The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-10-29
An Appeal to Candid men-1oot A. r.

An Appeal to Candid Men-Look at It
The following article from the Gin.
cinnai Enqnire1. furnishes food foI
reflection, and we commend it to. the
calm consideration of all our readers
| In Louisiaua the second officer in
the State-the L;eutenant-goyernor-
is negro. This State contains the
great commercial metropolis of the
South-New Orleans-with its large
population of wealth and intelligence.
A very considerable number of the
members of the Legislature major
ity, we believe, in fact-are old cotton
field and New Orleans levee negroes.
In New Orleans the City Council and
the police are controlled by negroes,
and white lives and property are de-
pendent upon their ability and hon
esty. aa.gaTs alt oIB tr9r5t
In South Carolina two-thirds of the
members of the Legislature are ne
groes, and they have fair division of
the State Offices, the carpet-baggers-
as in Louisiana and other Southern
States-having the rest. nFiE Gafi
In Alabama, in Arkansas, in Geor-
gia, in North Carolina, and all the So
called reconstructed States, the ne
groes constitute great element in the
Government. They are in the jury!
box, they are on the bench of the mag
istrate, they are Sheriffs and other To-
cal officers in the different counties.
This has all been done in the first
year of reconstruction. Ere long, if
the Radical policy determined on by
the Government shall prevail, we shall
see negroes thick as blackberries in
the House of Representatives and
Senate Of the United States. This
can not be prevented under tile pres
ent political system. In several South
ern States the negroes are majority
over the whites, and, of course, under
universal suffrage, can elect men of
their own coIer and race. 2aj o.
But our Radical friends, who design.
to vote for Grant, will bear witness
that a large number of the whites are
disfranchised and can not vote. 81 This
insures the victory to the ignorant ne
groes, of course. AS an Illustration.
we may state that at late dinner ii in
Alabama, where one of the gtiests was
an Ex-Governor, another an Ex-Sen-
ator, and third an Ex-Judge, and the
fourth an ex-member oi the Legisia-
ture, the only person who was allowed
to vote was the negro servant who
waited upon the table of these distin-
guished guests. In all of the South
ern States, the negro vote, if it is al
lowed, is large and commanding
one, and it can and Will fill, under the
principle of negro suffrage, a large
share of the offices. Is this what the |
friends of Gen. Grant in the North
desire? Are they willing to have the
Southern States, our partners in the
Union, twill be recollected, ruled in
this manner? Do they want seven or 4
eight States under mixed negro or
white government? Wouldthsy wei
come in the Senate of the United
States South Carolina negroes to
the places once occupied by Calhoun |
and Preston? What do they say. to |
negroes coming from Louisiana to |
claim the seats Of the gifted Edward
Livingston and of the eloquent Soule q
Do they want our Congress thiekly I
sprinkled with negroes, and the South /
en States generally abandoned to ne
gro rule? They win be if Gen. Grant
succeeds. There is hardly a Radical
in the North who, in despite of his
negro-equality theories, would reside
IN States where the white was thus
subordinate to the negro. a-i5' II 35a' +
Have our Republican friends ever
thought of this state of things Did 7;
hey help put down a Southarn to
make room for negro confederacy :?
Did they destroy the league, of the
Southern whites only to establish the h
'ule of their negro servants !? We
lsk You seriously, would this mixed ,
legro and white government in a !
bird of the confederacy add to the I,
'lory and prosperity of this country !? n
Be careful how, in your. hates and :,
you give a vote that win !
'e for the consummation Of that we
ave depicted. If you could only f
isit the South at this juncture and p
Witness its negro Legislatures. State
fi1cers and rulers, you would turn %
rom the spectacle with intolerable +
isgust. That is all there is of recon Ii
truction in the Republican side of the
lew. That is all there is Of it by the %
! Ihicago platform. 1t simply consists I
the forcing of negro suffrage upon t
N States where the negro constitutes 81
to a half of the population, Il
that right? Would you like to ftt
ave the General Government force a
egro suffrage upon the States of the el
orth, where its results would be not tt
ear SO serious in consequence of the ID
lucity of the negro population as it
ould be in the South? If it would ia
't be right to force this obnoxious &C
easure upon you, how can you vote
force it upon others? Will YOU . -,
'nsider. this proposition for a mo- e
ent? If you can reconcile it to =,
'ur sense of equity, to your. con 80 -,
ience, then reflect only upon the, ma ma - -
rial aspect in which we have pre- ~ =,
nted it. i ='a"' ~ " "
-i4lI-f GHi .fs ,-5., ,-.. ..t-. ,-..,.. e.
Will the Government of the ne co
oes, either in part or in whole, in oi
e South, add to our trade and com p,
cree with that sectionl Has that W. W
en- the case in the French and Brit w,
/ West India Islands. who hove -. -