Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-07-28
GEN. sherman and his Utferances.

sflattering unction" to their shriveled-up
souls, that they would be backed up in this
foul work by the brave soldiers whom he
had led from victory to victory until all
the Rebel armiessurrendered and the coun-
try was put OH the high road to a speedy
and honorable peace. They mistook their
men. Democrats and Democratic presses
they might with impunity, in the absence
of the soldiers, represent as disloyal and as
plotting the destruction of our country and
of the brave men in the field. While the
clash of arms was yet resounding, this sort
of work they might do successfully, and
therefrom realize gratifying political sue
cess. But they could not make SHERMAN's
soldiers believe that General SHERMAN was
guilty of conspiring either against the in
tegrity or the honor of the Federal Gov
ernment. They had seen too much
of him to be made to believe any
imputation SO foully unjust and
hence when SHERMAN's soldiers began to
return they were not slow to ascertain that
they had committed a most egregious blum
der. Soon the fact dawned upon their ma
lignant and negrofed minds that SHERMAN's
soldiers believed in him, and swore by him,
and would chastise any one who sought to
discredit either his generalship or his pat
riotism. They have learned that his voice
Is potential with them. They have, there
fore, adopted a different form of tactics.
From being his detractors, they have be-
come his fawners, in hopes that they could
secure his Endorsement of their revolution
ary purposes and of the candidates they
have put in nomination to carry out those
purposes. 3 .r.H.g a.. -sira.u
Therefore, when Gen. SHERMAN reached
this State, the Abolitionists surrounded
him at Newark, and, with pleading impor-
tunity, they sought to obtain from him the
declaration that he would support General
Cox, the Oberlin candidate for Governor.
The boy who undertook to extract sun
beams from cucumbers was, if anything,
more successful in his enterprise than they
were. Again at GAINESVILLE General SHEER
MAN was approached with view to obtain
such declaration. They who approached
him were rewarded with disappointment.
Word was then given out that at Lancaster
a grand welcome-home was to he extended
to him, and that there he would pronounce
for General Cox. He reached Lancaster in
due time; the hereception, under the direction
and control of the Cox men of that city,
was given him, and in his response General
SHERMAN took occasion to declare what he
conceived the obvious duty OF our people
toward the people of the South. That duty
he declared to be to cultivate toward the
Southern people kindly feeling, and to
allow each State to manage its own internal
affairs without any direct or indirect inter-
ference from us. Not one word was ut
tered by him that admitted OF the construc-
tion that he was in the least friendly to the
election of General Cox, or of the Negro
Equality doctrines of which he is under
stood to be the representative. Next tol-
lowed reception at Cincinnati, which did
not furnish the CoXITEs the least encour-'
agement. Early in July, public reception,
under the auspices OF the City Government,
was given him in Columbus, in the evening
of which day banquet was given him at
the Neil House, and from participa-
tion, in which Democrats were very
generally excluded. The desired declara-
tion that he would support General Cox
for Governor, or that he indorsed his polit-
ical views, was not, and could not, be obtain
ed from him. The Abolitionists know that
alone through such declaration from him
can they hope for success for their candi-
dates. ,. -lr liz. .'..l ,.,r
Ever since General SHERMAN first entered
the State, the Abolitionists have been as
sidueus in their attentions to him. With
care have they excluded Democrats from
his immediate presence. These poor polit-
ical sinners have been compelled to "stand
afar of" while the Abolitionists have pour
ed into his ears the story Of their superfine
patriotism anathe ungodliness of the Dem
oerats. From their own lips and from the
columns Of their own organs, he has learn
ed what their purposes are politically Ev-
identity, those purposes he holds in abhor-
renee. The Democrats, he knows, don't
mediate interference with the local gov
ernments OF any of the States. He knows,
further, that the Democrats don't intend
anything else than that this Government
shall be administered by White men. 1t
was not, then,. for the purpose of
exciting the people and his soldiers
against the Democratic party that at
Lancaster he stood up and told his hearers
that twas their duty to coneiliate the peo-
pie Of the South, and to abstain from the
advocacy of policy that would take from
the respective States the functions Of local
legislation and vest them in the Federal
Government. 1t was not for the purpose
Of putting the Democratic party under ban
that few nights ago, at indianapolis, he
told the officers and ex-oficers Of the army,
that evidently it was the design Of the AL
mighty that White men should exercise the
governing influence in this country, and
that suffrage should not be given to the
Negroes. Why did he sospeak? Undoubt-
ledly, he spoke with an object in view. He
spoke to, condemn and put under ban GER
tain political ideas; and the ideas that he
thus sought to render obnoxious to the dis
appreciation of the public are consolidation
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