Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-02-26
0blo Statesrrarr.
FROM WASHINGTON.

RadIcaIs-Fred. Douglass Insult
ing OenunciatiOn of President John
son.
We make the following interesting ex-
tracts from the Washington correspondent
of the 50. Louis Republican:
The gulf that separates the President and
the Radicals still surges and widens'-
While in the Senate Mr.. Sumner Is pro-
claiming, with hypocritical zeal, the alb
surd dogma of human equality, without
distinction of race, color or condition, and
demands in the name of justice ana liberty
lin the name OF the Declaration and ofthe
Constitution-thatt the negroes OF this land
shall not only be made freemen, but that
they shall be invested with all the civil and
political rights and immunities enjoyed by
| white men: while he even claims for this
historically servile race social equality
with white men and women, points to their
enslavement and political disfranchisement
as the potential cause of all our woes. and
predicts with fervid elOquence the political
millennium of prosperity and glory which
must follow their advancement to complete
equality, civil and social-whlle this ma
lingant but. UtopianlS Senator thus entertains
his confederates and dupes with rhetorical
falIacies in the north wing of the Capitol,
1.-THE gentleman at the other end OF the ave.
nue." is telling Fred Douglass presumptu-
Gus and insOlent committee, who have call
ed to enforce upon the President MIR. sum-
ner's demands in behalf of their race, that
the political power of this country was
committed by the fathers of the Declara-
tion of Independence and of the COnstitu-
ton to WHITE men and while he rejoieed
that by the fortunes of war four millions OF
slaves had been made freemen, and desired
in every proper way to improve their con-
| dition, he would never consent that their
political acknowledgements should be FORCED
on the people of the District of Columbia
or of the States in which they resided
And he advises them that the quickest and
safest mode of securing the enlargement OF
their rights is to earn the respect and
good will of their white brethren by un-
offending lives of virtue and Industry
He further suggests to them that in
stead of congregating In towns and colo
nes in the Southern States, on the plan OF
| the Freedmen's. Bureau, it would be best
for them and the country that they should
either emigrate or disperse themselves more
equally among the different States and
communities of white people, so that their
identity of race should be less obtrusive.
and consequently less likely to fOmrnt the
preiudces of caste. Having said thus
much, he declines any discussion of the sub
ipct with Messrs. Douglass and Downing
and politely bows the committee toward
the door. Fortunately for them it would
be if these misguided creatures had many
more such cOunselors.
But here is another phase of the war be-
tween the President and the radical dis
unionists in Congress. While Mr.. Williams
of Pennsylvania, was, on Saturday, arraign'
ing the President before the House and the
country. for usurpation i'll his measures o
political restoration; while, with malig
nant and insulting arrogance, he denied t.
the States of the South any other name ol
rights than of conquered provinces, and
denounced the people of these States a.
"bafiled parricides," who must be governed
by negroes, and scOurged and spoiled by
the satraps of Northern hate and vengeance
before they could be admitted to partici-
pate with their LOydl masters at the Nortl
in the common government OF a country
which owed its existence and greatness nj
less to Southern than Northern valor. sac
rifice and wisdom; whilst Wade and Wilson
and Sumner and Schenck and Stevens anC
Cameron surrounded the Speaker, with sa'
tanic presence, and grinned and nodded as
sent as his venomous and cowardly shafts
were flung at the President and at the hear
of PROSTATE and bleeding people, the
| GrpSluellU TccelNGu dllu
mittee of distinguished citizens from Vir.
| ginia, who called, in the name of her Leg
| islature. to pledge the sympathy and sup.
port OF her people in his patriotic and mag
Unanimous policy of peace and reconcilia'
ton. He expressed to them, with warmth
and emphasis, his entire confidence in their
assurances of present and future loyalty tc
the Constitution and Union as the best Sc
curity for the liberties and happiness of all
fand assured them, in return, that he had nc
higher aspirations than to be instrumental
in restoring the Southern States to the equa
rights and dignity in the Union to which
they were entitled under the Constitution
that "taXation without REPRESENTATION
was the tyranny against which our fathers
fought and conquered; and that the prin'
ciples which they had viudicated by
their blood, and which was necessary alike
to union and republican liberty, he was de-
termined to maintain; that fidelity and
obedience to the Constitution and Unior
were the only tests OF loyalty; and that, a.
he had sustained the Federal Government
in suppressing resistance to its just author.
ity by extremists at the South, he wa
equally ready to use its power, whenever
necessary, against extremists at the North
and the Union must be fully and speedily
restored, aud its Government preserved
and if there were any who were disposed
to hinder the good work ''they must get ou
of the way" Such, in substance, are tht
words of benevoence and wisdom, of adj
| mOnition, of courageous rebuke and resolve
with which the President responds to tht
threats of the wicked cabal who daily ven
their treason and malignity under the dome
of the Capitol, ,.......,..e ...., 81 ...
4 Fred. Douglass, in conversation in thiI
city, just after his interview with the Pres
1 ident, is reported to have remarked; "Tht
| President charges us with hostility to the
poor class of whites at the South. 1t il
very natural ne should take sides with then
against us, for he belongs to their ranks
| grew up a slave among the aristocracy o
, Maryland, while he is only q low-breC
tailor aud it is not surprising, therefore
that contemn such poor white trash.''
Such is the height of insolenee to whicl
this pet of New England philanthropy ha!
been educated. rc I,l b. ,,nlf Fan - VI
| The'rumorof conspiracy in Congress tC
dep0se the President is revived, aud is at
| tracing serious attention here, and in othel
well-i1formed circles and it cannot be de
MED that the hostility of the radicalsoto :
restoration of the Union, which grows daily
more bitter and defiant gives cOuntenanct
to the charge. Mr.. Williams, of Pennsyl
vania, in his malignant assault on thi
President in the House OF Representatives
on Saturday last, asserted, with emphasis
that TepNessee, by her act of secession, los
everything but her territory, which, if true
! outlaws Mr., johnson, and disqualihes hin
j for the office of President. He further ar
: raigned the President as a usurper, as Mr.
/ Stevens had previously done: and Wendell