Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-11-27

were, from the considerations that usually
operate upon partisans, to change his pol
icy, it would not ingratiate the personal
friendship of the ultras. But it is to be
considered that he is supported by power
Q full presses outside of Southern ones, or
those of the Democratic party. Nor are
the views and desires of the ultras likely TO
be forwarded by Mr.. Colfax's premature
appearance here, and by his instant pro-
situation, of the policy that is to obtain IN
Congress. This unprecedented act OF fore.
stalling the views and destroying the usuai
influential effect of the message VIII not
swerve the President from his fixed pur-
pose.n
This correspondent may be correct; but
i it was telegraphed to a western journal by
special a few days ago, that the President
proposed,l by way Of conciIiation and to
save the Republican party from rupture Y
TO compromise with the Radicals. We do
not see how he can compromise with them.
There remains but one question for deter
mination, and that question Is, shall the
Representatives of the Southern States be
admitted to their seats In Congress3 At
the suggestion of the President, as he is
particular to inform HUMPHREYS,
OF Mississippi, in a dispatch under date the
18th Inst, Is all that he does In the matter,
the Southern States have repudiated the
Rebel War debt have nulliiedthe secession
ordinances, have abolished slavery, and, In
most Instances, have adopted the Congress
sionai amendment abolishipg slavery. This
was .unerpected," as the 50. Louis Deniocrut,
most intensely radical journal, expresses
1t, to the Radicals. They had not the most
distant idea that the South would do any
such thing. They sincerely hoped that
they would not DO il, either by compulsion
or. by their own voluntary action. Why
did they not want them to do it? Because
they want pretext by which they may be
seemingly justified in keeping their Repre-
sentatiyes out of Congress. In, reality,
they do not want the Southern people to
have voice in the Government, either
now, or, for an indefinite period. They
want to rule them. What now, then? How
are they to get round this action of the
South? The fact that Negro Suffrage has
been emphatically voted down in Con-
necticut. Wisconsin,, and wherever else it
has been voted on in what hitherto were
known as the adhering States, and the afro
cious insurrection of the Blacks and the
butchery of the Whites in Jamaica, where
the Blacks are the equals Of the Whites in
every political sense, satisfies them that
they can not make successful stand against
the reception of the Southern members into
Congress on the ground that their States
have not conferred the privilege of suffrage
upon theirlately emancipated slaves. They,
therefore, are assuming the position that
the South did not act in good faith in an
nulling their secession ordinances, repu-
dating the Rebel War debt and effectually
abolishing slavery; that at heart they are
traitors to the Federal Government as
much as ever they were, and have pursued
this course for the purpose of enabling
them again to get voicein the administra-
tion of the Government, when they propose
to regain what they lost in the War; and
that, therefore, further probation is abso-
lutely necessary to purge them of their hos
tility to the Federal Government. .,,f.'7
Thisis all pretense on the part of the Radi-
Gals; there is nothing in it; but If they can
induce the President to second them in
their hostility to, the admission of the
Southern Representatives into Congress,
it will answer the purpose just as well as
though their representations touching the
feelings of the Southern people were actu-
ally true. The President knows these rep
lresentations to be untrue. Will he so
far compromise his Knowledge and his
convictions of right as to unite his voice
and influence with theirs against the
Southern peopleP win he SO far compro-
mise truth and Justice as to thus bear false
testimony against these people to stand
well with the Radicals? Ii be would
stand we'll with the people-if he would 20
down through the annals of history with
an honored fame-he must stand up un-
dauntedly for the right, aad not compro-
mise one iota of the right for the purpose
of conciliating the Radicals. Never with
their, consent will he be elected to the
Presidency Of the United States. From
them he has nothing to expect. Thus far
they have been open and pronounced
against his officially avowed policy, and If
he should now conform to their expressed
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