Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-12-01
tfrom the Richmond Whig. Nov, 81
EGOr1s 80 Induce a dlnnBge i'm 1h'
~ A. hSresidenI's Policy.


cordance with that sentiment. Impressed
with the Presidents generous and kindly
sentiments, the Southern people have de-
sired to comply with his requirements. To
comply with the wishes of Radical politi-
clans who desire only to humiliate and OPP
press them, they have no desire. They
would rather let them do their worst, and
bear it in disdainful silence, than sue to
them for kind and gentle measures. 1t Is
very different with the President and the
moderate and conservative men who share
his sentiments. 1t is the sincere desire Of
the Southern people to act according to
their wishes. The Nation says, what
Mr.. johnson insists upon is done, and that
0tudgingIy." The Southern people make a
distinction between the opinions and
wishes of Mr.. johnson himself, and the
requirements he exacts under the press
ure Of Radicalism. The Southern people
will do cheeriully all that the Presi-.
dent himself wishes them to do, and II they
have done anything ''grudgingly," 1t
was not from disrespect towards the
President, but because they felt instructive
ly that they were not demands voluntarily
made upon them by the President, but that
they proceeded from demands made upon
him by the Radicals. This Is one Of the ne
cessites OF the situation in which events
have placed him. They wish to see the
President separated from Radical influence,
and carrying out his own chosen policy
That policy they will cheerfully submit to,
and they will'dO all in their power to rem
der 1t successful. But the unfriendly and
tyrannical policy OF these Radicals, no mat
ter through what channel IL may flow, they
are under no. obligations to eXtOl and up
hold. They will submit to it because it Is
necessity, but they cannot be expected
to cooperate cheeriully in fixing 1t upon
themselves. They will resist nothing, but
they have the right to. be passive. All laws
they will obey, and they will faithfully OBJ
serve all the obligations of their amnesty
oaths. If the Radicals arctic be in theTas-
cendant, and to do as they please, let them
90 on 'conquering and tO conquer" They
can fix the affairs of the Southern States to
suit them elves. There will be no hypo-
critical kissing of the rod. ..L.,...3t
| With President johnson, and President
Johnson's oton policy. the case, as we have
said, Indifferent. They will not only cheer
| fully submit to it, but will aid him in carry
ing it out-btcause they have faith in him
as a man, a statesman and a patriot. Night
and day their prayer is that he may not
yield to the pressure of the Radicals, or
even those men in the Republican party
who favor more stringent measures than
consist with his views and wishes. He is
the real master of the situation, and by
| firmly maintaining the stand he holds, can
bring the bulk OF the Republican party, the
whole of the Dem cratic party, and the en-
tire unbroken South to his support.
There is reason to apprehend mighty
pressure upon the President at and after the
opening of Congress. The presages of a
great struggle multiply from day to day.
The Radical leaders are running hither and
thither to meet in conference. Letters and
messages are daily passing between them,
The conservative Republicans are perplex-
ed and troubled. They wish to preserve
the integrity OF that party with which they
have acted during the war, indeed, from the
campaign which ended in Mr.. Lincoln's first
election. They wish, If possible, so to har-
monize conflicting views and interests as
to continue their connection with the Rad
icals, and to retain President johnson as
the head of their party. From this source,
that is, from these conservative Republic
cans, will come the pressure upon the Pres
ident from which most danger is to be fear
ed. They will operate between the Radi-
Gals and the President. Their aim will be
to induce them to abate somewhat OF their
violent and extreme views, and to induce
buO W NNPdlb III oOluO hCSlOO
from the generous measures he has been
trying. If their efforts prevail, the organ
ization will continue, and will sustain the
modified policy that the President will in
augurate. Should such an accommodation
be effected, the whole political aspect will
be changed, and new order of things will
arise in the South. Should it fail, the
threatened division of the Republican or
ganiZation will occur. The Radicals will
90 off under the leadership of Sumner and
Thaddeus Stevens, and the conservatives
will range themselves under the banners of
the President, and maintain his present
policy with, perhaps, some slight moditica-
tions. 20 -t-
The Nation, an ambitious journal in the
interest OF the Radicals, makes its appeal
to the Congress about to assemble. 1t says:
f'What Mr.. johnson insists upon is done,
and that grudgingly; but he has insisted
upon nothing which will prevent the re-
duction of the blacks to condition hut one
degree removed from, and, in some respects,
more marked by physical suffering than
slavery ITSELF the minute the States are re-
stored to the Union and the military force
withdrawn. In short, unless Congress does
its duty, we shall, in our opinion, witness
at the South during the next few years,
one of the most tremendous and revolving
crimes ever perpetrated by a community
laying claims to civilization, and we shall
witness the substitution for slavery of a
social organization, marked by every tea
ture which made slavery politically dam
gerous." ~ r~hf-...3 $50 5ft
The meaning of this is that Congress
shall take the policy of reconstruction or
restoration, or whatever it may be called,
out Of the Presidents hands. cancel what
he has done, and force Negro Suffrage and
Negro Equality upon the Southern States;
that in the South no power, no discretion
shall be left in regard to the negro, for the
alleged reason that the South would shame
fully abuse such power and discretion, and
place the negro In a condition as bad as that
of slavery. an 'iira
How little the writer of that article and
those who hold similar views know of
Southern character-hOw little of human
nature. Having emancipated the negroes
and left them to live in the South side by
side with the whites who were their former
owners, and who, Notwithstanding all the
declarations OF hired letter. -writerStO the
contrary, are the best friends they have on
earth, ii they will now deal magnanimous-
ly with the Southern people, the Southern
people will make it APPOINT of honor to deal
magnanimously with the negroes. If on
the contrary, they leave nothing to them,
but deal with them as If they were un-
worthy OF trust and confidence, and attempt
to force upon them all manner of disagree
able and disgusting conditions, just SO
surely will they create between the South
ern whites and blacks an unnatural rela-
ton that will bring woe to both-and just
so surely will they see their policy frus-
trated In the end If IL takes-tiftV wears. It