Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-06-21
"supporting the President.o .

The Cincinnati Gazette talks as though 1t
were in the interest of that class of poll
ticians who are the advocates OF Consolida-
tion and Negro Suffrage, and who are pre-
pairing for vigorous opposition to the
Presidents reorganization policy. In its
issue of Tuesday, 1t devoted an editorial to
an enforcement of the idea that it is not
necessary for the so-called Union Conyen-
tion to pledge "the support of Ohio to
President JOHNSON" and to establish the
fact, that sin this republican Government
the people are called sovereigns and the
President their servant" that 'they engage
him for term of service" that ''they er-
press sentiments to guide him." and that "they
support him when his acts suit them, not
by mass meetings or resolutions, but by
electing Representatives in political har-
mony with him." and that "when his acts
do not satisfy them they turn and vote for
the Representative who will oppose him,
or in disgust they let the election go by de-
fault into the hands of his opponents, and
at the end of his term of service they
choose another man." The Gazette fur
thermore says that ''no mass meeting or
State Convention can make them do any
different from this; therefore, this sup
port is all that any organized body can
pledge to the President. If
the people are capable of their sovereign
office, they will, in their mass meetings and
Conventions, express their opinions on
public affairs for the advice and encourage
ment of the President" as
To all this there is but one meaning,
The Presidents policy does not suit The
Gazette, and hence it does not want the
State Convention to indorse it. The Con-
vention may, with its permission, lay down
the Abolition gospel as mandatory direc-
ton to the President but If it goes beyond
that and indorses his policy unequivocally,
the Abolitionists will defeat the Ticket,
The threat is made in these words: "When
his acts do not satisfy them they turn and
vote for Representatives who will oppose
him, or in disgust they let the election 60
by default into the hands of the opposi-
tion." 1t is saying, as plainly as words
can be made to say it, that the Abolitionists
will rule this Administration. They claim
to be the people; or, rather, that the people
90 by their direction. The soldier-delegates
and the Conservative civilians in the Con-
vention, if there are any Conservatives in
it, should notify these Abolition dictators
to pack up their baggage and clear out from
the Convention and to withhold from the
Ticket nominated their support. 1t is the
only way by which the Ticketcan be elected.
The great mass of the people believe the
President is right in the policy in which he
started out, and they will not give cordial
support to any Ticket that receives the
hearty support of the Abolitionists who
do not intend to give the President any
peace until he shall force suffrage on the
Blacks of the South. The Radicals and
malignants must be got rid of by the Con-
yention in some way, or the great conser-.
vatiye masses will find their duty in rally
ing to the support of the Presidents policy
under the broad banner of the Democratic
party. i-7.f II