The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-06-02

IISHtCuuOuS anu Ierr1Dlo OF mOQ6r1
wars, il does not become us to argu,
that peaceful discussion will quietly
settle differences which in former time.
were settled by the sword; but the
memory of the almost present as vel
rs of the remote past, calls upon us to
build our policy solidly upon princi
Piles which experience as well as rea.
SON prove to be durable, and more
than ever to avoid deluding ourselves
with cry of peace, peace, when there
is no peace -.
Gas during the weary years of war
I have pondered this problem in the
intervals of strife, or by the camp fire
by night, have been more and more
Influenced in the belief that the only
basis of permanent nationality is to be
found in complete homogenity of peo-
pie, of manners and OF laws. The rap
id fusion of the races of Western Eu-
rope as they have met upon our
shores, has secured the former of these
requisites, and the Yankee race q ad-
opt the epithet as an honorable one,
marked as it is with salient character
istics, is SO complete an amalgamation,
from the eastern boundary of Ger
many to the western coast of Ireland,
that there are few of us in whose veins
is not mixed the blood of several; but
this unhappy race of which we are
speaking does not amalgamate with the
rest. 1t is entirely immaterial to dis
cuss why it is so; the fact no. one can
deny; nor can it be denied that its sal
vation or its destruction will surely be
worked out in its family isolation.
Because there could be no unity of
people between the Southern whites
and Southern blacks, it seems mani
fest to me, that there could be no pol
itical unity, but rather strife for the
mastery in which one or the other
would go to the wall.
x x y "I hold that there is a
great political truth in the words of
Guizot, in summing up the eight cen
turies of blood shed out of which the
French emerged into nationality, from
the strife Of petty races and tribes.
He says: In the life of nations, that
unity which is exterior and visible,
the unity of name and of government,
although important, is by no means
first in Importance, the most real, or
that which makes indeed one nation.
There is unity deeper and more
powerful; it is that which results not
merely from identity of government
and of destiny, but from the homo
gently of social elements, from the
likeness Of Institutions, of manners, of
ideas, of tongues; the unity which re-
sides in the men themselves whom so
ciety assemblies, and not IN the form of
dieh. associations, in short (Eunite NOR
ale, which is far more important than
political unity, and which is the only
solid foundation for the latter .
"You," meaning the
Oberlin Committee, } "assume that the
of the right of suffrage to
the blacks, leaving them fntsrmtnglel
aCith the aUhite8, sciW cure all the trouble.
/ believe it would be rather like the
decisions in that outer darkness of
which Milton speaks:
'''Chaos umpire sits,
And by decision, more embroils the fay"
General Cox, publicly announcing
these sentiments, was elected Govern
OF of Ohio by 10000 majority. His
have, never been and sUM
nerer be answered, and he has not re-
cented, and is now a leading member
of General Grants cabinet. His pre-
dictions are being daily verified in the
Ku Klux Klans, the loyal militia of
Arkansas and Tennessee, and the un-,
settled condition of the South, con
signed purposely to wretched system
of bad government, to enable partisan
and mercenaries to plum
der her people in the name of loyalty,
while the rest of the country foots the
bill, to maintain a standing army,
with military 'satraps to uphold this
mockery upon republican government.
Governor Morton, in his speech, Sept.
30, 1865, at Richmond, Indiana,
maintains similar views with General
Cox, and says: f,. .;...-.s-
Gin every State where there is
colored State government, negro for
Governor, and negro supreme judge,
,chite immigration aUiH cease. There
will be no more white immigration to
any such State. You cannot find the
most ardent antlslavery man in Wayne
county who will go and locate in a
State that has colored State govern
ment. You will absolutely shut off,
al once and efectually, all immigrat alton
for the Western States and from Eu-
rope, wherever that event shall hap
pen. Thus they will remain colored
States in the South; the anftite men who
are now there would renaore from them,
and would not remain under such
dominion" srs.
Yet to maintain party, even if it
will, according to his own argument,
ruin one-half of the coun-
try, this man, now United States
Senator, asks the people to perpetuate
this condition of affairs by an amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States s5 & tx, - i7 t.-.- &,
In Ohio, and other States where the
smallness of the negro element cannot
practically affect the very fabric of so
ciety, it is the height of cold blooded
crualty and malevolent revenge to in
fict, by our votes, torturing curse
upon others which would not be en-
dured for a moment by our own peo;
pie if the negro was in equal nun bars
IN our midst" l... f-. sr
This XVIII amendment, as original
ly passed, forbade the States requiring
for Office, but fearing
that the popular mind was not educa-
ted up to that point for the present, it
was dropped, just as the doctrine Of
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