Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-05
The new Test of Loyalty.

" ohN ehO Sai POb-1aSSOio. -
THE NEW IEsT oF- LOYALTY. - Ia
. Now let me inquire again, what have
these people 1.-THE Southern people] at any h
time since the war refused co do which is +
required and which is, now claimed OF r
them? But the one thing. They will not :
agree to negro suffrage. That it is, then,
which makes them disloyal! The accept
ance, then, Of large and utterly incompe-l
tent class as voters, is the test off loyalty -
"TO this complexion have we come at last" !
Joe Brown is a truly loyal, reliable man, :
is feted and toastedas such, is given chief
seats in the Republican synagogue. Alex
ander stephens is a. rebel and unit to, be-
trusted. In what does the. difference in1
these two men consists? They each admit
that the war settled slavery and secession,
that Union is to be maintained, that the
Federal debt is to be paid and the Confed-
crate debt not to be, and that it is the in
terest of all parties now to healithe breach
and build up the material prosperity of the.
country ia fp,,,,i1.i4i a srf,.fe+ ann III
/ + Agreeing in these things. what is it
which makes one loyal and the other dis
loyal? cit is simply the Willingness of the
one and the un@illingnesss OF the iother to
support negro suffrage. n .ttaab EfuowI
To this, then, has the Republican party
come. that loyalty and 'disloyalty consists
not inc ano earnest desire for a lfraternaI
Union, but in being willing to- accomplish
1T in but one way, and that way by CONFER
ring suffrage on the, negro. Upon that
text am rebel. and so is each one of you |
who is opposed to negro suffrage. T.,d3 bnIl
I wouldn't sound pretty for your leaders |
to tell You So now, my Republican friend, |
but it win come to that, and that is the es- |
4timation In which you are held now. You
are called upon to support policy Cor be |
denounced as q rebel sympathizer if you
dOn't) by which you can't go to Arkansas
and become voter unless you first swear
that you did wrong and made a fool of
yourself in voting against negro suffrage
last fall My friends, it is the same issue
you passed upon them 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 political equality
II there were re7 Settled III ten counties OF
Ohio the densely ignorant rice and cotton
plantation negroes of the Souths with the
control of those ten counties and the righs
of suffrage, what security would you feel
as to the proper management of the affairs
of those counties or the great interests OF
this prosperous State al} avRd yiGo fou
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 equal 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, on all the intricate, delicate, distur-
bing and vital questions which we are now
to meet; questions in Importance to the in
terests of this nation aud of q mankind,
worthy to be considered by giants in intel
lect and angels in purity. TO be co-heirs
with you in this bloodlbought Inheritance;
to be cajoled and manipulated by the tri1-
| ing adventures whose corruptipg influ-
ence pollutes the poor negro. -.t,.,
| This is the feast to which you are invit-
| ed. We want the brains0of the South, its
enterprise to build up the country and to
make these wasted places again to blossom
| as the rose. We are not to be permitted to
| love it because they won't supportthis mis-
| cradle heresy, which by $4,000 we pro-
nounced against in Ohio, -andriwhich was
repudiated in. every State where it was
| proposed. i.-..
It is shame to talk about it. s 'tet
| Whatever may have been proper as pun
| ishment for rebellion, when these States
! come back we wantno yassalage; we want
the old Union with the equality and digni-
ty of the several States unimpaired. 1t is
+, due to us, due to a great nation that it
should be so. We used to denounce the
| Shareholders. oligarchy. Now we are to
/ have a negro oligarchy, or rather an oil
| garchy of Northern adventures operat-
! ing through colored instruments and con-
! duit pipes. gstl-lo9 ,vtH r-a
| i..,..r .T1 CARPET -BAGGERS, ,-f, .-.2.
1t is time that we were; looking some
| what to our own interests, that we shall
| no longer be made the hewers of wood and
| drawers of water to pay eXtravagant sala-
| ries to adventurous gentlemen to pamper
| and tickle :hordes of semi -barbarians, and
'sbend to them the suppliant knee that
| thrift may follow tawning;" that men who
could not have been constabIes here, by
| loud profession Of love for the negro and
/ admiration for them intellectually, may be
| made to discover that they have in them the
stuff out OF which Governors and Senators
| ,,.rl,f FOL hfar do. ter .f. 4
! = But you have more selfish interest in
4 the matter. Establish this, principle and
negro suffrage will be upon you in Ohio by
| Congressional legislation, In sixty days
! from the meeting of Congress. The hyp-
ocritical declaration in the Chicago plat
form that in the loyal States, the people oi
such States shall determine the right oi
i suffrage-is repudia.ed by the men who
! make laws for that party, Sumner, and
4 Wilson, and Yates, and Shellabarger, have
4 already shown their purpose. 1t is useless
/ for them to tell you the party don't mean
i it, They told you tor years that they were
opposed to negro suffrage. A new, neces-
4 sity will be discovered, gentlemen. The
/ Institutions of this Government, in my
/ Judgment, are in as much, or more danger
from the usurpationsof Congress and the
insiGious but fatal attacks. made on the
u Constitution in the name of the, law, al
4 from open and armed rebellion. m
This Congress has had no guide but The
qualification of lust of power, and no re
straint except the fear of being hurled
II from it. - - r - ,.,-..-...., s. 80.
/ When laws affecting the rights of thu
i whole country are sought to be tested il
) that high Judicial tribunal, which by til,
! organic law is made the arbiter of all such
I, questions, they, defiantly interpose anC
take away the jurisdiction of the Court
They seem determined to drive the people
to revolution. bfa b.- --.-l E.5r1
Suppose Congress should pass a law es
: tablishing negro suffrage in Ohio, and yol
should appeal to the judicial tribunals 0
the country, and the case was taken to th
Supreme Court, and was argued before 1t
and when. about to be decided by tina
), court Congress should interpose and TAX
from it the power to decide, and taunting
ly tell you it is supreme-its acts cannot b.
questioned-what do you think would hap
pen next? Would you not, to say the leas
, of it, hurl them from power at the mex
l election?
> Does it make any difference as to tn
i dangerous character of this usurpatiol
whether it occurs in the case of Ohio o
Georgia.? Congress has stripped the EX
: ecutiye Of nearly all of its power unde
attempted to appeal to the courts to pro
r tect his office, willie you are straining ev
: cry nerve to live, these representative
spent hundreds of thousands OF dollars in
, miserable partisan attempt to oust tn
President from his office. --.Ea L wE
My friends, have not one word to say
against General Grant. / have no desir
to detract in the slightest degree from hi
fame as soldier; but in this civil eontes
now pending, as vital to the best interest
of the country. as the terrible conflict o
arms through which we passed, l can onl.
regard him as the representative of thi
monstrous policy, the success of which, il
my Judgment, will as effectually result il
+ the invasion of constitutional liberty a
would the success of the Southern REBEL
| hor te for