Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-05-30

perusing Democratic journals, might be
induced to vote the Democratic ticket. If
Democratic journals taught secession or
pursued line Of comment that gave en-
d. couragement to the Southern Confederacy
enterprise, they would have been quick to
/ have perceived it, and their repugnance to
1 Democratic journals and to the Democratic
party would have grown intense. Through
the exclusion of Democratic journals from
the army and tEe distribution of Republic
can journals through it, the great mass OF
the soldiers were preiudiced against the
good old organization.
Now that the war is over, and now that
the President will not unite with the Radi-
cal and Republican politicians in Congress
in subordinating the interests of the coun-
try to party; because he will not agree
with them that the chief aim of the Re-
| publican party should be as to how it will
perpetuate itself in power; some whole
some truths are being told-truths that
vindicate the patriotism of the Democratic
! party and that incOntestibly establish the
fact that Chief Justice CHASE and many of
his followers were dsunionists.
The Ne,o York Tribune (Radical) few
days ago, in commenting on Secretary SEW
ARDS recent Auburn speech, said that the
Northern Copperheads, whose hearts were
In the main with the rebellion throughout
mot that they wanted disunion, but that
they accounted the Republican party the
first aggressor and the rebels more sinned
against than .sinning-who firmly believed
that the Union could only be restored By buying
of the rebels Nth fresh concessions and guar
antics TO sLaUery-lrhO deprecated national Uic-
tories as graue impediHents to the only possible
or truly desirable reuniOn-toh0 regarded the
todr merelyaS politicians struggle for Supre'n-
dcg and neUer doubted, tohateUer might be set
forth at Richmond, that, If they Ioere in poIoer,
they could negotiate speedy restoration In
their view, therefore, every national dem
onstration against slavery, whether by con-
fiscating the slaves of rebels, or arming ne
groes, or proelaiming emancipation, was
nail in the coffin of the Union"
From this testimony of the Ne,o York
Tribune it will be seen that the uppermOst
thought in the minds of Democrats, or "the
Northern Copperheads," as they are term
ed, was the importance of the preservation
of the Union; that they sought to preserve
it through compromise; that they thought
War would produce its destruction; that
they thought the War was prompted more
by political party considerations, than by
love of Union; that the schemes of contis-
cation, emancipation and the arming of
Negroes was destructive Of the Union that
they sought power not for the purpose of
recognizing the Southern Confederacy, but
for the purpose Of negotiating a speedy
restoration" and the Tribune could with
pertinency and propriety have said that
this purpose prompts the Democratic
party to the effort of getting con-
troll of the Federal Government now.
This testimony, from lifelong
and earnest opponent, is calculated deserv-
edly to assist in putting the Democratic
party-its aims and aspirations-before the
country in its true light. What rebuke
to the dirty politicians and constituencies
preachers who have represented, and who
continue to represent, the Democratic
party the enemy of Union-its perpetuity,
its happiness and its prosperity.
In its issue of May %, in reply to the
Buffalo Express, the New York Times says
that at the time the country was rapidly
drifting into War "there were men in its
ranks (the Republican party toho resisted,
toho opposed making tOar for the Union, and
toho thought 10 better TO be rid Of slavery evea
at the cost Of Disunion. Coz. Chase, eUen
tohen first in the Cabinet, tods one Of those. Mr..
Greeley, in the Tribune ,OGs another, and both
had .JoILotsers."
This, too, is Republican authority. BY
these two leading Republican journals, the
country is told that while the leaders of the
Democratic party were zealously laboring
to avert War and preserOe the Union through
compromise, Mr.. CHASE and the New York
Tribune, with no inconsiderable number of
followers, were in favor of allowing the
Southern States peaceably to withdraw from
the Union; that to get rid of the institution
of slavery they were perfectly willing to
allow the Union to be disrupted" the best
Government on earth," as they afterwards
declared, to be destroyed. And yet these
men who were willing that this should
be done, have for over four years been ex-
alted as Union men par excellence. They
now obstruct Union; they now, as in the
past, call upon the people to keep out of
power party that never held dlsunion
sentiment or aspiration. Such jugglery,
we take it, will not much longer delude
successfully.
THE Ohio Republican politicians, who
have been on to Washington to arrange
plans to control the Republican State Con-
vention to the defeat Of the Radicals, it is
said, have started for home to carry their
plans into effect. Instead Of their control
ing the Radicals, the Radicals will control
them. .a
THADDEus STEVENS is said to be disgust
ed with the Senate because of the course 1t
Is taking with regard to his proposed
-.n.. a,,t "a tho Congtitukion: and hence