Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-08-08

mark was made and heard, that the departure
oi the Irish would be o great relief TO our poor.
houses and jails! The Governor or ais iriends
may say 90 Of Colonel Cess's coun!rymen--the
lrleh-wi'hout committing treason, or even
giving oftense. We are not accused of talking
so badly, even about Mr.. Andrews countrymen
the negroes-yet we are prosecuted! In South
Carolina, where free speech was never free, they
settled its limits before Judge Lynch. Let us
not desecrase this court with what belongs to
him, or we will sink below the level even OF
South Carolina.
THE sAEcTITY OF TIE eovERNMENT--ls 1T IpoyE
tUsPIcIoN.
Much has been said as to huding fault with the
Government, az ifthere was some peculiar sane
tity in it.
Have we arrived at such state that no one
must find fault With any action or omission Of
the Government or any member OF IL, without
having treason imputed to hint Can not you,
sirG Can not IL ], for example, have the mis-
Fortune to think that Mr.. Seward, our present
Secretary OF State, is not ft, as a statesman, to
index the papers OF the late Silas Wright
However little he may be affected by nv
thoughts, do think his want of sense sober
SenSe-has made him the laughing stock of Eu.
rope! | think he is q small ward and country
politician, who writes like sophomore and &C t.
like stcckjobber. Every time no spesks
about what will happen in sixty days, In nintty
days! he puts me 10 mind OF curb stone brok
or, chatteriDg over the approaching maturity Of
dubious note! think such men have been
advanced to important places 10 this country
about as often as they will be, and cannot help
rejoicing to think that Mr.. Seward will proba-
bly, be the last of the LillipuGans. May not
say SCI Has Mr.. Phillips taken ou. a patent
for the application Of fret rate abnse to second
rate men2 And must be tried for treason il
ever 80 unsuocessfully attempted III Again,
do not worship Mr.. Sumner. cannot admire
person who is so simple as TO think 1t q finer
thing to pretend to be a fanatic than to be dull
bat honest man.
WHICH 10 PREFERABLE, A TYRANNY UNDER SEWARD,
OR THE GOVERNMENT OF JEFF. DAvIs2
And what II am frank enough to cay that
am sick Of the staggering imbecility with which
the Government has managed this war Of life
and death1 Is that treasonable2 Shall ny
Goyernment--tbat Ia 10 cay, my servant, my
creature--waste my money, and even let IL be
stolen, and stop my paper, and interrupt my
business. and violate my Constitution, and starye
out and kill any soldiers out Of pure neglect and
gain only disaster and defeat for me by all this
tollyl And shall | say nothine1 II | am to
put up with this, ana more, and say nothing, or
else be shut up by order Of W. II. Seward,
want to know, seriously and calmly, what shall
| fight JEFF. Davis FORT What worse can he do
to me THAI Seward and Stanton have done al
ready2 What, indeed-Rhen their want of sense
aud want Of energy have made him what be il
Lost money msy be regained, lost armies may
be replaced out Of our swsrms of men; but who
shall give US back the lost time we have "fool.
ed away" before the dirt heaps of Manassas
Expose cup of clear water to the frost. OBJ
serve it, and when the cold begins to fill ite
transparent substance with beautiful spiculG d
ice it you agitate the mass the ice will not i'm.
mediately freeze. But give it in that condition
very short period of rest, and 1t becomes Q
rock, hardly yielding TO the energies of gun
powder and fire. So have we found the South
They were once undecided. Time and the stu
pidity of Government have consolidated hest
tstng into hostile people. Yet Mr.. Gordon
is trsitor il ne calls tool fool.
FREH sPEEoH vERsUs tToNEwALL JACKSON.
No, air-Greedom of speech is not quite gone
, II "stll lives" in Boston. This mean prosecu
tiou is not to affect it. The respectable mem
bers Of the Republican party think and say
plainly what they think about it. Those that
happen to know of them .fe gentlemen. They
: did not agree with me in politics, when politics
existed, but they do agree with me in despisipt
that petty prosecution of labOrers and mechen
les for their opinions, which Was the reproach o
the old Whig party, and which was one of tn
causes Of its tall, de great and respectable a
that party was. They soy with perfect trutl
that the whole moral effect OF our unanimit,
depends upon its notorious freedom from con
straint, and that it would be used against III
with tremendous power. If IL could be show
for one moment 10 be produced by fear or b,
t force. Aud agree with them mos. fully. |
: We cannot hold our own against one or two &c
cessionists 10 Q whole State here without force
} what are we to do with the armies of StOnewa
> Jackson2 $50 t7 tr.r-,rr. -.....E
ABOLITION ePIEs, INFoRMKRs AND THUGS.
The man who attends to every other m al
affairs, whether his own are attended tc D, no
/. ia almost exclusively Massachusetts nuisauci
/. To Massachusetts society peddlins is, indeed,
: : scourge SO great that 1t may De doubted wheshe
!. it does not fully counterbalauce every comtOl
and blessing concentrated in this favored couI
try. Pnritaniam, which exalted the manly Enl
lsh spirit to fanaticsm on the one hand, degrl
ded 1t on the other hand to espionage; il
J churches were mutual assurance soci ieties fC
I! the morality of their members. Its doctrine
| are forgotten. But the evil which the Puritan
s unconsciously did lives after them, and church,
| which detest their memory and deny their teac
q ings are managed on their principles. Ne
@ England to-day is covered with societies
n which the best of men and women coosciel
Q tiously, but reluctantly, and the worst OF me
/, and women, eagerly and with deVilish deligh
a perform the part of spies and informers upC
Q each other. Tosay that sucha gigantic syste
q of mutual espionage does not tend to degPao
4 character, is simply to say that eaves.droppu
o and tale-hei ring are not low and mean occupG
g tions. Uhdsr its influence, nothing is known,
b mRnsleal character or disposition, Habitu
!. watchtulDets on the one side awakena habitu
" lhypocrisy on the other. And it Ia only VII,
}. the little Eaint Of Bostun expands into the 3
), gsntic villain of New Orleane or San Francis
n that you can tell how vast benefit you derv,
Is from his emigration. The Wickedness look
{. little here, because we saw but little of it,
o The enormous pressure of universal IisteniI
t. and peeping had driven it deep into the inne
+ most ibres of our society. So pressed, il Or
W duces smelling committeea-it elects Hiss lie
}. islatures, II brings such men ss Deacon Palm
= to associate, out Of fear, with men like N
o EWashburn, whom they receive into their celia
10 and dismiss through back doors. Nobody VI
10 deny the fact, or its application here, who is y
d prepared to deny the existence of the Rev. N
}. Kslloch, or his church member, Mr.. HayG
I. who peeped after him. and black mailed biz
ia then exposed him. 10 is Me-. Hayess tut
ID to. day, it may be Mr.. Kallochs turn to DO th
IN dirty work for Mr.. Hayes to-mouow.
ee Ii is Mr.. Washburn's turn now. IL may
IN the Gordons' turn by and by. But be the IN
10 whose 1t may, the eystom Of a barbarous q
he and people applied to ths control Of civilil
IL, mankind awakens the fercest resentme
SO Men have put up with the sayagest task-m