Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-24
About the Negro-The
Slh District.

SIN NDA0tr1cus
A correspondent Of the Cincinnati Gazette,
at Ashley, Delaware county, informs that
journal that the people Of that place are |
intelligent and enterprising, and are widci
awake concerning the issue that by special
election is to be decided on Monday next
in the Eighth District We have no reason |
to call in question the accuracy of this part
of the idispatch; but if the people of
that District are really intelligent, enter
prising, and wide-awake. they are not by
any means going to do as he says they in
tend to do: that Is, increase the Republt-
can vote on Monday over what it was last
fall, when Negro Suffrage disturbed them"
If it is true that last fall they were disturb
ed about Negro Suffrage. and in considera-
tion of this did not give to the Republican,
candidates hearty support, there Is no ex-
isting reason why they should support the
Republican party now. for the attitude of
the Republican party has not changed ON
that questions. sfaH ,S9e'.s aEaf Ws
Governor HAYES, in his Inaugural, in
stead of looking upon the verdict of the
voters of Ohio against Negro Suffrage at the
election last fall. as one that should be ac-
cepted as settling the question, SO far as
Ohio is concerned, claims that 1t should
and will stimulate an appeal on the part OF
the leaders of the Republican party from
that decision-that they will not abandon
effort until Ohio shall put the Negroes po-
litically on an equality with White people.
Has General BEATTY, the Republican can
didate for Congress in the Eighth District,
in the published speeches he has made, de-
clared satisfaction that the Negro Suffrage
amendment was voted down in Ohio? Not
bit of it. He berates the Democratic
members of the General Assembly fer re-
scinding Ohio's ratification Of the 18th Ar
ticie Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States. ~ =
| That amendment, from which Ohio's as
sent has thus been withdrawn, and which
withdrawal is violently denounced by ev-
cry Republican organ and stumper, was
designed to give the Radicals in Congress
authority by which they could force Ne
gro Suffrage on all the States. The Re-
publicans in Congress, under the upjusti-
fable assumption that by. reason Of the
Southern States attempting to fight their
way out of the Union, they abrogated there :
by all Civil Government therein, and have
put themselves into a chaotic condition,
and that it is obligatory upon Congress to
take and mould them into States. AL
though they have Civil Governments; al
though they have forbidden slavery forev-
err, and provided that the Negroes shall
there enjoy all the rights and privileges
that they enjoy in Ohio; although
they have solemnly and in due
form put the Rebel debt beyond the
possibility of payment, the Republicans in
] Congress declare they have no Republican
! form of Government, and for the alleged
purpose of giving, to them that sort OF Gov
ernment, they have passed through the
lower branch of Congress bill stripping
the President of his constitutional power
to execute the laws in that portion of the
United States, and making General o
the Army Dictator, who shall do their bid
ding. All this spretense-all this usur
pation-is to Negroize the .South--tt
give it over to the rule of thu
descendants of barbarous race
TO turn the South into as pitiabl
La condition as that which now exists il
j, Hayti and Jamaica, Islands that once wer
among the most fruitful in the World. TIL
Negroes in those Islands before they had
become rulers, had made some progress il
civilization; but since having become
political power have relapsed into gros
icen tiousness and semi-barbarism. Tb
fate of Hayti and Jamaica will be the fat
of the South, if the Republican Congress
sional Reconstruction policy is persiste
in..s To this policy, which strikes down tn
Executive and the Judiciary, co-ordinat
branches of the Government, that Negr
supremacy in the South may prevail
General BEATTY gives his most heart.
assent. That he gives this assen
he is bold to declare. In his. speecl
4 at Caledonia on the 18th, he said: II ami
favor of the Congressional plan of Recon
struction." And should he be elected h
will have the right to claim that majorit
Of, the votersin the Eighth District, are, 8
he is, in favor of that policy, which has fo
j two years worked nothing but injury to th
4 whole country. Knowingly, a majority {
the intelligent voters of the. 9Th Distrit
will not give their Endorsement to an
such thing The Negro is as much in tn
contest as he was last fall-as big, as blacl
as Objectionable as he was then; and if til
i voters of Ashley were then much di
turbed about him. they ought to befully
much disturbed about him now.
Esr77s
The Uniied States Senator Ele<
.sys7sz from Maryland. g
The Baltimore Sun of the 18th thus il
forms it readers as to what manner of ma
W. HAMILTON is, who has just bee
elected to the United States Senate by Il
Maryland Legislatures:
The exciting contest in the election /
i United States Senator from Marylan
which has occupied the Legislature sint
Il Tuesday morning, and awakened so muc
public interest, ended yesterday by a sir
r. gle ballot, in the election of Hon. w.
Hamilton United States Senator for 81
years from the 4rh of March, 1863, the vO
being Hamilton 56 (the exact number
> votes necessary to choice, Swami 46, Ne
rick z. In view of the various interes
and claims of the different contestants
this protracted struggle, it is not to
doubted that there has been q
earnest endeavor on the part of the Legis
lagure 10 arriVe aI rlSnC CONCLUSIONS, an
there is no reason to suppose that these e
=. forts have been without success. Mr.. Han
I ilton, the Senator elect is about As years
i age, prominent member of the bar
= Western Maryland, and at this time pres
y dent of the Hagerstown Bank. He h
been always a member of the Democrat
= party, and was formerly in the Unit,
States House of Representatives fro
i fhe western district of Marylan
. and served three consecutive term
MIR. Hamilton was prominent cand
date for Governor in the late Democrat
: State Convention, coming within one vo
- of receiving the nomination. He h
n always been known as a gentlem
OF consistent conservative principl,