Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-03
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The following editorial appeared in the
Ohio State Journal on the I'd instant, the
morning after the Vermont election. To
attract attention it was double loaded. 1t
In effect comedies the election of SEYMOUR
and BLAIR. The design of it is to arouse
the Republicans to vote the Republican
ticket-to save the Republican party, with
its'Gold for the Bondholder and what they
call lampblack and rags for the people, and
with its policy to make a Hayti out of the
South, from overthrow. Let Democrats
work as they never worked before, and
Right and Justice will be triumphant. But
to the Journals editorial:
NOTE OF WARNING.
If any member of the Republican party
in this State, or elsewhere, relying on the
strength and justice of his cause fancies
that the election of Grant is something
sure to happen, and entertaining
such an idea, quietly goes on
his way without, an effort, and care
less of the result, the sooner he dis
cards that idea the better for the safety
and welfare of the country. 1t is natural
| for men who feel that their cause is Just
| to rely too much on that fact. and rest
| their case without sufficient effort. The
| factis that no cause in the history of the
| world, no matter how good, ever made the
| least progress without the aid of human
| agency, and the combined persistent
and energetic labors. of its friends. The
great cause of civil liberty the world over
| owes whatever of success it has achieved
| to the labors of men, and without that al d
it has invariably failed.
The great danger which threatens us now
| is that we are too confident of success. A
osnr ~ of ho M N fo he
principles of the Republican party, as they
do also in Indiana, Pennsylvania and Netr
| York, yet from Udrioas causes, prominent
among which is the one Just mentioned. zoe
are in the greatest danger of losing all these
States and, of course, the election of our Presi-
Dental candidate. s iH
There are also positive reasons why we
should be vigilant and active until election,
| We are opposed by, an enemy that will
scruple at nothing to compass our defeat
Our neighboring State of Kentucky can
throw majority of ninety thousand for
| the Democratic ticket. Does any man
question that enough of that immense sur
plus of disloyalty will attempt to vote in
Ohio and Indiana to defeat us? They were
and are rebels, and will hesitate at no
crime to defeat us. Thousands of them are
even now making their arrangements to
vote illegally against us and, unless closely
| watched, will so far succeed as to jeOpar-
die Ohio and Indiana.
Again, we have the most positive evil
dence of frauds in Pennsylvania last fall
in the manufacture of naturalization pa
pers by the thousand. every one of which
documents represented an Illegal Democratic
uote. That party possesses all the material
! out of which such votes are made. They
| find in their ranks the men who conceive
and the men who execute every fraud
And they also find there the men who wink
at it and defend it, and the Courts which
| refuse to punish it.
| these things upon the O-called Democracy
Is it likely that party numbering among
its members every prominent leader in the
late rebellion. with but two or three ex-
ceptions, covered all over with crime, and
cruelty and blood as with a garment, will
hesitate now at fraud upon the ballot-box
Will the men who starved thousands and
tens of thousands of our friends in prison,
scruple to connive at illegal voting? Will
the bloody Forrest and the unscrupulous
Beauregard regard it az a crime to colonize
voters, when they are known to have been
guilty OF the most outrageous crimes in
history?
Does any one believe for single moment
that man who could deliberately stand be-
fore blood-stained mob, with the lurid
glare of a burning orphan asylum upon his
brow, and the horror stricken shrieks of
dying children in his ears, and address the
perpetrators OF these crimes in the very
moment of their commission as ''friends, !"
would hesitate to aid in forging naturali-
zation papers, or to receive illegal votes by
the thousand, knowing them to be such ?
Place no dependence whatever on the
honor or honesty of your opponents! Bear
in mind always that they sought for four
years to destroy the Governm, ut, and can
therefore have no compunctions about the
commission of any lesser crimes.
We do not write this in any spirit OF
fault-tinding with our party managers, nor
as an alarmist, but aoe spedk aoldt zoe believe
Democratic party is resolved to elect Sey-
mour. They will stop at nothing to accom-
plish their ends. Money in unlimited
amount is at their control-the stuff of
which illegal votes are made is ready to
their hand and to be had for their money,
and it will be bought and used. Many of
the leaders of that party are absolutely
desperate, and will fight as unscrupulously
now as they did during the war.
Now, in view of all this, which every
reading, observing man knows to be true.
how can any Republican sit down quietly
and take no interest in the labOrs of the
campaign? 1t is not enough for you to say
that you attend all the meetings ofyour club
and hear all the speeches made in your viii
Iage. fou may 90 InaI ana YET 90 nOtnlng
in behalf of the great work. See that your
neighbors are enlightened on the issues of
the day. Let no one of our friends stay
away from the polls. If you know of any
Republican away from home, or who is GO
ing away, see to it that he is in his place on
election day. Hunt up the doubtful and
confirm them in the right taith-strengthe
the weak. If any man of your acquaint-
ance be threatened with loss of employ
ment by reason of his adherence to our
party, see that he has employment else
where and thatall such threats are exposed.
For Heavens sake, friends, ,oork! Work
from this day until the election, or zoe are
beaten in Ohio, in Indiana, in Pennsylvania,
in Mem Y nrE and In The anIi0le c6fEntrnt