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

made nero out OF man upon whom you
have lavished everything, who had every
obstacle removed from his path, and who
was promptly furnished with reinforce
ments and supplies, while Rosecrans could
get none; and who has scarcely been able to
hold, with the immense resources at his
command, the ground which his predeces-
sor gained In spite Of you by his own tall
ents. sNHaot RI sid'' Hof7r'Tq i'sf
iad You have offered us the distressing spec
tacle OF the sacrifice OF merit to caprice and
| personal political interests, and this i'm q
Republic, in the name and under the plea
Of popular sovereignty. s.y
And to cap the climax we are obliged to
hear definitions like this: An uncondition-
ally loyal man Is one who, although not sat
isfied with the measures taken BY the gov
ernment approves them all and gives them
his constant support.
It seems almost incredible. Are we in
| Constantinople, In st. Petersburg, in Rome
or in Parisy Are we the DESCENDANTS of
those proud Saxonswho refused to succumb
to any yoke, or the illegitlmate Offspring of
cardinals seeking to secure fortune and
lsgreatness BY a perpetual. worshipf Are we
really the descendants Of those disciples of
Luther and Calvin, who, rather than subject
! their reason to an authority which they des-
pissed, preferred to expatriate themselves to
| those shores, where, through the agency of
| liberty, they founded our national greatness
which you are now striving to drown in a
sea, of cowardice and adulation, corruption
and incompetency? Were our ancestors to
visit the earth, they would certainly be sur
prised to see. that, eighty years after the
revolution which gave life and liberty to
the nation, the Lincoln party could find
no other definition of loyalty than blind
submission to the DEGREES of the govern
ment. ,slr .LS6fTsaBaI
But we have exercised this blind and
mute-submission during three years; during
three years We have kept silent---and what
was more generous than silence?
Some true radical patriots said not long
since, "We have lost confidence in Free
mont: What has he done or said for a year
| past?" :,
What could he do? what could he say ?
He has done for you what Butler and Sigel
have done; what we have all done; he has
been charitable enough to keep silence, and
that is more than he should have done. In
the face of SO much incapability and cor
ruption, patriotism alone has kept us silent.
Each time that fresh defeat or a fresh con-
cessiOn to foreign powers brought an indig-
nant exclamation to our lips, we restrained
its utterance. And yet have much grief.
and love, and admiration, accompanied each
hetacomb of these unknown heroes, mar
tYrs TO their country, who have fallen,
tlroqgh the incompetency and the cold and
unsuitable ambition of the men whose mis-
sion it was to lead our sons to victory, but
who, being blinded by political considera-
tions for their personal advancement, led
them only to proiitless death. .-7,
And you have not displayed more talent
or energy abroad. Napoleon has trampled
upon the rights of a friendly republic; he
has insolently notified us of blockade OF
the Mexican coast and hro,on the Monroe
doctrine IN our face. We ask, them who Is
master now In America, he who lays down
thelaw, or he who submits to the same. Is
it Napoleon the Ill, or the successor OF
Washington?
God alone, by bestowing upon the coun-
try ineXhaustible natural wealth and that
ardent patriotism which makes every SOL
dier hero, has saved the country from the
ruin into which your selfishness would
plunge 1t. This Is the secret of the differ
South. t'llt D. w - 80
We have been imposed upon long enough.
The ruin which you have been unable to
accomplish in four years, would certainly
Pc fully consummated Were you to remain
n power1four years longer. Your Military
Governors and their Provost Marshals over
ride the laws, and the echo Of the armed
heel rings forth as clearly now in America
as in France or Austria. You have en-
croached upon our liberty without securing
victory, and we musthave both.
You have dishonored us abroad bv shame
less Misrepresentation as to our true con-
dition. Places that we occupied In 1862 are
now again In the hands Of the rebels, and
God knows whether your preparations for
the approaching campaign are adequate.-
Corruption has entered into every depart
ment Of your Administration, rendering il
very Augean stable, which needs Her
cules as your successor. 1t is time for the
light to- shine forth and for The truth to
fully appear, so that all sincere patriots, all
men who look for nothing further than the
advancement of their country and OF liber-
ty, may rally In one compact body around
the great principle of liberalism, and form
q liberal party really worthy of the name.
such Acne can only save the country.
Away with all the imposters who have
invaded the temple of liberty, and turned,
1t into q vote-market., Let there be an end
of this ridiculous farce of unconditional
loyalty, which isonly fit to secure the vote,
of those fools who, instead of delving to the
root Of the matter, blindly believe all the
interested falsehoods published by journals
that are paid to applaud and Submit,
whether right or wrong.
Mr.. Lincoln's honesty Is of a strange
description. 1t consists in nearly running
the country and In disregarding its interests
In order to make sure Of power for four
years longer. To our eyes, the man who
has deprived his country of the services Of
some of its best citizens, who has been un-
able to make any better use of the incredi-
BILE resources confided to him, and who, af-
ter agitating so many public questions
without solving one of them, disregards his
own utter incapacity, is, of all the citizens
Of the United States, the least honest and I
the most dangerous. n ....., {, .r... A.,
But even If President Lincoln were the,
honest man that his paid organs represent
him to be, how dangerous would his re- /,
election prove to the liberties of the people,
under existing circumstances, surrounded I
as he Is with the military influences that he \
has at his back! Letus remember the teach .
Ing of history and the instances Of feigned !
or realimbeci1ity, all of which have result (
ed In despotism. Sixtus ", the half, stupid (
monk in his cell, and Napoleon III, the
scottish debauch, belong to the same school. 4
The men, who have. had to endure them, 4
elected them as unimportant individuals, I
whose election would give time for reflec-
ton and consideration; 1t will soon be six /
teen years that France has reflected and 7
pondered over her lost liberty. Fearing
the unknown and shrinking from the per-
incidental to change, they have l
had despotism and ruin, which are leading
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