, 1865-10-25
4 SHORT CHAPTER OF OHIO pOLT.

Inc hepuDUcan party IN Iol1mbua, Ohio.
Is afflicted by set OF tImid conservative ~
leaders. There Is hardly live one among
them except Sam. Galloway, and he Is cabined,
cribbed, and couAned by the fearful souls
around him. The last mauful fight made by
the Republicans Of Columbus, was when Gal
loway ran for Congress in 1860, against s. s.
Cox. The vote Of franklin county-which
embraces Columbus-whs for Galloway 4, 1856,
Cox 4, 4,1o7-ms;ority for Cox, e51- But Gallo
way was too radical for The leaders, and they
ncTcz let him run again. Conservative coun-
Franklin county has gircn the Copperhcads
this fall ,0eo majority. Every year since the
Radicals were choked OF, md the Consersa.
tivcs took charge Of the machine, tho Copper
hcad majoritles hare been growing larger and
larger, until the Republican party Of that
county is In danger Of becoming extinct.
This mucA by way Of preface to Gen. Coz and
his noted letter.
twill be rcco1lcctcd that the Ohio Repnb-
llcan Convention, which met At Columbus
last summer, put forth non-commlttal plat
form on tue subject of negro suffrage In the
reconstruction Of the rebel Statcs-chteay
through the influence and mnnipulatfons OF
the cowardly conservative clique Of Colum-
bus. But to prevent breach with the 1adl-
calls the candidate for Governor was taken
from the Western Reserve. He was popu-
lar General, a graduate of Oberlln, a son'an'
law Of President Finucy, and supposed to be
a straight radical, so that II the conservative
faction rot q non-commtttal platform, The
radical masses had secured manhood-suf-
fface Governor, and when the Convention ad~
iouIucd it was believed that Cox would be
elected by Sc, 900 majority, aad the Reserve IL
was claimed, would give lin more than half
oft.
But Coz taz1icd in Columbus, and toycd
with the Conservative" Dclilahs, who, find
Ing where his great strength lay, dFuggcd
him with Conservative oplates, and when he
was sufficiently stupe6cd and his sense Of
eternal right md Justice weakened, they se-
duccd him into writing or signing letter
denying equal political rights to the colored
citizens, Advocating their colonization, and
uttcring mass OF absurd stua' about an
"inhercnt and 1neradIcable aatIpathy Of the
whiIc race in The South toward the blacks"
which the presence Of million Of mu1attocs
Of all shades living among them and found on
every plantation, completely disproses- The
appearance of the letter almost caused the re-
assembling Of eConvcntlon to cast bimod and
nominate some one else The Republicans Of
Ohio were filed with indignation and disgust.
But Cox, after discovering the shocking blum
der he had committed, promptly took the
stump to repair damages. explained away
and eottcncd down the meaning Of what he
had written, and ct Obctliu recanted the Co
lumbus heresy and placed himself on the
manhood platform. Bingham, Schcncl, sher-
,nan, Garfield, spauidfng, and others took
the stump for him and plead for forgiveness,
apolcgizioc for his indiscsetion on the grounds
Of youthful impulse and bad advisers nbout
the State capital. Finally, the paEty gener-
ally voted for him and elected him by S,ooo
majority. But The Reserve could not quite
get over 1t, and.whcn election day came, come
10000 Republicans who had not sufficiently
cooled or to vote for him, sullzily stayed
AWAY from the polls.
The Columbus conservatives WHO got him
into The Ecrnpe let him be beaten In Franklin
county by upwards Of 1900, being the largest
majority given against him anywhere In Ohio.
The moral to be drnwn from all this Is, uev'
81 ~ ~ AS% &A NAAN AA%sAN- ~
the Conservatives. Wherever It Is done tht
Republican cause meets with disaster, and /.
brought to grie;. Radicalism is truth, bold
~ and earnestly proclaimed and adyocatcd
Conservatism In our party is truth half con
cealed, timidly Supported and betrayed b,
apologies. Our opponents, the Copperheads
| are bold and nudacious for the Wrong. The,
can only be met successfully by equal ylGs
and flrmness for The Right. They were ness
yet beaten at an election By apologies mi
eoncealments- "up guards and at them," !
the style Of fighting which alone can win vic
tories over them. It Is strange that go rip
D Echolar and so brave soldier, as Gen. Coz
had not learned by reflection and experience
that coppcrheads At home, could only be d.
feated BY radical political action as confcdeF
ates In the field could only be overcome b,
radical martial action. The identical phtloso
ply that cnabled Grant, Sherman, Shcrida,
ard Thomas to triumph over the rebellion
has enabled the Republican party 10 carry th.
North for ten successive years agalnst th'
! malignant cohorts Of Cpppefheadi5n.