Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-12
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originated II. is elected Governor of the
tregen erated,, State, and his loyalty is ad-
mitfed as beyond all question. Another of
the original secessionists of the State, who
not long since was indicted for committing
a rape upon a negro woman, Is elected to
one of his negroes, during the war, for Civ
ing information to the Yankees. Five of
the SUPERIOR Court Judges are from the
North. NV informant AYERS that "two of
them spell January with g." They were
members of the convention, and succeeded
in engrafting upon the Constitution pro-
vision that any man may become lawyer
in the State on the payment Of fee of ten
dollars.
The Superintendent of Schools is a re-
cent arrival from Massachusetts,, where he
found it impossible to get situation as
OF the Congressional delegation, my in
formant writes that the member elect from
the First District is citizen of Washington,
appointed few years ago collector of the
cotton tax. He has never pretended to be
a resident of the State, and has never lived
in the district two months at time. He
was nominated over the head of a native
Unionist who had lived in North Carolina
all through the war, and had been persecu-
ted by secessionists. He succeeded through
promises to the negroes, which he knew be
had not the power to fulfill. Devices, the
member elect from the Raleigh District,
was lieutenant in the regular army. He
resigned that position few months ago to
get the appointment of Register in Bank
ruptcy. His competitor for the Congress
sional nomination was colored
man named Harris. Devices found that
Harris was likely to beat him, and
he came to Washington to secure the in
fluence of Radical Congressman to prevent
that result. He got Senator Wilson and
others to write letters advising against the
policy OF sending negro to Congress, at
this time, and assuring Harris that he
would lose nothing by waving his claims
until public sentiment at the North was
less hostile to the admission OF colored Con-
gressmen. These letters were made public
on the eve of the nomination., "before Har-
rs or his friends could correspond with tht
Washington folks" If Harris had had
time he would have consulted with Summer
and others, who had advised him to rum
AS it was, he consented to withdraw for 5
consideration of thousand dollars, paid tt
him by Devices.
There is much speculation, says the letter
before me, as to the Senators to be elected
The candidates are Messrs. Abbot and
Heaton and General Miles. There will be
no chance for native UniOnist. Miles is
Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau,
tuition to elect himself. He will probably
succeed. He has subofdinates all through
the State, who are working in his interest
and under his Instructions.
Two years ago, when it was stated that
the Freedmen's Bureau was being used as
a political machine to control the negro
vote in the interest of Northern adventur
ers, the charge was Indignantly secuted
and denied. Several loyal journals de-
nounced me as a rebel and a traitor, tor in.
tinlating such thing. What are the facts
now? We have seen an attempt last sum-
mer, in Nashville, to nominate bureau
agent for Congress over an original slave
holding Unionist and Abolitionist. We
have seen General Swayne's attempt to gel
himself elected to the Senate from Alaba-
ma, by the use of his influence as Commis.
seen General Scott Commissioner
of the Bureau for South Car
olina, elect himself Governor of State
to whose people and interest he is an utter
stranger. and whose soil he never saw un-
til the war hau ceased. And in North
Carolina we now see another Bureau man
making the same bad use OF his power for
his own selfish purposes. mo native Un-
ionist has the slightest chance as against
him, so L am assured on good authority,
and that, too, in State many of whose best
citizens adhered to the cause of the coun
try throughout the entire war. might
easily show that what is true of NORTH
Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama anC
Tennessee, is true of the other Southern
States, in the fact that men who could not
be elected constables in the North, where
they are known, go down and force them
selves into offices of the highest trust and
profit throughout the South, and that they
do so by the corrupt use of the army anC
the Freedmen's Bureau. And when tht
Southern people complain, what is the an
swer? Why, they are told that they are
all rebels and traitors, and have no rights
that loyal men are bound to respect.
A few weeks ago, 1 received letter from
a Southern man, native of Mississippi, on
this very subj ect. He said the use of the
Freedmen's Bureau for the purposes to
which have just referI ed was doing more
to intiame the people of the South against
Northern men and Northern politics than
any thing that had occurred since 1861
Said he: We see worthless men come
here and get themselves into office by
the negroes our lands and es-
tates. If they will come and live among
US, they can get office if they are fit, and
will act honorably. We must take such
men because we ourselves can't take the
test oath but it is little too much to ask
us to submit to the domination of Bureau
agents, who are, as class, the worst kind
of Northern men," The writer then goes
on to speak of the Ku KluX Klan, the eX-
istence of which he deprecates. He says it
was called into being to "drive out political
of the Bureau who are leagu-
ing the negroes against the Southern
whites on promise of confiscation; )" that
the best men of the South denounce it, but
that it will undoubtedly do great deal of
mischief and will be abolished only when
'he circumstances that originated it cease
1t is utterly impossible for discontented
people to be thus reconciled. The evidence
that the War, in its intent
md results, has been nothing else than
means to promote the partisan interests of
he Republican party.