Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-28
I. {. JUNE 28, 1866 Z.
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The Question Of Questions.
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la The Question Of Questions. "a,
MI "I did but purpose to embark with thee .H..I
On the smooth surface of summers SOS, .f.'
And would fOrsake the ship ard seek the shore.
When the winds whistle and the tempests roar. "
InaH the history of politics the above
lines have never better applied thin 10 some
pretentiOus persons who seem to have es-
poused the cause of the President only to
betray him, We said hetray him, but Cbat
cannot be by the people 1t is the leaders
who 'ipalter In d double sense" who keep
the word of promise to the ear, and break
it to the hope. After two votes of the edi-
tor of the NeW York Times. directly in the
teeth of the Presidents policy, it had been
supposed indeed-that he and his
press would no longer play the part Of the
igniS .tdttlLS, but would go directly over to
the enemy in word as well as deed. The
part set down for them, however, seems to
have Ibeen to further mask fell purpose,
and continue to instil those feelings of
doubt, uncertainty, and distrust that steal
over and blast the counsels of the brave.
The question Of questions, Shall the Loydl
RepreSeptatige$ and Senators from the South be
admitted? is as much before the Congress as il
1cdS SiD months ago. Not a step has been
taken as to admission by that only body
that has power in the premises, Congress.
Its recent action, Stimulating n disposition
to admit them by means of Constitutional
amendments, is seen and felt on all hands
to be a mockery and delusion. They are
purposely drafted to procure their inevita-
bic defeat North and South. .r .rug
Yet, at the moment when the presence
in complete panoply of an assailing foe de-
mands that the banners shall be hung on
the outward wall, some watchmen give
more than an uncertain sound. They cry
all is well, and that Congress aud the
President are SO little apart that reconcile
ment is at hand. Under these circum-
stances, were it not for the high intelli-
gence of the American people, the cause
of restoration of States would be lost.
The President needs for friends in his
party, in position, in the press; iron men,
who have enlisted for the war; who intend
to go his way or no way; to take not a step
backward; to hurl defiance at his
enemies, and not to parley with them; to
fight them with fire, and not seek
to ingratil lte by base compliances. Of
the latter character dove regard the fol-
lowing gratutous advice to the Radicals In
Congress from the New York Times:
congress is laboriOuSly engaged in put
ting into Constitutional amendments the
guarantees eohich 10 deems essential to the future
safety and ,OeltGe Of the nation. Tue Senate
Is just now at work upon them, and will
probably get them inlO such u shape as
will command the assent of two-thrd, of
both Houses. They will then be sent to
the Legislatures of the several States for
ratification, and the Intention Of the Union
party in Congress is To exclude epery Southern
State from representation lutH ii shall hare
dsSeRted TO these amendments and embodied
their Substance In It's OuR Constitution and htocS.
"The next thing on the programme,
as reported by the Reconstructipp
committee, therefore, is bin pTd-
gliding for such exclusion. Suppose that
passes, as it probably will, it goes to
the President and is absolutely certain 10 be
getOed inasmuch as the President holds
that these States, being in the Union, are
entitled to representation, and that Con-
gress has no right to impose conditions
precedent to their enjoyment of
that right. Possibly they may be
able to pass it over the veto, and possibly
not But in either case, what will they
have gained3 They will simply, at best,
have enacted q law providing for the eX-
clusion of the States; and that exclusion Mey
could just as l0eH haze accomplished ,0itbQut a
la,o as Ioith one. AIthey can possibly gain is
to elicit another CetO, and bring about another
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