The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-07-25

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There never was a political fight conf
ducted with the same amount of unfairness
that "a shown in the present QUE by the
Black Republican newspapers and OratOrs.
Take the following as an example, from the
New York Ti1bRe.
1--WE can not realize that he who was
made President of the United States by the
pistol Of Wilkes Booth has any moral right
On remove from oillce those who helped
make him Vice President, IN order to'fllI
their places with copperheads and ex~reb-
els. Even II IL were clear-which " surely
is not-tIiat presidents may justilably re-
move from office those who opposed their
election, in Order 10 appoint those who CUP
ported Il. we consider MIR. JOhnsOn's ease
very different from that and we deny his
right to remove those who helped him 10
office in order to appoint instead those who
revlled him as one Of the worst OF man
kind.r VI ~ ft
In not single case has President JohII-
son removed Federal oilice-holdcr and
appointed la his place rebel or "cOp-
perhead." In all cases where such remov-
ais have been made, the mon nominated TO
the vacancies have been Republicans. Not
only have they been Republicans, but
mostly soldiers. aud hence there Is not
only ialschond but particular malcvo-
lence in the assertion that the President is
removing "union" men and giving their
places % 'rebelsn
We defy any Of these men who arc daily
rcitcrating the charge about "rebcls and
lcOpperheads" 60 point to a single case In
wliieh a "rebeln or DemDerat--we SAP
IpOsc Democrats are meant by "copper"
heads"-has received single office. What
rebels" may want in the way of official
preferment we have no means of knowing ;
but we are quite safe in asserting that DEM
ocrats have not been applicants for Office,
and that they do not expect or wish to re-
ccivc the patronage OF president johnson.
| Quite rs malignant and false and unscru-
pulous Is the constant reteration by black
republican orators and newspapers that
! President Johnson wishes to turn the Gov
crnment of the South over to the hands of
the rebels. All of the speeches and acts OF
the President demonstrate that he is un-
willing to see any man admitted to Con-
gres5 from the South who Is debarred from
taking the oath which Congress itself pro-
Vided. He has again and again asserted,
and his acts indorse his utterances, that TO
the hands only of loyal men should the
government be entrusted.
| 1t Is the strongest possible evidence OF
! the weakness of the cause of the radical re-
publicans that they arc driven to the em-
| ploymcnt of SANDER and falsehood to make
out q case against their opposition, Take
away from this faction the privilege OF
| falsehood and denunciation, and the whole
concern would drop as uerveless and life
| less as did the devil-iish when its head was
cut ont by the knife of Ilugo's hero.
| Take the denunciatatiOns of the PTesi-
dent from the proceedings of the noted eau
Gus held by the black republican Congress
men u short time since, and there is moth
ing of it. The only notoriety gained by
Mr.. lugcrsoll, of this State, during the
present session is that derived from his per-
sonal detraction of the President. Mr.. Grin
nell. of Iowa, is famous only through his
outrageous traduccment ofa gallant soldier.
The most noticeable things said by Thad-
deus Stevens are his remarks about the
''penitentiary of hell'' for sOutherners, and
his abusive speech about the President.
One might go all through the radical
members of the present Congress, and, in
every case, he would find that where q
member has distinguished himself IL has
been in proportion to the amount of his vi
tuperation OF the President, the South, q
member of the opposition, or of some other
person or measure.
| A cause which has no other argument fOi
its support than Misrepresentation must &C
down. 1t may be severe to call, in the
slang of black rcpublicanism, an opponent
a ''head bntcherf' or "double-dyed trai-
tor" but it is not convincing nor eoncll-
sive. AS the the people have sense, we are
strong in the faith that the time is ut hand
when they will record their decision against
n party whose strongest argument is often
| sive Misrepresentation.