Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-03-25
Tna Danger that IL Casting its DARK
shadow Before us.

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.r..o. ,,o,,d than the
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NJ, ca. :, onoa an Illustration and
n,oo. or ,hs ,,u,b Of this remark.
49,. 80, zoo va anoApei In war TO
A.. 80 ,,,.no.a as sxorsssed in the President
u,oclama.lon for three months volunteers
AZ d,srars;no ounspIracies seeking to obsruc
and rravsnt the execution OF the laws Of the
unIted States. Il was confidently predicted BY
some high in official station, that this object
would be accomplished In sixty, or at furthest'
In ninety days. But almost twelve months have
gone by, and the end is not gained yet AS
the war is heightened out, the feelings of sec
tional hate are intensified on both sides.
We have gained Of late succession OF tri-
umphs over the rebels and driven them from
the border and from the coast further ana iur'
ther into the interior. The prospect Is tnat we
shall soon be able to overrun and hold the coun-
try In which rebellion has been predominant
But as the tide Of war turrs In our favor, the
inevitable question comes up, and demands
soIu.Ion--xbat use shall be made of our victo
ries, or in other words, how shall We deal with
the districts which have been or shall be wrtst-
cd from the grasp of the rebel faotion2
Keeping In mind the avoWed purpose Tor
which we entered into the war, this question
would seem of easy solution. In that view,
the only answer that can be given is, that
wherever and whenever the rebel conspiracies
are broken IN and dispersed, and the authority
Of the Federal Constitution and laws Is epforc.
ed and maintained, the object Of the war on
our mart il attained, and the people should be
Ieft IN re.construct or re-establish their respec.
tive State and municipal governments as they
were before the rebellion begun.
But this does no. suit class of men who
professedly range themselves on the Union
aide. but are really seeking the overthrow of
the Uojon. Thew are the extreme men at the
North who are not satisfied with the disper-
aim NJ rehel combinations and conspiracies,
and tho enforcemept of the laws. They do
mt want the Union sayed They are for de-
s,rovino II. or for admitting that the rebels
have des,royed II. and are for building up
a new Government We have a sample of
tbsss extremist.. who are every day becoming
bolder and more numerous, in Mr.. BINGHAM, Of
Ohm. Who argued in a sueech in Congress, de-
livered ON the 10Th instant, that the go called
.sceded states had Of themselves withdrawn
from the Uniou and were reduced to the condi.
tim of ,e,,;toriss If th;s he true. then the
sscssa;onists have accumulated. or rather had
aecomnlished their object a year ago, and va
have been fighting for A mere shadow-for iusl
nothing at all The Union, according to Mr.
B,raz.M,s ,easoninp. was dissolved nv the
passage of the ordinances of secession beyond
recall. and all we of the remaining States had
to do, was to acknowledge such dissolution,
and act upou IL. We should have gone to
work Immediately and formed new Constitu.
tion and Government, instead OF pretending to
act under the old ones, and baye made the war
one for mere conquest, and not for the main.
tainance of the Union.
Mr.. BINGHAM is Republican, and one of q
class likely to become, If not already, dominant
in that party, as represented in Congress and
out of it. Extreme men like him, whom many
Republicans would, q year ago, have hardly
treated with common politenets, are now in
high favor with ths. party and its representa-.
tive men. They are not yet all quite ready,
though great portion of them are, to ssy that
SUMNER, PHILLIPS, etc are precisely
right; yet from President LsooLS downward to
the drummer up of Republican or Fusion
toWnship caucus. W hear it intimated, with
wise, prophetic shake Of the head, that this ex-
treme doctrine of the real dissolution of the
Union by the rebellion in the extinguishment of
State Governments, State constitutions and
State lave, may be the one upon which the
Federal Government, If the war continues much
onger, may be compelled to act.
'RAs specimen and apt illustration of this,
Jake the journal Of this city, of yesterday
March "a. That paper contains Mr..
speech to which we have alluded
It produces, in an editorial, sound and conclu-
i've arguments against Mr. BNeHAM's position
has certain States have taken themselves out
II the Union, and broken II up, and are no
more to be regarded as States. But what does
III this logic amount to in the eyes Of the read.
srs of the Journal, when the editor in the last
paragraph of his article says: "There may BE-"
,omInR events that are now casting their shad
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