Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-11-28
fHE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

bic TO furnish the public with the Presi-
ent's Annual Message. This message, we
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CODgresslOnn Protection TO the
Country.
1t is assumed by some of the Radical
journals that thereis no likelihood that the
President win swerve from his hitherto
promulged policy, and in view of this one
of the most proninent of them declares,
that it is 1.-THE determination of Congress;
to protect the country against' President
JOHNSON; and 1t furthermore declares that
''during the last session many important
measures were lett unfinished-in defer
ence to the doubt whether they might not
iDjure the party in the October and Novem-
Der elections and that "the verdict of the
ballot boxes has clearly decided that DUR
ing the session which is to close the Thirty
Ninth Congress, every one of these meas
ures should be enacted into laws" ar,
Herein there is thought for serious con-
sideration. Pending the October and No
vember elections the 'many important
measures" cleft unfinished" by Congress
I'in Difference to the doubt whether they
might not injure the party" in those. cleo
tions, were pointed to, when, alluded to at
all, as evidence that Radicalism had re-
ceded from its advanced position, and had
accepted as guide to its future action the
wiser counsels of the Conservatives in its
party. Nowhere and by no body of con-
sideration were those unfinished measures
urged upon the consideration of the people
as beneficent, and in consideration whereof
they should be enacted into laws. Did
Democrats assert that the Radicals would
give to them the form and Vitality Of laws,
in the event of their triumph in the elee-
tions, this was answered by the Radicals
and their co-laborers with emphatic denial.
They said they contemplated nothing revo-
lutionary; but would henceforth conform
their course to the strict requirement of
the Constitution. This is the way they
talked before the elections-so talked for
the purpose of hoodwinking the people.
In an altogether different manner they now
discourse. They construe the results Of
the October and November elections as
furnishing them license that will cover
all imaginable revolutionary and Radical
measures. Vse .t e4u M
To the country the President, in his re-
construction policy, has done no wrong
upon it he has perpetrated no outrage!
Nor does he mediate any wrong or out
rage upon the country. With firm faith
he believes that the Southern States did
not succeed in accomplishing the work
of Secession, and that inasmuch as
they did not succeed in its accom-
plishment. he conceived it an impregnable
position to assume that as States they con-
tinued in the Union as c0-equal States,
rightfully entitled to exercise each and
every right and privilege that the other
States in the Union exercise. His isspeeches |
and his messages recognize this fact. 1t is
herein he differs from the Radicals. They |
deny that the Southern States are part and
parcel of the Union as co-equal States.
When, therefore, they say it is the "deter-
mination of Congress to protectthe country |
against" the President, it is equivalent to
saying that they will bandcuff and gag him
with legislation, SO that he shall be no i'm
pediment in their way to the exercise Of
arbitrary and unconstitutional power.
That's the way they propose "to protect
the country against" the President; and
this will be Just such protection as thewolf
gives to the lamb.
Did the people understandingly vote for
any such wolfsh protection? ala