Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-03-29

| MIR. EkmcOhm and his AdmahniHfra.
tion Hmpeached by a "Loyal :
Paper.
The crowded state Of our columns ha,
prevented us from laying the important mr..
| ticle, which we copy from the New York
Nee Mutton, before our readers at an ear.
lier day. Let no person fail to peruse II
carefully. The NeD Nation is the organ Of
the Fremont faction, recently started; and
Of course, is intensely "loyal." A more
scathing review of Mr.. LINcoLN's public
acts--a more terrible exposure of his pre-
tensions to honesty and capacity, has not
been and, we might almost say, could not
be written. We have nothing to add to the
Indictment, which Is summed up In the con-
clusion that Mr. LINCOLN "is, of all the cit
liens Of the United States, the least honest
and the most dangerous" No one of those
who opposed Mr.. LNcoLN,s electionhas ev-
er pronounced upon his career with such Sc
verify as marks thismanifesto from his quon-
dam friends. We submit to the party and Its
organs whose business It Is to defend the
President, that the enginery of denunciation
and terrorism which for threeyears past has
been held to bear upon the Democracy,
must now be turned upon this new and
more savage and relentless foe.a2
The fate which awaits all "trimmers" has
at last overtaken Mr.. LINCOLN. The small
shrewdness which he brought with him
from his law practice in Springfield in
spired him with the idea that he might
hold middle course between the great
parties--that he might maintain an appear
ance of respect for constitutional obligaT
tion and yet retain the support Of the fac
ton which secuted every such considers
tion. The Conservative masses of the coun-
try accepted in good faith the assurances
and pledges he gave them; the Radicals
discovered the double game he played, and,
discarding him as a leader, only tolerated
him for the future as tool. Such char
acter as LNcoLN's, bent on pleasing two
parties, will invariably be ruled by the
more exacting and hostile Of the two. Ac-l
.cordingly, while the Radicals were never
tired of vilifying the President they had
elected, and demanding from him new
surrenders of principle, he was as un-
wearied In I, his readiness to concede'
without a sign of conscientious COM
junction he violated every pledge by which
he had bound himself to Conservatism, and
ran with servile agility to the farthest
length of Abolition policy in order to con-
ciliate the favor of his insatiate "friends,"
the radicals. His utmost sacrifices have
been unavailing. He sold himself but the
pay is not forthcoming. His masters, for
whose sake he has forfeited the support of
the Constitution-loving people, having ac-
complished their end with him, are now the
first in their contempt and hatred of the
tool they formerly employed. They know
him; they helped to make him; they used
him, and it is out of the fullness of their
knowledge that they now speak Of him.
1t is not likely that in the face Of such
exposures as the Radicals are making, and
are able still to make, that the cant about
Mr.. LINcoLN's "honesty'n will be much
longer continued in circulation. Nor, when
1t is proclaimed by the most 'loyal" faction
of the only "loyar' party, that three years
Of prodigal expenditure and reckless blood
she'd have only brought the nation to the
verge of ruin, will there be much room for |
boasting about the capacity Of the Execu-
i've who is now running the Government
machine in the interest Of his own re-nOm-
nation. More probably the popular voice
will echo the truth which comes so unex-
pectedly from the Radical quarter whose
ltterances we have been considering. The
country will conclude, with The Ne,c Ma
ion, that awe have been imposed upon long
The ruin which you (Mr. Lincoln)
rave been unable to accomplish in four
years, would certainly be consummated
we're you to remain in power four years
onger. Your military Governorsand their
Provost Marshals override the laws, and
he echo of the armed heel rings forth as
:learly now in America as In Austria.
You haze encroached upon Our liberty tcfthota
ec,ring victory; and zoe must hare both"
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