Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-08
There is NO Use 10 Make an Eff.
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that there is no use to make any effort to
save it; that the people are so given over
to Radicalism that nothing that can be done
or said will produce change in their po-
litical views or in their manner of voting,
and that hence we should fold our arms and
give ourselves no further concern about
politics. For this sort of talk we have no
respect whatever. 1t is pernicious. The
country may not be yet so far along on the
road to final destruction as some may be
disposed to think. We confess it to be in
very bad condition; but when it is taken
into consideration that before the Republi-
can party came into power, when the Dem
ocratic party administered the Govern
lment, we had the best Government any
people were ever blessed with-the SIM
plest, cheapest, and affording its citizens adj
iequate protection in their persons, lives and
property-the duty of Democrats becomes
imperative to rescue the Government from
those who have perverted and despoiled it.
1t is worth the labor of even the
lifetime of generations, if need be, to re-
store this Government to what it was in its
palmy days. Seemingly the people may be
so given over to Radicalism that nothing
will induce them to withdraw from it their
support. The mass of the people, however.
DO not mean to do wrong, or to vote to keep
a party in power the measures of which
are of a nature to affect the country inju-
riously. They may err, and have erred; but
they erred innocently. When they voted
the Republican party into the Federal Gov
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belief that their interests would be better
ed. They had no idea, whatever, that war,
a violation of che Constitution, crushing debt
and usurpation, would follow that vote, or
most assuredly they would not have so
voted. The petitions of monstrous size
that were sent into Congressi in 1860-61 pray
/ ing the adoption of the Crittenden Com
promise, or some other satisfactory meas
ure that would assure the prevention of
War and the preservation of the Union,
labundantly confirm this. They lent their
support to the War with the express under
standing on their part that it should be
for the enforcement of the rightful au-
thority of the Federal Government and to
strike down and crush the effort that
was making to take out of the Union the
Southern States with the view of founding |
rival Republic. In the heat of War, when |
bitterness is engendered and indefensible
irregularities are perpetrated, the people |
as mass look to results, and do not with |
nicely examine the doings of the Gov
iernment in detail. Their first anxiety is to
carry the War to a successful conclusion.
How much it will cost-how much debt it
will occasion-how much distress it will
necessarily productivity do not stop to
count. That they leave for time of peace,
when thought can calmly deliberate. Be
assured the people will think; be assured
when the excitement and bitterness con-
sequent upon the War shall have passed
away or been greatly modified, they will
think befittingly. They will make adequate
allowance for good deal of the stealing
and usurpation on the part of Congress and
President and officials during the pendency
of the war; but that which shall be done
when peace is paramount, in the name of
patriotism, deserving reprobation and exc
Grafton, they will not extenuate. They
want good government-pure, simple and
cheap; they want no intolerable public
debt; they want no special legislation that
shall enrich few at the expense of the
many; they want the Government admin
istered in compliance with the Constitu-
tion. They have no wish that it should be
perverted, or that it should be superseded
by Military Government, which is but
the forerunner to a Military Despotism.
Nothing of this sort do they want. Let
them, then, be informed as to the extent
md nature of the transgressions of the
Republican party, and they will not be
long in making up their minds to the ne
cessity of sending that party into retire.
ment. It may require some work to do
this; but it is work, if rightly done, that
will yield gratifying per centage of sue
cess.
Throughout the whole realm of nature
there is constant, unceasing activity. Ev-
erywhere it is visible, and this activity
teaches that man should not weary in the
support and advocacy of sound principles.
In enterprise and in business that man is in
the end successful who shall refuse to be
by disappointments and fail {
ures. So in politics, the right will van
quish error, if the right shall be champion
ed stoutly by its votaries. A half-halting,
equivocating, apologizing support on the
other hand, will insure it continuous de-
feat. Let US, then, have no more of this
talk that there is no use to make an effort /
to reinstate the Democratic party in power;
but let every Democrat, no matter what
his station or standing, take hold and work
with determination to deserve success,
and success Scill follow.