Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-24
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become the salt that is likely to prove the
salvation of the country.
1t is becoming manifest that johnson
never lost his democracy. Thad. Stevens
said in recent speech that Andrew john
son had never done anything inconsistent
with his former professions OF democ-
racy. N
The Radicals say johnson has degraded
himself and his Office by going round the
country making stump speeches. 1t is be-
cause he did not make Radical speeches.
The Radicals are like the good old Metho'
dist woman who fretted because the Baptists
held dcamp-meetings, but finally said she
did not care how many such meetings they
held, provided they would sing none but
Methodist tunes and hyms and make Meth
odist converts. So, the Radicals wouldnot
care how many speeches President John-
son might make, provided they were only
Radical stump speeches the more the BET
ter.
Again, the Radicals say johnson has de-
ceiYed them and proved false TO his pledg-
es. He has proved true to the Baltimore
platform upon which he was elected. The
speaker defied the Radicals to show an in-
stance in which Andrew johnson had de-
waited in the least from the Baltimore plat
fo'm of 1864, or even from the Ohio State
platform of the Republican party.
Democrats now support johnson stand
ing, upon the Baltimore platform. Why did
they not vote for him when he stood upon
thesame platform In 1854? Because they
had no faith in the party that made that
platform, and did not believe they would
carly out the principle they la down, that
as soon as the Southern people laid down
their arms their States would be restored
to the full enjoyment OF their rights in the
Union under the Constitution. The event
has proved that the Democrats were correct.
The Radical leaders and the Radicals in
Congress have refused to carry out that
platform. 1t Is not johnson who has de-
ceived the Radicals; but they have deceiv-
ed him and the country by protesting to be
for one thing, while they were for another.
Reference was made to the action of Con-
gress at the last session, and to seventy y-one
amendments to the Constitution, proposed.
iiby Radical members-all for the benefit
and political exaltation of the negro. Sam.
Shellabarger voted with his Radical coll
leagues Ornegro suffrage in the District
and in the territories. Still he and his Rad
zeal supporters say negro suffrage is not In
issue in Ohio! Not in issue in Ohio! Why
not? Are they such towards and sneaks
as to propose to saddle 1t upon other people,
and dare not make it an issue in their own
ChClldudlk MOulu lnOOuldOO Obl-
er families with the smallpox, but keep it
out of his own. Is this manly9 Is it not
cowardly and sneaking?
r Mr.. Martin, in concluding his address, re-
ferred to the great issue now before the
country. IL was in brief lthis-Shall the
Southern States have their rig lts in the
Union under the Constitution? The Radi-
calls are for depriving the white people of
the South of the right to vote; for strip
ping them of their lands and other prop
erty and for donating the same to the ne
groes, whom they want to make voters,
place them in offices of trust and profit,
and make them the controlling political
power in the country. Those who favor
this Radical Disunion Negro Suffrage poll
cy, should vote for Shellabarger; but those
who believe in the Presidents plan of res
toration, should vote for Miller for
Congress.