Year: 1868

nou' a. " thurman, lately elected
United States Senator from Ohio. i,
one OF the representative men of The
Northern Democracy. The following
therefore, from one of his late speeches
will be interesting to our readers, a,
giving authoritatively the feelings Of
the Northern Democracy towards the
South, and the leading issues of the
present canvass.-Es.


awe can form an idea of the i'm.
poverished condition of the Southern
; States, from the fact that the county Of
Hamilton, Ohio, pays more taxes than
eight Of the Southern States. What
a picture this makes of the impover,
ished condition Of these oppressed
States. Give US the Union again
the union of hearts between the people
and the treasury again. Applause
Say to the men of the South" Yoi
fought for what you thought wa
right, and when conquered, submitted



like men, only asking to be treated
as honorable men. Henceforth le
us be friends Applause Hence
forth you shall have protection" Say
that to the Southern people, and they
will have the heart to 20 to work
and that land will soon blossom a,
the rose. Applause 1t is not siz
months since the cry of confscatior
was heard ia the halls of Congress
uttered by that most persistent per,
secutor of better people, Thaddeus
Stevens. Loud applause. 1 appeal
to you, farmers Of West Virginia
with what heart could you cultivate
your lands if you expected the next
Congress to take them and give then
to negroes.


1t is my solemn belief, if, when the
Confederate armies surrendered We
had treated them with magnanimity, as
brave men should always treat a
vanquished foe, saying, "we fought
this battle to maintain the integrity
of the Union and the Constitution
and now chat you have laid down
your arms, and acknowledged the cause
to be lost, we bury the hatchet for.
ever"-we believe all would now
have been harmony and good feeling.
without the integrity of a single State
being impaired. The Southern States
would have been ready to beat their
swords into plowshares, anxious tc
follow the pursuits of peace. Had
we acted thus, to,day we would have
been more firmly united than when
the war began. say this after ma,
ture reflection. The war had the eff
feet of convincing both sections Of
certain things they did not know be.
fore. Some in the South thought
the people of the North would
not fight. This mistake was corrected,
The people of the North, some Of
them, thought the Southern people
were impractible, and could not carry
out extensive plans of operation in a
protracted war, and with all their
bluster, perhaps would not fight SO
readily. This illusion was also dis.
sipated by the war. Applause The
war convinced those who held such
opinions of their mistake, and made
both sections respect each other. AT
least such were the feelings of the
soldiers on both sides, and the people,
as general thing, felt the same way,
until the Radical politicians set them
selves to work to pervert the souls of
the people-until they commenced
their series of oppressive measures,
introducing the fourteenth amend.
ment, which they knew no Southern
man, with a spark Of honor or sells
respect, could for a moment consent
| to vote for. Men could not be ex
pected to write their own dishonor in
the Constitution of their country.
Those radicals knew it could never be
adopted. They proposed it that it
might be rejected, so that they might
have a pretence to keep the States
out of the Union and out of the enjoy
ment of their rights. 1t served its
purpose. It was got up and used for
the purpose of putting the heel of the
negro or the neck of the white man.
They abolished slavery that they
might introduce political slavery more
absolute-that they might control
the negro to carry out their own
party purposes, They would not
allow the negro to vote if they thought
he would vote with the South. They
did not extend that privilege with the
understanding that the negroes we're
10 vote according to their own instincts
or interest, but as loyal leaguers,
organized and kept up by carpets
bag adventurers. Itwas actuated by
no love for the negro.


The speaker did not believe the
Radical policy could continue, These
men were the worst enemies of the
negroes 10 extending to them the
elective franchise. 1t was natural,
The white race never yet met an
obstacle it did not overcome APP
plause. It was impossible to believe
that the white race could submit to
have itself ruled by people the most
degraded on earth. Cries Of never r.
| These States were now ruled by ne
groes and class of men in the North
Suppose the people Of Ohio should
import lot Of negroes aud whit,
people from that State and turn som,
| bureau men out of Office suppos