Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-04-10
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MIR. DeIanO's DAeeting-DiscOnf
future of the Radicals-A Gren
Stride in the Right Direction.

Mr.. DeIanO's IIeeting-D DiscOuf
IiIure of lhe Radicals-A Grea :,
Stride in the Right Direction. !.
Ever since the first Veto message of tb
President the Conservative Republicans
Mount Vernon have been holding adjourn
ed consultations relative to taking groun
in favor of q restoration of the Union. Bu
the stubbOrnness aud sulliness of the Radi
cal opposition deferred them from doing 80
But Mr.. Delano alike undeterred by tn
complaints of the Radicals, and tn
whimsical oscillations of poor Bascom, VIII
one week indorses Shellabarger, Steven
and Sumner, and the next inclines to tho
support Of the President-then for holding
the States of the South, as conquered prov
inces, TO be governed by Military rule, and
now advocating with his "whole heart the
earliest restoration of the Southern States
to all their rights in the Union"-Mr. Del
ano has done his ''own thinking,n and has
tearlessly taken his stand by the Democrats
In Congress to sustain the President.
His address to his constituents on Satur-
day night, was able and eloquent, and his
burning words of Indignation, when COM
menting upon the reasonable conduct OF
Sumner, Stevens and their adherents, caused
the Radicals to shrink within their shells.
greater Skill than by Mr.. Delano, when
Stevens, Sumner and Their satellites were
being disemboweled. There was no mang-
ling-no false cuts-no mistaking nerve for
muscle; but the pedant and the demagogue
were taken apart, limb by limb, nerve by
nerve, and muscle by muscle; and want of
heart and lack of brain were exhibited to
his hearers! ..-.- .
Mr.. Delano declared that ''it is the OBJ
iect of the Radicals to establish a tyranny
in the South, more odious than that in
ficted by England upon the people of
Ireland, and too long" said he, shave
struggled for the freedom of the blacks, to
consent now to the enslavement of por-
tiOn of my own race"
The resolution of the Congress of 1861,
which solemnly declared that the object CT
the war was solely to maintain the suprem-
acy OF the Union, and not to interfere with
the existence of the States, or the full en-
joyment of their rights under the Consti-
tuition, was eloquently referred to by Mr..
Delano, and he asked the Republicans
whether, by their action, they were now
prepared to prove that all their professions
of love for the Union, had been false and
hypocritical, and that while from their
mouths they prOfessed Union sentiments,
yet in their hearts they were praying for
its destruction.
The resolutions, though presented by a
committee, were written by Mr.. Delano
himself, and in their general tenor they
tend in the right direction. He still ad-
heres to the hefesy of the test, which we
feel satisfied that he will denounce as un-
constitutional, as soon as he has leisure to
examine the question with the care which
its gravity demands.
Ourduty has often required us to speak
of Mr.. Delano in terms OF censure, but our
doing so arose from no personal feeling,
and we will atall times take pleasure, as we
now do, in commencing his actions, so long
as they are guided by the light of the Con-
stitution. But we cannot but express our
regret that Mr.. Delano did not insist upon
the adoption of resolutions indorsing the
veto of the Freedmen's Bureau bill the
Presidents great speech on the 22d of Feb
and the veto of the Civil Rights Bill 80 called
| Had such resolutions been offered, they
would have been adopted by an overwhelm-
ing vote; and the radical Republican party
of Knox county would have been dried up
Mr.. Delano would have been strengthened
| in his power to stand by the President
against the Radicals; and the President
himself would have learned-what is the
fact-that it is but mere faction of sore
heads in the Republican party, who OPP
pose his administration.