Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-01-12
Governor BrOugh's Inaugural Ad
dress.

JOHN BRoUGH, the new Governor of Ohio
delivered an Inaugural Address on Monday
upon taking the oath of office. 1t is in
general well written document, and ex-
presses in many portions patriotic senti-
ments which all citizens will approve
That the new Governor should feel gratified
at the large majority by which he was
elected, is natural. He says it heralds nc
mere party triumph. Whether he and the
men it has elected with him to places OF
trust and power, will regard it as mere
party triumph, or whether their every eX-
ertion will be given, in the language o1
Governor BRoUGH, to the restoration OF
the Government to its original unity and
power, is yet to be determined by the
course he and they pursue. Our people
have seen in late years the fairest promises
made, but to be broken, and have found pro-
fessions of freedom from partisan bias to be
hollow and hypocritical.
But as the new Governor interprits the
command of the people to be that partisan
trammels and affinities shall be, laid aside
until the country is restored to its former
unity, greatness and prosperity, we may
. reasonably expect that he will himself yield
implicit obedience to that command, and so
far as his authority and influence extend,
enforce it upon all others, in and out of Of
flee.
Speaking of the great burdens which the
people have borne and the sacrifices they
have made, the Governor says they have
been endured for the reason that the cause
was that of nation struggling for its ex-
istence-of freedom gasping for its vitality
of good and beneficent Government Ia
boring to assert its supremacy over re-
bellious and misguided portion of the peo-
pie. The nation here spoken of must be the
American Union of States as it existed be-
fore the war-the freedom alluded to must
he the freedom we then enjoyed under our
Federal and State Constitutions and Gov
ernments; and the good and beneficent
Government mentioned is certainly that
Federal Government the country enjoyed
from the Inauguration Of GEORGE WASH
INGroN to that of ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
We see no other reasonable construction
that can be given to such language as that
of ''adhering to the purpose of accomplish
ing the restoration of our Government and
our Union" If the radicals and revo-
lutionists of our State insist upon differ
ent reading, it will be in effect attributing
to Gov. BRoUGH settled design to humbug
and deceive the people.
Governor BRoUGH, not only indorses the
recommendation of Governor ToD for in
creasing the tax for the relief of soldiers
families, but goes beyond him, and recon-
mends its increase to three, and even four
mills on the dollar. The reasons given by
him for this increase certainly appeal to the
honor, patriotism and humanity of the peo-
pie of our State.
Governor BRoUGH thinks that present
events indicate very strongly that the end
of the rebellion approaching, and says we
want peace-the North as well as the South;
and that there are but two ways in which
the restoration of peace and the Union is to
be complished-frst, the unconditional
surrender of the leaders, and the abandon
ment of the rebellion;-or, second, the con-
tinued progress and conquests of our arms,
until the military power Of the Confederacy
is broken, and the heart of the rebellion
crushed. The first of these he does not
think likely to occur; the second, therefore,
constitutes in his view our only means Of
certain success. In this second course,
two things are, according to Governor
BRoUGH, to be kept steadily in view-first,
to redeem the seeded States from the mill
tary power of the Confederacy; and second,
to develop the principles of loyalty in the
relieved people, restore their State Govern
ments and unite them again with their sis
ter States under the provisions of the Ma
tional misunderstanding of course the
State Governments as they were before the
and the National Constitution as
il is.
Judgment Rendered Against j. IL.
Giddings I'm the Canada Kid
mapping Case.