Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-10-19
[From the Columbus Crisis'l
The Result of the Election.

of fanatics, by voting the sue
cess of the mongrel ticket
The colored population have
captured and still possess
Africa, despite the demagogue
efforts of some white Demo
Gratis, who thought to succeed
by pandering to the negroes
and accepting as established
facts the fraudulent Constitu-
tional Amendments, by which
an alien race is enabled to con-
troll the destinies of the white
people of Ohio. The negro
vote, forced upon the people
by Congressional usurpation,
was cast against the State, and
very naturally in favor of a
perpetuation of the party
which gave the blacks an ac'
tual preponderence in what
purported to be a white mans
government. Suffrage is de-
based, but no one can blame
the negroes for taking advant-
age of their newly acquired
privilege by voting the Abo-
iition ticket through motives
of gratitude and an obscure
idea of self.protection. The
destruction by the Federal
Government of the constitu-
tional rights of the States-the
revolutionary elevation of the
blacks to a fancied supremacy
by Congressional fraud and
Rump legislation, led inevita,
bly, to the result presented
The twenty thousand negroes of
Ohio have fuorteen representa-
tives in Congress, and the half
million of white men have but
four. Time and the attrition
of events may teach these
masses lessons sufficiently |
severe to induce them to
change the intolerable political
aspect, and to return to the
plain, cheap and simple form
of government now obsolete;
but for the next two years we
may expect to live under a
government no better than
that of Mexico, and only less
despotic because of its in
ertness.
Deeply as We deplore this
disastrous result and keenly as
we feel the regret that must
affect every intelligent Dem
ocrat, we cannot fail to again
allude to and condemn the. ut
ter impolicy of the policy mon
gers in our own party. lt has
been the misfortune Of the
Democracy that many serv.
ing under its flag have deem,
ed it the part of wisdom to 7
pander to the hideous isms of {
he opposition, and come as r
near as possible to being, in r
act, Abolitionists, without !,
lbandoning their .pretensions ;, =
% Democracy. Thus when '
he series of amendments to the t
Federal Constitution were pro- a
;laimed to have been adopted e
~ the States, when it was no, q
orious that such was not the -
ruth, and it was well known =,
hat no competent authority u
xisted to submit such amend t
lents, as the Union Of States t,
yas practically disintegrated, T
ertain Democrats were eager i
0 yield to what they termed q
established facts. These symp. " "
oms of decentralization were I
apparent in the last I
tate Convention, and its tenn I
orizing platform. All can
ow see that there would have A
cen more of dignity and
,rength in a plain and un- fr
quivocal declaration of the an II
.ent Democratic faith; and al
ven had a like result ensued, a.
lere would have been some X, *
of the defeat in ~ ev
moving that it was incurred W
l defense of true principles s.
nd not in the pursuit Of 2,
fficial power. Much of future b, b.
ood to the country and the Q,
democracy can be extracted G
'om the present defeat by
andid reflection upon these D
oints and by determination n
lat in the future strict adhere +
ce to the tenets, faith and IL
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