Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-05-12


tent, they protest against every proposition
made by the President or by Congress, We
are not content with any plan that has been
represented. The struggle with Slavery as
a social element as presented by speaker
greatly Impressed me. The only cure pos
sible for the national hurt is universal am
hesty and universal suffrage wherever the
flag floats. know the power of the 1000
men that made and engineered the rebel
lion and gave It BIRTH. If in 1860 God had
seen fit to, take them to himself, or drop
them the other way, there would have been
no rebellion. Disiranchse a man and you
add 80 per cent. to his power. II Davis
could have been hung, ne would have pass
ed into history as sentiment, perhaps as
| power. But that time has passed. Those
men can't be hung or CONVICTED. They
hate US worse than ever, and have q
stronger hold on their States than ever.
In the settlement of the future they must
be counted. IN. We have strength sufficient
to ignore jeff. Davis and thousand like
him, and that strength is Justice. Nations
do not live or change by battle, but by
epOchs. God doesn't change lifelong
prejudices; he takes them away by death.
For this we have to wait. There Is a mis-
take in Gpprecating the South. She doesn't 1
dread simply negro suffrage. That might
be tolerated. The bite comes later. Four q
luuuTtu bllOusdIu utRIbtS III Dbulll NhlO-
lima with the vote means score OF negro
Representatives sitting in the Congress. I
Among her Senators aud Representatives, A
and leading men, will be found these col
ored men. Half the body of the people,
availng themselves of sundry courtesies,
are black men, and social equality follows, .
and that's the trouble. The Northerner has
always seen half an inch short of his nose,
the SOutherner full mile beyond it. The
real lesson of the war is the nOn-disinctiOn
of races. A II races and all creeds are well
come. There Is no use of baking or dis
guising the question. Own up. Where is d
the American Anti Slavery Society The 2
whole nation is turned into one great body
ignoring all races the black among others.
the epoch has this lessOn,and the North
has not learned it,; she grOpes toward it and
| is willing to accept it, Iu May the South
was willing to get down on its knees and
accept the Northern idea. johnson never
| promised anything and kept it. His trea-
| son comm need when he accepted the lead
! ership of the North, took office at the
| hands of the dominant party, aud now re-
| fuses to serve with them. If have any
| Idol it's Rarey, the hOrSe-tamer: and like
! all tanning of animals. | was reading an ac-
count of a lion tanning in Paris. and this Is
! the way they did it: They stuffed hay into
a HuzZar Jacket and put five hundred brass
buttons on it; he tore it to pieces, swallowed
it and suffered with terrible tG of indiges-
| tiOn. He was a sick lion for week, and
after that he would not touch Huzzar
| Jacket no matter what was in it. We took
| one Huzzar in Tyler, another in Fillmore,
and a third in johnson. We are less intel
ligent than the lion. | believe johnson
betrays his country and knows he betrays
| it. | think he entered the Office as wise as
| Brownlow. He was well far about eight
! weeks, and then was seized with desire of
denomination. He saw, as did Mr.. Seward,
| that if the great dominant party held
I together till 1868 there can be but one
/ President, and that is Grant. Aud johnson
| set to work to break that party-tO do this
he would give the negro the ballot, or he
would sink him and Africa iathoms into the
sea. Seward thought the same. johnson
| set to work in December to break the Re-
| publican party, and he has but that purpose
| to-day. Tue party did not believe it, and
tried to eOnciliate him, and they are now
attempting TO believe that he means sub
stantially as they do. We have no other
tulcrum of nationality but the negro. Book
education is absolutely Indispensable for
the race. We want them to be within the
influence of Northern journals and North
efn ideas. The South kept them ignorant
Intentionally. She knew full well the eff
iect of educatiOn. The great weakness of
our friends in Congress is that they argue
this question by precedents. The pre-
cedenUS are very confused. The nation has
gone through its revolutionary epoch; it
had one idea, that the word Republican
means the absolute equality of every citizen
before the law. don't care what any body
did in 1859; our memory should so back
only to 1861 make man mln. and let him
be: take your ghosts and Nightmares before
.I l. 1SED and hurv fbAtn lnppuTlv in thp Ttn.
Congress is bound TO protect the. right of
suffrage OF every citizen from Maine to
New Orleans, aud if everybody is TO vote, |
want to have the right 10 talk aud argue
with them. 1 want them in an arguable
state, anu want to follow them. The ma
tiOnal sword must never be sheathed. South
Carolina can never again be shut up like Ja-
pan aud China. Massachusetts, has the right
to visit South Caroliua and talk withher. We
| can't yet rid OF Davis and the rest of them.
| WemuSt flank them. | mean e. Hank JET
ferson Davis. You can't go South with the
elements of civilization, and therefore re-
construction is impossible. The army
| should have STAYED there and transferred
the North there. The soldiers must be-
carried back; under the coverot the sword
n. 1 civilization must commence her work. The
South knows her Need she is desOlate aud
pDor she wantscapital} The North stands
ready and longing 10 give lG, OUT Che SOuCh
won't take it. Sue Responsiveness in surh a
way that neither men nor capital are safe
there So the South stands at the door of
Congress and will 60 TOR claims for war
damages and will do withOutithe Northern
brotherhood of capital. If she can't get it
she willo@titerepudiation over the dome of
the Capitol and then secede Politics is
broken, the White House is against us, the
I Administration is treasonable.. Congress
teeis WAX hutmeahs we'll. IJ " III ii : yirld
Y before Presidential dict iti0a, but the bite
comes in the election. next Fall, aud Ills our
a duty to educate the people intO what Is their
! privilege and province now to do. We are
7 be ginnmg 70 discuss what is constitutional.
4 hate the word: Zone applaqd,1 TrustinO-
(h body. trust no, man; trust eventS, books,
d, money, suffrage and seliishness, but don't
trust man. | think Congress- discusses too
much the limits of Constitutional power.
The epoch isn't over !. the nation still strug7
h giles for life; the revolution isn't ended :
| Slavery isn't ended the soclalAnd civil in
stitutiOui il, in full force; Congress has still
20 the night to make thenation safe, The mes
usage which send up to Congress is, II yon
vb ca1 safely remain IN Congress, continue in
session forever; but see, at whatever cost,
by the exercise of Whatever despotism, the
Ination is safe. ~ sso7c4Y lshiry 79bou j,
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