Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-11

IIOIt. III. Luuy OftU OG6T OeHuCUTSs
In compliance with the foregoing re-
quest the copy desired is herewith furnish
ed, hoping that the suggestions therein
may aid to awaken the people to the dan
gers that now fearfully menace Republi-
cans in this country.
am most respectfully.
your obedient serv't,
- WILLIAM CARTER.
Mr.. CARTER sail:
Mr.. PRESIDENT: 1t was once said by a
Governor of Ohio. not many years ago,
that "the age of American craftsmanship
had passed. Whatever might be said up
on that proposition it cannot be denied that
the present is an age of invention. Not
alone in the scientific world and all that
concerns the cOnveniences, comforts and
elegancies of life, is this apparent; but in
the moral and political world also is exhib-
tied a like ingenuity, and not the least
among the latter are the inventions in Phi
lanthrophy. Not that the word is of re-
cent coinage; it has long been found in
our dictionaries, and in the last century
was defined as "Love of mankind, good
nature" The meaning has since been
somewhat extended, and is now said to be
1.-THE love of mankind; benevolence to-
wards the whole human family universal
good will"
The great discovery was in the availa-
bility of the word, as applicable to diver
sified objects, and to the affairs of men,
societies, States and nations.
Like the discovery of India rubber,
which was at first applied to but few of the
purposes for which it is now used. so the
discoveries in philanthropy, advancing
with the wants anc expansion of human
affairs, serve not the purposes alone which
was once deemed its sphere, but now do
service in almost every department of hu-
man affairs.
Three hundred years ago philanthropy
prompted the christian nations of Europe
to send missionaries to the African coast
to teach the barbarian the true faith; it
was soon found that there stood between
the negro and those who sought his eleva-
tion formidable barrier, and that it cost
too much, the sacrifice of two missionaries,
to convert one negro.
Not to be deferred in her great designs,
philanthropy next prompted her votarieS,
under the sanction of the ''vice-gerent
of God on earth,'' to remove the negro
from his native wilds to more congeniai
shores, where he could be taught to lay
aside bis barbarism and put on the habila-
ments of civilized life and christianity.
Unaccustomed to the foresight and care
necessary to provide for himself in his new
home, it was seeD that to protect him
from the elements and provide for his
wants, a master was needed to take charge
arose what has since been called the slave
trade and slavery upon this continent.
Philanthropic then, this care and labor
of love, as it was then called, for the Ethio-
ian; and through the instrumentality of
which christianity, the arts and sciences,
were to regenerate the degraded inhabi-
tants of the torrid regions of Africa-in
the nineteenth century came to be regard
ed as the most grave offences against civil
ization-and the nations of Europe and
America combined to put down aud de-
stroy that which the philanthropy of the
former period had labored to build UP.
Assuming the form of madness, and
frantic with the delays n the accomplish
ment of its purposes-but few years ago.
regardless ofitS consequences to the negro;
brushing aside constitutions, trampling
under foot solemn compacts, and daring
the overthrow of the most benign govern
ment on earth, philanthropy entered upon
a crusade for the determination of slave
ry in these States.
And the frantic and fantastic exhibitions
that from 1866 to and including the present
time (for the exhibition is not yet closed)
will no doubt be subjects of interest to the
historians of future generations.
Hosting the flag ot disunion at the North
in 1856, she declared her purpose to SUBJ
NIT no longer to Union with States which
permitted slavery.
Failing in this, she next sent her ''veter-
an" John Brown to invade one of the power
ful States of this Union.
Not succeeding in this, her energies were
next turned to provoking war as the means
to effect her purposes.
I will not attempt a review of the hor.
rors which followed, but there were
some incidents during the progress of the
war, that when the fight shall have closed
it may be difficult for the future to under
stand.
Those who could weep for the negro, re.
moved from his native jungle to find 6
home in christian land, had no tears tC
shed when their own sons, fathers and
brothers were seized and hurried off to
fields of blood, to meet death at the hands
of their kindred.
Others who denounced as the sum of al
villainies, a system which permitted tn,
separation of the negro from his family
could sell their own sons for the shamhles
and place the proceeds in their pockets
with as little apparent concern as though il
had been the price of an OK.
Men and women who had been Mortified
at the sale of negroes at the South had NJ
language to denounce the pens in and abou
the capital of Ohio, where white men, boys
and negroes were bought and sold like cat.
tie in the market. Philanthropy required
and the sacrifice was made.
How much further this madness may leaG
oAASSN oee"SOSt
pared to predict.
The more recent development of the ef
forts of philanthropy is seen in the at
tempt of Congress to force upon six mil.
lions of white people in ten of the States a
the South, the rule of two millions of ne
groes, and to make their former MASTER
slaves of the African.
And the "Senate" of the United States
with the Chief Justice presiding, is nov
gravely engaged in impeaching the Presi
dent, because he will not Join in the insan,
effort to substitute for the civilization O
the nineteenth century the barbarism O
Africa now, and what it was four Thousand
years ago.
Oh, conscience! thou art fled to brutisl
| beasts, and men have lost their reason.
That the consequences of all this to tn
negro race will be different from thos
which the history of the world shows t.
have followed, where the superior has beel
brought in contact on equal terms with al
inferior race, we have no reason to suppose
| The people of these States, descendant
of the conquering nations of Europe-in
heriting their instincts and lust of empir
| bearing in their veins the blood of th