Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-09-29
The Politicians versus the PeO-
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soiled the heart OF many patriot who
would else have given himself in pure de-
votion to his country. Men, having once
obtained power, generally dislike to part
with it. and, in the hour of waning for
tune they are apt to adopt any and every
possible means TO maintain themselves.
If public offices were not essential to the
organization Of Government, we would
have them abolished altogether. They
have been for many years in this country
the purlieus Of corruption and the chief
sources Of popular discord.
The people are frequently very badly
represented by their "representatives"--
else they are very bad people. The diff
Guilty is that the politicians endeavor to
make the people, when, according to the
true theory, the people should make the
politicians. All convulsions, whether in
physics, in morals, or in finance, are pro-
duced by the collision Of some extraordi-
nary principle with long established and
uniform laws just so do all our politi-
cal troubles arise. There is harmonious
and beautiful law of virtue pervading the
popular heart which, if allowed to control
the operations of Government in its rela-
ton to the varied interests Of the country,
would preserve the public peace, happiness,
prosperity. And it is only when the pol
iticians, prompted by selfish ambition,
start up some strange and unnecessary is
sue, in conflict with that harmonious law,
that popular dissensions arise, revolutions
are inaugurated, and States are rent by
civil fueds. The gigantic war now afflict-
ing the country is not the peoples war,
and it would never have existed but for
the cruel ambition of the office seekers and
Office holders. They got the whole thing
up for their especial benefit, regardless OF
the happiness and prosperity of the coun-
try and but for these same architects OF
ruin this bloody struggle would soon be
over. 1t is nothing more nor less than a
war of the politicians upon the people
The Aboitionists, who have been labor
ing for more than thirty years to destroy
the Union amid the flames of civil war
now feel that cessation Of hostilities
would be TO them the cessation of power
and they are using the war to keep them
selves in office. Yet, strange to say, they
have done, and are doing, every thing pos
sible to render the war odious. But they
are sharp in this. The is, they adop
the most Objectionable measures in prose
cutting the struggle-snch as confscatior
emancipation and conscription-and, i
the war fails, they will blame the people
who on account of these measures refused
to sustain it; if it succeed, they will a
once have reeked their long cherished ha
tired upon the South, while they will claim
all the glory of the military triumph fo
themselves--their wisdom. In this wa,
they expect to escape the dilemma in whicl
we are now involved
The people have suffered vast deal il
this country by the politicians, and, if the,
don't improve from their experience, the,
will suffer a vast deal more The Aboli
tionists, who are in power, have alread
r insulted and violated the Constitution un
! til they haven't the courage to look it i
the face, and yet they would to force tn
t people, who are friends of the Constitution
: to continue them in power. They assa'
= sinate and bury our rights and liberties b
fore our very eyes and, yet, he who doesn
= join with them in the bloody carnival is
q "copperhead' or "traitor P'
We begin to feel however that the pc,
Is pie are worn and weary of such base tt
e fling with the heritage of their fathers W
3 can hear the mutterings of that terrib
D. storm whose indignant blasts shall sweC
IS away these cormorants from the body po
IS itic. Ohio and Pennsylvania at least ha,
resolved to reinstate the talent and virtue
the country as far as the ballot box wi
enable them to do so in October next.
a. Two Democratic Meetings We,
III : terday.
is Two of the largest mass meetings Y