The Placer herald., 1868-02-22
DR.. Fielding's Letter to the Editor OF the
New York World.

4,
New York World.
Dr. Fielding, the Representative in the
Ohio Legislature from Shelby county, re-
Gently addressed the following able and for
chile letter to the editor Of the New YORK.
World. The Dr. truly represents the Demo
cratic views onthe questions to which be
refers:
EVERGREEN. SIDNEY, O., December Is, '67.
.Manfon Marble, Esq, Editor World' .Few
York:
My DEAR S1R-Your compromise won't
do. No party. politician or paper will be
sustained by the Je1ersonian Democracy Of
Ohio who advocate it.
No compromise of the Negro Suffrage
question. whether prospectively in five, ten,
or ten thousand years, tan gain the least
support frcm the true Democracy of Ohio.
The rugged issue forced upon her by fauatics
and disunionisls, has settled that issue be-
yond possibility Of resurrection, except
it may be exhumed to exhibit the feted
corpse n its odious and disgusting defrrmiIy
a loathsome, nosoms nuisance; that IL may
be externally abated.
Has not Kentucky, Connecticut. Califor.
MIA Pennsylvania. New Jersey, Mary land
and your own State, vetoed it! And does
not illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Maine and even Massachusetts send greeting,
that thew too will soon he 10 martial array
with US?
What advocate compromise of ones
ton virtually ignored! A measure giving
countenance to a prucip pie at war with every
element of our Federal Union, and the
genius and spirit Of our peopIel thereby in-
PRODUCING external discord under the mis-
taken and grouudless hope of securing
peace. when there is no peace possible, in
the combination of elements SD incompati-
bic as those of the extreme Of the human
race AS now existing, has heretofore existed,
and forever must exist between the Congo
African AMI. the White race
What was it that brought such accessions
to our ranks from the opposite party
Was it not the enunciated decision of the
Democracy that White men only should
govern or participate in Government And
now you propose TO TO turn back this vast
host TO their wal'owing in the black and
filthy mire Of Negro supremacy aud ultimate
miscegeuation thereby baItng the Demo
cratic cohorts On their onward march to
victory, and almost to a certain lnsuring de.
feat. Do you desire a war of races2 lfnot,
stand firmly in support of the Constitution Of
the Union. BY mainianingi il the Union will
be restored, stau quo, ante 6ellum, without
war OF races.
But amend ii as you propose, giving the
vote to the negro, and, as a sequence. elevate
him to office, and you inaugurate war of
determination, and that will untie forever
your" knot of the diff 4ulty."
There were other matt ers and measures Of
great maginatuds in Ihemse Ives. merged in
the late elections, but, in comparison with
the evils present and prospective of negro
suffrage, they sank into. and vet remain aud
will still remain comparatively insis nihcant.
Let Congress attempt to destroy the SOW
ereignty of the States-the rights, liberties
and hard earnings of the people. and what
care they for your Sbylocks and bondhoIders,
or your greenbacks, or the sbinplasers of
sixteen or eighteen hundred shaving shops Of
the Government, which are wringing from
the Industrious mechanic or the dav laborer.
their hearts blood in the shape of dear bread
and meat?
The people are sovereigns when aroused.
Let tyrants. leeches demagogues, traitors
and slaves look out
The Democracy of Ohio will never repu,
diale her State debt, though virtually repud,
ated by the pious God aud humanity party
hitherto recently in power. Nor will they
repudiate her quota Of the Federal debt.
however unnecessarily, unwisely, or dishon.
es,ly accumulated. And while the Democ.
rary in all time past declared, and now
maintain, that gold and silver alone are
mcney-yet the party in power did make.
print. stain and stamp, as money, certain
greenbacks, promises to day-made them
legal tender IN the payment "of all debts.
public and private" especially made it OBJ
loalory on the part of bondholders Of 500
bonds to take these greeubacks (promises to
pay in lieu OF said bonds.
Therefore the Democratic party insist that
as these said bonds become due, they shall
be thus redeemed. Aud SO of all bonds un
I'll the resumption Of specie payments, when
the constitutional money alone shall be
legal tender. in the payment of all debts,
whether public or private.
The party, statesman, or press, who op.
pose this must go under. pray you, don.
withhold your able pen or vigorous mind.
from the warm support Of These views and
principles, advocated aud sustained 10 the
late elections. as above indicated
Your patrons here, and the Democracy of
the county, desire their publicity in your
ably edited paper, aud will willingly and
impar'iay weigh any objections you
may offer to them.
Respectfully,