Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-03
r,he nInrieftn Timcs.

Our excellent friend, w. q. HOOD, who
formerly edited the Democratic paper at
Somerset, and afterwards paper at Ports
mouth, has just "pulled up stakes" at Iron
ton and removed his Times to Marietta, where
he has made it a Democratic paper and con-
tinues its publication under the name Of
The Marietta Times. Brother HOOP has al
ways managed to get mp good paper, and
his first issue in Old Washington is sure
guarantee that his well-established reputa-
tion will be maintained. We congratulate
him upon what he has done In the past for
Democracy and for respectable journal
ism, and upon what his well-known ability,
industry, and sound political faith, war
rant us in expecting from him in
the future. We know the Democracy OF
Washington county well, and we know
they will sustain him. There was no suffi-
cient reason for disseminating the publica-
ton of the Democratic paper at Marietta
one year ago; and we rejoice now with our
old-time friends, that they have once again
q county paper of the right kind.
Mr.. HOOD comes out in favor of the
nominees of the Chicago Convention, and
for doing so gives his reasons in the follow
ing vigorous and significant paragraph of
his salutatory:
shall advocate the election of Mcclellan
| and Pendleton to the Presidency and Vice
| Presidency of the United States. do this
for positive reasons, which shall appear in
the columns of this newspaper, from time
| to time, as occasion serves, and, as we'll for
| the negative reason that, since September,
| 1862, have found little in the administra-
tion of President Lincoln to which my
| judgment can yield assent. Hook with ap-
prehension upon the prodigious stretch of
executive power asserted in the Emancipa-
| tion Proclamations Of September, 1862, and
| January, 1863. l see precedents big with
peril in the sundry proclamations suspend
| ing the writ of habeds corpus in States which
| yet hold to the Federal Union of l777-S9.
| No plea of necessity-military or civil-can
| be urged in defense of measure so eXtraor-
dinary, and Il will say so uncalled for,
| as this. / think l can detect, liz the eX-
ecutive sanction of sheer military legisla-
ton, in different States, not merely a de-
parture from every precedent heretofore
set and established by freemen for the pro-
but direct tendency towards principles of
political action which even a Frederic the
Great or Napoleon dared not so distinctly
avow. But, admitting that measures so ex-
ceptional, so harsh, and so unwarranted,
have worked well; admit that they forecast
the overthrow of the rebellion admit all
that is claimed forthe radical" programme
what are we to think of the Presidential
Reconstruction" plan? Does its mOnstros-
ity require more thorough exposure than
| it has received from the authoritative
protest of Henry Winter Davis and Benja-
min +. Wade? We need not dwell on the
events in Louisiana and Arkansas, last
winter. All honest men of common intelli-
gence know what those pretended elections
were worth. That they were not secuted
outright from the Penobscot river to the
Columbia, only furnishes proof that the
public morals and public intelligence are
out of joint. 1t may be said that these are
but details. reply, the theory Of gOUer'R-
ment upon which such transactions are de-
| Tended by the apologists of the Admins
tration is even more startling than any acts
or measures of which complaint has been
made. 1t is totally subversive of the Fed
eral Constitution, of the Federal Union, of
the rights of the States, and of the liberties
of the people. 1t is radical, revolutionary,
and destructive. At home, it can only re-
| suit in anarchy and ruin; at the South, it
| must eventuate in the triumph of the re-
bellion and slavery. L could wonder at the
madness of its advocates, did | not appre-
hend something OF the ferocity of party
spirit and fanatic purpose.