Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-09-02

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Government sufficiently hardened to exc
cute these DEGREES, Mr.. Stevens appeals to
the soldiers, and tells them that no man is
ever to be nominated for an Office unless he
has served in the field. 50 they are to be
the dispensers of all the spoils of the stript,
the naked children. How little this yete-
ran politician knows the magnanimous
ratriOts who fought their battles for the
liberal and merciful institutions of our
country! They are the last men in the
world to urge to crueltyiiB cold blood.
These men when hungry took, the bread out
of their own haversacks and gave with
their canteens to their PROSTATE foes. Let
them judge the South, and we are all BROTH.
ers. r.ut .r. l.rr tn .
Mr.. Stevens next promises the manufac-
turers pnbounded protection If they VIII
only help him to strip the South and reduce
it to utter ruin. The manufacturers, so far
from doing this, will lend it their capital,
at least credit, that they may clothe them
and enable them to produce fresh material
for their operatives and rich markets for the
result of their successful industry. He
appeals to the holders of the government
bonds, saying the plunder of the South is
to pay their debt. They will reply, we will
not kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
But who is to execute the Draconic de-
| crees of Thaddeus and his Omnipotent par
lament? Who is to squeeze out the taxes
from the desolate South to pay the whole
war debt? Who is to carry out the sweep
ing confscation throughout all rebeldom
and divide the lands among the loyal peo-
pie of the South-the negroes?
The resolutions name the President as
proper sort of man; but he is plainly told
that his scheme of restoring the Union will
not do. 1t is too rose-Wa Whitewater
too lenient; and yet MIR. Stevens says the
rebels reject it. But Thaddeus knows
man who can do the business, who can COM
pile his doomsday book of conquests and
confscations. Who could be better fitted
for it than the man to whose prodigious
energies and eXcellencies it would all
our successes are to be ascribed? He has
resolution of extollation in the platform all
to himself, iexaltng him by name, in con-
trast with the poor cital made Of the Presi-
dent, to make him like a." Hyperion to a
Satyr." The rest of the Cabinet are thrown
in the lump, not named but as the coll
leagues of Mr.. Stanton. They are worthy
gentlemen that must pass. ..H .
| Now this is not altogether an absurd dis
tribution of parts in the executive power,
considering the work cut out for it by Mr..
Stevens. lie is radical from the foot to the
crown of his head. He is root-and-
branch man, and could spare nothing of
the Government but the body-the Con-
gress-and that he would turn into revo-
lutionary club. He wants revolution-he
wants Marat to work it up. Who can fill
| the function so well as Mr.. Stanton? He
wants a guillotine. He wants Santerre,
the butcher, to reign on its scaffold and ply
| its ak. Can any one doubt that Mr.. Stan
ton would take this part? And If Mr..
Stevens would add peculiar bitterness to
| the execution of the process of his revolu-
tlonary tribunals in wasting the South and
narrowing the feelings of It's victims, could
there be better selection of an agent to
pour gall into wounds than Mr.. Stanton
| have already referred to his urging on the
rebellion. He was the new member
brought into the Cabinet, when Cass left
on the ground that it would not ''coerce"-
] especially that it voted Sumter should not
be reinforced and defended, which he con-
sidered as giving aid to the rebellion, and
resigned. Now, if thisHman, who was the
prompter, the Cabinet adviser of the meas
ures which contributed to carry the
South outfit this man, who was appointed
because of his full sympathy with Mr..
Buchanan in his whole connection with the
| Southern chiefs who conducted its schemes
touching the dissolution of. the Union-if
this man, who brought them into the
treason for which they are 70 suffer, is to
stand over them in mOckery at the eXecu-
tion, it would certainly add bitterness even
to the agony ofdeath.7 III U,i5,,ir,.I ..,.,.
The measures the President has adopted
to invite the people OF the Southern States
to resume their constitutional rights, now
that the Government has at length dis
charged its duty in putting down the armed
force which subjected them, proceed upon
the facts L have reeited, and the knowledge
he, in common with every intelligent man
of the South, possesses, that the people were
at all times ready to do their duty when the
Government had performed the obligations
imposed upon it by the Constitution. 90,
We have also, in the aboliShment of sla-
very, asure bond for the future fidelity ofall
persons at the South to the Union. While
it is true that the hearts of the people were
never alienated from the Government, it is
equally true that, by the constitution OF
society there, the leaders were enabled to
drag them into the rebellion. Slavery was
the leverage by which this was effected,
But that great implement of mischief, the
source of so many woes, and to which the
fathers of the Government looked with SO
much apprehension, is now forever gone,
~The public Judgment requires acquies-
cence in the thorough measure of universal
emancipation as the condition of renewed
participation in the Government This pro-
ceeds upon the ground that slavery was the
cause of the rebellion, and that until it is
blotted out and the people surrender, it.
| there is danger of arenewal of the struggle
To this proposition L agree. But | ask o.
those with whom | haye been associated In
maintaining this proposition that they
should accept its logical consequences
With what justice or reason can we intlict
further penalties upon the people of the
South, after we have eradicated what we
agree was the sole cause of their errors, and
obliterated an Institution which alone
distinguished them in their social condition
from other American citizens. If this lin
stitution had been one oftheir own creating
there might, indeed, besome color or reason
in pursuing them further; but when, in
stead Of that being the case, history shows
!; that it was forced upon them in the infancy
of their settlements, by the policy offoreigr
despots against the most earnest protests ol
their forefathers, we must admit that they
are blameless for the existence of the ae-
cursed thing in their midst. Neither by the
Constitution, or by the rules of justice, hay
. ing extirpated the cause and subdued there
bellion, can we do more. So far from it
indeed, tlfe dictates of humanity require
that the Government should do all In It's
power to heal the wounds which it has been
necessary to inflict upon our brethren
who have become the victims of an institu-
ton forced upon them by the tyranny Of
European despots. sl3 NaglU ,aT
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