Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-09-21

Pandora box, it has spread a canker-eating
curse; blight and mildew has followed
it; the flowers of hope and peace in the
South have been turned to bitterness; the
Constitution has been made Jest and
laughing stock at the White House, and the
people of the North have become disheart-
ened and disgusted. Has it liberated any
slaves? Are there any negroes in the ar
my that would not have been in without it?
No, not one! | heard Republican per-
tainer to Lincoln say that he didn't
know as it had done much good at home, but
had obtained tor us friends abroad.
Forty old spinsters who meet annually at
Exeter Hall have been conciliated; but be-
yond that l cannot see what good it has
done. What care we tor that respect from
abroad which grows from the graves of half
million of our fathers, sons and brothers?
But let us turn once more to the evil-a
united South. There is not in the South a
State, district, county, a city, town, or
hamlet, a lane, mansion or hovel, where
bitterness has not been added to bitterness.
Should you ask them when this intensified
dislike took possession of their hearts, they
would tell you September 1st, 1862.
The whole army revolted at being made
crusade against the peculiar institutions
OF any one or number of States. Loans
have been sold at a runous discount. We
have had drafts and conscriptions. Men
held back still. Beecher and Greeley as
sured Abraham Lincoln that the proclama-
tion would put into the field 100000 men,
and the simple-minded man believed it.
The more he caused the proclamation to be
distributed, more need there became of
drafts and conscriptions in the North, the
more united and desperate became the
South. They have taken oaths and given
pledges among themselves that they will
fight to determination before they will bow
to the footstoOl of Abraham Lincoln.
A gentleman who has lately Travelled eX-
tensively in the South, and has had abun-
dant opportunity for judging, told me that
outside of Tennessee he found no Union
sentiment. This is the fruit of Abe Lin
coins policy. Great God! Has it come to
this? After 100000 of our brothers sleep
beneath the Southern soil; after the return
OF 100000 disabled; after a draft of 500,0U0
is there still no Union feeling in the South?
We can bear still further privations to re-
store the old Union; we will give another
half million of our sons and our brothers,
and another mortgage on our country, rath-
er than one star shall be lost from that good
old flag, or one star shine with diminished
lustre. But what is to be the end of all
this? We have national debt of $3000,-
100000, with $l50,000000 unpaid claims, be-
sides the claims of widows and orphans, be-
sides pensions. besides tax OF one-quarUer
the value of every necessary, besides de-
preciated currency, and the debt accumu-
lating with wonderful rapidity. l don't
complain, but ask you, my Republican
hearers standing at the outskirts of this
vast assemblage, what is to be the end of
all this?
We have lost 100000 men and $5,000OO0,-
600. How many more lives and how much
more treasure is to be squandered? Guided
by skillful commanders the rebellion could
be crushed and the Union restored in three
months. But this subjugating the South
and making them kiss the dust at the feet
of Abraham Lincoln, can't be done short of
determination of the race.
Turn to Lincoln's capacity. God knows
it is a disagreeable subject for an American
patriot to treat Of Every American citi-
zen must have desired him to fill the office
well. Gladly would / have been blind to
his incapacity, and, like the sons of Noah,
gone backward and covered his nakedness.
Would you know how he is esteemed by
men who are acquainted with him, go to
the Senate. There is not one but will tell
you he has become disgusted with his tri-
fling conversation, vacillating character,
and his silly jokes. Not one of that Senate
was in favor of his nomination. Look at
his appointments. Seward and Chase L do
not say that Mr.. Lincoln keeps in office men
whom he knows to be dishonest, but he does
keep in office canting, long-faced hypocrites
who denounce the North equally with the
South, and who are getting their long, lank
fingers into the treasury every day, and has
fathered and assumed the responsibility of
the whole Administration. Two or three
piratical Southern vessels have swept our
commerce from the seas. One thousand
ships have been sold to avoid capture, and
yet Lincoln holds in office the insufficient
Secretary Welles. And if any of his min
ions are detected in fraud they do not suffer,
for Abraham is so kind he pardons them.
And he asks you to re-elect him. ask every
soldier within hearing of my voice to con-
slider with me his injustice to General Nc
Clellan. He said to Mcclellan, ''you've got
your plan to march into Richmond and I've
got my plan; wherein is yours better than
miner" McClellan's plan, and every soldier
would have said it was right, was by way of
the peninsula and James river; Lincoln's
plan was to ''march in bee-line" into Rich
mond, over the Manassas junction. Lin
coin knew better; and then followed his first
attempt to thwart Mcclellan in putting
down the rebellion. lie diUided the command.
And when Mcclellan had every reason to
believe that Richmond was within his grasp,
then came that cruel, crueI order for the
of Mcdowell and his 10000
men. Then Lincoln and Mrs. Lincoln and
Bob got scared, and Halleck was called to
protect the capital.
Finally, Gen. Mcclellan was withdrawn.
He begged to be spared, begged for rein
said he could march into Rich
mond, but he was denied. | need not speak |
to you of the disgraceful marches and
countpr- marches undpr Ponp n man after |
Lincoln's own heart, with ''nigger on the
tary matters there. Grant knows that Lin |
coln's over-ruling has cost him $4,000 men.
This was Lincoln's plan of reaching Rich |
mond. Gen. McClellan's last request of Mr.. |
Lincoln was, IF cannot have my COM
mand, at least let me share the fate of my |
soldiers" This was denied him. And yet, |
soldiers, Mr.. Lincoln is Commander-in- |
Chief of the Nation, and asks you to re-elect |
him. What has this experiment of Lincoln's |
cost us? On the 9th of January, 1862, some
one had told him that he was Commander
n-Chief of the forces, and then came the
"Order No. lit is hereby
ordered by Abraham Lincoln, Commander
M Chiefof the forces Of the United States,
that on the 22d of February every Army,
shall advance against the enemy" He
iidn't consider that il was the dead Of win
ter; he didn't know anything Of the posi-
Sion of the forces and what loss it woiild,
entail, and yet he has again, the superlative |
mpudence to aspire to the Chief Magis-
tracy; and, soldiers, he asks yott support
him. si9'- 80 iutt31iA2 l9um os 5Op Al
II claimNto have proved to, you the inca
pacity of Abraham. Lincoln, and that he has
lowered the dignity, and disgraced the