Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-25

caste suited to build up an aristocracy, at
the head of an army, to discipline the
masses to submission. The Radicals,
aspiring to subyert the popular
CONSTITUTION of our fathers, took leaf out
of Napoleon's work on universal suffrage.
10 prescribe another species of popular
jvoting. In France, a. yheleOpeople are
drilled for conscription under local bureaus,
\ of which our Freedmen's Bureaus are q
sample. Out of this military material,
4 which embraces the whole people, an army
of half million and more is drawn and
differed by the Emperor. AS this ripens
| for discharge, the youth growing up among
the masses for conscIiption are drilled to
take their places, so that the army in can
toment hold the great body of which the
successive conscriptions grow, under con-
stantly armed military daress, with its ac-
cruing allotments of secrasity to follow a
4 similar training. Under that duress, pre-
paratory TO its future rotation of military
| duty, under the Officers of the Emperor,
the population chooses the National Rep
| resentative to maintain and carry on the
Government, which is in effect the Emper-
or and his army. We have In embryo
this very system at the South. Grant and
stanton organized and differed the army,
and under this military establishment,
| Congress has taken refuge, and looks to 1t
| for the consummatiOn of its schemes OF
lpower.
Instead of the French Prefecture for local
administration and control, we have the
negro bureau and secret leagues for in
struction and drill to combine theirvOte to
create State governments-electt the ma
tion's Executive, and bring both branches
of Congress in concert with him in admin
istering the Federal Government: AS the
game is at this moment arranged for the
casting throw in the November election, it
| is quite apparent that the ballot box is
made to depend on the cartridge box, and
that by the dexterity of Congress in set
ting aside the Constitution, which held
these instrumentalities to subserve their
proper functions. General Grant, who is
put over the President to exert a "power
outside the Constitution" which enables
him, like the French Emperor. to convert
both of these patent boxes into one, and
holding it in his hand. turn out the dice
that wins for him. This is the modern
game which Louis Napoleon has taught
ambition to play in the history of Re-
public, and as an anodyne to its thr es-
how humane in him, and encouraging to
people to exclaim. ' Let us haze peace
But to what potency is this element OF
negro suffrage to grow under the fostering
care of Radicalism and the tutelage of mil
itary governments? 1t is essential to the
system now founded upon it, that it must
be made absolute by the bayonet over the
elections OF the Southern States. 1t must
send the twenty Senators and fifty Repre-
sentatives to Con gress and an equal number
of Presidential Electors to turn the scale
i'm the North. so that the head of the army
designated for President shall grasp the
Government. Its power is then to convert
the sham of negro suffrage into perma-
nent military control of elections-and was
-. nd ffnrf fnr fr6 do hah td.
ding of military chief in suppressing the
popular voice, than the three millions of
sturdy blacks, who now rejoice that they
are let loose from all restraints. and may
break up form of authority which they
connect with their former slavery? How
rapidly has the disciplined white soldiery
in India taught the millions Of zserfs-
of that region to revolt against their
native Princes, and embodying aposition
into a soldiery of Sepoys, armed and
drilled for that purpose, taught them
to subject more than one hundred mill
lions OF their own blood, hold the richest
confines on earth, to a company of mer-
chants of little island hidden in a remote
ocean? So the Turks became the con-
querors of the grand section of the Roman
Empire in Europe, Asia and Africa by
converting the slayish nations they took in
battle, and used as the material OF an army,
to spread their conquests over Christian
carried terror to the State of Vienna and
apostate Christian prisoners, filled with The
sensual enthusiasm of the Mohamet's poly
gamous religion, easily prompted to such
rapine among the fair races whose religion
they had abjured. How apt all the colored
races are to- become the instruments of
military despots, lending to the subjuga-
ton of prosperous nations enjoying peace
under civil institutions, all history attests.
Greece. Italy. Spain, all the islands of the
Mediterranean and all its shores, the happy
oceans of ancient and modern civilization,
have again and again fallen a prev to mod
ern barbarian hordes like the one now edu-
eating by our military satraps.
ButI turn from the military aud political
aspect of the changes we have to encounter,
| to those which thew are likely to give to
our dearest social relations What is to be
the effect of negro manhood suffraqe-ne-
gro manhood suffrage. and invited to come
In and take control of our fair country
women? 1t is all Mormon suffrage-this
whole brood of new citizenships s.Without
distinction. of race or former condition.
| is ALI of polygamous origin, What sort of
! Government is likely to be established with
these different people welding the suffrage
denied toiwfite menp Will they not gladly,
| With tho countenance of onr militarv chief
vote that government of social e1nalitv
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