Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-12

three days, Fort Sumter being then Invest
ed, Mr.. CHASE at the time being Secretary
of the Treasury, his organ, the Ohio State
Journal had the following as part of its
leading editorial, everybody believing Mr..
CHASE to be its author:
''Politicidns and dotards may gdbble and
toeep tears of inbecility ouer the 6redktng up OF
an unnatural compact, but reason, justice and
hunaGntty eotu gladly accept it as one of those
cheering Evidences that Prouldence IS tooTktRg
good to the creatures Of earth through the process
of euents.
"a rigid analysis OF American patriotism.
discovers but little gold. The enthusiasm,
of the masses for the Union is more or less
fictitious. The Union has been apotheosiz-
ed by politicians for their own selfish ag-
grandisement. 1t has been made their ral-
lying cry until the unthinktRg had become
to invest it with a certain degree Of sacred
ness. But truth has reached the popular
heart and Intelligence the popular mind, and
the masses see that the natural giant
strength of physical America and the meas
Ure of freedom enjoyed by our people un-
der the Constitution, properly directed.
have made US what we are in spite Of the
Union.
''The Africanized people of the South
have precipitated work, which we be-
lieve advancing civilization and the teach
ings of Christianity would have, ere long,
demanded at the hands of the free people
of the North. The completely with the
barbarism of slavery which the latter have
had forced upon them by the Union has
become more burthensome every year, and
must hdue been hroton off uoluntdrily before
the lapse of many years. The Union has done
nothing in reality for freedom. Its legisla-
tion has all been in favor of slavery, when
these antipodes. Then t1Iy should the free
men deplore the loss of the Union? Separate.
peaceful existence of the sections are pre-
ferable to Union which is Unsatisfactory
to one and which retards the progress oi
the other. n-.r-
.sThe creators Of the Union sotoed the seeds Of
its inevitable death at the creation. They
thought to beget healthy body by an un-
natural cross between right and wrong
They thought to produce harmonious,
symmetrical whole by blending two con-
fiicting systems of industry-two civiliZa-
tions. How could they expect to be successful
aohen all history is against HeniP All nations
that recognize the right of one man to op-
press another sooner or later crumble into
dissolution, and in that extinction we are
bound to recognize the decree of Justice
And aofy should the american people dlont
hope to enjoy immunity from this antrersd
doom 2"
BLOoDTHIRSTY VENOM OF THE "LOYALISTS.'
During the summer of 1868, according
to the Washington Chronicle, Zone of For
NEY's two papers, both daily,) Gen. LANE
Republican United States Senator from
Kansas, who subsequently shot himself
made speech in Washington, in which he
thirsty sentiments:
81 would like to live long enough to see
every aoIite man in South Carolina, in hell
and the negroes inheriting their territory
Loud applause.
sit would not wound my feelings any
day to find the dead bodies of rebel sym
pathizers [this is the term applied by the
radicals to all Democratsl pierced with
bullet holes in every street and alley o
Washington. Applause. Yes, 1 aooulc
regret this, for l would not like to witness
all this waste of powder and lead. ] would
rather have them hung, and the ropel
savedl Let them dangle until their stink
ing bodies rot and fall to the ground piece
by piece. Laughter and applause.]
THE UNION "HATED BY EVERY PATRIOT"
The Chicago Tribune thus put on record
its detestation of the Constitution anC
Union: 81
"The Union as it was will never bless th,
vision of any pro-slavery fanatic or seces-
sion sympathizer. and it neuer ought toI 1
is thing of the past, HATED BY EV ERY
PATRIOT, and destined neuer to CURSE
an honest people, or BLOT THE PAGE OF
HISTORY AGAIN!"
Better recognize the Southern Confed-
eracy at once, and stop this effusion o
blood, than continue this ruinous policy, ol
have even restoration of the Union as i
was."-Cdssius N. Clay.
Conway, of the Boston Commonwealth
writes home (from England) to say that ht
had rather heard of defeat at Vicksburg
than the declaration of Gerrit Smith, that
the Union must be saved, even though
slavery be saved with it, Albany j Journal
(Rep.)
THREATS TO AssAssINATE LINCOLN.
During the war, whenever President
LINCOLN showed signs of wishing to bring
the conflict to close, and thus to stop the
thieving going on. threats of assassination
were freely made, by those who in nc
other manner could earn their living bu
by the pay they received for commissions
in the army, or by contracts or Quarter
masterships, by which they feeced alike the
Government and the soldiers.
A fellow by the name of n. A. GRAY
now residing in Cleveland, then holding
the Office of Quartermaster in Negro
Regiment, writes thus to the Ohio Statt
Journal over his own signature. His letter
Is dated Hospital-at-the-Front at Peters
burgh, August 2, 1854, aud is published in
the Journal without a single word of dis
sent, on the 9th, seven days after its date
Mr.. LINCOLN, about that time, had talked
of compromise. This will explain the
reason why he was to be assassinated. The
letter says:
81 like the spirit of the Major, in COM
mand of the Goth Ohio. When in his pres
ence the question was presumptuously
asked, Shall we eventually have to COM
promise p he turned with a whitening
look and said: Il entered this campaign
with over 800 men. To-day command 1872;
and I tell you that if the President [ LIN
CoLN] hints euen at compromise, THERE
ARE ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY
TWO ASSASSINS in my command READY
TO MARCH, SOLITARY AND ALONE.
TO THE WHITE HOUSE. We soish our
friends at home had THIS sPIRIT-tis the
SPIRIT OF THE FEDERAL ARMY, eoho
bear the burden. 1t was not a compromise
line alluded to by General GRANT when he
said: L am resolved to fight it out on this
line" ...s.-
In a speech of CAss1Us NJ. CLAY, in
Brooklyn, N. Y in 1868, he said:
sit is delusion to suppose that liberty
can be established on this continent, when
the President of the United States and the
people of the United States had not the
courage to do what was right. Therefore,
spot not General Boyle; spot the President
Of the United States !; spot the heads of the De-
partments spot your military chteftains spot
those aoho toould hare the Union as IL aoas l'
THE GOVERNMENT PLUNDERED BY THE
THIEVES IN OFFICE.
Mr.. DAWES, Republican member of Con-
gress from Massachusetts,, and member of
an investigating committee, ordered by
Congress during the second year of the