Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-03-25
The Handwriting on the wall in Ohi.

The Handwriting on the Wall in Ohio.
A telegram from Cincinnati informs US that
1t has been found necessary 10 send military
expedition into one of the interior counties of
The State of Ohio In order there to arrest GER
tain deserters from the army. The expedition,
we are further assured, ls likely to meet with
an organized resistance on the part of the in
habitants, and in that case we are complacently
told "there will be bloody work in Noble
county,"
II the power Of reasoning and of reflection
has not utterly abandoned the men who now
dictate the policy Of the Government, tldings
such as these from the great and loyal State
of Ohio should make them pause and consider
whittier it is that we are drifting. That
deeertion 10 the worst of military offenses,
that the protection of deserters in their de
sortion is a crime against the nation, no man
in his senses will deny. These are points in
the order of those things which "the
court may be supposed TO know Il is beyond
question that the government iS simply doing
les duty in enforcing the return to their repi-
ments of men who have dishonesty and bssely
abandoned their banners, and that no combina.
tions of citizens can be safely permitted to
thwart this action OF the government.
But how has 1t come to pass that any con.
, siderable number of the people of northern
State are found willing to oondone this crime
of desertion and TO protect the criminals at the
risk of their own lives2 The capture of ali The
deserters in Ohio, the bloodest of obloody
work in Noble county," will not answer tbi,
query.
fore the whole country in the perverson of the
War-in tho mismansgement Of the war 90 per.
verted-in the obstinate refusal Of radical
| A.. L od tho ran,nn IN fo oo..,.I.
interests, or to obey the behests OF the psople.
D Two wears ago the dsgraceful spectacle of a
Northern county compelled by force of arms "a
do its duty to the nation would have been i'm.
, possible. Upon those who have made il possi.
bic let the scandal rest to sting them if il NAV
he. into an honorable and profitable shame -
Let IL warn them of the real nature of the work
they have done and still are doing. They have
exaspersted the people of o W estern State into
: the protection Of go clear wrong as deser.
: ton. Do they suppose the same people will
accent with eegerness and execute with
5 accuracy the conscription act, with all tbAi
: il involves OF odious in point OF ts personal ef
fects and of Fashionable in point of its constitu
tional legality The present outbreak in Ohio
Ia an opportunity as well as danger. It reveal,
l TO the government the extent OF popular disaf-
: fection which it has to fear fIom an obstinat,
Q perseverance in it's declared policy. To dea
with that disaffection as Napoleon dealt with
the "sections in Paris, to silence it with grape
shot, will neither mitigate it's intensity nor aver
its eventual triumph. To deprive Il of fuel b,
, a ssner and more constitutional policy vii
, be indeed to kill ito suppress it without I
single wrong to Liberty, to convert into q Low
ally aS irAuk uuu as active as that which lit n,
the land from East to West in reply to the firs
Aaabes of the guns from Sumter, two woo,,
wears ago.-N. Y. World, 2lst.