The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-10-07
Negro Slavery and the Demo
cratic Parfy-A Base Attempt
TO Deceive the People.

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TO Deceive the People,
The Radical stumpers and the RAJ
iesl presses are resorting 20 every d.
vioe, no matter how dishon orable.
divert the attention Of the people frol
the imbecility of their statesmen, th
crimes of their leaders, and the gloom
prospects the future presents under th
proclaimed Radical policy. Anon
the devices thus resorted to to gull az
! deceive the people, the most prominen
is downright lying as to the future in
tentions of the Democrats, should the
obtain power They charge, amen
other things, that in case bey mour
elected, the emancipated blacks will b
restored to their former condition o
slavery. AS improba ble as such g.
event may appear, and notwithstanding
the public de laIation most solemn,
made by the Democratic party, tha
the question of slavery has been settled
for all time to come by the war, or th'
voluntary action of the Southern State
In Constitutional Convention assembled
and never to be renewed or reagitated
the Radical stumpers and presses insis
that such is, nevertheless, the intention
of the Democratic party and the South,
ern people, in regard TO the emancipa
ted freedmen. Nothing can be more
false than such assertion.
So far as the Democratic party is
concerned, it has every reason to rejoice
that slavery no longer exists. While
it existed, it was an incumbrance on its
energies and progress, and it would be
more indisposed than even the Radio
al party to have slavery re established
The Democratic party feels that, with
the death and burial of negro slavery
in the Southern States, great weight
has been taken from its shoulders, and
that, in the future, it will be free from
all the constitutional and political obli-
CATIONS in reference thereto, hitherto
imposed upon the party by virtue of
the brotherhood of States. In all that
the Democratic party has cause to and
really does rejoice.
Nor do the white people Of the South
desire slavery to be re established any
more than does the Democratic party
of the Northern States. The New Or
leans Picayune correctly states the
views of the white people of the South
on this subject. That paper of the Sd
inst. says:
"Of all the ideas and theories put
forth by the inventive and unscrnpu
lous genius of the Radicals in the
North, and their active emissaries and
allies, the carpet-baggers and scallawags
in the South, this, hat in the event OF
their party being thrown out of power
slavery would be restored, is by far the
most false, absurd and groundless.
We know the people of the Southern
States as well and thoroughly as nativ
ity, lifelong intercourse ard extensive
travel among them can contribute to
true knowledge of their ideas and feel
ings as to political questions and we
venture to say, that in journeyipg from
the Potomac to the Rio Grande, any
fair-minded, truthful Northern gentle
II an would meet with as many white
Llackbirds or two-headed chickens as
he would advocates of the restoration
of the slavery system. 1t is only fan
atical carpet baggers, interested agents
of the Freedmen's Bureau, and hired
agents of desperate political gamblers,
who are devoid of all respect for the
truth and public deceucy, who pretend
to have found out the existence of any
such intention or policy. Is the time
never to come when Northern people
will be capable Of placing true esti
mate upon the statements OF these
reckless and mendacious adventurers
1.-THE whites of the South do not
wish to have their former slaves thrown
back upon them in that relation, either
as domestics or field laborers. The
which those simple minded,
cred ulous creatures have undergone
during the past four or five years. from
Yankee school marms and schoolmas-
ters, Freedmen's Bureau agents and
Northern philanthropists, would make
such a thing undesirable to the last
degree. They are willing to employ
the colored race as labor ers and servants,
at stated and liberal wages, if the latter
will but honestly earn their money by
the promised work. But
we feel certain that 20 planter could be
found who would consent to have his
former slaves returned upon him as
Iaves, with their heads full Of new aud
confused ideas of social equality, and
habits of idleness and Indisposition for
regular labor; he would not consldtr
hem worth feeding. x
Such we believe to be the true feel
ngs of the Southern whites toward
heir former slaves. 1t may not tally
with the theories and assertions OF
Northern fanatics in what they call re-
i.ir;nor square with the designs Of
ambitious and mischievous politicians,
,ut nevertheless it is fair, faithful
statement of the situation" .a
The future will know no African or
negro slavery in the United States ;
md should auy crazy fanatic, or fanatics
gitate its establishment, the pro-
oosition will find its most determined
opponent to be the Democratic party
North and South. Indeed, the Demo
cratic party could not be guilty Of
greater stupidity and folly than to en-
ertaiR such proposition, let alone act
avorably op it. Negro slavery in the
United States is dead and turied, and
here the Democratic party means that
t shall forever remain. Live issues,
lot dead ones, claim its attention and
Iemand all its energies And the Rad
cal stumpers and presses, instead OF at
empting to gull the people by making
,harges against the Democratic party
# an ;ntention to aid in re-estabiishing
lavery, had better turn their attention
n tho condition in which the Radical