Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-30
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A Republican journal, which has for very
IN nearly Eve years prefessed devotion 20 the
= ffnIon. sneers at President Johnson be-
"a eanae he thinks that no important and ag-
ih vravating measure having the South torits
rl5 seId 81 operation, sbosid be permitted to
al become aaaw during the non-representa-
70 Viou Of that portion of the Union IN Con-
aci tress. The journal we refer 30 contempt
mt nousIy says that, In view of this objection
ay 1ltherPresident will have no difficulty here
d after IN framing vetOes, or In interposiug
ed an obstacle in the way Of any important
tf measure which the present Congress may
Of sudbpts,s It asserts that "this is easily APP
piled, requires no special modification for
q particular cases, and Is potent"
n Why should it not Of itself be potentS
ci ARE the Southern States not in the Union
y as sco-equal StatesP If they are not In the
o. Union as co-equal States, we shall be under
~ lasting obligations to some one to tell us at
81 what time they succeeded in getting out of
~ ythe Union. Did they get out Of the Union
y alter Generals LEE and JOHNSTON and their
ii ,armies surrendered and JEFF. DAVIS
q was captured and imprisoned! Before
d, these events occurred, we are very certain
4 that Republican politicians and Republican
a editors contended, as did everybody else,
% that the South had not succeeded in with
" drawing from the Union; and because GER
tain member Of Congress, at one stage of
er the war, made an arr ument in favor of al
Of lowing those States to withdraw from the
s Union the Republican members of the
II Federal House of Representatives felt so
4 much outraged at the proposition that they
IL proposed to expel him and the Republican
e press stormed in passion at the audacity Of
G that member. The Southern States were
III not out of the Union then. They were not
a out the Union when General MCCLELLAN
b was nominated at Chicago; for the Repub-
IS lican rress made the action of that Conyen-
th tion the text for manya malicious speech
es and editorial, wherein the Democratic par
10 sty were falsely represented as having as
N serted that the war was failure. At that
te time the Southern States were not out of
~. the Union.
o. Again we ask the question: Did the
hs Southern States succeed in getting out of
nj the Union when General LEE surrendered
o. his army, or when General JOE JOHNSTON
q surrendered his army, or when JEFF
81 DAVIS was captured and imprisoned? Be-
rt fore these occurrences they certainly had
/ not succeeded in achieving any such re-
! suit II, therefore, they did not succeed in
/ getting out of the Union on the occasions
1 referred to, where is to be found authority
lin 1.-THE Constitution of the United States for
denying to the States their right Of repre-
rsentation? We should, furthermore, like
to know where the authority is to be found
ninthe Constitution for the enactment of
4 laws by Congress having particular refer
ence to those States during the time their
right of representation is denied, Overrid-
den and trampled under foot-where the
authority is to be found in the Constitu-
tion that, under any given state of circum-
4 stances, authorizes the conversion OF any
States of the Union into the condition of
Provinces or Territories, to be kicked,
-lcnfIed and trodden upon, as the malignity
or fanaticism Of the representatives of the
majority of the States shall dictate !?
There is no sach authority, direct or i'm
piled, to be found in that INSTRUMENT. BY
no possibility, with the countenance of the
Constitution, can any State be thus degrad-
ed. 1t can alone be done through revo-
Iutionary overthrow of our form of Gov
-refnment The bill the President has just
vetoed, which act is calling down upon his
head the bitter execrations of men who for
four years have been doing thriving pc
alitical business under the seductive appel
lation of s.The Union Party" was OF this
revolutionary, and therefore dangerous,
A. character. lie would have been false to
the people, recreant to every ennoblng
sentiment, and would have subjected his
soul to blistering perjury, had he not vetoed
it. 1t is his duty-a duty that he cannot,
- as an honest and patriotic man, shirk-to
guard and protect, to the extent of the
power invested in him by the Constitution,
the people of all the States from Congress
sional wrong and outrage, and especially
the people of the Southern States during
the time they are denied voice in legisla-
-sntion.
want the Statements RecOnciIed.
Saturday morning, the Columbus Morn.
ing Journal asserted that it was the purpose
of The STATESMAN and the leaders of the
~, Democracy, by their Endorsement OF Presi-
- dent JoHNsoN's policy, to commit the DEM