Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-09-15
NUMBER 967.Id

are dhAious ioi ib' lucy Wanteu peace LWO
years ago."
"Do you think, General, we will have a
guerrilla warfare?" NAtJAsH
''If we do" the General replied, $50 help
me God, l am willing to fight to put an end
to it," q, r,-I,e,,.. Z. =, -.rsrssrrsss
General T1ardee expressed the wishes and
feelings of the people Of the South, and the
Tribune well remarks: - 7hlAl13
"Here is manifested spirit which every
generous mindmust respect. The South,
so-called, is beaten, and acknowledges the
fact. Slavery has made an issue of life and
death with the Union; has been worsted,
and submits to the decree OF Providence.
General Hardee says the peopleof the South
want to live in peace with the people Of the
North, and will do twill do 1t cheerfully
If the Government does not resort to harsh
measures. This is langnage;' says the Trtb-
uns, (which all can understand, and tap
peals forcibly to sane statesmanship, as well
as to every magnanimous, impulse of the
human heart" ...-,, ....t-.'t3,
Here, then, my friends, we have the tes-
timony of1the leading Republican journal
in the United States that the Southern peo-
pie wish to renew fraternal relations with
us, and once. again, in spirit as well as in
law, form part aud parcel Of the Union.
If then, you, AREAS L believe you are
truly friends of the Union; if you desire
the old Union of our fathers, il yeu-wish
the scarsof war to be healed, and peace,
prosperity and happiness once more to
smile upon our land-rise above the preiu-
dices of partisans and act alone for our
country. [Applause.l .- -,
The questions at issue are too grave to be
controlled by mere partisan drill. Their
decision involves the life of tile nation, and
it behooves us all to act as patriots, and not
as paFtisansI. And in this spirit lam deter
mined to yield to President johnson my
cordial and hearty support in every consti-
tutional measure to restore all the States to
the Union, and to sustain him in all other
CT institutional measures in administering
tht afflirs of the Government; and, in SO
acting, will but move In concert with the
two hundred thousand Democrats of Ohio
MR.. sTANToNs IDEA IS UBJUGAT1oY AND
NOT RESTORATION.
While our young men who went forth to
battle were inspired by ptre and lofty
patriotism, the single desire to preserve the,
Constitution and the Union, the Summers I
and Wilson's, and Chambers, and Beechers,
! and the Stantons' Of the North, only regard
ed the war as a means TO destroy slavery,
without caring whetherthe Union survivedq
! or perished in the couAiet They used !
| every effort to prevent the overthrow of
/ the rebellion until slavery was abolished;
thanked God for our failare to take Richt
mond, in 1862 and opposed every advance
made by the South, to secure peace and
4 Union by negotiation. In 1868 Alexander
| II. Stephens sought for permission to visit
Washington to treat for peace on the basis
of the Union, but. the President, overruled
by Stanton and bis adherents, rejected every
proposition to end the rebellion by negoti-
alton. sI r. -faf y
| In the Ne,o York Tribune, of August l6,
1865, from which read, III speaking of the
! propositions to negotiate. Mr. Greeley says.
| isfIad this wise and brave course (negotia4
4 tom been taken when Alex. I'll. Stephens
I first publicly solicited. permission to visit
Washington, / believe it would have saved,
quarter of a million lives, and an awful
amount of devastation and misery, and left
our National debt full billion less than it
is to-dayn q 900 ... |.t'' -LfHfii.I
And, again, in the tribune of August "a,
1865, in speaking of the bad policy OF refus-
ing to allow the South to propose terms, he
says: ,a.J 100 ~.
! looking to- pacification, and If compelled to
have refused the proposed terms, would
have shown to the world why Imlist do So,
4 *'* think this course, wisely and
studiously persisted in, would have, been
worth;an army to pthe National cause, and
would have saved tuh year of thewar", ~
At the outset of the insurrectiUn, it was
well known at Washington, it was pro-
b claimed by the Republican press that a
majority Of the Southern people were OPP
posed to secession. Wisdom and patriot
ism would have dictated policy calculated
to inspire confidence in. the hearts of that
portion of the people who remained loyal
to the Union, and to conciliate all those
who were not in arms, Unhappily, an ops
posite policy was adopted, andithere was a
settled purpose on the part OF Mr.. Stanton5
and other leaders, to force the whole
Southren population into. the vortex of eiyil
war, Isg5 II --..l. .t.-t --ftU IUUIilS
Every soldier, from the General to the
4 private in the ranks, appreciates the advau1
tage of having intelligent friends in the
sphere of active military operations. In
formation, guides, supplies all come from
such population. But, instead of con-
/ ciliation, the only idea at Washington was
/ waf-not against armed insurgents, but
II against every man born under a Southern
sun; provided he had a white skin. Thus
were the innocent and the. guilty condemn
Il ed together, and thus did Edwin M. Stanton
prove himself to be the most efficient re-
cruiting-officer for Jefferson Davis.j 4 APP
plapse.] 1t had only to be known at W ash-I
I ington that the single motive, which inspired
the conduct of a General officer was the re-i
stoEation of the Union, and that officer was,I
as far as the War Office could make him SO,
4 doomed man. Hence the defeat Of our
b army in front of Richmond, in 1862, not by
Lee, but by Stanton, Hence the assassin's
blow, which was aimed at the, hearto of Sher-,
b man, and which only failed to reach him, be-
cause his army formed a shield sixty ythous-
II andideep, through which, the murderous
blow could notipenetrate. [Applause1u }