Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-05-06
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JOHN BRoUGH, Governor of Ohio-avoir-
dupois four hundred pounds-has mounted
his war-horse and taken the field. Return
ing from his hob-nobbing with the kitchen
Cabinet at Washington big with the talk OF
the Capital and flushed with the odors and
wine of the Presidential pantry, he dis
charges a broadside of bombast, and re-
lieves himself of burden which threat
ened him with apoplexy, and his Abolition
followers of fright which seemed about to
prove as fatal. He brought back with him
the flavor of arbitrary insolence and brutal
despotism which now prevails at that, tho
most despicable and depraved court in tho
world. He seems to have fallen in with the
current easily enough, and become great
man by representing that one-half of the
people he governs were traitors and the
other half fools. He wanted martial law
proclaimed in Ohio, that he and his party
might with unchallenged recklessness lord
1t over his political opponents, and oppress
the people with unlicensed severity; ha
failed in getting the civil laws abrogated,
but by his personal exertions he had an ex-
traordinary draft made upon the people OF
Ohio at time when the State is least pre-
pared to transport her laborers, and sacri-
fee her productive wealth. In his procla-
nation, printed yesterday, he assumes the
glory Of having done all this himself, and
revels In the distress he has occasioned like
an Indian chief drunk on hesh-heesh. The
idea that he has called thirty thousand men
from their usual avocations at the expense
Of their farms which are forfeited by neg
lect at the sorrow of helpless families made
more helpless by the absence of their pros
tectors, at the hazard Of destroying vast
crops which are of necessity abandoned,
seems to have filled him with an ungovern-
able pride and bloated him with bombastio
importance, like unto the realization of thd
fable of toad inflated to the size of bull.
When it was announced that three North@
western Governors, BROUGH, MORTON and
YATES, were in council it was impressed
upon the public mind that the meeting
boded no good to their constituents. Tho
characters of the men and the dogmas they
held-their treachery, their subserviency ID
the Federal Administration, their contem,i
for the honor of their States and the rights
of the people, warned the well informed o.
impending danger-not to the enemies OF
the Government by whom they are adj
mired-but to the people of the States they
govern. The result more than realizes tho
unwelcome foreboding. The result of thia
treacherous conclave is the calling out Of
the militia in Ohio, and the consequent par-
alization Of her industrial interests. In
Ohio three thousand farms are left without
9 man to attend to them-ten thousand
fields are left to wither for want of hands
TO cultivate them, this, too, at the very sea-
son when every working man in the State
is required at home.
These men were not reauired by the
President; they were not asked for by th9
War Department; they were not, in justicd
due TO the Federal Government, for Ohi,t
has already furnished more men for the
army than any State in the Union. Conn
pared with the petted and pampered States
of New England, she has furnished brig
ade 70 their corporals guard. The blood oi
Ohio men has been she'd in every battle
from the Potomac TO the Rio Grande: bes
children have been sacrificed in scattered
raids and stupid battles they have been
frittered away In Presidential schemes. and
cotton stealing expeditions which have re-
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