Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-29
The Jewel Consirtencx.

The Jewel Consistency.
Does any one, in this time OF excitement
seek an adviser on whose calm consistency
he may rely, and in whose deliberate judg'
ment he may rest his confidence? Let hin
not dock for the guide among radicals
They have been only desirous to accomplish
disunion, and for that end have used any
means, fought under any flag, and been on
any side of any question which seemed
| likely to aid in the overthrow OF Govern
ment and Constitution. Just now they are
excessively alarmed lest meetings to sus-
| tain President johnson shall bring cOnser-
vatiye men together, and they advise their
| followers not to sign any calls for such
meeting. OF course, they represent all who
are not of their faith as traitors, hoping
| thereby to escape the denunciatiOn which
| the President has given to Stevens and
Sumner, and others OF that stripe, as orig
inal enemies of the Union. The value OF
their warnings may b. measured by the
following paragraphs, which we venture
to put into juXtapOsition, which will show
just how much reliance may be placed on
radical advisers in this or any other time
of national trial:
DON'T DO IT.
When one who declared that Lincolns
| election provoked and justified secession
and disunion, asks you to sign political
call, don't do it!-TriJune, March B. 1866.
We insist on letting them 20 in peace.
The right to secede may be revolutionary
one, but it exists nevertheless.-Tri
NOu. 8, 1850.
When one who declared the war for the
Union unjust, and proclaimed on the streets
that the rebles were fighting for the de-
Tense Of their rights and their homes, asks
you to unite with him in an avowel of po-
lltical sentiment and purpose, don't do It'll
Tribune March 3, 1866.
If the cotton States unitedly and earnest
ly wish to withdraw peacefully from the
Union, we think they should and would be
| allowed to do so. Any attempt to compel
them by force to remain woud be Contrary
t. the principles enunciated in the immor-
tai Declaration of Independence, contrary
to the fundamental ideas on which human
liberty is based.-I'rtbune, NOU. 20, 1860.
When one who wanted to coax traitors to
desist from firing on the flag, seizing the
| fortress, &c. asks you TO unite with
him in political movement, don't do it =
Tribune, March 3, 1866.
Whenever it shall become clear that the
great body of the Southern people have be-
come cOnclusively alienated from the
Union, and anxious to escape from it, we
will do our best to forward their yieWs.-
Tribune, Feb 20, 1861.
When one who steadfastlv insisted
throughout our great struggle that the reb-
els were always victOriOus-that our arms
| made no progress s-that the Union
could only be restored by first giving it up
as lost and then asking the victors to LEI
us creep in at the back door of their tri-
umphant COnfederacy, now urges you &c
sympathize and fraternize with him in
| denouncing as traitors aud disunionists the
| foremost champions of Liberty and Union.
now and forever, one and inseparable,' y
don't you do it t!-T'rb,ne March 8, 1866.
III three months more of earnest fighting
shall not serve to make serious impress
sion on the rebels-if the end of that term
shall find us no farther advanced than its be-
| ginning-it some malignant fate has de-
creed that the blood and treasure OF the
nation shall ever be squandered in fruitless
efforts, let us bow to our destiny and make
the best attainable peace.-Iribune, jan
ua,y 20, 1862.
We have reproduced these old and well
| known quotations for two reasons first, to
show the dishonest and partisan purposes
of those who now advise their followers to
hNSP up Oiu parry linCS anu IGIdlIl Olu alll-
mosities, so as to prevent united support of
the President; and secoad, because they
are apt illustrations of the Presidents as
sertion that these radical men are old
enemies of the Union, and it is well to re-
mind leaders of their existing record.
The principal of Union in this country is
based on mutual affection and mutual con-
cession for mutual interest. 1t was always
the object of Northern and Southern radi-
Gals to destroy the Union, and the record
evidence is isabundant that they acted to-
gether. While the Ne0 York Tribune is
generally and rightfully quoted as the ex-
ponent OF radical views in this part of the
country, it must not be supposed that it was
alone in these disunion avowals. The radi-
cal press in all parts of the North har-
monized with the radical press in the South
in desiring disunion. In both sections
radical men expected to gain political pow
er, office and spoils by division, as the
present object of the Northern radicals is
to retain these benefits.
The Chicago Tribune, In December, 1860,
in discussing the policy of the incoming
Administrator, said: "The drift of opinion
seems to be that if peaceable secession is
possible, the retiring States aUiH be assisted to
co." and appealed to its readers. do not
let us make that impossible."-N. Y.
Journal Of Commerce.