Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-03-17

See ILLS Veflncu III Unc luctS IraisPirlHS
before your eyes, which you cannot
be ignorant OF, but perhaps are not So
licitous to comment on. To-day your
administration is seeking to connect itself soith
,ohdteuer Is conservative IL, The land to secure
recollection. It's most decided proclansations are
either called in question by the President orrer-
dered nugatoTy by hdlf-hearted execution. Its
announced policies are those of amnesty for
rebels, war and repulsion for radicals. Its
accredited spOkesmen are the revilers OF
what freedom has accomplished, the ira
ducers of all the advance men of this age.
If that is to be the administration of the
future, so vouched for and dominated, in
what will 1t differ from a reaction, COM
promise, surrender? Shall we never learn,
even in the midst of such experience? Be-
think you how every progress In our ma
tional attitude for three years past has come
I'D out of disaster to our arms, has been a |
torn, reluctant consent only yielded to our |
desperate misfortune. Is 1t a sufficient ans |
wer to all that to say, "And yet there has !
been progress at last?" Go count the two
hundred thousand dead such method OF
progress has cost; go visit the mourning
firesides that are fitting other sons for
new sacrifices under the call for an addition
al half million of soldiers and you will
learn very surely that, however prompt
to sustain the nation in the hour of its
peril, loyalty does not ipdorse that
PARALYSIS which has brooded over its efforts, 7
and will never, never, never consentto re-
new that control which has made lcthargic
| civil politics the sure precursor of military
miscarriage. With such as the attitude and
such as the issue, does not grave response
| bility rest, then, on those called here to re-
fleet the public will? And how, senators;
| will YOU meet it? viii you yield to inde-
| I.o;s;o,, and shoko hapda with reaction
will you promptly come up to the require
ment of these times, accept the mission OF
revolution, and organize rddicalism into
partu and a potcer TO take charge of the ytuturey
| If only this Congress shall be true and
] earnest in legislation now, If you shall be
| out-spoken and free-spoken in this cause.
we will do much toward inaugurating, for
the contest of principle that impends in the
country, true issues, and by consequence
will have true heroism embodied in the
popular choice. If you are false, If you are
hesitant, if you fear to stand avouched NS1
soldiers of progress, you and l and all
Others with similar responsibility upon
them deserve to have sham leaders palmed
off upon us, and will only succeed
In carving into the future the sloth, incer-
titude, enforced compliance, lukewarm per-
! formance, and unparalleled sacrifices of the
past. Nor in the better part in the true or
eanism of the radical faith of the people
into an active shape, ready to battle and to
govern, to administer either peace or war
with thoroughness and direction, will those
who shall contribute toward it be without
support in the country. There is much OF
earnest work doing everywhere among men.
and rest assured that this pivotal point Of
as of st RT SE the b Fs e j. cRRGsf ne 6eES ses
of conservatism are interrogating tho va
4 rious State legislatures and other assembly
bodies for favorable responses, like Roman
augurs examining the flight of birds or the
entrails of oxen, on the other hand the 10y
atty of the land is knitting itself together
by mutual scovenant"with tirmness and
touch that will yet have, if 1t shall dare to
exercise it, power and opportunity to shape
), results and save the republic. With instinct
, i've foresight it has been gathering in council
, and league,i in open union orsecret affiliatiOn,
roughly shaping associations out of inform
al recognitions, and assuming cooperative
forms to ascertain its growth and strength,
not knowing what necessities might arise,
. but resolute not to be without bond. Did
loyalty take alarm long since, and thus ex-
press its distrust of partyism subject to ofii-
cial controlp IT. dwells with the people,
f and they have strange knowledge Indeed,
the people are as far ahead of the politi-
lcians in these times as courage is ever be-
T fore cowardice, They are radical in every
, bone and muscle. They are Democratic in
all their blood. They are loyal to their faith,
and that faith Is progress; that Democracy
. is freedom; that radicalism is organization
! | to repudiate the courses that rely only on
I lost battles for inspiration, and appeal ever
!, to reactionary sympathies for political sup
! port, and to amnesty proclamations for mil
! ftary prestige, without daring to invoke
! the spirit of this nation in the names of lib
, erty to arise and conclude the conquest.
: : o MI. President, in bringing to a closeth
marks submitted to the Senate, permit me tC
u say that, coming from a city which wastht
: scene Of the first armed collision IN this war
/, and that has never faltered from that houl
. | to this in devotion to the cause, although
a Its losses have been distressing and unpar
! alleled, / have felt impelled to speak II
depreciation of baneful policies, above party
! ties, and regardless of administration and Cab
! linet and President Furthermore, that dwell
i | ingwhe this disease ofslavery which ha
4 been so fatal to our unity was visible In al
: Its developments, and where the diversities
! of class and condition ,engendered by IL
: influence were constantly witnessed in an
+ tagonism, it has seemed not inappropriate
3 to apply those experiences, and, discus
II with some amplitude The basis, social an(
political, on which alone we can hope TO-
!. future peace and prosperity, to our .coun
!. .ltry. And lastly, that lin taking an initia
. tive, and proposing an act of direc
abolition, LIDO SO in the name Of the grea
. State which has honored me with a seat IL
Z this Senate, and which, although still {
: slave State under the local law, will b.
1. proud and grateful to receive emancipation
: at the hands of the Federal government
!, Missouri, which was consecrated to slavery
" l<,,,<.rn thar fnrtxy vaara -hV natiOua