Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-26
The Spirit of the Republican


The Republican party are the legitimate
successors of that small faction who kept
the country so long in hot water by their
persistent humanity" as they called it
sort of mawkish sentimentalism that
kicks white beggar out of doors and
nurses the nude ape. When the holy bonds
of matrimony were celebrated between this
faction and the fag ends of every wornout
and effete political party in the country,
the new party made loud claims to human
ity, morality, purity, etc. Their loud
claims have never ceased to sound in our
ears. The new (Republican) party gave
the South the pretext at least to secede, and
then began a ''war for the Union," fought
clear through on Abolition grounds
The result was perfect subjugation of the
South two years ago, and yet no restoration
of the Union. Ten States remain out of the
Union-more absolutely so than when they
declared themselves out, for the Uictors now
declare them out. Who can see the end OF
this ''war for the Union?"
But how about the loudly-boasted NOR
ality of the Republican party? We think
if any candid man will take up the State
documents and those published at Wash
ington, during the last seven years, he
will find the following indisputable facts
1st. That there is not a State in the Union
where the Radicals have been in power
seven years in which there has not been q
defalcation in the Treasury of such State
ID. That there have been more Con-
gressional committees to investigate frauds
than in all the previous history of our
Government.
Sd. That nearly twenty millions have
been spent by such committees under their
grant of power to I" send for persons and
papers," etc.
4th. That over 10000 pages have been
printed by such committees, as much to
gloss over, as to develop the frauds investi-
gated.
9Th. That the amount stolen by civil and
military officials, during the last seven
years, exceeds in the aggregate all the ex-
penses of carrying on the Government
during the ''expensive" administration OF
James Buchanan.
9th. That the Republican party, true to
its Puritan origin, is the first which has
ever sought to engraft into our Constitu-
ton provision making the recognition OF
God test of citizenship, thus seeking to
take the first step to blend Church and
State, as in monarchical governments, and
in direct violation of the great funda-
mental doctrine of freedom of conscience.
7th. That equally true to such origin,
the Republican party is the first which has
ever sought to violate the rights of all men
to eat, drink and wear what they please
In Massachusetts and Maine they ride the
temperance hobby, in Ohio the 'woolly
horse" and are generally ''all things to all
men, that they may win some."
No party ever had an existence in this
country which came into power protesting
such motives of high moral rectitude and
such devotion to the great interests of the
country, and of none will history write
such story of violated faith, perjury and
plunder. To go into the mummy crypts
of Egypt will be pleasant task
compared with that which the Dem
cratic party will yet have to per-
form in overhauling the reeking cor
rupIlonS over WuiCH Iho h0PuoiiOah party
would fain place the ''whitest sepul-
chre." We trust every candid Republican
will be appealed to to consider the acts of his
party from which the public at large were
diverted by the 'war for the Union" and
the. side issues made at home. Let every
Republican be challenged to disprove a
single allegation made above, for it cannot
be done. The Radical party is rotten-it
is falling apart like huge cheese, the in
side of which has been eaten out by rats
and maggots and in year it will, like
Hamlet's offense, smell to heaven"
POLITIAN,