Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-08-10
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For days before the assembling Of the
Republican JOHNSON mass meeting in this
city to appoint Delegates to the Philadel-
phia Convention, the tone Of the Republi-
can press was of a character to induce
the belief that they thought 1t would prove
magnificent failure, and hence would
furnish them subject for hearty merry
making. Their tone since the Convention
adjourned is the reverse of jubilant. 1t is
serious and deprecatory, and thus they
recognize the Convention as having been a
most formidable ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BILE more in the influence that will crop out
from it than in the numbers present.
1t Is acknowledged that the Convention
was made up of men who rendered con-
spicuous service In the army, and who
have not yet passed into old age, but who
are active and earnest men, determined to
achieve the purpose for which they set out.
The detection of such men, in numbers so
great would be most disastrous to any or
ganization under favorable circumstances; (;
but such detection from the Republican
party at this time, when it is staggering
under the infamy that has been put upon
Its shoulders by its Representatives in
Congress, is an assurance that the Republic
can party is doomed. There is among the
rank and file of the Republican party
sullen discomfort which needs but little
agitation to cause it TO break out in open
insurrectlon. Thepromises of their leaders
are unredeemed. They groan under OPP
pressive taxation that in some particulars
is aggrayatiOgly unfair. They see that the
Republican Congressman could think of
nothing but the Negro, swindling jobs and
the increase of their own pay; that instead
of cooperating with the President to pro-
duce Cancellation and concord, they labored
to develop and intensity hatred and indefi-
nitely postpone union; that for mere party
ends, they have frittered away almost en-
tirely the fruits of the war.
Not only in Ohio is this sullen discomfort
discoverable. 1t pervades the whole cOun-
try. Everywhere throughout the adher-
ing States, men who have given dignity
and character to the Republican party, see
it and are giving unmistakable evidence Of
a determination to defeat the Radicals and
thus save our republican form of Govern
ment and guarantee political liberty to the
whole country. Party prejudice has been
appealed to by the Republican press to de-
ter Conservative Republicans from taking
part in the Philadelphia Convention. The
cry has been raised that "Copperheads
and ''Rebels" would control it. These ap-
peals and these cries have no terrors
for men like Hon. GEORGE AsHMUN,
Of Boston, who presided over the delibera-
tions OF the Convention that put Mr.. I'm
COLIN in nomination for the Presidency in
1860, nor for Mr.. EWING, who gave his
great influence In behalf Of the election of
Mr.. LINCOLN In 1860 and in 1854. Another
thing that challenges attention Is the fact
that great number of soldiers who did
acknowledged effective service in the war
are giving to the Philadelphia Convention
powerful encouragement. What effect all
this will have can readily be read in the
result of the Kentucky election. That re-
suit was the triumph of the Constitution
and Union, or "the Presidents policy"
That result is but the commencement of
the political freshet that will wash away
every vestige Of the Republican party,
with Its revolutionary and plundering
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