The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-08-19
The New Test oCLoxaliY.

o. Saturday, Judge Briggs addressed q
large audience at Washington q. H., civ
ing his reasons for separating from the Re-
publican party, with which he had acted
and which had elected him Judge. He
thus considered the new test oath Of loyalty
and the carpet-haggers;
THE NEW TEST OF LOYALTY.
Now let me inquire again, what have
these people the Southern people at any
time since the war refused to do, which is
REQUIRED and which is now claimed of them?
But the one thing They will not agree to
negro suffrage. That il is. then, which
makes them disloyal The acceptance,
then, of large and utterly incompetent
class as voters, is the test of loyalty. The
this complexion have we come at last 4"
Joe Brown is a truly loyal, reliable man,
is feted and toasted as such, is given chief
seats in the Republican synagogue. Alex
ander Stphens is rebel and unfit to he
trusted. In what does the difference in
these two men consist? They cash admit
that the war settled slavery and secession,
that the Union is to be maintained, that the
Federal debt is to be paid and the Confed-
crate debt not to be, and that il is the in
terest of ali parties DOW to heal the breach
and buill up the material prosperity OF the
country. =.
Agreeing in these things, what is it which
makes one loyal and the other disloyal? 1t
is simply the willingness of the one and the
unwillingness of the other to support negro
suffrage.
To this, then, has the Republican party
come. that loyalty and disloyalty consists
not in an earnest desire for a fraternal Union,
but in being willing to accomplish It IN but
one v av, and that way by cenferring suf>
fragc on the negro. Upon that text | am
a rebel, and so is each one OF you who Is
opposed to negro suffrage.
1t wouldn't sound pretty fOryour leaders
n tell Won so now, my Republican friend,
but it will come to that, and that is the es-
timation in which you are held now. You
are called upon to support policy Tor be
denounced as rebe! sympathizer if you
don't) by which you can't go to Arkansas
and become a voter unless you first swear
that YOU did wrong and made foul of your
self in voting against negro suffrage last fall
MY friends, it is the same issue you passed
upon then. Not by your act or wish, but
by act of Congress, the negro IN these
Southern States is to be put over the whites
there, and on a political equality with you;
Ifthere were settled in ten counties OF
Ohio the densely ignorant rice and cotton
plantation negroes Of the South, with the
control of those ten counties AMI the right
of suffrage, what security would you, teea as
to the proper management OF the affairs OF
those counties or the great interests OF this
prosperous State!
The illustration only brings it nearer
home to you. In ten of the sovereign States
of the Union the power is proposed to be
| vested in such hands. Having eqlal voice
with YOU in the Senate, they are in the ag-
| gregate TO exercise the power OF ten to one
in respect to the intelligent voters Of Ohio;
| or all the intricate, delicate, disturbing and
| vital questions which we are now to meet;
questions in importance to the interests OF
| this nation and of mankind, worthy to be
considered by giants in intellect ami angels
in purity. To be co-heirs with yon in this
| blood d>bought inheritance; to be cajCled and
manipulated by the trifing adventurers
whose corrupting influence pollutes the poor
negro.
This is the feast to which YOU are invit-
| ed. We want the brains OF the South, Its
enterprise to build up the country and to
make these wasted places again to blossom
| as the rose. We are lot to be permitted to
love it hecau2e they won't support this mls-
cradle heresy, which by $4,000 we pro-
nounced against in Ohio, and which was
rupudioted in every State where ii was pro-
posed.
1t is a shame to talk about it.
v hateyer may have been proper as pun
| ishment for rebellion, when thee Safes
come back we want 10 vassalage; we want
the old Union with the equality and dignity
| of the several States unimpairrd. 1t is due
to US due to a great nation that it should
be so, We used to denounce the slavchold-
ers' ollgarchy. or rather an oIgarchy OF
| Northern adventures operating through
| colored instruments and conduit pipes.
CARPET BAGGERS.
1t is that we we're looking somewhat to
our own interests, that we shall no longer
he made the hcwcrs of wood and drawers Of
water to pay cxtravagant salaries to advcn'
| turous gentlemen to pamrer and tickle hor-
des of sem-barbarians, and bend to them
the suppliant knee that thrift may follow
fawning;" that men who could not have
been constables here, by loud profession OF
love for the negro and admiration for them
intellect ually may be made to discover that
they have in them the stuff out of which
Governors and Senators ought to be made.
But you have more selfish interest Ia
the matter. Establish this principle ano
negro suffrage will be upon You in Ohio by
Congressional legislation, in sixty days from
the netting OF Congress. The hypocritical
declaration in the Chicago platform that In
the loyal States, the people of such States
shall determine the right of suffrage-is re.
pudiated by the men who makes laws fol-
that party. Summer, and Wilson. and
Yates, and Shellabargcr, have already showr
their purpose. 1t is useless for them to tel
YOU the party don't mean it. They told
YOU YOU for Years that they we're opposed to ne
gro suffrage. A new necessity viii be dis
covered, gentlemen. The institutions ocl
this Government, in my Judgment, are IL
as much, or more danger from the usurpa,
tions of Congress and tie insidlous but fata
attacks made ol the Constitution In the
name of the law, as from open and armed
rebellion.
This Congress has had no guide but the
qualification of lust OF power, and no re.
straiDt except the fear Of being hurled from
it.
When laws affecting the right of the
whole country are sought to be tested ir
that high Judicial tribunal, which by the
organic law is made the arbler of all sucf
questions, they defiantly interpose and take
away the jurisdiction Of the Court. -Thes
seem determined to drive the people to re
volution.
Suppose Congress should pass law es
tablishing negro suffrage in Ohio, and you
should appeal to the judicial tribunals O
the country, and the case was taksn to the
Supreme Court, and was argued before it
and when about to be decided by that court
Congress should interrose and take from i
the power to decide, and tauntingly tell yor
| it is supreme-its acts cannot be questioned
what do you think would happen next