Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-05
The Object Of the Radical Dis
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unlOnIsis.
The Neuo York Times Of the ID Inst. In
forms Its readers that the Radical Dis
unIonists are losing their grip upon their
followers In Congress, and that a more sub
dued feeling prevails In that body. For
this improved condition Of affairs, the Times
regards the country indebted to the firm
ness of the President. 1t claims that If he
had not made the determined stand against
them that he has, every branch of the Gov
ernment would have been subjected to the
rude energy OF the Radicals. The object
they had in view, and which they proposed
to carry out, the Times declares to have
been thiss sga' llW HinJ
"a central directory, holding secret
sessions in eommittee-room of the Capt.
tOl. tcould haze laid aside the Constitution as a
useless SCROLL discarded The decisions OF the Su-
prente Court, made he Uotes u Congress effect
uGI for ev1ythiHG and frustrated the t0llole o6-
ject Of the tcdf by rendering the restoration Of
MeUnfoh impossible. The flrmness of An
drew johnson has In a measure saved us
from these perils, immediate and contin-
gent, and imposed restraint upon conduct
that would have led to renewal Of civil
co6fict." o, d.
The country pretty generally understands
byrthis time, that the object the Radical
Disuhionists had in view was one the con-
summation of which would have been per-
ilous to the utmost verge. This peril, it
should be understood, has been only mo-
mentarily averted by the firmness Of AN
DREW JOHNSON; but no one should hatter
himself with the belief that all danger has
been passed, because the Radical Disunion-
lists, in Congress, seeing that they are foil
ed, are putting on the semblanee of mod
Grafton. Point us, if you can, to solitary
Legislature in which the Republican party.
has majority, in which the Presidents
veto has been indorsed, or his reorganiza-
ton policy commended. Point us to Re-
publican State Convention, If you can, that
has been held since the veto was given to
the public, that has pronounced in favor OF
the President as against the Radical Dis
unionists in Congress. Outside OF New
York city, where has there been meeting
held under the auspices OF the Republican
party, to indorse President JOHNSON and to
call upon the Republicans in Congress to
conform to the Presidents views2 With
rare exceptions the Republican journals OF
the country champion the cause of the
Radical Disunionsts in Congress-
Throughout the entire country, the man.
ayers OF the Republican party, as general
thing, bestow curses and eXecrations upon
the President for his patriotic labors in
cennenting the Union and restoring the
Consultation of the United States to its le-
gitimate operations. -.t9fi r. b..
BY this action, the Republican party, as
it IS represented through its organs and its
representative men, declare it to be right !
to lay "aside the Constitution as useless [
scroil''--declare In favor. of discarding 1.-THE i
decisions ofthe Supreme Court of the Unit !
ed States" and making "the votes of Con-
gress effectual for everything"-th frus-
trating "the whole object of the war by /
rendering the restoration of the Union i'm.
possible" fy7- -o .,. ....r
No less are the Radical Disunionists and
Republican managers now animated by
this purpose than they were before the
President delivered his veto. AS much de-
termined are they now to render ''the res
toration THE Union impossible" as then.
They fear, that if the Southern States were
allowed toresume the exercise of their Con-
stitutionally authorized powers in the
Union, that they would in short time be
dismissed by the people as the gov
erniRg power in the country. This is
why they denounce President JOHN
son as an apostate from their party.
The logic Of their present action
amounts to nothing but an anxiety to per-
petuate themselves III power. For the well
fire of the country they care nothing. To
them It is immaterial whether stagnation
settles down on every industrial pursuit.
Nothing do they care as to how much the
ax-paying people may suffer, so that they
manage to hold in their hands the political
power of the country. They gosded the
South into armed hostility to the Federal
Government, hoping that they might turn
that act to their party advantage; and so
far they have done it most effectually. I'm
1erthe judicious Administration of Presi-
dent JOHNSON a most healthy feeling has
growing up in the South, and
haahis far-seeing policy been promptly and
backed up by Congress, we should
to-day witness tranquilized Union sweep
ing forward on the high-road to National
prosperity, happiness and renown. In the
way of this gratifying consummation the
Disualon Radicals in Congress have stood,
IN now stand, as the only impediment- Is 1,
1t not the duty of the people, in compliance
With the demands Of self interest, to remove,
through the available agency of the ballot
,ox, this impediment ,re
Speech Against 1he Test Oath by
Hon. VIM. Il. Fimck.
Hon. WIN. E., FINoK, the distinguished