Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-02-14
ObIo Statesman,
[For the Ohio Statesman.
"NAAsderIy Inactivity"

| originated with Sir James MacentOSn.--.
Wherever it had its origin, nobody in
America practices on 1t, unless latterly the
Democratic party, and [ cannot say that for
them or anybody else it is pleasant or
profitable. Have we lost our old forcel
Are we indeed dead" and only like sepul-
chral ghosts a.a... g
| "Revisting the glimpses Of the mOon,"
that this internal negro saturnalia at Wash
ington is permitted to pull down all that
our fathers reared in wisdom, to set up some
| image, not even of "brass," but of black
mud and dirt in its placer Truly,
Judgment hath fed 10 british beasts,
And men have lost their reason"
The Union party was inaugurated in
Ohio upon the basis and proclamation of
the Crittenden Resolutions. Almost the
| first act OF the party elected on the faith of
these resolutions, was to repudiate them by
a vote of the men elected to represent
them. Did our very Intelligent Republican
party express any feeling at this monstrous
| breach of faith? Mott seemed as il the
| leaders had determined it all beforehand,
and that their mindless and Obsequious fol-,
lowers had not intelligence enough to
object, or capacity sufficient to eompre-
hend the utter contempt OF representative
institutions which Republican practice
| demonstrated TO be the guiding rule of the
new Union-ior spoils and power, the
prevalence of the war, and here and there
| the injudiciOus expression of dissent from
| its conduct by some Democrat, was made
the flimsy preteXt to Justify to the popular
mind, any change of principle, any cor
| ruptiOn, any invasion of human freedom,
any enormlty in short on the part of the
party in power. But the war is ended and
the "angry apes" at Washington are still
''playing fantastic tricks" there that ought
at least to make Democrat swear, angels
having long since drained the fountain of
| tears through the excess of human folly.
| The war is at an end, and what do we see?
| The Union restored for which our soldiers
| fought? Nothing of the kind wanted or
desired. The reconstruction of the States
which must cost S3,000,000,000 or $4,000
| 00C,0 coo? Not that. Its territories South
the Republicans want, and twenty, thirty,
or forty years delay in doing that necessa-
ry thing, the restoration of the Union,
our peoples blood and treasure was poured
| forth in such measureless tide to accom-
plish. Democrats who foresaw the false
hood of Republican pretension in their at
tack upon every Constitutional guarantee
of Government, and their fell designs
against American freedom, in their as
saults upon our most cherished institutions,
were insulted, traduced, called traitors and
| disloyal, copperhead and scoundrels, till
mob law among the masses, unconstitution-
| al imprisonment and exile, the stoppage of
the freedom of speech and of the press, be-
| came the substitute Of power for regulated
rule. Military orders in States not in re-
bellion seems to have crazed the ma
jority with the gratifed wish of
abused power till they are Indifferent to the
consideration that under pretense of the
negro the Congress that sits to-day have
Il, u
| free America, or are doing 1t as fast
as bad men could do it. Government is
properly the institutions of country
which have grown up to protect its people
Ia lite, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
We have evidenced our view of Government
by dual system of National and State in
stitutions, based on constitutions not
necessarily conflicting or encroaching
on either. Has there been in the
seventy-five or one hundred amendments
to the Federal Constitution proposed at
| Washington, one which did not lessen the
power and influence of the State Constitu-
tions? which did not strike at all considera-
tion of State rights as not worth respect
The National Constitution, the work of
Washington, Jefferson, franklin and Madi-
son, is treated as piece of scrAwled fools
cap, needing replacement by the parch-
ment of Stevens, Sumner and Schenck,
through their surprising wisdom. We
have a President who is threatened for
the expression of opinion by the imperious
mouthpiece of dumb Congress, only ca
/ pable of registering the DEGREES of the most
unprincipled coalition of demagogues that
ever cursed the earth. We have Consti-
tuition that the Senate disregards by pass
ing law-so tar as their power can accom-
plish it-decllTing by simple statute that
negroes may vote in every State of the
Union, contrary to the authority of the
Constitutions, the will of the people, the
adiudicatons of the courts, common sense,
reason and all that influences men but the
law of irresponsible power. The will of
the majority is made the rule Nf Consti-
tutions-aud that majority existing only on
u usurpat;on of power, by using the forms
of the Government to destroy its substance,
and being in fact only usurping, insolent
and violent minority. The President, con-
trary to the Constitution, comes, according
to his own party, rregularly from a Terrific
~, Tennessee, not yet admitted into the
Union. During the war Tennessee was in
the Union; since it has ceased, she has some
how gone out. And to protect our
laws we have National Chief Justice
who cannot find time to attend to his
judicial duties, being busy in the dema-
gogue work of seeking the Presidency.
| We have suffrage Tor the hitherto Ignorant
African, but yesterday slave, forced on
the people OF our National Capital, or pre-
pared to be- by a twO.thirds majority. We
have Freedman's Bureau, to be established
by law, to set aside State laws, give away
peoples lands, coerce their courts, waste
the natioal substance in grants to negroes,
and degrade the States in which it exists to
worse than Russian subjugation! These
acts to be carried through by a Rump Con-
gress, who do otrepresent the Union, they
worse than Rebellion mutilate and destroy,
if they carry out their unholy designs. And
all this surmounted by system of tariffs
aud taxation which is robbery of two
thirds OF the Union for less than third,
for New England and all under the pre-
tense of philanthropy VIII any body
show what good philanthropy in goverh-
ment ever accomplished {? But the pre-
tense is falsehoodi Sumner, Stevens and
Schenck care nothing for the black, but as
they can use him as an instrument of the
consolidated despotism they seek to, and
have, pretty well forced upon us. 4" Power,
plumber and extended rule is free trans
lation of Negro Suffrage and philanthropy.
And if this thing is continued, will we have
any government? or win that be govern
ment which is only an India rubber rule,
to be extended or diminished by our mod
est masters Of New England?
But i, am rambling, Is all this to be
borne in quietness, without the most active