whole farce is terminated, moth
ing prevents them from manipulating the
vote, If, by miracle, the result should, in
spite of all their precautions, turn out diff
terent from what they expected. The mere
external shape of the thing is that of
civil election, but in its essence it Is the
work of Preterians. The hands that will
drop the ballot into the boxes are the hands
of civilians, but the spirit of the act is the
despotic spirit of an army, to which is as
signed the same part that, in the Lower
Empire, was performed by the Pretorians.
Never has candidate presented himself to
the Electoral body as General GRANT pre-
sents himself to the South. 81 am the only
candidate" he tells them by the eloquent,
yet silent, voice of his bayonets, 'sfer
whom you are permitted to vote. Those
who may presume to fancy my opponent
will be excluded from registration and
from the ballot-box. The laws under which
you will hold the election are made for that
purpose, and L am the guardian of their
faithful execution"
And this is what the Radicals have per-
petrated under the pretense of securing a
republican form of government to the
former rebel States. They not only tyran-
nize over the South, and force it to help
them in electing their candidate, but they
also intend to force the same candidate
upon the North, by securing to him the
votes of the South. The elections last fall
should have convinced the Radicals that
the North understand their game.