Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-07-17
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~;th hagns, AAti UeSete cnargee Democfae
ma o,h. che authors Of The New York riot,
,Oh, or leading journals in Ohio OF the same
sol Of politics, sing the came tune. The Ga
sette Of July 18th says that "the Democratic
leaders In New York have invoked riot
against the Government" and in another arti-
Gle in the same issue the Gasats asserts that
"in the brutal riot at New York we have the re.
suit Of the Democratic teachings and manage
ment 4"
These are Wholesale charges and are as un-
founded and false as were the accusations
brought against our Savior that he denied the
authority of Caesar and sought to make himself
q king. Democrats seek no revolution ex
cept through the balIoi.box" This they have
right to do, and to charge them with Icing the
authors of riots like those in New York and
Boston, because Of the exercise of that consti-
tutional right, Is as absurd and wicked as 1t
would be to charge those who inculcate the pre-
oep.s contained in the Sermon on the Mount
with being the authors of those fierce religious
wars that have been the disgrace Of what 10
called Christendom.
We have heretofore refrained from saying
Q word 90 to the responsibility of the Abolition
leaders for these riots. We should do go now,
w.rs It no! that the Gazette and other ultra Alb.
olition papers have thrown down the gauntlet
40 IL on purpose TO provoke contest When
charges, such as wo have quoted, are made,
which We knoW and the country knows to be ut
terly false and groundless, We are for putting
"the saddle on the righ. horse"
Mcbs on so extensive sclle as chat in New
York do not spring out of the ground in elm
gle night. There must exist for long time
deep-sealsd cause Of uneasiness before such an
outbreak can take place. Has not such un-
easiness existed for many montbs, and does 1t
not now exist In the public mind all over the
country The Gazette calls the New York mob
"a riot against the Government" What has
provoked men of the same class as those who
have yielded up their lives by thousands. or are
now In the field, in the service of that Govern
ment, to rise In open rebellion agsinst its au.
thority7
Il is not the mere enforcement of the draft
as measure for raising soldiers merely TO put
down rebellion. A similar measure might have
been enforced during the first summer or fall
after the war broke out without single mur-
mur Of dlscoatent True, 1t was not needed,
then, because the same class of men who oppose
the draft now, volunteered BY hundreds of
thousands. Why do they not volunteer now az
well IS then, and thus render draft unneces-
saryf Clearly, either the people have changed
In regard to their Views of the war, or the Ad-
ministration has changed its policy. Let Us In.
qulre into this.
There 10 NOS particle Of proof to sustain the
assumption that the mass Of the people in the
Northern and Border Slave States are less earn.
est In their determination to put down the re-
belllon and restore the Union, with all the rghis
OF oil the States nnimpaired, than they we're
eighteen months ago. On the contrary there
10 indubitable evidence that this determination
has gained, and Ia gaining strength every hour.
On The breaking out of the war, Congress
and the Pfesiden. both declared II 10 be ma
tlonal war on our part with single national
Gbject-the restoration of the Union. That
object united oil hearts inits support. A pledge
was given by both branches Of Congress, at the
extra session In July, 1861, that there should
be no interference with the rights and institu.
lions Of any Of the States, having special refer.
ence, % was universally underatood ct the time
70 the institution Of slavery. Under shat pledge
men aocksd from the Northern and Bordel
Slave States, voluntarily, and with . aunanimity
unexsmpled In the history of any country, Il
the standard Of the Republic.
Bat at the beginning Of the next or regular
session Of Congress, change Of policy was In
augurated. 1t was, then, openly avowed tha
slavery, State institution, Was the cause Of th,
rebellion, and must be destroyed before the wal
could cease Congress refused to renew the
pledge Il had given at the extra session. The
new policy Was carried out In acts prohibiting
slavery 10 the Territories and abolishing IL In
the District Of Columbia; In Con6sca!ion and
Emancipation acts; in Compensated EmanciIa,
tIon resolutions; in Emancipation by proclama-
tions Of the President, and In the arbitrary ar
rest and imprisonment Of persons who opposed
the new policy.
Time rolled on, and the same course contin.
ued to be pursued by the majority in Congress
and the Executive. What was the effect upor
yolunseesing and upon the public mind W.
hardly need AK the question. Every intellI'
gent man knows what the effect was and is :
On the 25Ih Of February last, on the floor Of
Congress, In speech on the conscription bill
the venerable JoHE J. CRITTESDEn, Of Ken
tucky, (see Daily Globe of March 9h) Asked
these pregnant questions;
What has produced the change that now pre-.
sents itselfi What has united the South 10 ont
solid iron phalanx? What has crushed oul
and destroyed to great extent, If not wholly
the confidence and enthusiasm that awelled VI
10 the hearts Of the people of the nation 2
What has done all this IL Il our departing
from our faith. Il IL our departing from that
object which We declared 70 be the only just
and patriotic one. What else has done It p
Have you not departed from the poli,y Of that
faith I Have you mos, In manner that 10 con.
sIdered psr6dloue, violated the pledges which
You gave the country more than eighteen months