Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-11
COLUMBUS, O., MONDAY MORNING,

some preteXt must be adopted to palliate
and extenuate the palpable wrongs to the
inferior race.
When the Western world was made
known to the nations of Europe, rich
| field was opened to illustrate this. And
the avant courier of the conQuering tide
which swept over Mexico, South America
and other parts of this continent, was phi
lanthropy.
Using the sacred vestments of the Prince
of Peace, the adventures of Europe car
ried war, devastation and death to the
| hearthsJones of those peaceful peoples.
| Nor was it different with the native
races inhabiting the land we now possess,
when they were brought in contact with
our own virtuOus ancestors. Persistent
and ardent were the efforts to convert those
heatben to Christianity and the habits of
civilized life.
The result is seen-the Indian has van
| ished before the advance of the white man.
Some adventurous navigator discovers,
| sleeping upon the bosom of the Pacific, an
island, with its Inhabitants perchance con-
tented and happy, in the enjoyment of life,
liberty and their possessions, and for aught
we can know fulfilling the purposes of their
creation.
| Immediately philanthropy is on the qsi
Uive. Reports are published, and accounts,
IN pathetic language, given from the pull
| pit of the field so proridentidlly opened for
cllOEG-dIlu JIlG Ouuudy OCHOOl
children are persuaded to forego their toys
and candy to increase the contributions to
the missionary box.
A ship is freighted with the fate of the
distant isle on board. Fifty years or less
| from the time she sails from the port of
Boston finds that Island in possession of
the conquering race-the natives have dis
appeared, or remnant fingers to weep over
the graves of departed people.
Civilization points to the result as an in
stance of her progress, while the pious phi
lanthropist gravely speaks of the exter-
mination of the native race as one of the
mysterious providences of God.
No wonder the Japanese expelled the
! European from their shores, and sealed up
their ports against the invader. No wonder
her people, while admitting the superiority
of the teachings of Christ to those of Con-
| tucious, are so badly puzzled to reconcile
the practices of Christian nations with their
precepts.
| No wonder they seek to avoid people
whose sympathies are cruel, and whose en-
| brace is death to their interiors. And this
is, and must be, in the natural course of
events, equally true of the negro in these
States.
While in slavery, his natural and nor
NAL condition, while occupying that sub
ordinate position to his superiors which
| the God of nature had assigned him, and
ence among the European races, he had a
| protection against those influences which
must now work his determination.
That this relation was congenial and
conducive TO his happiness is evidenced by
the fact that his numbers increased in that
condition, while as a freedman his num-
bers have rapidly declined.
And it is no doubt safe to assert that
there is now a million less negroes in those
States than there would have been bet for
the Vaccinations of his pretended friends,
the Abolitionists.
| We still hear upon this floor, in Congress,
and from the pulpit,appeals for "privileges"
to this race, which, by the laws of the Most
High, implanted in the breast of the supe-
| rior, must inevitably hasten the exGermna-
| tion of this misplaced and unfortunate race.
For it is written all over the pages of his
tory that the strong shall inherit the earth !;
and the pretenses of love for the negro are
but the tolls in which he is ensnared before
the sacrifice.
| And so of all the other inferior races !;
your philanthropy is but the pretpXt under
which the conquering blood OF Europe is
| trampling out the interiors.
| Parties and factions will use the negro
| for their purposes while they may, but
| when forced or persuaded to a confession of
their true sentiments, you will find them to
be very much the same as those once eX-
pressed by an acquaintance of mine, and
whom had known before the war, who at
the time held, and for aught l know still
holds high command in the army. l met
him in this city in the winter of 1861,
and in long conversation upon the war,
remarked that what ever the result of the
war might be, did not believe the negro
would derive any benefit from it.
His reply was (begging pardon of the
Senate for the protanity,) ''damn the negro.
he never had any business upon this con-
! tinent and the sooner he goes off it the bet
ter"
The same sentiment was illustrated by a
most pathetic account given by the Sena-
tor from Clark, short time ago, in speech
against the bill to prevent negro voting.
| As now remeber it in substance, a"U Union'
soldier had made his escape from Ander-
sonville. He had procured or pressed into
the service, negro to guide him to Sher-
mans army. The hounds were heard in
to save the life of the soldier.
1t is due to the military reputation of the
honorable Senator, TO say that he more
than intimaGed that the desertion by the
soldier of his comrade in the emergency,
was not very soldierly act.
But the fate of that negro will be the
fate of his race upon this continent. When
his pretended Abolition friends can use
him for their purposes no longer, they will
leave him to be eaten by the hounds, or to
perish without thought.
There was one part of the Senator's
speech which was not clear to me; a pa
tnetic appeal founded upon the circum-
stance related was made, for the right OF
this negro and his descendants to vote
l could not understand how the Hon. SEN
ator expected that negro to vote after the
hounds had eaten him. Or was it intended
the hounds should vote because they had
eaten the negro?
| Philanthrophy is now wonderfully con-
cerned lest she may lose the fruits of the
late civil war.
Great God have we not already reaped
sufficient of those fruits in the blood and
tears of thirty millions of people; in the
devastation and ruin that covers hall
the land; in the decentralization, pub
lie and private, that confronts us at every
corner; in the enrichment of the few, and
the impoverishment of the many; in the
creation of debt and expenditures that
would bankrupt any people.
In return for all this, what great boon is
now promised? Let US look at one of the
most recent bills of fare carefully prepared
for our inspection.
We are there told that to extricate our.
selves from the difficulties in which we
now are, the eyes of the country are direct.
ed to one man to terminate the present state
of transition and suspense, and to guide the
nation to new era, who will heal the
wounds of the war. will restore those Sec
tions of the country which the rebellion
has desolated to prosperity and happiness,
and with the cooperation of Congress
will re-establish the relations of the several
States to regenerated Union, and to the
blessings of everlasting domestic peace.
This is the banquet, my countrymen, to
which you are now invited.
Only elect Ulysses S. Grant President
and from thence forward you are to be
kindly relieved of the cares of self govern
ment He will terminate the present state
of transition, and guide the nation to new
era.
Can it be true that the people of these
States are ready to accept this proposition
Are they ready to say that the labors Of the
statesmen of the past have so soon become