Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-09
Ohio Statee's;lrn nam.
[Frcm the Mobile Register, Sept. as.l

GFrcm the Mobile Register. Sept 2sl
The Tusc.sloosa Monitor Again
Our neighbor Of the Montgomery Nal
alludins to the fact. that the obnoxiou
and damaging picture of the. Monito
was republished in the Cincinnati Com
anerrial, states a distinguished Alabam
ian writes from Cincinnati that the WOOD
cut has produced disastrous effect, ant
that the Republican party have had 500,
i 000lcopies of the Commercial struck of
for general circulation. !,fe,
From this the Mail draws the augury
! that such distribution will lose us per.
haps 5000 votes in Ohio; but we think
it scarcely does justice to the hard com
mon sense oflthe hard-handed men Of
rhe West We should believe the hold
# the Democracy light indeed upon the
western people if we judged so slight a
;ause could break it,. On the contrary,
We believe the Radicals only insult the
common sense of the masses to whom
hey distribute their tracts, by endeav,
lring to frighten the thinking men by
such insane bugaboos as this. no s4arfil
We would not be understood as differ
,ng with the, Mails estimate of the pic
ture, as coming from Southern paper.
We hold with it that the picture is OBJ
! loxious and damaging; and fully realize
that the persistent, course of superser-
fviceable Democrats has done incalcula-
! 5le harm in this canvass 1t is one of
1.-The great issues which must be met
calmly, with reason and with simple
statement of fact-especially by us of
the South. for with us the truth is so
much stranger and so much more terri
BILE than any fiction, that we should
trust to that alone. Therefore we do
not lock for any very serious results
from this absurd wood-cut, especially
since it has been denounced by the
/ press of the State and utterly disclaim-
J ID by those empowered to speak for the
people, as in any sort rehecting their
hopes or their belief. .... 49, -.
T. The Monitor in its last issue speaks
y! f the picture as can insignificant wood
cut of an Insignificant newspaper of an
Insignificant village" and proceeds to
t, argue that it is harmless. Harmless it
I is not. 1t adds one more stitch to the
net ofdistrust that the Radicals are try
, ng to throw round our co-workers at the
North. 1t is another of the many indis-
;retions Of hot headed and impatient
politicians among us. AS such it is
harmful and damaging, for the over
jealous, who keep pouring oil into the
engine to the constant risk of an explo-
sion, are doing us more harm even than
the doubling Democracy that cling to
our keel like carbuncles.
We are too hopeful of Ohio, and of the
majority she will give, to believe in the
really serious damage this cut will do.
If the Democrats are at work-if they
are in earnest, and mean to set their
hands heartily to the work that is their
only salvation as well as ours-they
have five hundred answers for every one
of the 100000 tracts the Commercial
turned such an honest penny by reprint
ing for the Republican Committee. The
cut is an ideal picture of the future. Let
the Democratic speakers of Ohio tell her
sons the actual truth of the past in the
South. Let them show how, at this
very hour, the carpet-bag missionaries
of the Radical Bible have arrayed the
blacks into actual and scarcely repressi-
BILE hostility to their old masters--to
whom alone they would turn for counsel
and protection if left to themselves.
Let them tell how in almost every dis
trict of every State these foreign mis-
creantS 'a@s
Have turned the negro against US r@aa
And with more than the fend dsworst art.
Have uncovered the fires of the savage
That slept in his untaught heart'-1
And have famed them into such glow
that by its light the blacks look on rob-
berry as duty, and arson as proper
pastime. .az5 ss- at Hc'-.'
And that they do not dare to add
murder-and far more nameless crimes
to their list, is in no sense the fault
of their apt instructors. en-
Let the Democrats of the Northwest
look in any Southern paper-teeming
with proof of the villainy of the Radi-
cal system and exemplars of its work
ings-and distribute these to the think
ing men about them. --e r--
Then, if a silly burlesque can weigh
heavier in the balance than truth and
it's proof, if the Western men are fright
ened by an empty shadow of the future
from the stern reality bearing down
upon them-from which their own act
alone can save them-then, we say
again, we are mistaken in the West.