Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-12-23
Tno New York News .BubIEaat.


The Moo York Nc,cs is owned and edited
by Hon. BENJAAffN WooDS and has been
looked upon by some Democrats as the
most reliable exponent of Democracy in
the country. Il was so sound that it could
not reconcile 1t otis expressed sense Of
consistency to support MCCLELLAN for the
Presidency. In its issue of the 10th inst,
It runs into the following jubilation over
the Presidents Message to the Senate in
closing Gen. GRANr's report:
THE PRESIDENTS MEssAGE.-Sometlmes
with misgiving, oftener with hopefulness,
we have waited for the hour when Andrew
johnson would confront and battle the dis
union intrigues of the Radicals with the
emphatic exercise of his authority as
President of the United States. Our
appeals to him have been frequent and
earnest to stand by the Constitution and the
laws and to vindicate our Republican in
stitutions against the treachery and fanati-
eism of the faction that have been striving
TO sustain their waning power by encour-
aging the elements of intersecti0nal dis
cord. We could not believe that MIR. john
son, himself Southerner, Democrat, a
man of the people, citizen who owed bis
disenthralment from poverty and obscurity
to the ennobling influences of Republican,
ism, would connive with tanatical conspir-
ators that were aiming to legislate away
the attributes Of our political sysSem. a
At last the hope is realized. The promise
Is fulfilled. The Executive voice proclaims
to the Radical intriguers, thus far shall ye
90 and no further. Perhaps it was polite
on the part of Mr.. johnson to permit the
Congressional disunionists to go as far as
they did that their plans might be revealed,
their madness made apparent, and the full
measure of the guilt OF their revolutionary
purpose exhibited to the popular cOmpre-
hensiOn. And when we have asked, In view
of the boldness and desperation of the dem
agogues who were seeking the very life of
republicanism, ''when check the conspira-
cy?nperhaps his was the deeper wisdom that
answered:
LET it bud,
Ripen, haunt i the day, and burst 10 fruit;
The Dead Seas fruit OF ashes
Ashes that will scatter 10 the winds"
We publish to-day a special Message OF
the President to the Senate, in which he
distinctly repudates the doctrine of hold
ing the South in territorial subsection as
conquered provinces. and throws the weight
of his Executive influence in favor OF the
immediate political rehabilitation Of the
Southern States. If the incendiary dis
union speech of Mr.. Stevens on Monday
has precipitated this action on the
part of Mr.. johnson, 1t is just retri-
button upon the party that have obeyed the
evil counsels of the Pennsylvania dema-
gogue. Out of his own mouth has come his
condemnation, and the fabric of anarchy
and disunion that he pictured Is overturned
by the breath of his own frenzy. The
hours of the supremacy of the extremists
in Congress are numbered, and over the de-
liberations of the select committee of fif-
teen will preside the spirit of the Executive
policy, whose controlling influence they
cannot overcome, If they have the temerity
to combat it.
The conduct OF General Grant in urging
on the President policy of immediate re-
construction, commends him to the grati-
tude and admiration of the people. He has
helped to achieve victory in the benefi-
cence of whose results he will find the rec
ord of purer tame than that which at
taehes to his military career. Now, indeed,
is he fighting the battle for the Union, and
the laurel that he will win in that conflict
he can wear In the South, as in the North,
with the assurance, everywhere, of the
tribute of popular respect.
Now that Mr.. johnson has declared open
war against the Radical programme, we
hope that he will push hostilities with all
the energy and decision of his character.
He will have to encounter bitter and ac-
tive opposition. No effort will be spared
to thwarr, annoy and weaken his Admins
tration. Mr.. Summers prompt and vindic-
tive attack when the Message was read in
the Senate exhibits the nature of the an
tagonism that he must confront, and Is the
prelude of the gathering storm. Popular
sentiment will support the President, and |
all the more earnestly if he meets the issue |
and approves himself equal |
to the emergency. The Radicals have had
just rope enough to hang themselves with,
himself and kicked away the prop. A brief |
struggle, a spasm or so, the convulsion of |
the dying agony, and Radicalism will have
ceased to exist to disturb the harmonies Of
Reqltescdt in pace.