Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-04-04
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WAsHINoroN, March 27.
The recent meetings OF the Democratic mem
hers of Congress are initial movements OF what
viii eventueiiy be complete revolution 10 the
asuect OF national politics. Every one here 10
nov convinced that the mack which the Aboi-
tioniSts have worn until recently. has been
tbroWn of at last. In spite Of all the pledges
made By the radical Republicans when they we're
begging for votes In 1860, IL is now seen that
they intended, even then, 20 abolish the fugitive
slave Law, to abolish slavery In the Dstrict oil
Columbia and to abolish slavery In the Southern
States as coon as they had the power to do so :,
They think they have the power TO do 30 now, and
they are trying to do il. They are determined,
furthermore, that the Union shall never be re-
stored as long as slavery exists In the Southern
States In other words, they set themselves
directly in array against the Constitution, and
would gladly sweep that away this moment 1t
they had the power.
II was time, therefore, that the Democratic
party should come to the rescue OF the Oonstl'
tuition and the Union, both Of which are in i'm
minent peril. No other party 10 the country
has rallied 60 unanimously to tho defense OF the
country. II has furnished three-foarths OF the
soldiers now in arms under the stars and stripes,
and All the best Generals and other officers are
Democrats, with Mcclellan at their head. But
the Democratic party will never. stand idly by
and sec one provision after another 10 the Con-
stitution stricken down, and the war for
the Union converted into mad crusade
against slavery and shareholders. The Demo-
cratic masses at home, whose sons and brothers
are fighting for the Union, aud who are depriv
ing themselves Of all their wonted luxuries In
order TO pay the necessary taxation for the sup
port Of the Government, will never consent that
fanatical majority in Congress- ehall tax them
sill more in order to buy up hundreds oil thoua-
ands of slaves, to be thrown among them as
paupers. or to compete with white labor. It
was time, then, that thls movement OF the Dem
ocratic members In Congress WIS made. Their
plans OF action are not yet developed, and OF
course not yet made public. Bat they will be
such az will be hailed with Joy by tho Demo-
cratic party all over the country, and indeed by
conservative men of all parties. When they
are developed and made public, they will con.
sti.ute q platform on which the conservative
men Of all parties will stand, and on which they
will roll back the tide of fanatcism thatis now
seeking to bury the country in tho black waves
of sectional intolerance. II will gladden. the
hearts Of The readers of the Times TO know that
even 10 this Congress, 80 given up to radical alb
olIti6nism, there are no less than forty eight
members who are actively engaged 10 this new
movement, and who give to it their undivided
energies Such men as Richardson, of Illinois;
Voorhees,, of Indiana; Wicklifie, Of Kentucky;
Pendleton and Cox, OF Ohio; and Corning, OF
New York, are the head of tho movement, and
their names are guarantee of all that have
said of it