Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-04-30


laying down their arms till they were com
PEELED. They were in earnest, They
pledged themselves in every solemn way
that they would never cease the war Whlle
life lasted, and as an earnest that they were
sincere in that pledge, they offered. up
and sacrificed their earthly all-their
families to privatiOn and suffering, their
property to destruction and their bodies
to the grave. Such men would never
yield to talk. You might as well have
the wind to whistle around their ears, in
viting them to come back, as to ask them to
return at your bidding, Hence said then,
as Lsay now. that no minority OF a people
of this country have right to set at de-
fiance the laws they themselves help to
make; that 0yery man owes primary allie.
glance to the Government of the United
States, and he has no right to tell you that
the laws of the country and the Constitu-
tion of our forefathers do not bind him.
[Cheers.] And / SaynOtc TO those gentlemen,
Thdd. Stevens and the rest, 1cIO insist that
the Union is DISSOLVED, / say to them, as SAID
10 the rebels, and oohdt all The loyal men Of he
South said to them, that this Union could not
be disSOiUed, and that IL must be--tn the Tan
gudge Of Jackson, IL must, should, and 6y me
Eternal shall be PRESCRIBED. [Cheersl Wen,
gentlemen, the loyal men down South are
!
We. have a perfect understanding with
each other, and l for one, my country
men, can say to you of those Southern
people to-day-and you also know it-they
mean what they say; and when they meant
to secede they said it, and they held to that
cause so long and so faithfully that In all
the war there never was regiment a6an-
doned its colors and came into the Federal
army as deserters. That adhesion is an
earnest to you that they tell the truth. 1t
is not possible-the bitterness Is not yet
passed away. But must say this to you,
and you will agree with me that you have
state of things unhoped for by the most
hopeful; you have promising conviction,
did not expect to see for ten years after the
war was over. Gentlemen, it is an unprece-
dented state of things. We have had many
bad men who brought all the trouble; they
have not ceased their opposition to Govern
ment, and never will. But they have done
fighting. If they submit to the laws of the
land it is all we can ask. Mr.. Lincoln
never asked for anything else. He told
| them to lay down their arms and to submit
| to the laws of the land. You cannot make
people love each other; you cannot even
make a man love his wife but OF his own
| accord. Lord Palmerston said, we never
| could heal the i'll feeling that was created.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can
not make him drink; and if these people
submit 1 say what they tell you is true /;
and it is not only idle talk, but it is criminal
to degree / can not tell, after this war is
over and the land drenChed with blood, and
| every house in the nation filled with mourn-
ing, to have the men who have been en-
gagged in this struggle keeping up the strife.
| If they give up the struggle it is all we ask.
m w John
son with being dislOyal man? What have
they done to end the rebellion? What have
| they lost or suffered? They have lost short
time in filling the offices of the country.
What is their patriotism to his? You might
as nell compare The patriotism Of Ihdddeus
| Stevens aoith that of AadreI0 JOtnSOn as The
gudtiOnS Of the nludlGrk 10Th the upDdrd .alqiL
| Of the eagle to the clouds. You might as well
take The distorted statuary of Yucatan and
compare it with the beautiful creations of
sculpture of that little artist Miss Vine
Rene, of Washington city. l am often
asked if Andrew johnson is firm; II he
will stand on the ground he has taken for
the Union and Constitution. lwilltell you
what [ have always told those who asked
me that, that Andrew johnson never h I'd
an opinion that did not amount to cOnvic-
I ton, and when he has a conviction the world
can not move him from it. But he has been
viewed by the politicians, and they have
placed him before you in false position.
| You have seen him from wrong stand
point. Like every man he has been par
| tisan in this country, but when he was made
| President he had different position. He
could no longer take sides with one party
against the other for partisan purposes, but
! discharged the duties bravely and Justly as
the President of the whole people. l recol-
lect reading that in city of Greece it was
proposed to two of its most eminent sculp-
tors to make two statues to Jupiter, when the
people were to assemble and take the one
that should be preferred and place 1t on
pedestal one hundred feet high. On the
day for trial the statues were brought for
ward and the people assemb ed. One OF
the statues was of the ordinary size, beau-
tifiIl in feature and form, attesting the skill
of the artist, while the other was lager, a
little course, with some rough points about
it, and they rejected the larger and accept
ed the smaller; but the maker of the larger
| and reject d statue insisted they should be
placed on the pedestal before they decided.
| This was agreed to-; but when the work of
elevation began and the statues went up
ward and higher still, it was scen that the
beautiful features of the smaller statue
faded away, while the features of the coars-
er and larger one shown out in the beauty
that belonged to it, and finally when il
reached it's place on the pedestal, to the ut
ter surprise of the multitude below, they
found the smaller had faded away into q
mere shapeless mass, while the other stood
forth almost a moving, breathing, living
being. So it is with those who have seen
Andrew johnson as mere partisan and in
an humble positions; they are ready to re-
iect him, but when he was elevated and
placed in power and had taken his position
on the pedestal of the Constitution, then
they see that he has sunk the partisan in
the patriotic President of the whole Union
Applausel d "A stronger partisan thar
Andy Johnson Cheers and laughter]- -
scarcely ever lived, but he would be un-
worthy of his position if he kept up that
partisanship. But he has been brave
enough to trample upon his prejudices, anC
tells his bitterest enemies that the Consti
tuition protects. them and all while they
submit to the laws of the land. Your enc
mics cannot induce you to do what You dC
not desire to do; your friends may misleat
you-but he who has resisted what An
drew johnson has resisted must be mar
indeed, because he has fought with thes'
men as friends and with the others as enc
mics; but when the Constitution bids hin
look to their interests he says: My country
demands it. am the representative of thu
whole people, and notOf portion, and .
| must grant them what the Constitution say
they are entitled to. Before close, i mus
say we are now, in my humble judg
ment, in a more serious contest, IL any
ching can be more serious, than tina
| of armed rebellion; we are cOntendinI