Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-08-29
The Union Not saved, According
10 General Cox.

On Saturday there was an Abolition rally
al. Ripley, Brown county, at which General
Cox and Mr.. ScHENoK were the orators
The Substance of their speeches is reported
in the Cincinnati Commercial OF Monday
Gen. Cox had something to say about the
Platform adopted by the Democratic State
Convention on the oath Of August. 1t don't
suit him by very considerable. He Is ex-
ceedingly shocked that they should have
had the audacity to declare that 'the Union
of the States exists only through the Con-
stitution, and that the National Govern
ment has no authority over them only what
is delegated to it by them" The mention
of the Constitution to such political reyoln-
tionists as Gen. Cox, is as distasteful to them
q, is water to a mad dog. Announce your
purpose to be to maintain the Constitution
of the United States inviolate, and they cry
out "you mediate treason" and all such
stuff, that man who has any respect for
his character will not use. General Cox
charges that this platform reiterates
language held to be reasonable dur
ing the WARP 1t reiterates devotion to
the Constitution of the United States. That
General Cox holds to be unreasonable" IL
declares that the States have certain rights
In the Union. That General Cox pronounce
cs unreasonable" 1t declares the ordinance
es of secession void, and that the States
that undertook to withdraw from the
Union, 'are still in the Union as States.
This is held to be Unreasonable" by General
Cox, who declares that it is the dutyuo
"the loyal everywhere, East, West North
and South, to unite and see to it that 10y
atty is made the test, and that no State is
taken back into this Union until it gives salts
factory assurance of its sincere repentance
for the past, and pledges for the future"
Our soldiers have been coDgratulating
themselves and their friends, that by their
valor and endurance they Saced the Unoin
kept the Southern States in the Union.
The Democratic party in State Convention
declared that the Southern States were not,
and, consequently, are not now out Of the
Union. By their platform they confirm
what the soldiers claim they prevented
President JOHNSON has asserted that these
Southern States have never been out OF
the Union. Gen. Cox maintains differ
ent position entirely. In effect, he asserts,
that the Rebels did succeed in their purpose
of taking their States out of the Union;
for, he says, that he does not want one OF
sthem taken back into this Union until it
gives satisfactory assurance of its sincere
repentance" for having gone out of the
Union, and a pledge ''for the future"
that it will not again go out of the
Union. This is a most remarkable posi-
ton, and were it not that his party
friends have written General Cox down
as visionary" an "impracticable," and
a ''noodle," we should be astounded at it.
Here is man going over the country as
the candidate of great party for Cover
nor, and declaring, in the presence of intel
ligent men, that another feature OF the pet
tifoging spirit of the Democratic Conven-
ton is seen in its manner of treatment of
TeUtlS, iOT tuty say NiOeoAu1ioh o0"' P"o
lished in the Commercial of Friday last)
that Hey are still in the Union" What was
understood by the country when LEE and
JOHNSTON surrendered their armies? Was
it not that the attempt on the part of the
Southern States to withdraw tromthe Union
was complete and perfect failure, and
that GRANT, SHERMAN, SHERIDAN and 9TH
er Generals had held them in the Union q? And
now, forsooth, we are told by the Aboli-
ton candidate for Governor that it is
reasonable for party to say that they
are in the Union, and that it is ''loyalty" to
deny them admission into the Union until
they shall enter into bonds never again to
run out of the Union. Despite all the
waste of money-despite all the sacrifice of
human life-the South to-day is outside of
the Union-so says General Cox, the "vis-
ionary,'' "the impracticable," ''the moo
de," the Aboltionists are running as their
candidate for Governor. What stupid nom
sense will he next inflict upon his hearers
and readers?
Perhaps This was Unreasonable"