Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-05
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dent johnson. fIe Urged ar KepubiicaM
and a1bh9neatmen Of eyfFy, PfEty, to !Aup-
port the Presidents policy. He prononnc-
ed President JOhnson % wisey good and safe
Presid5A6 He willy DO. foEtiidk 4asIIJy.-
His guide Is the OotistItutfonOof his coun-
try. [CheersJ JaaWhat leaders are the peo-
pile to follow?,, Didrthe Republican party
use to follow Senator -Sumner2, His Cow
an's) friend. Mr.. Scott, of Huntington
county, on, Monday froInS the ivet = plat
form on witch he now stood, repudiated
MIR. Sumner mo q Ratllcap speech he
made. Were the people, TO follow the lead
lof Thad. Stevenyt poo ne thought it
was scarcely necessary Co tell'them that
lThaal Stevens was the most idaUgefOds p0
Ilititical representative III the country, for
the people We're waking ub to the fact. The
part Mr.. Stevens played in the Buckshot
wFrtgreat laughter was the same paftGhA
plays to-day in the politics of the country.
He. wlslin q aminoritg then, anIl Yhel Is Al
minority now. Inbeth cases he totally ig-
lnores the .peOple,W He had no unkind, word
ito saygOf iThad Stevens, or of any other IN
diyiduaL buthe could not for a moment
followbim, nor Sumner, nor any otherman
belonging to their class. The single idea Of
negro equalityis al the stock 10 trade they
possess, and on it they expect to make their
fame. He (CowaD) had, no feeling of up-
kindness for the negro Heitwould not do
what Mr.. Stevens aud Senator Sumner did
on that very account. Onemilhon of. blacks
had perished in this very conflicts. Thai
is, they not only died Of.wounds and disease
received in the war, but they We're throWh
Outinto the greatstern battle OF human lifesS
where they Are unable to contend with the
white man. They wOulal NOW have. to pay
the highest price for everything, and eive
their-0w labor for almost song. White
yOnln dom if nj than Qxs,oo ltt1.
man nature; whocandeny it? The white la
boring man scarcely makes saliyiug+rhow
the inferior black to sustain bimseli2 There
was DOtmUre than 0ne+quarter of the blacks
left, and at this rate, IN one hundred 81 earst
this race would be wiped out. We whites
'perpetuate ourselves. ~Fhe blacks cannot.
Once they c6tiId,! for alhegro was worth so
much money. lHemultiplled andiincressed.
But the negro can not do il, now.s The eX,=
tinction of the race is sure, and there was
no race in the world in whose hands the
negro would suffer more than in our oWni
Before tue war he paid his master with q
quarter or half days work, but ,noW,a
full days work and more besides was 'eX-
acted Of him. He must suffer- and yet
THE Radicals want to increase his misery by
tumbling him into the boiling caldrOn Of
politics in this country. This is the law
of nature. The strongest race goes first,
fDJcNGllSs anu IlllcIT lTlGIluS nave
taken the idea into their he ids that the he
gro can be made the same as the white
man, and that, too In Tie face Of all his
/ tory. BY a recently discovered fact. the
negro is the oldest race in the world Why
lhas lie not progressed? And as for slavery,
it was thousand fold worse in Africatharl
ever it was in this country. The horrors OF
the one would not compare with those of
the other. The negro is the weak man.
( He seeks protection by the side of the
strong man.. But we're the people to follow
these Radicals in this crusade against the
I Union, ferries of "nO, Ino,n] or, wonld they
I follow their natural leader? Whofwas the
head and front of the Republican party in
III 1850? WAS 1t not William III. Seward?
Il [Cheers.l Was he not a better man than
; even Stevens or Sumner? Beside him
4 stood Gideon Welles [cheersL and McUhl-
lOch, and Stanton, who was supposed 60 be-
the very. embodiment of all that was radi-
] cal, and who now II dorses everything
/ the President does. Where was Gem
eral Grant [cheersl when last we heard
of him? He was standing at. the
elbow of President JOHNSON, while thelat-
ter was in the act of receiving adelegation
T. from the Philadelphia Conyention, apprOy--
ing and indorsing his policy. Gen. Sher-
man fcheersl was heart and hand WithMr.
johnson. He had reason to believe thai
! Gen. Sheridan ipdorsed the. Presidents
policy. So did Hancock, and every other
General we have who has acquitted him!
selfwell on the field. Gen. Richard Coal-
ter [ehGersl who needed no certificate to
preeede him-no newspaper reporter to acl
company him and put battles on paper his
soldiers never saw or heard of betore--was
with the President. But every sham Cen
eral who talks Justify about the negro, and
when war came ran away orywasn't on the
field at aH-the Bntlers and SigelS aud
Shurzs, were all Radicals, every one of
them. The friends OF President johnson
embraced the galantry and patriotism of
the country. But Congress ignores the
Constitution, which says the Southern
States shall have two Senators each, and
thus it tramples upon the GOVERNMENTS
self The question can be settled easily and
speedily by observing the Constitution.
Fhe States, too, are all in the Union. Two
out of the three coordinate branches Of
the Government have established aud are
to-day exercising their authority iii all of
them-the executive and judiciary+Abnb
thelegislative branch refuses oR-theirpart
to recognize the Southern States. Not be-
cause those States are not qualified, button
the ground that they are not entitled to
representation. This is anarchyy 1.-THE
South were admitted, the Radicals know
their power is gone He hoped and be-
lieved the people would be able to restore
the Union, and that would be glory enough
for at least one generation. The Senator
then retired amid perfect volley0f cheers,
in the midst of which the band strdekrup
Hail Columbia" .s19ffcr-.t yfga7rI f,oO