Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-12
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the North are traitors l am in very
respectable company. The idea of two
hundred thousand ,freemen of the North
being all Traitors and Copperheads, was a
very respectable number, to say the least,
+and the number that o-day, all over the
country, are convinced of the destructive
policy of this Radical party are in an over
Fwhelming majority. The number, to-day,
in Ohio who are convinced in their con-
sciences, if they have the moral courage to
vote in accordance with their convictions,
will carry the State by fifty thousand ma
jority. What a body of Copperheads !
Why, they are growing SO numerous that
1 expect to see the day when the Radicals
will call themselves the Copperhead party.
The speaker reviewed the career of some
of those gentlemen whom Radicalism now
claims to be the very pink of loyalty, and
more damaging exposure of bad and un-
principled men, it would be hard to con-
ceive. The unprincipled and double-deal-
ing duplicity of Edwin M. Stanton was
stripped of its covering and laid bare in all
its despicable deformity. In fact, all the
saints of the party, from the head to the
heels thereof, were shown in their true
colors, and a darker picture of inconsistent
cies, deceptions and evil designs on the
peace of the Union and the inviolability of
the Constitution, would be above the
powers of the human mind to form. And
the force of it was in the fact
that the records proved it too true.
But the two Butler and
Wade-were above all others shown to be
those who gave most encouragement to the
South while..on their road to secession
the latter declaring in his place in the
Senate chamber, "you cannot hold any
people in the Union by force,' and under
the solemn sanction of his official oath,
said, "To attempt to do it would be sub
versive of the first principles of the gov
ernment under which we i've" And the
former, why his loyalty to the South and
his desire to see JEFF. Davis President,
could not be surpassed. He stood unflinch-
ingly firm until he saw the preponderance
of spoons on the other side. Truly, the
speech was a telling one throughout, and
now that the scales are falling from the
eyes OF the voters, as party prejudice gives
place to desire to see honest and efficient
men in high places, as lighter taxes in
stead of Negro Equality, is an actual ne
cessity, it must have had fine effect on
many of the Republicans present.
When Judge Thurman had taken his seat,
the President introduced the Hon. J. II.
Putnam, who spoke forcibly and eloquent
fy for one hour. He dwelt with great feel
ing on the bloody and sanguinary war
through which the country had passed,
and the high and holy aim of our brave
and patriotic soldiers in entering the army
and showed, alas too truly how the fruits
been lost or delayed by reason of the revo-
luton through which we are passing and
by which every clause of the old and re-
vered Constitution is violated or annuled.
He pictured, with great clearness, the
despotism practiced by the military rulers
placed over the Southern Territories lit is
disloyal to longer call them States), and
think must have satisfied every mind in
his vast audience that by their course they
were extinguishing the last spark of love
for, or loyalty to, the Union, that may have
been entertained by the white people of
the unreconstructed regions. The man
Sickles, wearing reputation, that no hon.
orable man would envy, that even the
proud uniform of our country cannot cover
or conceal, was taken as an example of
what course bad and bloody-minded ty-
rants are capable OF doing, when placed
over the descendants of the Rutledges, the
Pnkneys and the many other heroes of
Carolina, whose memory, to Americans,
had long been dear. The similarity of dis
position in the practice of wanton tyranny
and the enforcing of humiliating obedience,
between the American Sickles and the Aus
trian Gesler, was eloquently portrayed. Ges-
Ter, when placed by Austria over the brave
Swiss, satisfied the keen appetite of his
tyranny by placing his cap upon pole
which he had erected in the street of Altorf
and when the people passed they were COM
5esler. Even so, when the fremen in
South Carolina were in peaceful procession,
Is was their usual way in the better and
more happy days of this Republic, they were
lalted in the street and commanded not to &.
pass until they would uncover and walk
lat in hand past the flag of Sickles, that
hey might feel in all its force the abject
obedience required by a would-be poten-
ate of the down-east stripe. But Switz-
,rland had a Tell who, when he was in-
ormed by the cringing serf that had bowed
20 the cap of Gesler, what was demanded
y him, he fell it to the dust and exclaimed
while Switzerland has one Freeman left
The may yet hope to be free. And dearly
lid Austria pay for the tyranpies practiced
n Altorf ON the humiliated Swiss by her
petty tool and tyrant, Gesler. She certain
y did not win love or loyalty from the
people of Switzerland.
Mr.. Putnam thoroughly dissected the
proposed Amendment to the Constitution
If Ohio, and proved beyond all doubt that
while few, if any, white men of the South
could ever become citizens of Ohio and
vote in the State under its provisions, bo-
nus was offered to the blacks that would
surely bring enough of them here to cover
he land as with locusts. The hollow pre-
;ense of the Radicals to favor Manhood
Suffrage, was very pretty bantling when
exhibited to view by Mr.. Putnam. While =,
The wonderfully wise members of the Leg
stature and the gallant Gen. Hayes are for
Negro Manhood" in Ohio, the whole Rad
cal delegation in Congress from this State
ire in favor of Ashley's bill to prevent
Germans and all others from voting any
where in the Union, it they can't read
English. The freedman of the South, who
can not tell A from B, who knows not his
right hand from his left, can come
here and vote; but the German,