Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-12-14
The Way the President is Being
Backed UP by the Republicans.

The WAY the President ~ Being
backed UP by the Republicans.
1t Is known to the country, that wheI
President JOHNSON on Monday asked Hon
| Henry J.oRAYMoND TO take and present t.
the House the credentials of the Teunesse'
members, he thereby manifested al
anxiety that those members should Nb'
speedily admitted 10 theif eeato.| The
quickest way and the proper way, to dis
pose of the question was at once to swear
the Tennessee members in, as Messrs
FTNcK, GR1DER and SMITH argued should
be done. This was refused by the Re-
publican members. The next proper
course TO pursue was TO refer their ere
dentials to the Committee on Elections, to
which Mr.. RAYMOND expressed wish they
should be referred. In this he undoubted-
Iy gave utterance to the'wishes Of the Pres
ident, but this wish the Republican mem
bers refused to crafty; so they sent them
toTHKD. STEVENS revolutionary and yun-
constitutional committee Of fifteen. Not
a Republican member from Ohio had
the courtesy or the manhood to second or
advocate the cause of the President, as il
was presented in the form of the creden-
tials of the Tennessee members. Not one
The member from this District Shell
LKBERGER - refused such support We
should like to know whether, in assuming
this attitude of hostility to the President,
he represents the views of his constituents.
In referring to this action of the Republi-
can membersOf Congress--this fepudiAtion
Of the Presidents reorganization policy,
and this manifest dlscourtesy, If otinsult
to him--the Cincinnati Gazette saysi '.9 600
"Union people will rejoice TO see this ev-
idence of flrmness on the part of their Rep
resentatives. The policy is TO make haste
slowly. This is safe, it Is proper, aud it is
POPULAR, l' ..',2a .n2 my 2tga ~.
aPopular,o indeed Wherein consists
its popularity? The testimony Of General
GRANT, and all other reliable gtestinonyyi is
to the effect that the Southern people are
honest and sincere in their desire to abide
dutifully in the Union. The President has
accepted such evidence; he believes them;
he believes the Southern States Ia the I'm
ion; he processes to believe in the Consti-a
tuition, and that Constitution guaran, IS to-
those States Representation Ia Congress-
The Republican members take issue with
him in regard to these particulars. By.
their acts, they declare that the Southern
people are not honest and sincere in
their alleged determination to remain
in the Union and that their States
are not in the Union, and therefore
are not entitled to Representations ~
The issue is fairly and squarely made up
Which is rightP Which position shall be
sustai6ed-the position assumed by the
President that the Southern States are in
the Union, and therefore entitled to their
Representation or, the position taken by
STEVENS, SUMNER, CHANDLER, WADE, VIII
SON s. Co., that the Southern States are not
In the Union, that their people are set of
dishonest knaves, who shall have no voice
whatever in this Government? That's the
issue. If the people want more strife, more
commotion, more taxes, with the attend
ant concomitants calculated to make their
condition unhappy, all they have got to do
is to follow the lead OF STEVENS, SUMNER,
CHANDLER, WADE, WILSON & Co, and if
they do not run the country to the devil, it
will be because .-
''Theses divinity that shapes our ends,