Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-04-03

Connecticut may soon be found men OF
Johnson's mold. Whatever may be Thought
of the past, however the passions or preJu--
dices of this State may have been excited
against the Democracy, one thing never
was asserted-that they did not look to
the Constitution as the only bond of union,
and the flag with all its stars, as the
symbol of its patriotism. That Consti-
tuition was made with the concurrence or
Connecticut. Ellsworth and sherman Il
don't refer to the Senator of that name,
who has lately vented his ungracious spite
In this State) were your representatives.
In the month of May, 1887, they met the
great men of that day at Philadelphia, and
during an anxious summer of hope and fear
they at last, on the 7th of September,
through the agency Of the Washingtons,
the Pinckneys, the Randolphs, the Masons,
the Rutledges, and the Madisons, presented
to Connecticut the present Constitution Tor
your approval. Their letter OF September
26, 1857, is among the archives OF your state.
1t advised your people of the nature OF the
new national compact. They said ''Some
additional powers are vested in Congress.
Those powers extend only to matters re-
specting the common interests OF the Union,
and one specidly defined, so that the particu-
lar States retain their sovereignty in all
other matters. The convention en-
deavored to provide for the energy OF gov
ernment on the one hand, and suitable
checks on the other hand, to secure the
rights of the particular States and the lib
critics and properties of the citizens" These
great men looked to the States and the
checks placed by them on the Federal COY,
ernment as the means to secure liberty ana
property. Andrew J0hnsOn's vetoes are
written in the light of their views. Not
less pronounced were they in the conven-
ton at Hartford, in January, 1888. Els
worth urged union, because it was economy
and strength. Connecticut being small
State, the Union was to her safety. George
Washington told the convention that the
members of COngress-how unlike the
present members-were quite as strenuous
advocates for the rights of the States as for
those of the Union. Oliver WOlcott insist
ed, that the CONSTITUTION effectually secures
the States in their several rights. 1t must
secure them for Us Ol1R sake, as they are the
pillars which uphold the grand system" 1t
| is in this spirit that the Constitution was
made, and on this principle only the Union
can be restored. Every discussion regarl-
| ed the government formed as one of limit
| ed power, and that the States did not lose
their individuality or rig Is. In respect to
general matters common to all, they volun-
|
selves privileges and power. But
never, never did they yield their State
hood, and never, never did they place it in
the power of national Congress to crush
their individual lite or their Federal con-
! nections. By no Interpretation of the
Constitution by court or public writer, at
home or abroad, by Brougham, De Tocque-
vile, Kent, Story, or Marshal. was there
ever conceded to the General Government
the dominion over matters of Local Gov
ernment. To have Welded this, would have
been to destroy the federate system. 1t;
plan, structure, and genius would have
! been obliterated. That plan consists o
many "brotherly dissimilitudes" according
in unity. That structure is that of a tenn
pie of many stones fifty placed together
differing in size and strength. butall bount
together by keys and arches, in majestic
symmetrical whole. That genius consists
] of variety in unty-E pluribuS ulllDt. 1t Il
the lesson of nature; the flowers, stars
winds, and waters, all teach this lesson. Ii
the infinite variety of nature, there arr
generic rules by which classes are made
one, and many units, differing in some re
spects, made still more complete in thei
unison by further relations to grand cen
tral organism. This is the soul Of ou
Union. 1t is that on which, as the Chicago
Convention OF Republicans once declared
depended the equipoise and endurance o
our system. Ii party or faction woulC
endeavOr to Obliterate such system, how
would they proceed? If the devils shoult
conspire in the bottomless pit to strike tn,
sun from the planetary system, how woul(
then proceed? Dash at the central luminar!
directly? mol The elfulgence aud glOr!
of that orb would consume and Toll them
| Nla 10 ,
from its orbit, eclipse each, star by star
leaving chaos and ord night to finish tin
work of ruin and combustion! The devil
in our Legislative pandemonium, led b!
his satanic majesty (w,ll, you may CUES
who is head devil y, have been at this worl
of dissolution by this diabolical method
They would keep the States in outer dark
ness, and when they are sufficiently sate(
in their vengeance, may condescend to al
low them to come in, provided they com
to Union as it neuer was before! Henc
the policy of the Democracy is the polio,
of the President. Cheers 1t would dt
now as in 1860 it strove by concession to dc
keep the States in the old bond. Hence tn
!, President, representing that policy, dare
!. to interpose his constitutional veto, to pre-
vent the success OF disunion, and the chang
of our federative system.
THE vEToEs.
If any one thinks the President has bee
, rash in breaking with his own party o
with Congress, let them consider it anew
He believed that the plan of appointing
Provisional Governors and then supersed
} ing them with elected Goveraors--of rehab
iitating the States in the old household
/ with their own domestic rules of economy
and having their representatives at Wash
ington-was plan approved by his prede
cessor, warranted by the platform of tn
party which elected him. and in harmon,
. with the Constitution. Working CAREFUL.
!, on this plan, he seems to have incurred tn
hate of the malignants of his own parry
He removed none from office. He kept tn
, old Cabinet. He made no aggressions Of
, Congress. Patiently he worked in hi
quiet way, desirous to avoid collisions
Before he could speak his mind in his mes
} sage, they assaulted his system by Cen
tral Directory. They treated his own be
loved State as an alien enemy, and foreig
: land. They assaulted him by every epi
} thet. Still llhereturned not their buffeting:
, We Democrats thought he had no jackson
; ian pluck. We could not understand hi
. patience. AT last their angry fanaticisr
, eliminated in bill to grind the people Q
eleven States with power which no mon
: arch ever exercised. He abrogated tn
power they rendered in the Freedmen's Blu
, reau bill. That bill proposed to hang t
the Federal treasury an abject and depend
ent race, to be fed, clothed, and kept at tn