Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-07

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The Indiana Frete Presse, q Republican
paper, is quite as violently anti-Lincoln as
any of the other German radical papers,
In one of its last numbers it says: :" Lin
coins Administration has undermined the
basis of our Republican institutions and
accustomed the people to the ideas of q
despotic government, by violating their
rights and liberties under circumstances
Which formed no adequate pretext. We do
sOlemnly condemn the arbitrary arrests of
citizens-of States not In insurrection or un-
der martial LAW and Its infringing upon the
rights of free speech and free press"
Finally, let me quote from The NeW Ma
ton, a leading organ Of the Fremont faction
Of the Republican party. In one of Its
last numbers 1t addresses the following
words to President Lincoln: - = -
"In your inaugural address you gave a
very striking illustration of your peculiar
honesty by, virtually pledging yourself in
accordhnce with the well-known principles
of the party which had elected you, not to
serve SECOND term; you saidthis ina man
ner which none of your supporters then
misunderstood; but your words were evil
IDENTIFY designed to bear double meaning,
so that, If you should find the sweets of Of
flee more enticing than you possibly antici-
pated, you might change your purpose
without seeming to violate your promise.
Candid people will see in this good deal
more evidence of cunning than of honesty.
"The whole truth is this: You are leading
che nation quietly TO its destruction By deceiUiRg
the people as 10 The dangers ,c'tich threaten it.
"YOu have offered us the distressing spec
tacle of the sacrifice Of merit to caprice and
personal political interests, and this in re-
public, in the name and under the plea of
popular sovereignty. = -
sand to cap the climax we are Obliged to
hear definitions like this: An uncOndition-
ally loyal man Is one who, although not
satisfied with the measures taken by the
Government, approves them all and gives
his constant support.
at seems almost incredible. Are we in
Constantinople, in st. Petersburg, in Rome,
or in Paris? Are we the descendants of
/ those proud Saxons who refused to sue
cumb to any yoke, or the illegitimate off
spring of cardinals seeking to secure for
\ tune and greatness by aperpetual worship?
! Are we really the descendants of those dis
ciples of Luther and Calvin, who, rather
than subject their reason to an authority
which they despised, preferred to eXpatr.-
ate themselves to those shores, where,
through the agency of liberty, they found-
ed our national greatness, which you are
now striving to drown in sea of cowardice
and adulation, corruption and Incompetent
cy? Were our ancestors to visit the earth
they would certainly be surprised to see
that, eighty years after the revolution
which gave life and liberty to the nation,
the Lincoln party could find no other def
milton of loyalty than blind submission
to the DEGREES Of the Government.
"But we have exercised this blind and
mute submission during three years; during
. hax lrant Gil xuh hnt
Is more generous than silence?
ave have been imposed upon long enough
The ruin achict you haze been unable TO accom-
plish II, four years, aoould certainly be fully con-
sunamated tcere yOu TO remain In poioer .toui
/ years l0n1er. Your Military Governors ana
their PrOcost Mdrshdls Override the ld,rs, ana
the echo Of the armed heel rings forth as clear
lyno,o in America as in France or Austria.-
You have encroached upon our liberty with
out securing victory, and we must have
both. f- ss .ie-..e--
"You have dishonored us abroad by
shameless misrepresentation as to our true
condition. Places that we occupied in 1867
are now again in the hands of the rebels,
and God knows whether your preparations
for the approaching campaign al adequate
Corruption has entered into erery department o.
/ yo,ir administration, rendering IL ue'y Auged,
stable, ,chich needs Hercules as your successor
It is time for the light to shine forth and fol
the truth to fully appear, SO that all sincere
patriots, all men who look Tor nothing fur
ther than the advancement of their country
and of liberty, may rally in one compact
body around the great principle of liberal
ism, and form liberal party really worthy
of the name. Such one only can save the
country. -ye.r- -sr,r..,,s --~f
.sAudg 10Th all the i,npostors soho haze in
n
eote-nldrket. Let there be an end of this
ridiculous farce of unconditional loyalty,
whichis only fit to secure the votes of those
fools who, instead of delving to the root OF
( the matter, blindly believe all the interest
ed falsehoods published by Journals that are
paid to applaud and submit, whether right
or wrong.
..Mr. Tincoln's honesty is .ofa strange
| description. 10 consists in nearly running his
country, and in disregarding it's Interests in or
der to make sure Of po,cer for four years longer.
To,our eyes, the man who has deprived his
country of the services Of SOME of its best
citizens, who had been, unable to make any
better use of the incredible resources con-
fidetlto him. and who, after agitating so
many public questions without solving one
of them, disregdrds his oton utter incdpacity,
Is, of all the citizens Of the United States, he
least honest and the most dangerous" {fsss
The gentleman from Butler expressly
said, when he addressed the House, that he
would use the term Government" In its
fashionable meaning, to designate the Ad-
ministration. Did he use stronger language,
than you find in the passages / have quoted
from your Republican papers? Did he in
dulge In more scathing, more terrible Phil
/ ippic against the f'Govefnment,p p,than they
indulge In? No, sirs, no! Buthe Is a Demo-
crat, and the papers l have quoted from,
are Of. the Republican persuasion They
may say whatever they please. You simply
smile and have no faultto find. But when
ever the gentleman from Butler or any 0th-
er Democrat avails himself OF the privilege
to criticize the acts of the Administration in
terms.,ot stronger than those used BY your
party organs. then you fly into a storm of
passion, then you rave about disloyal senti-
ments, then you strike him down with a
ruffian's fist WHAT'S loyal in Republican
is disloyaI in Democrat All, .sirs this
whole furious clarior about dsloyalty is a
miserable farce, good enough for imbeeile
dupes, but frowned down upon and held in
utter contempt by all Honest, thinking men !!
Away with your hypocritical cant! Bury
it out of sight amongst therubbish beneath
the temple Of liberty, well nigh destroyed
by your leaders,! The time Is not far of,
when you, will look back at the part You
have performed in our national drama, with
sorrow and shame!
Let us clearly understand each other =
Whom do you. designate as disloyal? will