Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-12-21

1T0l'iIiih L,Ll--l ~. !. -Lll Ll---'i 10 th .ti'
Representation 4 and a. Properly
Adjusted System OF TaxasiOn
Will Result in Harmoniois Res
tOration. +. ,.gn ~. .,., % s,s5 Sf,.g
Men who were fearful that President
JOHNSON would COVER before the Radicals
in Congress and abandon the Southern
people, to their tender mercies, will no
doubt begin to pluck courage from the
Message he communicated 10 the Senate on
Tuesday, to believe that he intends to do
no such thing; but that he will keep faith
with the Southern people. The President
was aware with what sort of men he had to
deal in Congress, and evidently he has made
ample preparation by which they will have
to accept his policy or be repudiated by the
people. He has made his argument estab-
fishing the fact that the Southern States are
all In the Union as States, endowed with
all the erights and privileges that any other
States enjoy. Knowing that his work of
reorganization would be subjected to se-
we're criticism and denunciatiOn in his own
partyAknowihgtha leaders in his own par
tywere representing it as merely an eSper-
iment, and that that experiment was PROV
ing total failure--that the Southern peo-
pie were behaving reprehensibly and with
duplicity-bef took the precautioh to send
special agents through the South to make /
observations touching the conduct and dis
position Of the eSouthern people, and among
the men he sent out for this purpose was
General GRANT, in whom the people have
full faith. From the information derived
through these sources, and through his in
tercourse with the Southern people who
have visited Washington since the close of
the war, the President proclaims it as his
deliberate conviction that the personal
animosity"o of the Southern people lis sure-i
ly and rapidly merging itself into spirit
Of nationality, and that representation, con-
nSctsd Nth q properly adjusted system Of taza7
ton soil res4t in harpaOntOns restordtiOa Of
the relations of the Stdtes 10 ae NatiOndt
Uf.fon.s 1Oi Iiimli $40 90 n93d bf1 lndJ r3ss
Only two things are needed to complete
nation of the President. He dob'E speak
atrandom he dou't speak on the authority
oSeOEresp0ndents who have made upa ease.tt
to suit the fanatical and revOlutionary
mind. He speaks from authority derived
from trustworthy sources on which
he and the whole country can rely with the
most implicit confidence. Two things more
are only needed to make the North and the
South one people in the Union. The one
is to give TO the South her representation
In Congress, and the other is to enact a
properly adjusted system Of taxation. This
ilthe PRESIDENTS estimation will complete
the work. .1alp3i8q sii!i 81 s4siuplniodEl
What says General GRANT with regard to
the Southern peopleY His testimony will
outweigh that oflalmost any other man lnd
the codntry-A certainly that Of STEVENS and \
StMNkR and their revolt btiopaty neyspaper
echps throughout the country. What says
GenerA GRANDai He ssyssDm bna sdqald
-'1Igc oDseryatlShs lead thelto the cbilclu.
sion shat the citizehS of the Sonthertf States j
are 'ahElous 70 return to self f-gOvernmeiitl
within the Union as soon as possibie.n - lbiH
Has AL mlsgiyings about their sincerity
In this matter 2. Not heey Does bewant the
Southern people ruled sas conquered pFOysj
ineeg2 NOl4nothihgIof the sort. 1T does !
hcwgyers occasion him regret, Ststhat there
can not be q greater commingling at this
timesbetMeeh 9diti5ensiof the two secl
tions, and pafssctIarI Of nose i,itfasted tottt
ts sghldksad bove.',p yso,s i's,s9.'os s,'.5,
That Is to say, he Is satisfied that the best
interests of the country demand that the
States should be allowed their
repFeFIedHtatIoh IN Congress. Such y repre-, p
sentatlon will help complete the work oil
paDiiicatiOmg r3y9oilW s9ho1Dd9 0hI nj"
How e6ntsmptibIe, III Yisw Of az this
testlmOhy-hoY revolutionary does = |, the
action of the Republican party in, Coaeress
on thissub3eet appear. can tAey hobet0I
be- Justiasd ~ tRs eyes of the pteopleYl
rts Pfesldent has made such ease against
hem, oaud so fortified II, shat they must
necessarily incur the lbathiSg c6Gh,nipt oil
hSPecple, if they shall hot speedily allow |
Senators and Representative
% fako their seats, DeHeslNn i5sitaq y q .s,9t
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