Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-04-29
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and is Iicw subject to defeat by some one casu'
al,v OF leaa,her, and the sextrayagance and
abuse in canal management TO which we have
go frequently referred, ,yirbe continued longer
All sorts of expedients have been resorted to
by the Board, aided by number of persons
pretending to be in favor of . lease, but in fact
opposed toit, to delay action in the General
assembly Twenty FIVE thousand dollars per
annum have been offered as rent for the canals,
by responsible parties, and yet bodies Of men
who are known to be IN some Of these offers
are privately working With members to prevent
a lease Why ia this sO2 The people will hold
their Repsesentatigea nnd Senators to a strict
account, If they adjourn without providing
some reiorm--soms check and complete stop to
this great leak in the treasury.
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The Demand for Vigorous and Decisive Action.
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The great macs OF the people of this country
are for vigorous prosecution OF the war. AS
peace cannot be had without war, they demand
thatthe contest be carried on with decision and
energy, until it shall epd in re'assertion Of
the National authority throughout the whole
Union, or a permanent aud inal separation OF
the States. Tdey want no srmstces, no need
less procrasiua don, OF whimpering dread Of
consequences which are Inevitable; but they
want the business settled in true American
style, with dispatch and yet so eifectually that
/, shall NOT Do unsettled for q century to come
We have now strange state of things exist
ing in our country. Nothing like it has been
seen since the great Revolution The whole
region from the Northern Lakes to the Gulf of
Mexico is one vast military camp, The sound
of martial music is heard, aud soldiers are
marching and mastering in every city, village
and hamlet in the lsnd. The North and the
South are alike sending into the field the no.
b!est of their sons, in such numbers, and with
such q ready good yill, that one unacqnainted
with our past history might well infer that our
principals employment Sns a people, had been
war. The women, too, seem inspired with the
same enthusiasm that animates the sterner sex,
aud are ready for any labor or sacrifice, that
the war may be capisd on vigorously and de-
cisively.
The true reading Of all this IS, that the people
in both sec,iobs ot What We win still call our
common country, arein earnest to have the con
fioting questions, which divide ne, settled, SO
far as an appeal to arms can settle them. They
have been unwilling to be drawn into a.eivil war
but since it has come, they.ask not to be kept in
suspense. It is especially the demand of the
people in the Northern States that the Admin
istratiou at Washington, having made a call
for seventy Eve thousand troops, shall use them
without any unnecessary delay after they arc
mustered into the service, and that it shall
make requisition for ten times that number
il il needs them for the purpose, not merely o
defending the National Capital, but of protect
ing aud regaining possession of the publi
property, and of enforcing the laws in the Hece
ded States.-s aN YHrs t1A
President LINCOLN, in his proclamation, d.
rected all combinations Of men. conspiriul
against the Federal Government to dispers,
within twenty, days. The secessiOpists chow NJ
disposition to dispersc, but are rather strength
enine'a fortiiying themselves in their posi-
tions. The people in the North begin to iuquir
with esgerness, where will the fest conflict be
Where win the Administration operate first, an
whatwili be the nature otits operations2 Th
safety Of the Federal Capital will in few day
be placed beyond peradventure, and then th'
county viii expect some speedy and vigorous
movements, BY the Government, for retakiul
the forts and other property and places in tb
seeded States, which belong to the Union. Th
Administration must not get behind the coun
try yinthis stupendops movement which 1t ha
inaugursiedS or q reaction will take plso
against It. as powerful aud aIl.pervading as !
thepre enthusiasm in favorof sustaining II
Every thing now depends on the energy ofth
Government, aud IL win have to move wit
great pfomptness and the speed Of the locomc
tive, to satisfy the country. Already leadln
Republican papers in Ohio and New York ar
beginning to reflect on she apOwers that be" 70
want Of pEOmpt and decided action, and thes
uttetings are only the foEerunners Of terribI
ansthemas, If the Government does not "com
up to time' and meet the expectations which /
has created. We make brief sxtractsfrOn threI
different Republican journals, simply to shov
ourreaders the temper which 10 abroad Az
ssWhen a call Il made, dor voiu uteers) the ques
tion Is not Who shall, but who shall not enlist N,
bounty ouenlistmentis Is necessary Young men leav
respeetable and profitable occupations to take mp armi
every man looks upon himself as possible soldier an
sses iaiher than oterRise TO hope that the exIsepc
will arrive which will make II imperative upon hun I
follow 10 battle the hammer OF his country. x n, n "
And this the snm total q our military inyeptofy
an dbnzdagce cf b1dVs and spiritsd men, Upon thl
point We feel RELUCTANT 70 speak as We feel; but the tim
has come Wer some thing should be ad&hep, 81 least
eomo weak hint or slig1t inmation should be throw
out a 10 what Indispensable to transform this greh
nasspf material Into soldiers, and sire itaomeihns l
The word An eyeryhody smouth. and We need not hesi
tate 10 repeat IL We want nKAD-dutiofifv c0lplSl
ep dbfr. We have tnot II here, nor ara ther
perceptlbe evidences tbatit 10 any where. So far
therearc apy from Which 70 iudge. "
have National nor s'aie Exesutitss 81 ffa Da7
f s4<Rf,,ss Rrronr. LIT ID stated on The authort
Of faeor Brown of Baltimore, that The President hi
Condemned that q more troops shaIl pass through Mar
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