Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-09


The Boston TrGnscTipt, the home organ Of
CHARLES SUMNER, says that "the men who
rally to Mr.. JoHxsoN's support" "are gem
orally defeated rebels and their aiders and
abettors in the North; and 1t is unreason-
able to suppose that the President can rely
on their assistance without catching the con-
tagion Of their principles, and obeying the
pressure OF their passions and aims"
This is strange sort of talk at this time oil
day. While the War was In progress, the
men who indulged in language of this de-
scription were very certain that the elements
of rebellion could completely be knocked
out of the Southern people by force OF
arms. Nothing was more certain Of ac-
complishment than that, they contended
but now, they assert, the President can not
fellowship with the Southern people with
out becoming contaminated with treason
If this is so, how can our people fellowship,
socially or businesswise, with the South
ern people without likewise becoming
contaminated with treasonP The lat
ter is necessarily inevitable, If the
former is. Then, If neither the Presl-
dent nor our people can fellowship with
the Southern people without catching the
contagion of their principles, and obeying
the pressure of their passions and aims"
the lives Of our people have been offered
up in vain on the battlefield, and an op-
pressive debt has been fastened upon the
country in return for which we have moth
iDr but treason in an epidemic +" "m, against
which we can only hope for protection In
putting the Southern people into indefinite
political quarantine. According to the
testimony of the Republican leaders, this
epidemic has been growing worse ever since
the surrender of the Confederate armies.
What more clear then, than what is termed
the craftsmanship OF the Republican party
is not adapted to the treatment OF the
Southern people so as to render them well
affected toward the Federal Government
UP to the meeting Of Congress In Decem-
Der last, under the policy of President
JOHNSON, the work OF conciliation was pro-
crossing most satisfactorily, and the indi-
cations were unmistakable that If that pol
lev should receive the prompt and fervent
support of his party in and out of Congress,
the ligatures of the Union would be so
strengthened as to guard against attempted
disunion in the future.
The Republican party, as represented in
Congress, have not clearly understood their
duty. If we shall give them credit for SIN
cerity and solicitude to legislate for the
well-being of the country, we shall be un-
der the necessity of adopting the conclusion
that they have given a most unfortunate
direction to that sincerity and solicitude,
and that to the degree of the vigor of each
has it been calamitous to the country
There appears nothing to the contrary than
that the physician who vigorously bled and
gave warm water to his patients, no matter
what their ailments were, was animated by
sincerity and solicitude for their speedy re-
storation to health but that sincerity and
solicitude did not save them from DEATH
OF themselves that sincerity and solicitude
had no curative power that would counter
act fatal treatment. So, with the legislation
of the Republicans in Congress; 1t may be
prompted by the best intentioned motives;
but this does not divest it of its fatally de-
structive effects. 1t was their mission to
take whipped people, in blood, In language
and in race, the same as ourselves, and
through the exercise Of statesmanship,
which carries to distracted and diseased
and discontented States, the same healing
and curative powers that sound practice In
medicine carries to the distracted, diseas-
ed and discontented patient, and make
them love the Union. For brief peri
cd the physician who did nothing but
bleed and administer warm water to his
patients, had successful run; but his
patients all dying, he soon ran into gen.
eral disfavor, when he was passed by for
the old and regular practitioners. The
change was salutary.
For over four years blood-letting was
practiced upon the Southern people, and
now warm water is being administered to
them through Congress. The practice is
necessarily fatal to Unionism-destructive
to its life. This is seen and admitted even
by Republicans, and although common
sense is imperative in its demands that they
should abandon the. men who administer
this treatment tor men who will re-estab-
lish the old and regular practice, they shrug
their shoulders and practically say rather
than that the Democratic party should be
elevated to power in the Federal Govern
ment, the Union and Republican Govern
ment may be destroyed. Why persist in
such folly? Why allow prejudice and pas
sion to interpose between the salvation of
the country? The cry should become hur-
ricane-like-"Away with the blood-letting
and warm water practitioners, that the
Union may live and become inVigorated."
Another Of the Journals False
hoods Corrected.