Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-20
John Quincy Adams View OF the
Situation.

John Quincy Adams View of the
Situation.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS has been down
South, speech making and feeling the
Southern pulse. He is reported, by tele-
graph. to have expressed his views at
Petersburg, Va, on the situation. Ac-
cording to this reported expression OF his
opinion, the Southern people are as loyal
as the Northern people; that friendly rela-
tions subsist between the White and Black
races, excepting where carpet baggers
have excited fdiscoirteut and animosity
that nothing is calculated to do greater
harm than the Acknowledgement OF the
whites, which Is more extensive than he
had any idea of; that if the Northern peo-
nile ecould see the condition of the South as he
had seen it, Reconstruction would soon 60 to
the wall; that the Negroes now rule the
South despotically, and that this condition
of affairs could not last; for when the peo-,
ple were properly appealed to on the yques-
tion, the North would never submit that
ten of our best States should be governed
bv. an isnorant and semi barbarous race. !
MIR. ADAMS fiatters himself with the be-
lief that IL General GRANT shall be elected,
"the question of Negro domination, and conse'
ousnt ruin in the South, eoould speedily be dis
posed cf."
This, certainly, is drawing on hope very
largely. There is nothing more distinc--
tive or emphatic in the creed ofthe Repub-
lican party, tnan that, Negro domin-
alton shall be perpetuated in the South.
The first resolution of their platform con-
graduates "the ecountryon the assured sue
cess of the Reconstruction policy of Con-
gress, as evinced by the adoption, in the
majority of the States lately in rebellion, of
constitutions securing Equal Ciuil and Polti-
cal RIGHTS to all, and it is the duty of the Gou-
ernn,e,at to sustain those Institutions and to
prevent the people of such, States from
being remitted to state of anarchy" The
second resolution declares that " the guar
anty of Congress of Equal Suffrage to all
ioyal men at the South, was demanded by
every consideration of public safety, of
gratitude and of Justice, and must be main
tanned" ,7o
General GRANT has accepted the Repub.=
lican nomination for the Presidency on this
Platform. He knew its significance. and
if elected he will be bound by the terms of
that Platform. If he shall refuse compli-
ance Herewith he would stand a dishonor-
ed man in the estimation of the partisans
of the Republican party, and. the country
would again be disturbed by impeachment
trials. To accept Mr.. ADAMS view as to
what General GRANT is likely to do to
right matters up In the South, is toFcon-
Nn,a..l n dooi nnc RI dalih.
erately cheat his supporters. Now, this is
not probable. He will be e.obedient to the
demands of the leaders of the Republican
party and .n being thus compliant undoubt-
edly he will use whatever power, as Exec:
u i've, he can command to enforce Negro
domination, which Mr.. ADAMS bears testi-
mony is soinjurious to the South. Because
General FRANK BLAIR maintains that these.
Reconstruction acts renull and void, and
should SO be treated, he has been denounc-
ed as a Revolutionist. Doubtless, had he
taken the position that those acts should
be maintained. despite their iunconstitu-
tionality, he. would stand in much higher
favor with the Northern people than he
does. His position Of antagonism to those
measures has thrown the Neao York W orld
and those who take the hue of their poll
tics from it, into state of panic. To pur-
chase success, they would fasten those ac-
cursed measures upon the South for all
time. If it shall so happen that General
GRANT will be elected on the 3d-of Novem-
Der, Negro rule will prevail in the ten best
States of this Union. at least throughout
General GRANT's rule. The only hope for
the mobilization Of that abominable and
injurious rule, is to elect SEYMOUR and
BLAIR.
Frankiin County i'm 1857 and 1865