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

great men by whom they were surrounded.
Europe owes the grand civilization with
which it emerged from the dark ages
These illustrious women, Isabella the
CATHOLIC of Spain. Eliz lbeth of England
Maria Theresa of Germany, and Catharint
OF Russia, broke the spell with which the
all-conquering sword of Mahomet invaded
the great nations, and gave new birth t.
the literature, arts and sciences which adj
vanced antiquity. The Koran and its false
prophets, holding out paradise on earth to
the iudomltable courage that. initiating the
Sabine exploit of the Romans, should seize
the fair ones of the favored nations. as the
excitement TO conquest, met its most fatal
repulse at the hands of these. heroines OF
the Christian creed. Isabella, after the
Moors had been eight hundred years in
possession OF the heart of Spain, and had
built up in Grenada the highest pitch OF
serio-barbaric grandeur, her religious en-
thusiasm inspiring her generous and ad-
ministrative faculties, toppled down the
proiigiOus edifice of centuries in a con-
hict of few years. The Moors were eX-
PEELED from Spain, and the great Queen,
entering into the views of genius like
her own, sgainst the Judgment of her sa-
gacious husband, Ferdinand, became the
patron of Columbus, and gave new con-
tinent to civilization and the Christian
faith, which has elevated the Cross over
regions greater than those over which the
Crescent of Mohammed ever shone, to con-
vert her sex into slaves and the inmates of
harems. Those who lament the bigotry
which caused her to act with such severity
against those polygamous races should not
forget that she was woman securing her
own sex from the worst of fates. ri ode =.
Maria Theresa came to the Empire of
Germany after her father, the Emperor
Charles, had twice seen the Turkish armies
at the gates of Vienna, had Frustrated him
self before the Suitan's power, and had OBJ
tanned peace after surrendering proud cities
and vast portions of his dominions. The
daughter, resplendent as the illustrious an
tagonist of Frederick the Great, organized,
in the midst OF her conflicts against his
successive coalitions to subyert her empire,
not only the means to defend it, but at the
same time to create barrier to the inva
sions of the Turks, and to deliver Germany
from Mohammedan power. ...... ..... ...-i..
Catharine of Russia then took the ag-
gressive part against the enemies of the
Christian faith in their strong ghold on the
Bosphorus and the seas, around whose
shores they had spread their dominion,
conquering the whole region whose Chris
tianity first descended on earth. BY sea
and land she beat down the power of the
OEtomite, and LETT it as part of the duty
of her successors, that the sick man should
be dispatched from the scenes hallowed by
the mission of our Saviour. tj aHf'n -i7t
The late war against Constantinople by her
heir, the Car Nicholas, was waged to ac-
complish this conquest. France AMI Eng-
land interposed to vethe Turk anG his Sc
raglio, and all the vicious accomplishments
that belong to a religious despotism found
ed on the subversion of the moral sanction
contained in the Christian creed, making sa-
cred the relation between the sexes, which
tends to the perfection of our natures. In
presuming that purity, it originates the
virtues which only subsist as the attributes
OF holy religion. -- zry r4T 81
Elizabeth of, England had her part as
signed her by Providence in the prosecu-
tion of the progress of freedom. She vindi-
Gated Christian liberty in the Netherlands,
as well as in England, against the terrible
power OF Philip, who might almost be call
ed the master of the material power OF the
two continents. The Protestant religion
which she established in Europe made that
balance OF power between the Church OF
Rome and the Greek, which created che
toleration that renders the faith now pre-
vailing and liberalizing the civilization OF
the world, the growth of the conscience
ard the heart. oidi---s. E.g .f--i.ii E-,..-sI
From this glance at the march of great
events in history, it will be seen In estab-
fishing freedom in Church and State
through their political capabilities, which
great parts it has been given to women to
act, and is suffrage, and even indirect rep
resentation to be for them, both supplanted
/ by the negroes? [ am not without hope
that the resemblance of the happy infiu-
ences women have in past ages exerted in
the formation of all that is good in the
politics and religion of the world, will
prove salutary check to the revolutionary
designs now threatening, not only our
Government, but our civilization and our
religion, by bringing in these repugnant
elements in the different species of men, to
whom our free Institutions. our forms OF
civilization and our religion are alike in
9 comprehensive and intolerable. Id t7--4,
What will be the nature of the Govern
ment built on such foundation as that
which has been set up in the emancipation
acts of Congress? / admit that in nearly
every Government of the world except our
own, the governing power resides in the
minority of the people, but those who
maintain these forms of government where
I the power is given to the minority, justify
and defend them on the ground of the in
ferior Intelligence and enlightenment OF
the voting classes 81 .i. "
. How is it with this negro oligarchy Do
the Radicals pretend that these negroes
have the divine right to rule by reason OF
their intelligence and mental superiority ?
Where are the monuments of the genius and
civilization of this gifted race? What gov
ernments have they established and MAIN
tanned? Where is the record of their
achievements in the arts OF peace and the
sciences which have promoted the progress
of mankind ?u iH -|a r1 C5 - s.
In the whole historic age OF the world
this race appears as the most degraded and
barbarous of mankind. At no period OF
time, and in no country in which they
have been found, have they shown any
capacity, or attained to any degree OF CIV
iiiZation. They have never founded VI
maintained for themselves gOvernmento ol
any description, and yet the Radicals have
clothed this ignorant and barbarous people
with absolute supremacy in ten States o.
this Union, and expect by means OF the po'
I litical power bestowed upon them at the
South to overcome the maj jority of the free
white race of the North.
+ A government resting upon such basis
must necessarily reflect the character ol
those who control its destinies, and if this
Radical scheme is successful nothing can
be more certain than that we shall sink
under this burthen of ignorance, supersti.
tion and barbarism.
One of the highest authorities of oul
country, on matters of this kind, the dis.
tinguished Professor Draper, of the Uni
9versity of New York, the author of grant
treatise on, human physiology, aud of a
sHistory of the Intellectual Development
of Europe" tells US in recent and very
able work on the future civil policy o.
America, "The negro is essentially fetish
worshipper, believer in witchcraft and in
the efficacy of charms. Such ideas and the
mode of expressing them are found wher.
ever that low grade of humanity occurs,
occupying a zone across all Africa and the
vast expanse of the Pacific ocean; nay
even all around the world, the black popu-
lation of America all included; for these
in the United States in the midst of moral
religious, Christian communities are still
full of their African IDEAS"
The same author declares that: SIT is in
consistent with the prosperity of a natior
to permit heterogeneous mixtures of races
that are physiologically far apart. Theii
inferior product becomes dead weigh
upon the body polite. If Italy was for
Roman race, a scene of anarchy, its hybrid