Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-04
The Beauties of Negro Rule.


The Ohio State Journal of the Sd instant,
contained the following: !
LETTER FROM OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES AND
COLUMBUS CoMPARBD-PoLITICAL MAT
TERs-sHIFTLEss NEGROES.
Correspondence of Ohio State Journal
NASHVILLE, TENN. July %, '6S.
DEAR JoURNAL-Tnere is a great differ.
8ence between Nashville and Columbus,and
yet there are good many features COM
mon to each. State capitals, both of nearly
equal population, having the two finest
State Capitol buildings in the Union, in the
midst of superior agricultural and COM
mercial surroundings, the one is possessed
OF beautiful attributes of pleasantness-
wide streets, good sidewalks, handsome and
I handsomely kept yards and grounds,
churches, school houses, and residences
well kept and in good order; the other
bearing the impress of slavery and its war,
and the opposite of the other in almost ey-
! cry particular. The streets here are filthy,
= Sidewalks irregular. and everything re7'utsi0e
o to one accustomed to the tOtons of the Morrill,
An immense horde of idle negroes are Just 'aoto
. the greatest nuisance Of all. Ragged, sducy
I and needy. They importune you Tor the
privilege of carrying your satchel black
I ing your shoes. shaving your face, or any
other menial office by which dime may be
made. Politics is just now in promiscu-
Gus condition. i-i-''-t t"" of4 ii"'t
The feature OF negro suffrage develops many
results not altogether attractive, and incline
to the opinion that it has to be very materially
modified before it aoiU result in the greatest
good to the greatest number" The negro,
''dressed in little'' novel if not s.brief au-
thority," certainly ''plays" some very fan
tastic tricks" and is generally the dupe of
4 some mean white man, who will stoop to
pander TO his ignorant prejudices for the
olyan nf hi 10 fa<1fo rTII
men toithout the least seLfrespect and fitness for
+ office are placed In responsible positions to the
exclusion of others ,oho ,oll not stoop TO ase The
means necessary to success. The Radical
party is the dominant one here through
the disfranchisement of the rebels and
the enfranchisement of the negro, and
/ yet such are the disgraceful squabbles OF
the Radical leaders over the .'spoils'' That
|: there is a very general movement among
the Union people to take away the restric-
tions upon universal suffrage and restore
to the rebels, the right to vote, as being
likely to produce results more satisfactory
than are now attainable, No interest is toe
| sacred for these politicians andispeculators
who are A'running the machine" here. a
prominent banker Informed me yesterday
that the recent default in the payment o
| the States interest, and consequent decline
/ in her bonds and credit, was produced by
and in the interest OF these scamps. 1t il
I expected the coupons will be paid IL
| August, and the bonds will retain their for
mer standing. i'
I The experiment of Negro rule has no
| been very successful down in Nashville
| and Tennessee, as the above shows. Il
Tennessee, under the sanctified Governo
I BRowNLow, this thing of Negro Superiori
+ ty was given full means of budding, bios
oming and ripening. Magnificent fruit i
has borne truly. Itis loathsome and re
pulsive-even so much so, that a Republi'
I can feels called upon to cry out against i
through the columns of the Ohio Stat
| Journal, and to invoke any other rule than
this. The Negroes are idle, ragged, saucy
and needy" and are the plant dupes o
Whites without selt-respect and withou
qualifications for tie offices which they BY
this means secure to themselves.
For three years the Republican leader
in Congress have worked-have neglected
the interests OF the country-to bring abou
such condition of affairs, which has pro
voked even the adherence of the correspon
dent of the Ohio State Journaz; and becaus
the Democratic party proposes to substi
tute for this lamentable condition a NOR
healthy and prosperous order of things
the Republican politicians deprecatingly
throw up their hands and blubber out tina
the Democratic party is animated by th
diabolical purpose of inaugurating Revo
luton, and that if they do blood must b
shed. '-5 10 -.i'f-