Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-06-19
Cow zBrouGh Declines the Canht-
dacy for the G GOvernOrshiP-Great
Good NeyVsl u-r1 OHIO rfT a.Fs.


Good News lmr aij sira .E
The most significant event of the times,
and to Democrat the most gratifying, is
the announcement Governor BRoUGH
made, over his own signature, in The State
Journal on Saturday morning, that he ''re-
spectfully but Internationally" withdraws
his "name from the Convention and the
canvass" The State Journal says that he
could secure the denomination If he de-
sired It. Perhaps he could. nOfcourse, the
Governor alleges that heis impelled to this
course by considerations ofhealth and per-
sdnal comfort. Whoever chooses to believe
this may do so. We don't. If such con-
sideratlons were really at the bottom Of his
declination, of being candidate, 1t must
occur to the rejecting as exceedingly sim
gdlar that he did not announce his deter
mihation not to be a candidate as soon as
the time was designated for the holding OF
heAbolition State Convention. o He knew
then as well as he knows now that he is on
the high road to old age; his desire for're-
tirement to the sweets Of private life were
as active then as they are now; he knew
then as he knows now whether the deli
cate /, construction of his physical
frame and the fragility Of his con-
stitution were equal to the task of ad-
ministering the Government OF the State
for two years longer, with diminished labor
and at compensation increased to $4,000 a
year. Had he rendered his declination in
the outset he would ha1e saved himself the
mortification OF seeing his morality and i'll
tegrlty impeached in journals that assisted
TO elect him, and he would have obtained
credit for rare disinterestedness. .,uif
Gov. BRoUGHs declination followed close
ly upon the heels of the PRONUNCIATION Of
President JoHNsoN's Proclamation estab-
fishing Civil Government in Mississippi in
which the Consolidationists, and the advo-
Gates of forcing suffrage upon the Blacks,
find no encouragement for their pernicious
doctrines; and the givings out from Wash
ington are such as to give to that class OF
politicians little to hope from President
JOHNSON in the future. They have coun-
seled with the ePresident; they have threat
ened him with the disruption of the
party and his political destruction If he
shall persist in his policy. AS yet they
have not swerved him. He holds his
position stubbornly, and they now
propose to bring to bear on him the press
ure of public opinion. They feel conf
dent of their ability to carry the people
with them in fight against the President
on this issue. Governor BRoUGH is saga
cious politician; he sees that the fight is
and, however radical he may
be, he knows full well that the Democratic
masses who were wheedled into the So
called Union party through the manipula-
tions of himself and Governor TOD. will
not swallow Consolidation and Negro Suf-
frage. II was their understanding, when
they followed these gentlemen into the so-
called Union party, that all that should be
required of them, would be to support such
as should apparently be necessary
to break down the military power of the
and to restore the Union. These
men have faith in President JOHNSON.
Like him they are opposed to Consolida-
tion; like him they are opposed to New
regulating the suffrage question
of the Southern States in such manner as
that she shall henceforth be able to secure
such class legislation as she may want
and which will be prejudicial to the inter-
ests Of other sections of the country. In
this condition of affairs, which have only
assumed form and shape within few days,
Governor BRouGH beholds the inevitable
defeat Of the so-called Union party. The
Commercial sees it, and, therefore,
beseechss the Convention on the 2lst to
content itself by assuming a non-commit-
tai policy. .,Tr o,rTa O.. o6.
Be assured, no man. will be nominated
for Governor by the State Convention on
the 2lst, who was recognized in days gone
by as States Rights man, as President
JOHNSON was. The Radicals have enough
Of that sort of doctrine in the President
In high places, where influence can be
brought to bear on grave Governmental
questions, no Democrat viii be trusted by
he Abolitionists, unless he shall have given
he most undoubted evidence of regenera-
ion from FFERsoNIAN and JACKsoNIAN
Democracy. The Abolitionists, we
;hink,, would be willing to accept
he nomination of Gen. Cox without plat
orm. They have an abiding faith in him;
to be an Abolitionist; they |
Know him to be a Consolidationist; they |
;now him to be man who favors the ex-
ension of suffrage to the Southern Black
nan. Without a platform, therefore, they
would prefer his nomination to any man
vhoshad been Democrat, with the most
xplicit and emphatic platform. W. ,s
BY the withdrawal of Gov. BRouGH from
contest for nomination to the candidacy
I Governor, political matters have been
nut In course of resolving themselves into
heir original elements, whereby the Dem
cratic and Conservative elements will sep
rate from the Abolition element, which up
0 this period has ruled them. 1t is the
reatest and the most gratifying political
vent that has transpired in the State with
n foaryeafs. IL brings the issue right to
point, which is: Shall President JOHN
ON administer the Government in accord
nee with the teachings of JEFFERSON,
AcKsoN and CLAY, or in accordance with
he teachings Of the New England Federal
onsolidationists? ~ ~. '..'il...ll,! .