Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-11-05

/ the whole country, has aRoniZed ana now
] agonizes this below mediocrty in states
manship. GREELEY In the past week play
ed the orator. He isa candidate for elec-
ton to Congress; Is advanced In years; has
notoriety as conspicuous editor; would
be thought wise in State-craft; has been
the advocate of every ism that has been
started, and looks upon a Protective
Tariff with something like idolatry.-
In his oratorical effort this last week
he gravely announced that the grave
mistake of this Government has beer
the enlargement Of the original terri
torial limits of the United States. The
acquisition of the Louisiana territory, the
Florida purchase, the annexation of Texas
through which We acquired California and
| New Mexico, were fatal mistakes. In the
days when these acquisitions were made
the Federal politicians of New England SC
felt and SO talked. Looking from that
time into the future, they beheld their Sec
ton reduced from controlling to subOI-
dlnate position.
Yesterday morning Sunday we found
among our exchanges the Mac-a-cheek
Press, and as we were leaving the Post
Office, we met boys selling that lively pub
licatiOn. A friend bought copy, and when
ten c,nts were asked of him as pay therefor,
he remarked: 1T must be something ex-
ira" Getting to the Office we sat down
and read its editorials. Be it understood
| the Mac a cheek is intensely Radical. The
first editorial is "On PARTIES" wherein
the Democratic party is likened to every
thing that is bad and pernicious but the
concession is made that its pluck is strength
ened in every encounter it has with its
political adversary. The "Union Organ
ization," the designation it gives the Re-
publican party, is extolled, and while. 1t
looks upon it admiringly as the embodi-
ment of all that is good and pure in poll
tics, it nevertheless INDUCES in an sunless"
in reference to it. This "unless" leads it
to say that "the Union organiza-
ton" "new treads fearfu)ly near
dangerous ground" and that "f the Un-
ion organization commits itself, as it now
threatens, to this system of class legislation,
whereby twenty are robbed to pay one,
it will disappear as rapidly as it was Great
ed :" that while the currency is being in
fiated we do not feel the burdens prepared
for US, and are careless of results. But
when the crash comes, as it surely must
when these millions of paper promises to
pay call for redemption; when the seeming
rich find their substance disappeared, and
the poor man stares starvation in the face.
then woe to the party that sanctioned leg
islative robbery, and fixed on us a class of
moneyed arstocrats under the shallow pre-
tense of encouraging home industry"
Having thus satisfactorily got through
with the first lesson, it was with zest.t
we took 10 the second lesson, which relat-
ed to "New England Civilizations 1t was
aresponse to Wendell Phillips question;
"What makes the West in the likeness OF
New EnglandP" The Mdc-a-cheek is
not profoundly grateful for "New
England Civilization" by no man
ner of means. 1t thinks "the West is
enjoying realizing sense of New England
Civilization, and the South may well shrink
In dismay before an extension Of that style
OF subjugation." 1t insists that "New Eng
land Civilization" made profitable mer-
chandise out Of the patriotism of the coun-
try, and that "what makes the West in the
likeness of New England is ''the fact that
we,have it literally stamped upon all that
we eat and drink, and wear and seek to en-
joy. New England is stamped on West
ern mans breakfast, his dinner and his sup
per. New England is stamped on his shirt
his drawers, his coat, his boots and his hat.
New England is stamped on his horse, his
COW, his mule and bis ass. New England
stamps the glass he drinks from, the dish he
eats of, the bed he sleeps upon, every dose
of medicine he takes, and the coffin he is
buried in. New England gathers tribute
of three dollars on every acre of land a
Western man owns, one of which goes to
the Government, and two to the civiliza-
ton. iH
"Under the pressure of this civilization
so palpably stamped upon us, we have the
pleasing reflection that one-third of the
tribute goes to make up the stealings of
New England agents, one-third to the sup
port of New England civilization that
manifests itself in manufacture, and one
third to q support of our Government"
What the late Rebellion demonstrated,
the Mac G-cheek says is this:
-The late rebellion demonstrated the fact
that our empire lay outside of New Eng
land. While that region was filling its
pockets and securing Europe and Africa In
search of substitutes, the Middle and West
ern States poured out their living thousands
to find graves and prisons on Southern
SOIL We gave to the contest all the pluck,
tenacitv, wealth and brain our side exhib-
tied. We cut our way down the Mississip-
pi to the Gulf; we marched through At
ianta to the Sea; we gave the American
blood that watered the highway into the
heart of Virginia and swung the eagles of
the Republic through the smoke Of battle
over the Notifications of Richmond and
crumbled the Confederacy into powder.
We did all this, and at the same time en-
riched New England"
What shall come:
"But after time the South will waken
to the fact that her slavery Is dead, her ar
istocracy dead, and her population starv-
ing. And the Copperhead will discover
that the Niger he fears, no longer exists
as nigger, but lives as a citizen. And
the West and Middle States, In great
financial crisis that will come so surely as
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