Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-08

to show his naturalization papers before lie
can vote. What the saddle-colored gentle
man can do liz Ohio the Radicals, would
put In the power of all the negroes in this
and other States. Yetethey have the eff
frontery to ask the Germans and Irish to
vote for Shellabarger, and denounce them
as traitors If they refuse. rsr7-aslss
They brought Ben. Butler here to teach
the people their duty-the man who, as
the representative of the Federal Govern
ment, first broke the cartel of exchange,
and stopped the exchange of prisoners,
leaeing5our soldiers TO starve, sicSen, rot
and die in rebel prisons, because, forsooth,
the rebel authorities would not exchange
on equal terms, man for man, white men
and negroes.
Such men as Butler threaten the Presi-
dent with Impeachment, because he will
not suffer himself to be used as their sup
pie and plant tool. Col. Connell painted
in glowing colors the terrible conse-
quences that would follow an attempted
deposition of the President. 1t would lead
ito acivifwar more horrible than the one
through which wehsve justpassed. But,
If such an attempt should be made, ten
times forty thousand men froA the North
west would march to Washington, and,
| like the Cornish men, when their Bishop
was about to be executed in Cromwell's
time, would demand and would know the
reason why. TT ~ a
The country needsrepose. Itmust have
peace and Union in order to live and pros
per. Watch and wolk, for this as the SOL
diers watched and worked in the trenches
and OH the pickets. On Tuesday next, vote
fol, ,Millerand hurl Shellabarger from his
seat as a traitor tothe Constitution, the
Union, and the country.
Col. Connell was greeted at the conclu-
sion Of his speech with tremendous shouts
of applause.
At the conclusion of Col. Connell's able
speech, the. band discoursed patriotic mu- 7
sic, after which Mr.. LaYman, the President
came forward and said:
! l now have the pleasure of introducing
to you Col. George W. McCook, the glori7
ous hero and statesman, who will proceed
to address YOU. . ,HftFff itilI, n.
COL. GEO. W. MCooK's SPEECH.
Col. McCook came forward and was
greeted with cheer on cheer from the i'm
mepse multitude before him, and received,
during his address similar tokens of com
mendation aud appreciation. But his
speech. was, brief, and no was evidently la
boring under exhaustion from recent eff
forts in other fields in this campaign. Yet
the sentiments he uttered were sound to
the core, and his speech dispassionate, calm
and argumentative. We are compelled
from want of room to dispose of it in a
summary way.
Col. McCook appealed. not to the pas
sions and prejudices of his hearers. but to
their reason. Unless we could divest our
selves OF passion and prejudice, every in
terest dear to us might now be lost, even
our liberty-such was the critical condition
of our country. For years past our cOun-
trymen seemed to have been drunk and
ma1dened with passion. Like the woman
before the Macedonian monarch, he would
appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober.
Nothing was to be heard from the Radi-
cal party but hatred of the South and APP
pcals to passion. If these appeals continue
to be made and to gain strength, the battle
for the Union will have to be fought over
again. Eighteen months have elapsed j
since the close of the war, and the restora-
tion of the Union seems as distant as ever.
There can be no Union, no true civil liber-
ty, without a reverence for the Constitu
tion and the laws. The men who talk of
abiding by and supporting the Constitu-
tion, are denounced by the Radicals as
Copperheads. These Radicals seek to i'm
pose negro suffrage upon the white men of
the South, to deprive them Of the elective
franchise, and limit their representation in
Congress, in order that, their party may
remain in power and receive the spols of
office and tat contracts.
If these things go on unchecked, our lib
critics cannot be preserved a single year.
The Radicals threaten the President with
impeachment. They may, if successful in
the approaching elections, carry this threat
into execution. They have already in
vaded one department of the Government
the Judiciary. Why should they not al
so invade the Executive department? They
hava co nobIdp1 fha Judiciary that not a,
single Judge from the South can sit on the
Supreme bench. More than this, they re-
duced the number of U. s. Judicial Cir
cults to six, in order to have an excuse for
not confirming the nomination by the Pres
ident of distinguished citizen and emin-
ent lawyer, Henry, Stanbery, to a'Uy s.
man whom the Senate az
confirmed as Attorney General
on nomjpation by the President. The OBJ
lection to Mr.. Stanbery was that he was
an upright man who would be faithful to
his oath of office, and would not, as Judge,
swerve from the right for the sake of gain
ing favor from the Radicals or from men OF
any party. They could not use him, and
therefore set him aside. .sr
The Radicals call President johnson
traitor and talk of deposing him. Why?
He has exercised constitutional right Of
men from office, and vetoing bills
passed by Congress--the Freedmen's,
Bureau bill and the, Civil Rights bill.o is
he for this to be denounced and treated as