Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-29

John sherman Taken 10 Tnsl<--
Am Exposure of the Lincoln War
PoIicy--Hts End niad Aim the
Desfruction Of Slavery.
w. ID. BIcKnAM, 'editor and proprietor
Of the Dayton Journal, makes in his paper
Of April "a, furious onslaught Re
publican U. s. Senator from Ohio, Hon.
JOHN SHERMAN. Mr.. BIcKHAM begins by
saying:
The exact thing Which was done by Hon.
John Sherman. IN the United States Senate
on the 10Th inst, was to propose an exten-
sion of the lease of slavery. proposition
to. repeal all Fugitive Slave Laws was pend
Ing. when Mr.. Sherman moved to amend
by inserting excepting the act OF Februa-
ny 18th, 1703." w "A FI
The following paragraph contains the
cream of Mr.. BIcKHAM's article: RS rr
Mr.. Sherman's object in thus opposing
the policy of the Government, and the as
certained will of the majority of the peo-
pie, is inexplicable. We had supposed that
no fact was more conclusiyely established
than that slavery was the cause of the war
that the slaughter of thousands of brave
men and the expenditure of thousands OF
millions of treasure was the consequence OF
il, and that 1t had beendecisively determine
ed that the only way to establish peace and
Union, and to restore the authority of the
Government is co destroy slavery. The
Proclamation of Emancipation, we pre-
sumed, contemplated that end; the Procla-
nation of Amnesty, we supposed, looked
i'm the same direction; the resolution adopt
ed by two-thirds of the members of the
United States Senate--HonsJ j ohu sherman
voting with the majority-to amend the
Federal Constitution so as to abolish slave
ry in the United States, we understood to
mean the extinction and eradication of the
internal institution whichwas the cause OF
the rebellion and all our woes.
MIR. BIcKHAM edits and publishes an ultra
Abolition sheet, which advocates LINcoLN's
reelection. We notice its utterances1 for
the purpose of showing the views of an
Ohio Lincoln organ. 1t seems that in its
estimation, to oppose the repeal of the fu-
gitive slave law, enacted, i'm less than four
years after the Federal Governmentwenti in
to cooperation under the present Constitution,
is to soppose the policy of the Govern
ment." 1t is clear, then, that the policy of
the Government under the Administration
of GEORGE WASHINGTON was one thing,
and that, under the Administration OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, it is quite another and
a different thing.
Mr.. B1cKHAM is amazed at Mr.. SHERMAN's
course, because he (Alr. b. had supposed it
''conclusively established" that is, in the
minds of all partisans of the Administra-
tion, JOHN SHERMAN included, that ''slav-
cry was the cause of the war;" and that all
the efforts of the Government in carrying
on the war are to be directed, not to put
down rebels in arms and re-establish peace
and Union OIL the old basis of the Constitu-
tion, but "to destroy slavery" This is the
ultimate end, according to the Dayton edi-
tor and all the prominent leaders OF his
party, for which our gallant men are now
in the field, and others are being called out
by the hundred thousand, to be sacrificed
that "persons of African descent may be
made free.
Not only is Ohio and every other State
under Administration control to be depop-
ulated by the loss of the flower of her pop
ulation; but, according to this Abolition
war programme, the Constitution, which is
the life of the Union, is to be violated, its
sacred guarantees disregarded, and consti-
tutional Government overthrown, in order
''to destroy slavery" The proclamation of
Emancipation, we are now frankly told,
contemplated that end;" the proclamation
of Amnesty ''looked in the same direction"
and so did the resolution to amend the
Constitution passed by the Senate, and for
which JOHN SHERMAN voted.
Mr., BIcKHAM, by expressing the real de-
signs of the party in power, fixes on Mr..
SHERMAN the brand of Inconsistency. The
only difference between the Senator and
the editor is, that the former is the more
willy politician, and wants, while he keeps
step to the roll of the radical revolutionary
drum, to dupe as many well-meaning per-
sons into the ranks as possible, by showing
now and then hypocritical pretense of
love for the old principles and the oldways,
when the Republic was united, free and
prosperous. ~ S- .soes